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[Symphonic Addict]

Holst: Quintet for piano and winds and Wind Quintet

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

@Symphonic Addict what do you think of Nielsen's Aladdin? I don't think I have ever read your opinion of this work.

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Now playing Adams El Dorado

[steve ridgway]

Birtwistle - Ritual Fragment

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Hurqualia

[steve ridgway]

Webern - Symphony

[AnotherSpin]

Clavier-Übung III

[Que]

Revisiting this recording, again. Great find by Paul van Nevel! 

[AnotherSpin]

6 Trio Sonatas from this set:

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Bach

Vol 6 CD 4

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Benjamin Britten
Praise We Great Men
Ballad of Heroes, op. 14
Diversions, op. 21
An American Overture, op. 27
Building of the House Overture, op. 79
Suite on English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', op. 90

Robert Tear, tenor
Peter Donohoe, piano
CBSO & Chorus - Simon Rattle

Back when I bought this EMI collection, I remember being unsure regarding a lot of these works. I enjoyed it much more this go around, with only a few receiving a tepid response from these ears.
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CD1 from:

A great set!

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Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No.3

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Vivaldi

[Harry]

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský.
Serenades & Sonatas for Trumpet & Strings.
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor.
Recorded: 1996, at Eremo di Ronzano, Italy.

Like few others, the Moravian composer Pavel Vejvanovsky was able to synthesize the Viennese and Venetian Baroque in his music. He was a member of the Olmützer Kapelle under Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and took over the position of Kapellmeister after his surprising departure. Little is known about him, and even less of him is recorded. Normally I would shun Trumpet concertos, but it this case I like the performance, and Letzbor's take on it. The recording is clear, detailed and has a nice ring all around the venue were it is recorded.

[AnotherSpin]

6 Trio Sonatas from mono set:

[Roasted Swan]

Recently someone mentioned on the forum Bernstein's old CBS/New PO recording of Strauss Also Sprach.  Apart from a fine complete Der Rosenkavalier in Vienna, Strauss is not a composer I associate with Bernstein.  Which is slightly curious when you think that the big Romantic gestures and works would be right up his street.  So I listened to this disc



which on the version I heard is coupled with Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel.  The actual sound is pretty good 1970ish engineering and the performance is tremendous - big and exciting as are both the couplings too.  Perhaps not played with the absolute casual polish that orchestras today seem able to play this very hard repertoire but this feels like a bit of a musical event. 

As far as I can tell there is also a Don Quixote/Festival Prelude/Dance of the 7 veils cd from Bernstein and that's about it.  No commercial Domestica or Alpine, no Death and Transfiguration or Heldenleben let alone a 4 Last Songs.  Am I missing something? [not counting here the later DG disc from France]  Was it because Szell and Ormandy were already recording this repertoire for CBS with Reiner/Solti in Chicago and Mehta in Los Angeles?  What a golden age of Strauss recordings in the US!

[Que]

[Selig]

These are the longest ricercars I've ever come across. Even Jacques Buus doesn't reach these playing times! Difficult music to appreciate on the first hearing.

[Harry]

These are the longest ricercars I've ever come across. Even Jacques Buus doesn't reach these playing times! Difficult music to appreciate on the first hearing.

Really in what way?
And what can you tell about the sound of the Antegnati organ, is it well recorded. Performance like? Francesco Tansini I do not know.

[Harry]

Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
Symphony No. 1 & 2.
Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester, Hermann Bäumer.
Recorded: 2007.

Neglected on a grand scale these days, but I do enjoy these Symphonies immensely. He is a composer with a rich musical palette, and colourful expression in all what he composed. As a composer he may not transcend his contemporaries but he is still a enjoyable Romantic composer. The sound is a bit recessed for the likes of MDG, but enough details are left to make it acceptable. Could be better though.