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[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello Tonight please lLadie's & gentelmen it'S an honor to present you my following lastest  a CD media album, not some darn F streaming  , anyway Ensemble Cappella Romana Music of Byzantium, remain another solid release to there  recordings, the music time lapse 1261 to 156, Great album and performance, really like it a lot.

[Symphonic Addict]

Not an epiphany, but two very well-crafted works. Good themes, fine orchestration, both works building up to an impressive, rousing coda.

Two rather decent and accomplished symphonies indeed. The other two have more attractive material in general in my view.

[Symphonic Addict]

Two symphonic poems on the same topic:


Catalani: Ero e Leandro

Perhaps not too memorable in the end, but the music doesn't outstay its welcome. A nice Italian late-Romantic piece.




Herbert: Hero and Leander, Op. 33

Here the musical treatment sounds a little more authentic methinks. The super climax in the second half of piece is quite well captured sonically.

[Linz]

Beethoven Concerto in E flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Op.73 Emil Gilels (piano), Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester & Gunter Wand as well Coriolan' Overture Op.62, 'Fidelio' Op.72

[ritter]

Revisiting Malipiero's L'Orfeide tonight.


This is a major (even if rather curious) Malipiero opera, to a text by the composer himself. It's from the early 1920s, and is built in 3 parts. The prelude, La Morte delle maschere, has an impresario presenting the traditional characters of the commedia dell'arte, who then are banished to a cupboard by a masked man, Orpheus. At the end Arlecchino manages to escape. The second part, Sette canzoni, has seven independent scenes of people "taken from the street" (who have replaced the commedia dell'arte masks). The final part, Orfeo (the eighth song) is a metatheatrical, play within a play epilogue.

The music is vintage Malipiero, and very effective, with his trademark "angular neoclassicism" alternating with very lyrical and atmospheric moments.

This is a live recording from the première of a new production of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 1966, with among the soloists two very distinguished names —Magda Olivero and Renato Capecchi—. The conductor Hermann Scherchen suffered a fainting spell during the intermission, but managed to end the performance. He would die of a heart attack five days later on June 12th.

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

Pfitzner: Symphony in C, Op. 46
Falla: El Amor Brujo

[Linz]

Gunter Wand with Carl Orff's Carmin burana

[Symphonic Addict]

Halvorsen: Suite from 'Maskarade'

Halvorsen wrote some beautiful and colourful music. A delightful Baroque-like touch permeates the piece. I have to say this work is better than any of his symphonies.




Tubin: Symphony No. 8

No wonder why it's not one of his most popular symphonies. This one is anguished, severe, even more desolate in spirit if compared with previous efforts in the form, but not for that it is a negative compliment. This seriously is good stuff.

[bhodges]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Paavo Järvi, conductor, recorded 19 May 2022) - Lovely. With a ton of live performances over the last few years, this group is getting lots of well-deserved exposure. Osmo Vänskä is probably my "go-to" for this piece, but this is well worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9QiDrJJmw

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Kodály
Háry János Suite
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Fricsay



Simply put, this is the greatest performance of the Háry János Suite that I know. There are many other fine performances, but this one is so colorful, raw and has that sort folk-tale, rustic feel to it that's always difficult to put into words, so I'll put it another way: you can taste the paprika in this Fricsay performance.

[Mirror Image]

Falla: El Amor Brujo

Pounds the table! Falla is such an incredible composer and I think I even forgot to mention him in my "Top 100" favorites list. He deserves to be in my "Top 30" at least.

[bhodges]

More Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor, recorded live 5 November 2021) - Don't know this young conductor at all, and at least, based on this performance, he's worth hearing. The orchestra seems entranced, and sounds great, as usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACqPJ1CRQ3k

--Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

Pounds the table! Falla is such an incredible composer and I think I even forgot to mention him in my "Top 100" favorites list. He deserves to be in my "Top 30" at least.

It's been some time since my last listen to that work, and yes, I concur with you regarding his greatness as a composer. I wish he would have composed more works.

[Mirror Image]

It's been some time since my last listen to that work, and yes, I concur with you regarding his greatness as a composer. I wish he would have composed more works.

Indeed. Being prolific seems to not be a Spanish composer trait as so many of them didn't compose too much --- I'll include Ravel here since he was half Basque. Of course, I'm only talking about the Spaniards and not the Latin Americans.

[Operafreak]

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5- Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

[bhodges]

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5- Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

I think Vänskä's Minnesota cycle is going to go down as one of the greats. (Not that the Lahti versions aren't wonderful.) Between his phrasing talent, and the orchestral execution, memorable.

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

Getting back to one of my biggest influences and enjoying this currently:



From this magnificent set that I believe is OOP now -



P.S. If anyone is wondering and why would you, but if you are then I'm the one who uploaded all of the sleeve art for each disc and pack shot on Discogs.

[Mirror Image]

Actually, I agree John and I may have overstated my preference for RVW's "harder-edged" works - it's only slight. I greatly admire the multi-faced nature of his musical personality and enjoy almost everything the man wrote. And no matter what style he was writing in, it's recognizably RVW.

Good to read, Kyle.

[Operafreak]

I think Vänskä's Minnesota cycle is going to go down as one of the greats. (Not that the Lahti versions aren't wonderful.) Between his phrasing talent, and the orchestral execution, memorable.

--Bruce

I can only agree with you.