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[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.9  CD 3

[Harry]

Dorothy Howell.
Orchestral works.
See back cover for details.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebecca Miller.
Recorded: 2022 at the St Jude's Church, London.

Marvelous, a revelation and great discovery. Finally a comprehensive collection of Howell's Orchestral works, in such good performances and sound.

[Iota]

I have listened to the complet youtube recording and I admit that there are moments where Sohn seems somewhat more emotionally involved in the playing. This is particularly true of the da capo of the third movement's theme but also of most of the first movement. His interpretation is among the good ones, but I have heard many op. 110's which engaged me more as a listener.

My impression from his complete sonata set is that he tends to be more analytical and neutral than deeply expressive, and he is often a bit muscular showy in his choice of ultrafast tempi and his left hand attack. I don't think the youtube recording is identical with the recording of the sonata on the cycle, but without A/B test I can't say for sure. However throughout the cycle his appproach is relatively consistent, and I don't recall op. 110 as being particularly expressive.

Yes (you refer to Op.110, but am sure you mean Op.109), his playing in the first movement engages me immediately too, it feels so naturally conceived and responsive. I agree he can be analytical at times, but in this sonata (the only one I've heard so far), that leads to some very illuminating voicings I think, which for me only enhance the interest and depth of the music.

I'm very curious if the youtube recordings are the ones used in the complete set. Will be heading off to Op.110 next.

[prémont]

Yes (you refer to Op.110, but am sure you mean Op.109)

I'm very curious if the youtube recordings are the ones used in the complete set. Will be heading off to Op.110 next.

Yes, of course I meant op.109, sonata no. 30. 

I see that quite a lot of his LvB sonatas are on youtube. Nice, since it's said to be impossible to get them from elsewhere.

[Traverso]

Albinoni

Concerti à cinque Op.5

[Harry]

Doreen Carwithen,
Orchestral works.
See back cover for details.
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox.
Howard shelley, Piano.
Recorded: 1996, Blackheath Halls, London.

After some while a further rerun.

[SonicMan46]

Frederic Chopin. Complete Piano Works. CD III.
Ballades 1-4.
Impromptu 1-3.
Fantasie Impromptu in C sharp minor.
Recorded: 174, Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

The Third CD from this excellent set..................

As promised, I listened to the complete Chopin Nocturnes performed by Nikita Magaloff (1912-1992) on Spotify, and these works are beautifully performed (apparently the box below was from the 1970s, i.e. ADD - the sound was excellent!).

For myself the last few days, Schumann's Piano Music on the two boxes below in my collection - compared several discs of each yesterday and enjoy both about equally (no pruning out this time -  ), but today decided to finish up w/ Dana Ciocarlie - 13 discs in each one.  Dave

   

[foxandpeng]

Malcolm Arnold
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 5
Richard Hickox
London Symphony Orchestra
Chandos

And on we go...

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

Le Sacre du Printemps

This recording apparently met with Stravinsky's approval. He had previously spoken disparagingly of Karajan's first recording, which in my opinion is one of the most successful, or at least the one that satisfies me the most.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Glass Violin Sonata followed by Adams Road Movies

[71 dB]

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre - Music for Flute Vol. 1
Philippe Allain-Dupré, baroque transverse flute
Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard, harpsichord
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba
Vincent Dumestre, theorbo
Jean-François Bougès, flute
Naxos 8.553707

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1877 Linz version with revisions - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Radiosymphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies
avalable at Download of the Month at abruckner.com

[Karl Henning]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gotovac: Symphonic Poems - Tajcevic: 7 Balkan Dances.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Before heading out for the day --- Hovhaness Floating World (Ukiyo), Op. 209

[Linz]

Kalevi Aho Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia cncertante) for violin and orchestra
Songs and Dances of Death
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

[71 dB]

Nicola LeFanu - Catena for Eleven Solo Strings / String Quartet No. 2 / Clarinet Concertino
Fiona Cross, clarinet
Nicholas Clapton, countertenor
Goldberg Ensemble
Malcolm Layfield
Naxos 8.557389

[VonStupp]

Hugo Alfvén
Choral Music

Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö, tenor
Folke Alin, piano
Orphei Drängar - Robert Sund

Mostly a cappella male-choir partsongs alongside a handful of tenor solos with piano.
VS

[Que]

Piano trio no. 2. Back from the days in which I still like the Beaux Arts (late '60s).

[André]

Oh, how utterly delightful! Shepherds piping away for their little sheep or goats... Such an idyllic, pastoral scene in the USSR of the 1930s. No sign of millions rotting in the Gulags, no trace of Ukraine starving to death in a carefully engineered famine. Just flutes, fields, and the sweet scent of Russian propaganda.

Totally out of line.