What are you listening 2 now?

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I wonder if these are from around the same time as his Shostakovich run. The SNO has a rough edginess that aids this music, but I could see others put off by it too. I was worried about the (evident) empty acoustic from the start, but the ears adjust, or that aspect gets better as they go.

VS

On to:

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony 7 in c-sharp minor, op. 131

Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

Great music, I agree!

I'm sure they were made in close proximity considering just how fast Järvi worked and recorded this music. For this listener, his Prokofiev and Shostakovich are some of the finest things he's done. My other favorite recordings of his being his Tubin cycle on BIS.

[VonStupp]

I'm sure they were made in close proximity considering just how fast Järvi worked and recorded this music. For this listener, his Prokofiev and Shostakovich are some of the finest things he's done. My other favorite recordings of his being his Tubin cycle on BIS.

Perhaps that speed leads to some of the quality I spoke of, but they certainly throw themselves at the music. Very enjoyable!

I will put his Tubin on the backburner.

VS

[Mapman]

I can't tell if these guys are actually all together or thrown in with the magic of post-visualizations?

VS

Based on the shadows, it looks like at least Bernstein was edited in.

[Artem]

Oboe & Orchestra from this disk. Like a cloud of angry buzzing insects.

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Doreen Carwithen: 'Bishop's Rock' Overture.
Carwithen (born 1922) would have been 100 this year and the Proms is featuring some of her scores (including this fine work). She was the second wife of William Alwyn.

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NP:

Ben-Haim
Evocation, Op. 32
Itamar Zorman (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Philippe Bach



Excellent! I was hoping for another installment of Ben-Haim from BIS, but alas, it never happened. A shame.

Pounds the table etc 

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Pounds the table etc 

[Mapman]

Grieg: 6 Orchestral Songs, and Norwegian Dances
Camilla Tilling, Eivind Aadland: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

The songs are beautiful!

[vandermolen]

Carwithen (1922-2003): Concerto for Piano and Strings - a most engaging work with a deeply reflective slow movement. Carwithen was a fine composer. The CD has two different covers.

[Linz]

Medelssohn Symphony No.4 in A Op.90 'Italian And Franz Shubert Symphony No.9 in C D944 'Great' Klaus Tennstedt and The Berliner Philhamonker

[DavidW]

Bach cantatas bwv 63 and 191.  Some great Christmas music!  I know it is May but whatever!

[SonicMan46]

Mancini, Francesco (1672-1737) - sorry, not Henry!    late Baroque composer from Naples overshadowed by Alessandro Scarlatti - Mancini wrote a LOT of music as described below, mainly operas, oratorios and cantatas which I have none; BUT he was a wonderful composer of chamber works - I own the half dozen recordings below (Brilliant ones are doubles) - these are on period instruments - recommended if you're into this sort of music.  Dave

The late Baroque composer, Francesco Mancini was second only to Alessandro Scarlatti in his day. His music represents a transitional period between the Baroque and Classical eras. Mancini was mainly an opera composer who served the Neapolitan market, writing as many as 30 works for the stage, plus numerous oratorios, and a body sacred vocal music  He also composed a number of flute sonatas that are still considered important in the late-Baroque repertoire of that instrument. His works include 29 operas, sonatas, 7 serenatas, 12 oratorios and more than 200 secular cantatas in addition to assorted sacred music and instrumental music. Today he is best known for his recorder sonatas. (Source)

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Grieg: 6 Orchestral Songs, and Norwegian Dances
Camilla Tilling, Eivind Aadland: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

The songs are beautiful!

Indeed!

[Justice Roberts]

Jerome Moross: Frankie and Johnny.  JoAnn Falletta/New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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Carwithen (1922-2003): Concerto for Piano and Strings - a most engaging work with a deeply reflective slow movement. Carwithen was a fine composer. The CD has two different covers.

Ah yes, Alwyn's wife. She is quite a fine composer in her own right. I have that CD in a box somewhere.

[Que]

Mancini, Francesco (1672-1737) - sorry, not Henry!    late Baroque composer from Naples overshadowed by Alessandro Scarlatti - Mancini wrote a LOT of music as described below, mainly operas, oratorios and cantatas which I have none; BUT he was a wonderful composer of chamber works - I own the half dozen recordings below (Brilliant ones are doubles) - these are on period instruments - recommended if you're into this sort of music.  Dave

Interesting.. I'll check him out, Dave! 

[André]

Medelssohn Symphony No.4 in A Op.90 'Italian And Franz Shubert Symphony No.9 in C D944 'Great' Klaus Tennstedt and The Berliner Philhamonker

Linz, how is the last chord of the Schubert C major ? Forte ending Diminuendo or Fortissimo all the way ?

[Linz]

Linz, how is the last chord of the Schubert C major ? Forte ending Diminuendo or Fortissimo all the way ?

It is fortissimo to the end

[JBS]

CD 5 of the Capriccio Schulhoff set

With part of this double CD

Piano Sonata 1
Five Burlesques
Piano Sonata 3
Five Grotesques

The rest is on CD 6 of this set.

BTW, the "Jazz Improvisations", although listed as track 7 of the first CD in this duo, is in fact the contents of the second CD, although they are ordered somewhat differently in the 6 CD set.

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NP:

Guarnieri
Symphony No. 2, "Uirapuru"
São Paulo SO
Neschling