What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

OK. Give me an hour or two and I'll split the download into multiple parts. Hopefully each will come down easier than a single biggie... Some browsers are known to have issues with large downloads -and if you're using a FAT32 file system, for example, then that can't cope with files larger than a certain size, either.

Give me a few minutes, anyway.

I will. Thank you for all the trouble you are going through.

[Harry]

OK. Here are the links to the different sections:

• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki01.zip
• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki02.zip
• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki03.zip
• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki04.zip
• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki05.zip
• https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Suzuki06.zip

The earlier link I gave you no longer exists.

Each of the 6 files is a standalone zip (so can be unzipped independent of any other), and the largest of them is only 630MB, which shouldn't cause any trouble at all -but please let me know if you continue having trouble anyway: there are plenty of other ways we can skin this particular feline.

Thank you. I am downloading the first file now, and will let you know if it works this time.

[Harry]

It works this time, just have to find out how to make the images smaller to actually use then in GMG postings.
Oompf, that is harder as I expected, being not good in this kind of thing at all. Another question for the guys of my IT firm.
Anyways have all the files downloaded.
Thank You again!

[Traverso]

Beethoven


Symphony No. 5 & 7

[Harry]

Edvard Grieg.

Piano Concerto in A minor. Original 1868/1872 version.

Love Derwinger, Piano.
Norrkoping SO, Jun'ichi Hirokami.

Solo Piano music.
Larviks Polka.
23 small piano pieces.
Love Derwinger, Piano.

These recordings from 1993 are actually quite good, this could easily been recorded in 2022. The Piano concerto is a excellent interpretation and well played. Not quite sure what is so different from the versions that are mostly played, but I will find out. Have a recording on the waiting list, like the much lauded performance by Stephen Kovacevich, with the BBC SO under Colin Davis, an oldie from 1971, remastered in 96khz-24 bit.
The solo piano pieces are equally rewarding, and really fine music by Grieg, to often neglected. A good a cheap way to get all his solo piano works on Naxos is an option, played by Einar Steen-Nökleberg  . Complete, 14 CD's and very well done. Eva Knardahl on BIS, 12 CD's, is a strong contender too. I have the Naxos releases, but am still game for the Knardahl box, but after all those years its still pricey. Who knows, maybe BIS will be lenient and make it a budget box.

[Operafreak]

Mahler: Symphony No. 10- performing version by Deryck Cooke-  Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

[Lisztianwagner]

The early quartet, yes? I remember it being lush!

Precisely! As a matter of fact, it is; such a beautiful, lyrical and expressive piece, as well as quite surprising since it's not similar to any other Schönberg's work, not even Verklärte Nacht that was composed two years later. Very brahmsian in its structural clarity, orchestration and development of the sections, it also reminds me of Zemlinsky's String Quartet No. 1.
I suppose if someone didn't know it, he would hardly be able to recognize the composer.

[vandermolen]

Rubbra's reflective Piano Concerto.
I think that is one of Rubbra's finest works - not a 'show piece' at all but hauntingly atmospheric and meditative, reflecting the composer's spiritual beliefs I suspect:

[Traverso]

Debussy


Preludes Book 1

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.1

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, WAB 105. Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Philharmonic

[Harry]

Edvard Grieg.

Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2.
From Holberg's Time, Suite.
Sigurd Jorsalfar, Three Pieces for Orchestra.

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan.
Recorded-1971 & 1981.

I have literally outgrown Karajan"s approach on most of his recordings. This is one of them, to loud, string orientated, typical for this conductor. Of course I know Karajan has many fans, but I am not amongst them anymore, with the exception of Mahler's ninth on DGG, which I think is extraordinary good. Be aware that in the last movement of this work, a technical glitch in the form of a electrical hum is very much present. It is acknowledged by DGG, but never corrected.
This CD however is culled today from my collection.

[Harry]

Gustav Mahler.
Symphony No. 3 in D minor.

Mihoko Fujimura, Alt.
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott.
SACD recording.

First performance: 9-6-1902, Krefeld, Krefelder Städtische Kapelle and Gürzenich Orchestra Köln, conducted by Gustav Mahler.


Nott his interpretations are growing rapidly on me, he has the touch that moves me into a better understanding of Mahler' s emotions. The recording is extremely detailed, and the orchestra well balanced in every respect. I hear so much which I never heard before, and that makes this a totally new experience. This is my Mahler to go to, if I need the music.

[DavidW]

Exceptional!

[DavidW]

Handel, GF - Keyboard Suites w/ Ragna Schirmer on piano - 3 discs - reviews attached w/ some varied comments - believe the reviewers who want these performed only on harpsichord tended to be more critical; for me I also have a 4-CD set of Borgstede playing two different harpsichords - enjoy both recordings.  Dave

 

Dave I like this recording:

[Harry]

Pjotr Illich Thaikovsky.

Hamlet, Overture and Incidental Music.
Festival Overture.

LSO, Geoffrey Simon.

[vandermolen]

Pjotr Illich Thaikovsky.

Hamlet, Overture and Incidental Music.
Festival Overture.

LSO, Geoffrey Simon.

Looks interesting Harry. I think highly of Geoffrey Simon's recordings, especially of Respighi and Bloch.

[Harry]

Looks interesting Harry. I think highly of Geoffrey Simon's recordings, especially of Respighi and Bloch.

Well I must admit I adore the performance of the orchestral pieces, but the vocals I skipped, guess that was too much of the good thing.
Geoffrey Simon, is one of my favourite conductors of the olden days, thus I have many of his recordings.
The sound is superb, and Simon makes it very special too. The Respighi also on Chandos is a disc I treasure.

[Harry]

Pjotr Illich Thaikovsky,

Symphony No. 4 in F minor.
Marche Slave.

London SO, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.

I forgot how marvelous these performances are. It was really a long time ago that I played them. There is fire, passion, detailed expression and the weight of this fine Orchestra. A very Russian take with an English orchestra,
Rozhdestvensky does it with verve and commitment. It is well recorded too.

The cover art is from Regis, but I have the Brilliant release.

[vandermolen]

Well I must admit I adore the performance of the orchestral pieces, but the vocals I skipped, guess that was too much of the good thing.
Geoffrey Simon, is one of my favourite conductors of the olden days, thus I have many of his recordings.
The sound is superb, and Simon makes it very special too. The Respighi also on Chandos is a disc I treasure.

I agree Harry. He also recorded my favourite version of Bloch's 'Sacred Service' - a very moving work.