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Operafreak

#66460
April 13, 2022, 01:19:52 AM



Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano)-  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Joseph Silverstein
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

vandermolen

#66461
April 13, 2022, 01:40:16 AM Last Edit: April 13, 2022, 01:45:56 AM by vandermolen
Patrick Hadley 'Kinder Scout' (1923)
I think that this short tone poem is a wonderful work (I know that Harry agrees too). I know Kinder Scout (a hill in Derbyshire) quite well as I have scrambled up it three times at the start of walks on the Pennine Way. Hadley's music is in the spirit of his friend Vaughan Williams but there is a more personal quality to it with an underlying air of sadness. The video includes some fine photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J5sz5qFsY
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Harry

#66462
April 13, 2022, 02:21:31 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 13, 2022, 01:40:16 AM
Patrick Hadley 'Kinder Scout' (1923)
I think that this short tone poem is a wonderful work (I know that Harry agrees too). I know Kinder Scout (a hill in Derbyshire) quite well as I have scrambled up it three times at the start of walks on the Pennine Way. Hadley's music is in the spirit of his friend Vaughan Williams but there is a more personal quality to it with an underlying air of sadness. The video includes some fine photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J5sz5qFsY


Absolutely true! This is a wonderful series which I hope Chandos will continue.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

vandermolen

#66463
April 13, 2022, 02:46:47 AM
Quote from: absolutelybaching on April 13, 2022, 01:57:13 AM
Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov's Missa festiva 
    Valéry Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Ludmilla Golub (organ)

A fine mass setting by this American composer!
Wasn't he Russian?
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#66464
April 13, 2022, 02:47:22 AM
Quote from: "Harry" on April 13, 2022, 02:21:31 AM

Absolutely true! This is a wonderful series which I hope Chandos will continue.
Me too Harry!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#66465
April 13, 2022, 02:57:03 AM
Quote from: absolutelybaching on April 13, 2022, 02:50:54 AM
I hate to sound like a former American president, but it depends on what the meaning of the word "was" is!!
He was certainly born in Kaluga, just outside of Moscow, in 1864.
But he died 91 years later a confirmed American citizen, residing in New York.
So I'm claiming him as an American (but the French could also claim him, as he moved there first, in 1925, in his assorted perambulations away from the Russian Revolution).
OK - thanks for the explanation! I'd forgotten that he ended up in the USA. I like his 4th Symphony.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Madiel

#66466
April 13, 2022, 03:06:44 AM
Sibelius, String quartet in B flat, op.4



This piece somehow doesn't quite do it for me. It feels a little bit... overstuffed.
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

Operafreak

#66467
April 13, 2022, 03:14:24 AM Last Edit: April 13, 2022, 04:30:56 AM by Operafreak


Sibelius: The Tempest Overture and Suites/ Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

DavidW

#66468
April 13, 2022, 03:32:17 AM
Quote from: absolutelybaching on April 13, 2022, 02:20:57 AM
Robert Simpson's Variations on a theme by Nielsen 
    Matthew Taylor, City of London Sinfonia

Nice!  Good to see that I'm not the only Simpson fan here!

DavidW

#66469
April 13, 2022, 03:33:26 AM


Excellent new release!

Traverso

#66470
April 13, 2022, 03:34:44 AM
Bach

CD 2



vandermolen

#66471
April 13, 2022, 04:01:29 AM
Frederic Austin: 'The Sea Venturers' (1934)
Stirring, swashbuckling stuff, reminiscent in places of Bernard Herrmann:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Madiel

#66472
April 13, 2022, 04:15:10 AM
Dvorak

Rondo in G minor - for cello and piano (1891), and for cello and orchestra (1893)
Silent Woods - for piano duet (1884), for cello and piano (1891), and for cello and orchestra (1893)

Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

Operafreak

#66473
April 13, 2022, 04:29:59 AM



Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4- Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä


The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Todd

#66474
April 13, 2022, 05:25:05 AM
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

Panem et Artificialis Intelligentia

Biffo

#66475
April 13, 2022, 06:03:37 AM
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan - a live concert from January 1973 - a dynamic performance, vastly preferable to the studio recording from the 1970s which I find disappointing

Spotted Horses

#66476
April 13, 2022, 06:09:12 AM
Quote from: Biffo on April 13, 2022, 06:03:37 AM
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan - a live concert from January 1973 - a dynamic performance, vastly preferable to the studio recording from the 1970s which I find disappointing

Where is that recording available?

Biffo

#66477
April 13, 2022, 06:16:47 AM
Quote from: Spotted Horses on April 13, 2022, 06:09:12 AM
Where is that recording available?

Sorry, I should have mentioned I was streaming it from the Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall. You need a subscription to access the live concerts and the archive.

Spotted Horses

#66478
April 13, 2022, 06:24:38 AM Last Edit: April 13, 2022, 06:30:34 AM by Spotted Horses
Roussel, Symphony No 2, Janowski.



Roussel's second symphony is an impressive work. Late Roussel is succinct, sometimes thorny, often witty. Early Roussel tended to be impressionistic. The second symphony seems to fall between, and is a sprawling, dramatic, expressionistic work with lots of dramatic orchestration. It is not a work I can feel I am acquainted with after a single listen. It requires concentration to take it in.

Janowski's performance is fabulous, in very satisfying audio. It made a stronger impression with me than Martinon's recording from the 60's. I've had the Janowski set since it first came out, but I always seemed to go to another alternative when listening to Roussel over the years. I will have to reacquaint myself with Roussel though these recordings. Next up will the Roussel's first, which aligreto found particularly satisfying.

Mirror Image

#66479
April 13, 2022, 06:28:02 AM
First-Listen Wednesday

Amirov
Kürd Ovshari (Symphonic Mugam)
Azerbaijan Capriccio
A Tale of Nasimi
Gülistan Bayaty Shiraz (Symphonic Mugam)
Moscow Radio and TV SO
Yalchin Adigezalov



Man, I'm digging this!
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