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[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony No. 27




Sarge

[Mandryka]

Years ago there was an Internet forum for pianists who were interested in recordings, it was dominated by what I think were young piano students who were very much into virtuosity. They all loved Cziffra and Hamelin. One of them, very knowledgeable, put me onto these live recordings, saying that the Brahms Hungarian Dances caught something special. They do.

[Mirror Image]

A ballet triple-bill -

Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la fée
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi



Prokofiev
Chout, Op. 21
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Michail Jurowski



Ravel
Ma mère l'Oye
MSO
Dutoit

[VonStupp]

Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la fée
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I don't know this version; any thoughts on the Järvi? I remember his set of Stravinsky with the Suisse Romande on Chandos was hit and miss for me, but this looks much earlier.

VS

[Roasted Swan]

I don't know this version; any thoughts on the Järvi? I remember his set of Stravinsky with the Suisse Romande on Chandos was hit and miss for me, but this looks much earlier.

VS

That Fairy's Kiss is quite lovely.  A work too rarely played/recorded....

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony No. 28, Stokowski conducting the New Philharmonia




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

We all have our own journeys.  I remember being heartily recommended Kodaly's Sonata for Solo Cello (some years ago) when asking for cello music suggestions, bought a recording of it, played it; first time thinking something along the lines of "Ack!  What the 'bleep' is this?  This is horrible!"  Maybe not quite those words, but it felt very jarring to me...way too modern, etc.  Not even sure whether or not I made it the whole way through.  Something like 3-6 months later, I decided to revisit it and this time, my jaw dropped open and I was like "Wow!  This is amazing!"  For me, I suspect, it was more what kind of frame of mind/mood that I was in the first time when I listened to it.

Recently, I've been exploring some music from say the 1960's 'til recently--the kind of music some of which made me shudder in the past (for example, computer-generated sounds and effects mixed with natural sounds), so as the saying goes, "You never know". 

In any event, follow your own path. 

PD

Sometimes, a new piece does kind of whap us upside the head, and we need to come back to it later.

[Karl Henning]

That Fairy's Kiss is quite lovely.  A work too rarely played/recorded....

Magical!

[Mirror Image]

I don't know this version; any thoughts on the Järvi? I remember his set of Stravinsky with the Suisse Romande on Chandos was hit and miss for me, but this looks much earlier.

VS

Järvi is excellent in Stravinsky and the reason why I believe this to be the case is he doesn't sentimentalize the music --- he just plays it with a driven approach and it works well, IMHO.

[Karl Henning]

LvB
Pf Sonata in E-flat, Op. 7
Pollini

[Mirror Image]

Magical!

Magical, indeed.

[Karl Henning]

CD 13

Schumann
String Quartet in A, Op. 41 № 3

Stravinsky
Three Pieces for String Quartet

The Schumann is probably a first listen

It's a great while since I last heard the Stravinsky

[SonicMan46]

Coming to the end of my 'performer's collection' - some guitar music (Segovia on a regular instrument and Göran Söllscher on an 11-string Baroque guitar) - Dave

   

[Bachtoven]

^ I love that Sollscher recording.

I'm having a Baroque Sunday:

[vers la flamme]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op.37b. Neeme Järvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

First listen. Sounds great. Tchaikovsky was a gifted melodist, and one can tell how much he admired Mozart.

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NP:

Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Szell



A desert island performance for me. There have been no better than this performance. I feel every note Schwarzkopf sings and Szell's accompaniment is exquisite. Sonics have been greatly improved in this remastering.

[Todd]

From the big box.  I should now be good until the 2030s. 

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126
Heinrich Schiff, cello
Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Maxim Shostakovich

From this set -

[Brian]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op.37b. Neeme Järvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

First listen. Sounds great. Tchaikovsky was a gifted melodist, and one can tell how much he admired Mozart.

I did not know there was an orchestration of Tchaikovsky's "Seasons". Did the composer himself arrange or supervise it?

[Karl Henning]

CD 13

Schumann
String Quartet in A, Op. 41 № 3

Stravinsky
Three Pieces for String Quartet

The Schumann is probably a first listen

It's a great while since I last heard the Stravinsky

The Schumann is ingratiating. The Three Pieces is minor Stravinsky (the whole running not quite seven mins) but even minor Stravinsky is at least fun.