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[AnotherSpin]

Isang Yun: Music for Cello and Piano

[Cato]

Zoltan Kocsis and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3: up there with the classic performance by Byron Janis on RCA from c. 60 years ago. 

I still give the edge to Byron Janis! 

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(Go to 25:25 for the Third Concerto, but the First Concerto performance is also a barn-burner!)

Also...


Gennady Rozhdestvensky liked the original version the Bruckner Symphony #3!!!

[Mandryka]

I forgot about this earlier and it's a joy to revisit. Sweet and serious,  as they say.

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Now playing this entire Suk Pešek recording



Suk is such an amazing composer. I really ought to spend more time exploring his oeuvre, which I believe I will do over the next couple of days.

[Selig]

Bach: Sacred Cantatas, BWV 154, 155, 73
Kristjánsson, Benedikt, Johannsen, Daniel (tenors)
Potter, Alex (counter-tenor)
Winckhler, Matthias, Berndt, Tobias (bass)
Feuersinger, Miriam (soprano)
Gaechinger Cantorey Ensemble, Hans-Christoph Rademann (Conductor)

Am loving these. My first encounter with Rademann and I'm very impressed, the performance, the singers, everything seems just right. And Bach's ceaseless inventiveness lights up the world.

I'm looking forward to exploring this cantata cycle. Rademann seems to have chosen some very fine soloists, though several names are new to me. Kristjánsson and Feuersinger are already among my favorites - maybe Elvira Bill too.

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Now playing Britten Saint Nicolas, Op. 42

[San Antone]

Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition
Arranged for piano and percussion by Ragna Schimer and M. Daneck



Interesting idea, and basically done well.  Although the texture sounds somewhat thin to my ears.

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Turned off the Britten...just wasn't in the mood...

Now playing Chávez Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns)



I think @Symphonic Addict was listening to this work not too long ago. This is the only recording of the ballet, so, thankfully, it's a good one and well-recorded.

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Now playing Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor

[Traverso]

Vivaldi

  sonatas Op.1    1-6

[Linz]

Riccardo Chailly/ Symphony No. % in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

[Traverso]

Vivaldi

Trio sonatas OP.1  7-12

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite.  Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Now playing Respighi Piano Quintet

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Now playing Respighi Concerto in modo misolidio

[Karl Henning]

Now playing Respighi Piano Quintet

Interesting. Completely off my radar.

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Interesting. Completely off my radar.

A gorgeous work, Karl. I think you will enjoy it.

[Daverz]

Turned off the Britten...just wasn't in the mood...

Now playing Chávez Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns)



I think @Symphonic Addict was listening to this work not too long ago. This is the only recording of the ballet, so, thankfully, it's a good one and well-recorded.

Dutton did a series of older quad recordings transferred to SACD.  For example, Bernstein's live Mass in Time of War and Ormandy's Shostakovich 5 & 15 for RCA.  I didn't know about this one before.  The stereo mix is in Sony's Chavez box.

[Symphonic Addict]

Turned off the Britten...just wasn't in the mood...

Now playing Chávez Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns)



I think @Symphonic Addict was listening to this work not too long ago. This is the only recording of the ballet, so, thankfully, it's a good one and well-recorded.

Yes, it is a fantastic work. A great find of mine recently.

[AnotherSpin]

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