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[Irons]

Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante



Very good performance. 

Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1



Over 60 years old and still a great recording.  Marriner also recorded the Bloch, but I don't think I've ever encountered it on CD.

I have both recordings marginally preferring Hanson. The upfront Mercury recording suits the music.



Surprising if Marriner hasn't made it to CD. 

[Irons]

Stanley Bate: 3rd Symphony.

Very special indeed. A surprise at every turn including a cossack dance in the finale!

[Traverso]

 Corelli

[Harry]

Stanley Bate: 3rd Symphony.

Very special indeed. A surprise at every turn including a cossack dance in the finale!

Yes I quite like this CD too, which I bought on release, in theory I should play it again..........

[Harry]

Pjotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky.

Symphony No 3, in D major, "Polish", opus 29.
From the opera "The Voyevoda", Entr'acte and Dances of the Chambermaids.
Dmitri the Pretender and Vassily Shuisky, Incidental music: Introduction to Act 1, Mazurka.
Serenade for Nikolai Rubemstein's Name Day.
From Eugene Onegin, opus 24, Entre'acte and Waltz. Polonaise.

Gothenburg SO, Neeme Jarvi.
SACD.


Still my favourite set of Symphonies.

[listener]

On Georgia Public Radio
Jerome MOROSS: Symphony no.2          Buffalo Phil.,  JoAnn Falletta
TCHAIKOWSKY: Symphony no.2 "Little Russian"
ROTA: "The Leopard" Symphony
And some Philip Glass and a piece for voices and serpent
by a composer from Moose Jaw Sask. This sounds like a site for a return visit.

On discs music by two composers whose names are palindromes - just a coincidence!
Max REGER:  Piano Music  vol.5      Markus Becker, piano
Andrés ISASI; Symphony no.2, Suite no.2
Bilbao S.O.,  Juan José Mena, cond.
A curious disc:  The Symphony sounds like it is making a lot of use of a popular German song, "You can't Mend a Broken Heart" in its English version.   That may explain JPC's
curious exclusive release , maybe hoping for a cross-over hit in Germany.   The work sounds  like a Korngold imitation, nice orchestration but by-the-rules construction.

[Harry]

Dmitri Shostakovich.

Complete Symphonies.

CD III, Symphony No 4 in C minor.

Gürzenich Orchestra Koln, Dmitrij Kitajenko.
SACD.

Every bit as good as the previous CD"s . To me this begins to be very special. The detail Kitajenko gets out of the music is quite devastating and a wonderful experience.

[Traverso]

Shostakovich

Great ,what else to say.

Symphony No.1
Berliner Philharmoniker

Symphony No. 15
London Philharmonic

Mariss Janson

[The new erato]

Much better on the big system - I have noticed this before - even 8 voices singing benefits from the sort of hifi that an organ or symphony demands. And the quality of the hifi really matters for my appreciation of the recording - because music is sound.

Absolutely. It sounds wonderful, amazing!

Most stuff sounds better on a big system, perhaps except small scale acoustic music that can sound amazing on an expensive small system. I often end up transfixed just by the sounds of my Sonus Elipsa speakers when I crank them up in the living room.

Anyhow, now playing (on my smaller Vienna Beethovens in my mancave):



Stunningly beautiful music from an amazingly assured voice considering her age. Also quite original considering its period.

[Harry]

Richard Wagner.

Orchestral Works.

Symphony in C major & E major.
Huldigungsmarsch in E flat major.
Overture to Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen.
Kaisermarsch in B flat major.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.

[kyjo]

Anyhow, now playing (on my smaller Vienna Beethovens in my mancave):



Stunningly beautiful music from an amazingly assured voice considering her age. Also quite original considering its period.

I was hugely impressed by the Military Sinfonietta and Prelude de Noël - the two latest works on the disc. I found the rest of the music on the disc to be less distinctive and engaging, though. A tragic early death, for sure.

[Mirror Image]

I was hugely impressed by the Military Sinfonietta and Prelude de Noël - the two latest works on the disc. I found the rest of the music on the disc to be less distinctive and engaging, though. A tragic early death, for sure.

Agreed. In the Military Sinfonietta, Martinů was brought to mind several times. Not that this is a bad thing of course.

[Mandryka]

Back to this, in particular the sequence of seven tientos at the end of the recording - played rather loudly while I'm alone in the house.

Glen Wilson, by the way, translates suavidad y extrañeza - which was a contemporary comment about the composer's performance style at the organ - as delicate fluency and otherworldliness. I'm not sure about delicate . . .

[Spotted Horses]

I have both recordings marginally preferring Hanson. The upfront Mercury recording suits the music.



Surprising if Marriner hasn't made it to CD.

Another excellent recording is Jenny Lin.



The other pieces on the disc, concerto symphonique and scherzo fantastique, are stunning virtuoso displays, if I recall correctly.

[SonicMan46]

Marais, Marin (1656-1728) - Third Book Viol Pieces w/ Francois Joubert-Caillet and L'Achéron - we're on a short trip to the North Carolina mountains to see the leaves change colors - listening on my small portable BT speaker from my Spotify playlist - J-Caillet has now released 4 volumes of these works and assume there will be a fifth, so a total of about 20 discs!  Each of these are selling for $30+ on AmazonUSA - unlikely to be a purchase for me; already own about a dozen CDs of Marais' music, will check which ones when I return home - doubt that these will be boxed up anytime soon at a decent price?  Dave

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus. Jurowski/Deutsches SO Berlin.

[Mirror Image]

One more before heading off to work:

Kodály
Peacock Variations
Hungarian State Orchestra
Dorati

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

On Georgia Public Radio
Jerome MOROSS: Symphony no.2          Buffalo Phil.,  JoAnn Falletta
TCHAIKOWSKY: Symphony no.2 "Little Russian"
ROTA: "The Leopard" Symphony
And some Philip Glass and a piece for voices and serpent
by a composer from Moose Jaw Sask. This sounds like a site for a return visit.

On discs music by two composers whose names are palindromes - just a coincidence!
Max REGER:  Piano Music  vol.5      Markus Becker, piano
Andrés ISASI; Symphony no.2, Suite no.2
Bilbao S.O.,  Juan José Mena, cond.
A curious disc:  The Symphony sounds like it is making a lot of use of a popular German song, "You can't Mend a Broken Heart" in its English version.   That may explain JPC's
curious exclusive release , maybe hoping for a cross-over hit in Germany.   The work sounds  like a Korngold imitation, nice orchestration but by-the-rules construction.

I like the Reger and Isasi recordings!

[Spotted Horses]

Janacek String Quartet No 2, New Zealand Quartet



I better absorbed this work on a second listening. It has an unusual form. It is not based on traditional thematic development. Musical themes appear, then reappear in different contexts, combining or juxtabposing with other themes in a seemingly haphazard, but hypnotic way. As in the first quartet, wonderfully rich sonorities from the limited resources of the string quartet.

If I remember correctly, I have listened to these works before in the Emerson Quartet and Gabrielli quartet recordings. Should I be listening to an ensemble that is more authentically "Czech?" I also find I have the Panocha Quartet recording in my collection.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1