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[Papy Oli]

Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro (Giulini) Act I

[Traverso]

Mahler


Symphony No.3


I find these performances surprisingly good and at times even special. I find the choices Maazel makes intriguing and compelling. It is not the result of a capricious ego trip. Everything is indeed at the service of the music itself, otherwise it is a matter of taste. I enjoy it and that's what counts. The recordings are really excellent and make the smallest details audible.

[SonicMan46]

Vivaldi, Antonio - continuing selectively through my Tony V. collection w/ the recordings below; the Sarah Francis selections are of lower RV numbers (88-106, not all but 7 works), while the MDG disc is Op. 10 (6 works from RV 428-439) w/ Hünteler on a Jacob Denner flute (original vs. reproduction and year unknown from the notes) - Dave

     

[aligreto]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 [Boulez]





This is the first Mahler work that I ever heard. I still remember the effect that the slow movement had on me. It felt like I was in Heaven. That was fifty years ago. I therefore have a great affection for it, particularly the slow movement.

I like the clarity in the opening movement here. Yes, it is powerful and somewhat menacing and always exciting but that is not just what it is all about. Boulez has a firm grip on the architecture and holds everything together very well yet still displaying all of the fine details in the music.

The Scherzo, stylistically, recommences just from where the first movement left off. I like Boulez's sense of pacing in this music. It is well driven without being frantic and it is always compelling.

The slow movement is wonderful here. I find that it is filled with tenderness to begin with, not sentimentality. Certainly, the tone changes as the movement progresses. It becomes more powerfully stated emotionally but it is never forced. It merely becomes more ardent and expansive, majestic and robust. The double bass lines are given wonderful exposure in all of this clarity. 

The Final movement displays all of the requisite power of the music. Boulez presents the music in a controlled but not in an overly controlling way. Also, because of the expansive, clarity filled and refined approach, the music really breathes and one is allowed to savour it. Yet, all of the power, drama, tension and atmosphere is retained. Once again, those lower register instruments; menacing and wonderful!

[aligreto]

Mozart Symphony No 32, Norrington, Suttgart.



A diminutive gem is Mozart's set of symphonies. Nicely performed, rhythmically taut, trumpets and horns not shy, I was expecting a bit more from the timpani. Overall, satisfying, not dissimilar to the Fischer set.

He reminds me of the late Robin Williams in that photo; the same expression on his face.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

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Heinrich Isaac In Konstanz
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[Traverso]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 [Boulez]





This is the first Mahler work that I ever heard. I still remember the effect that the slow movement had on me. It felt like I was in Heaven. That was fifty years ago. I therefore have a great affection for it, particularly the slow movement.

I like the clarity in the opening movement here. Yes, it is powerful and somewhat menacing and always exciting but that is not just what it is all about. Boulez has a firm grip on the architecture and holds everything together very well yet still displaying all of the fine details in the music.

The Scherzo, stylistically, recommences just from where the first movement left off. I like Boulez's sense of pacing in this music. It is well driven without being frantic and it is always compelling.

The slow movement is wonderful here. I find that it is filled with tenderness to begin with, not sentimentality. Certainly, the tone changes as the movement progresses. It becomes more powerfully stated emotionally but it is never forced. It merely becomes more ardent and expansive, majestic and robust. The double bass lines are given wonderful exposure in all of this clarity. 

The Final movement displays all of the requisite power of the music. Boulez presents the music in a controlled but not in an overly controlling way. Also, because of the expansive, clarity filled and refined approach, the music really breathes and one is allowed to savour it. Yet, all of the power, drama, tension and atmosphere is retained. Once again, those lower register instruments; menacing and wonderful!

Enjoy your Mahler Fergus,I now immerse myself for a moment with the Maazel recordings that I really like and in my opinion do not compare badly with the Boulez performance.

[Linz]

Dvorak Requiem Sawalliisch and the Czech Philharmonic and Chorus

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

[VonStupp]

Bedřich Smetana
Má Vlast

Suisse Romande - Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec. 1978)

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[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 7 from this set

[aligreto]

Barry: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Act 2 [Markson]





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[aligreto]

Enjoy your Mahler Fergus,I now immerse myself for a moment with the Maazel recordings that I really like and in my opinion do not compare badly with the Boulez performance.

Thank you Jan. I am enjoying every moment of this Boulez Mahler cycle.
I have been following your comments on the Maazel cycle and you too, appear to be enjoying that one very much. Continued enjoyment, Jan.

[aligreto]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

I like Zinman in Strauss.

[Linz]

Heirich Schutz

[Bachtoven]

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

I like Zinman in Strauss.

I agree, I like Zinman in Strauss very much too, in particular in the Alpine Symphony; he handle the orchestral timbres and dynamics, especially the brass, in an excellent way, to result in a very intense, evocative and powerfully beautiful performance. I usually choose Zinman (or Kempe) when I want different Strauss recordings from Karajan's (which are still unbeatable for me).

[ritter]

After a hiatus of two weeks, moving on from Vol. 1 to Vol. 2 (of a total of three) of this series devoted to the early string quartets and song cycles of Darius Milhaud:


Included here are SQ3 (with a soprano in the second movement, à la Schoenberg and —much later— Ginastera), SQ4 and SQ5, plus Machines agrícoles (which sets the description of agricultural equipment from a catalogue as "six pastorales"  ) and Catalogue de fleurs (to poems by Lucien Daudet —a close friend of Marcel Proust). Both cycles are for voice (soprano Ulrike Sontag in this case) and seven instruments.

SQ3, which I'm listening to now, is in two slow movements and is a much darker work than the two SQs that precede it (or than what we usually expect from "sunny, Mediterranean" Milhaud. I hadn't listened to this work for years, and it's making a strong impression. The performance by Mrs. Sontag and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet is very convincing.

[Linz]

Shostakovich Symphonies 1 and 6 Cd1 of Ashkenazy with the Royal Phiharmonic Orchestra