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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C Major "Jupiter" K.551
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished" D.759

DavidW


Daverz

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Quote from: Spotted Horses on July 04, 2025, 08:44:50 AMI continue to be impressed after a second listen. The work doesn't have a key signature, but I get the impression it makes free use of tonality. (Alas, streaming and no access to the CD notes.)


Here's the booklet for the Wellesz concerto disc:

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/93/000201939.pdf

By the way, there's another recording of the Piano Concerto on the Pan label:


Linz

Anton Bruckner Symphony No . 4 in E Flat Major, 1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Georg Tintner

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

VonStupp

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
   Zino Francescatti, violin
   NYPO - Leonard Bernstein

Max Bruch
Violin Concerto in G minor, op. 26
   Zino Francescatti, violin
   NYPO - Thomas Schippers
   

I think it was @JBS who mentioned the mixed-conductor format here, in a set of Bernstein conducting Sibelius. No matter, for I enjoy these original jackets.
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From this set:

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

My Musical Musings

Mister Sharpe

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It's an all-Satie weekend for me in commemoration of 2025 marking the centenary of his decease. (Thanks and a tip of the Satie bowler to Mandryka for reminding me). There was a time when I listened to nothing but (well, there might have been a few spins in there of Mompou and Sauget, so clearly influenced by him).  It amazes me that his detractors have not ceased and desisted (and that I've refrained from throttling them), despite such notables as Frank Zappa and Virgil Thomson espousing his music and/or antics; the latter thought him the most original mind in modern music. That's sayng something! BTW, you can hear Thomson discussing Socrate here: https://archive.org/details/C_1965_03_25




"It's often said it's better to be sharp than flat," when discussing tuning instruments.

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Luigi Dallapiccola Taertiniana
Due Pezzi for orchestra
Piccola Musica Notturna
Frammenti Sinfoniicti dal Balletto 'Marsia'
Variazioni per Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic  Gianandrea Noseda, James Ehnes violin

JBS

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 04, 2025, 08:33:48 AMI like those recordings from Melodiya. Too bad they are not available in digital or disc format. Sofronitzky's Scriabin music is solid.

Amazon lists 2 CDs for Zhukov, although they are not cheap.

And this one from a label called CDK which was issued in 2003.


There are also several on vinyl listed.

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

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@JBS and others, I think my comment was inaccurate. Probably many of Zhukov recordings are available in digital format now.
Yes, I like the Chopin and Scriabin preludes. Also his first Scriabin sonatas recording (Melodyia) is nice and available. His second sonatas recording is excellent too.
Scriabin Piano Works is excellent, but I don't think it's available. If anybody has it in digital format, please help me.
I'm so happy to post the pic of this album.













Der lächelnde Schatten

Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans:

NP: Copland Symphony No. 3

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." ― Robert Schumann

Der lächelnde Schatten

NP: Hovhaness Symphony No. 63, Op. 411, "Loon Lake"

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." ― Robert Schumann

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 04, 2025, 04:42:36 PM[...]
Scriabin Piano Works is excellent, but I don't think it's available. If anybody has it in digital format, please help me.
I'm so happy to post the pic of this album.






According to the information on Discogs, the album Piano Works (А.Скрябин, Фортепианные произведения) was released in the USSR only on LP and never came out on CD. I remember the cover, saw it in stores back then.

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantische"

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert

Live, Hamburg, 2021

steve ridgway

Messiaen - Couleurs De La Cité Céleste


Que

This appeared unexpectedly in my mailbox, over three weeks after ordering. I had already given it up...



But very glad it did...this stuff is rare, and often expensive if available at all. I guess you can always stream it...  ;)
Happy with this new addition to my small Trecento collection!

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Wim van Beek plays Bach, Böhm, Bruhns. From Famous Dutch Organs series.

vandermolen

Holst: Choral Symphony - arguably his greatest work:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Que

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Well, yes... This recording does tick all the boxes.. :D

Thnx to Mandryka and Prémont for recommending it!

PS Great organ, well recorded: (This is were Olivier Houette, which looks great on paper, went wrong IMO...)



Orgue Marin Carouge / Michel Garnier de l'Abbatiale Saint-Robert de La Chaise-Dieu

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