What are you listening 2 now?

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Sweelinck

CD2

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What a great disc this is:

Absolutely! As was that Honegger Ozawa recording you were listening to the other day.

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NP:

Malipiero
Sinfonia No. 6, "Degli archi"
Orchestra Nazionale Artes
Andrea Vitello



I own two other performances of this work and neither one of them match the passion of this performance. These other performances sound so lifeless by comparison. The only problem I have with this recording is the audio quality is a bit too reverberant and boomy, but the superb performance more than makes up for it.

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Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No.9

Smetana

Má Vlast   

Liszt

Les Préludes

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Babi-Yar
Greatest performance since Haitink and best recording:

[Florestan]

Yes and I quite like that performance in fact.

Don't know that recording but the work is gorgeous, one of the best Mozart ever wrote, and the compettition is fierce.

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NP:

Dutilleux
Symphony No. 1
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi

From this set -

[foxandpeng]

Anton Bruckner
Symphony 6
Thomas Dausgaard
Bergen PO
BIS

Brisk! Enjoyable, though.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Gave one of my Ivan Moravec LPs a second cleaning (hoping that it might help things more).  It's a Connoisseur Society one.  This one:



His playing is exquisite!  Love the selections that he recorded--really wish that he had recorded all of them.     Particularly loved his rendering of "La Cathédrale Engloutie"...I could just see the Cathedral rising from the sea and then at the end, slowly sinking back down into the sea with the last final air bubbles and ripples slowly stopping and it's as if it was never there to begin with.

Now on:  Children's Corner followed by Clair de lune.

One thing which I just noticed is that the last Prelude on Side One (La Terrasse) was recorded in Prague by Supraphon on a Petrof.  All the other selections were recorded in NYC on a Baldwin Concert Grand.

PD

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Cello Concertos w/ Nicolas Altstaedt - fiery performances; now I already own these recordings in an older release w/ Anner Bylsma & also in the Brilliant 'Classic Cello Concertos' box, BUT after reading the attached reviews last year, had to add this to my collection - now I did not include the David Hurwitz comments which gave the performance a 4/10 rating but that spurred in on to a purchase!    Dave

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NP:

Dutilleux
Symphony No. 1
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi

From this set -

A great work!

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De L'Aube à la Nuit

[Mirror Image]

A great work!

It is quite nice, Jeffrey. I'm slowly warming back up to Dutilleux. In many ways, I can understand Boulez's viewpoint about him, but, yet, I do think he wrote some excellent music.

NP:

Duruflé
Messe "Cum jubilo", Op. 11
Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier (organ), Roger Soyer (baritone)
Chorale Stéphane Caillat, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Maurice Duruflé

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One of my favourite pianists, Bruno Canino, playing the first book of Debussy's Images (live in Rome in 1987 -- he played all of Debussy's piano music over three concerts, and a good portion has been posted on YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/v/VcsD4UC3J-4

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Anton Bruckner
Symphony 6
Riccardo Chailly

Excellent performance, yet again

[Que]

Sweelinck

Nice picture of a great set! 

[Harry]

De L'Aube à la Nuit

Absolute top notch.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

One of my favourite pianists, Bruno Canino, playing the first book of Debussy's Images (live in Rome in 1987 -- he played all of Debussy's piano music over three concerts, and a good portion has been posted on YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/v/VcsD4UC3J-4

So it appears that it's a Debussy day/!  I've heard of that pianist before but don't recall hearing any of his recordings; I'll have to look into them.    Do you also enjoy Moravec's recordings?

PD

[Traverso]

Absolute top notch.

I was trying to post a Youtube video from Tarana Paaraana Paar Tumahi  but It did not work,glad that you like it.

[Traverso]

Nice picture of a great set! 

A great set in a very fine colour