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[Symphonic Addict]

Korngold's chamber music contains several exquisite scores like this String Sextet and Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand. Also, these CPO recordings devoted to Korngold are top-drawer.

[Symphonic Addict]

I had, but in the pre-stroke era, so it's been waaaay, too long, Cesar!

Nice! I bet it was a stunning performance.

[Symphonic Addict]

A nice disc of woodwind music by Reinecke, save for the Wind Sextet which sounded rather generic and not particularly inspired.

[Mookalafalas]

  4 hands

[steve ridgway]

Stockhausen - Tierkreis

[steve ridgway]

Webern - String Quartet, Op. 28

[Que]

[Toni Bernet]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mystery Sonata "Resurrection"
(from the so-called Rosary Sonatas) in G major for violin and basso

Music can serve to help us imagine reality as greater than we are accustomed to. Religion fundamentally thrives on the fact that we must imagine our ideas and images of transcendence (God, heaven, resurrection, etc.) as even greater and more dynamic than even the universe we know demands of us.


More cf:
https://www.discoveringsacredmusic.ch/16th-17th-century/biber

[Mandryka]

Dimitri Vassilakis plays Boulez's Deuxième sonate.

Very good! I found it after I discovered his Constellation Miroir.

[Madiel]

Earlier today, another Mozart take on Handel.



Of course, it might be up to 25 years since I last heard the original English-language one...

[Que]

Streaming this recording with some rare repertoire. To my knowledge this is the only recording fully dedicated to Guillaume Morlaye, who was the pupil of Italian Alberto da Ripa (Albert de Rippe) and the first in the lineage of French composer-lutenists. Nice performances too.

[Harry]

Streaming this recording with some rare repertoire. To my knowledge this is the only recording fully dedicated to Guillaume Morlaye, who was the pupil of Italian Alberto da Ripa (Albert de Rippe) and the first in the lineage of French composer-lutenists. Nice performances too.

Yes in full agreement!

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams Symphony 5 and 9 LSO, Pappano (LSO Live)
Having thought very highly of the earlier release, featuring symphonies 4 and 6 I had great expectations here. However, despite reading some wildly enthusiastic reviews I was slightly disappointed; although the performances (not the boxed-in recording) has grown on me and I greatly enjoyed my last listen to this CD yesterday. The last movement of the 5th Symphony is the highlight of that performance and the 9th has an appropriately looming/brooding presence here.
Why do we need 5 photos of Pappano and none of Vaughan Williams, who after-all created the music, in the booklet?

[Madiel]

Debussy arr. Ravel: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, piano 4-hands version

[Madiel]

Ravel

Chants populaires (arranger)
Valses nobles et sentimentales



Very satisfying. The songs in this set seem to me to be consistently well done. And the Valses are very interesting. Poizat's skill in playing lightly (whether through technique or maybe with some help from the recording) pays off very well in this music, it's graceful. But also the dissonant harmonies come through. In some of the waltzes he has a somewhat different take from the Pascal Roge recording I'm familiar with, and I think both work.

[Madiel]

Beethoven: String trio in C minor, op.9/3



Possibly my least favourite string trio. Still darn good.

[Que]

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphonies  18-19 & 25

Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap Ter Linden

[Linz]

Anton BrucknerSymphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Munich Philharmoniker , Rudof Kempe

[Todd]

Hit play a while ago.  Currently on track 48 out of 174.  It was a one buck download, to the price-adjusted quality is quite high.