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[Que]

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Perfect: intimate, with precision and expression, but definitely not overdone. Quite relaxed and charming, actually.

[foxandpeng]

Excellent! But please do give a listen to Bernstein on Columbia (Sony). For me, his is the definitive performance of the 3rd.

On it, sir! Will go there next...

[Traverso]

Very kind Deprofundis, this box is a real treasure ,I love it .The music flows through me like rays of the sun and warms my heart. 

[DavidW]

Excellent performance from Leipzig (as usual)... in fact I might even buy this.  Good to see them return to Qobuz.

[aligreto]

.... this box is a real treasure ,I love it .The music flows through me like rays of the sun and warms my heart. 

Well put, Jan. It is definitely a wonderful set; both the music and the singing. 

[Traverso]

Well put, Jan. It is definitely a wonderful set; both the music and the singing. 

I remember that you  listened to this collection and I  enjoy is as never before. 

Remarkable that there there can be beauty along the ugliness that goes on in the world.

[Traverso]

Guillaume Dufay

"Triste Plaisir"

A great recording that I would recommend to anyone who loves Dufay.

[foxandpeng]

William Schuman
Symphony 3
Leonard Bernstein
NYPO

I prefer this to the Schwarz version. Pacing is slower, music seems more well-defined. Possibly I am becoming more familiar, but all good here, and recording values are far better than the distant-sounding Ormandy...

[Mirror Image]

William Schuman
Symphony 3
Leonard Bernstein
NYPO

I prefer this to the Schwarz version. Pacing is slower, music seems more well-defined. Possibly I am becoming more familiar, but all good here, and recording values are far better than the distant-sounding Ormandy...

Pounds the table! Schwarz is good mainly in the works that there's little competition like the 9th for example. I'm generally a fan of his conducting, but anyone would be a bit underwhelming when compared to Bernstein.

[Florestan]

Oustanding in every respect. A strong contender for the best recording of the Chopin's Preludes ever.

[kyjo]

Ireland: Sextet for clarinet, horn, and string quartet



Lovers of Brahms' and Dvorak's chamber music shouldn't miss out on this sunny, bucolic early work (1898) of Ireland's. It receives a top-notch performance by the ever-dependable Maggini Quartet and the two wind soloists.


Carrillo: Symphony no. 2



I'm not quite as enthusiastic as Andre and Cesar were about this late-romantic work, though there are some fascinating moments which foreshadow Carrillo's later modernist experiments, such as the haunting coda of the slow movement with its tone clusters. I thought the vigorous finale was overall the most compelling movement.


Frumerie: Horn Concerto and Musica per nove



This composer continues to delight me! The Horn Concerto, like that of his countryman Atterberg, really ought to be performed more by horn players, who don't exactly have a vast repertoire. It's a lyrical, colorful, and playful work which occasionally echoes Mahler in his most light-hearted, pastoral mode. Despite its rather "modernist"-sounding title, the Musica per nove (a nonet) is another firmly tonal, melodic work which even quotes the slow movement of Brahms' 2nd PC at one point! (And, as I've mentioned before, the Variations and Fugue for piano and orchestra which opens this disc is a magnificent, substantial work not to be missed!)


Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings



It was a great pleasure to revisit this masterpiece. Britten's ability to convey a wide range of emotions within a single work - from witty playfulness to pastoral tranquility to (most notably) chilling creepiness - is sheerly masterful. It's hard to believe that just a few years ago I didn't like Britten's music very much - he's now skyrocketed among my pantheon of favorites!


Erkin: Symphony no. 2



Do I detect some plagiarism from the opening of Roussel's 3rd Symphony starting at 3:30 in the 1st movement?? Surely it's too similar to be a coincidence! Regardless, this is an vigorous and enjoyable work with the expected "exotic" touches in the percussion writing and asymmetrical rhythms. Hurwitz is right about Theodore Kuchar - an excellent conductor who can make "lesser" orchestras sound top-notch, as well as a committed exponent of lesser-known repertoire.

[Que]

Very kind Deprofundis, this box is a real treasure ,I love it .The music flows through me like rays of the sun and warms my heart. 

Of the really early stuff, the Febus and Janus discs are my favourites. 

A truly magnificent set which was my gateway to Early Music - one of those rare "life changing" puchases.

[JBS]

CD 105 of the Barbirolli box is a Janet Baker hat trick: Nuits d'Ete, Sheherazade, Sea Pictures




To simplify matters, here's a table for MI (John) to pound on.

[Traverso]

Heinrich Isaac

CD 1

[SonicMan46]

Up to the 'C's in the perusal of my classical music collection:

Chopin, Frederic - Ballades, Cello Sonata, & Mazurkas - also own the 13-disc box w/ Pietro De Maria - Dave

     

[Iota]

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus
Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano)


First three pieces.

Very good! So good I'm wondering if it's going to surpass the Håkon Austbø recording which I hold in high esteem.

The music sui generis as always. I know of no other piece that evokes fathomless inner peace in the way that the opening Regard du Père does. It's as if pain, truth and beauty merge to become ecstasy. But the whole piece is extraordinary and one of the monuments in music imo.

[Traverso]

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus
Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano)


First three pieces.

Very good! So good I'm wondering if it's going to surpass the Håkon Austbø recording which I hold in high esteem.



The music sui generis as always. I know of no other piece that evokes fathomless inner peace in the way that the opening Regard du Père does. It's as if pain, truth and beauty merge to become ecstasy. But the whole piece is extraordinary and one of the monuments in music imo.

Great recording and as a live recording a good sound as well. 

[Linz]

Sibelius violin Concerto with Ginette Neveu and John Barbirolli with Symphony 2

[Iota]

Great recording and as a live recording a good sound as well. 

It is! And a live recording in which the electricity of the atmosphere is palpable. Unlike the Lisiecki recital I was listening to earlier.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Up to the 'C's in the perusal of my classical music collection:

Chopin, Frederic - Ballades, Cello Sonata, & Mazurkas - also own the 13-disc box w/ Pietro De Maria - Dave

     

Dave, please allow me to recommend the disc below. Silky performance with sensitive/soft touch.