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[Que]

Another Spotify excursion:



Really excellent! 

[Traverso]

Ravel

Tzigane

Pièce En Forme De Habanera

Sonate Posthume Pour Violon Et Piano

Berceuse Sur Le Nom De Gabriel Fauré

Sonate Pour Violon Et Violoncelle

Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano

Piano – Pascal Rogé
Violin – Chantal Juillet

[Harry]

Knudåge Riisager.

Ballet Music.

Qarrtsiluni.
Månerenen.

Aarhus SO, Bo Holten.

First listen. Another addition to what I already have of this composer.

[Traverso]

Holst

Hymns from the Rig Veda, 4th Group - The Homecoming - A Dirge for Two Veterans - Six Choral Folk Songs - Choruses, canons and carols

The Baccholian Singers of London
Englisch Chamber Orchestra / Ian Humhris

[ritter]

Cross-posted form the Opera sub-forum:

Act II of Parsifal, in Daniel Barenboim's 1991 studio recording.


This, of course is the "Kundry act", and what a Kundry! Waltraud Meier was for decades the greatest exponent of the role, and here she is in extraordinary form. Barenboim is a Wagner conductor to reckon with, perhaps slightly of the traditional, "reverential" type, but the results here are first-class: a Berlin Philharmonic in excellent shape, the marvels of this wonderfully scored piece apparent in each bar, and the conductor manages to shape of the whole act perfectly. Gunther von Kannen is sounds simultaneously elegant and tormented as Klingsor (and this fits the rôle perfectly). Siegfried Jerusalem is perfectly adequate as Parsifal, singing with class, but I tend to find this tenor somewhat anonymous (even the two times I saw him live in this opera).

[Harry]

Jacques Offenbach.

Orchestral Works.

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi.


What a joy this music is, certainly in this moment in my life when I can still here reasonably well, but I have some loss in my left ear, and that's not good. Some upper frequencies are missing. Still have to live with it.
The sound and performance are superb.

[André]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

As for me, Dave, the day I stop listening to Mozart is the day I have tired of life.

+2!!!

PD

[Traverso]

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No.5
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
The Lark Ascending

[foxandpeng]

Bohuslav Martinů
The Symphonies
Neeme Järvi
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
BIS

A long time since I have heard these symphonies, so today and tomorrow I'll probably play them a fair bit. Not many available cycles on Spotify, so between Neumann and Järvi, I am listening with this set.

[Tsaraslondon]

So I come to Mahler's last completed symphony and Karajan's last Mahler recording. Having now listened to all the symphonies except the unfinished 10th, I think I can safely say that the 9th is my favourite and this Karajan performances is just wonderful. It really moved me today and I had to sit in silence afterwards to allow it to sink in properly.

[Karl Henning]

Beach Balls for Thanksgiving:

https://www.youtube.com/v/-bYl3ZJ0RVs

[Iota]

Honegger: Sonatine 4 for Violin and Cello
Martinu: Duo for Violin and Cello No. 1, H. 157

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello)


Two highly enjoyable miniatures that manage to find their way to all sorts of delightful places, played by two performers with a rattling mojo going on. Brilliant czárdás-like passage in the Honegger sticks in the memory, but not a dull moment in sight anywhere.

[Harry]

Marin Marais.

Quatrieme Livre de Pieces de Viole (1717)
Disc I.

Francois Joubert Caillet, Bass Viol
L'Acheron.

First listen. Every bit as good as the previous volumes, Marais is clearly walking new territory. More embellishments, and Italian influences.

[Todd]

Disc two.  Liszt transcriptions.  Supreme execution, if perhaps a tad garish, of some occasionally garish transcriptions.  IOW, exactly as expected.  Sound is variable, even given the vintage. 

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Orchestral Suite No.4 BWV 1069
Freiburger Barockorchester

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op. 35
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Previn

[Traverso]

Gilbert & Sullivan

Isolanthe
Overture di Ballo

Pro Arte Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra

[André]

Apart from an unconsciously dragged ending to the slow movement this is a wonderful performance of this evergreen work. And of the Hebrides overture as well (such a fine tone poem).

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pancho Vladigerov: Piano Concerto No. 4.