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[Karl Henning]

Welcome back!

TD:

Dang! That was good!

[Todd]

[71 dB]

Chopin - Scherzi
Idil Biret
Naxos 8.554538

[PaulR]

Weinberg:  Violin Concerto

[DavidW]

[Iota]

Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9
Michael Korstick (piano)

Korstick feels as if he's on a tightly coiled spring ready to burst into frenetic action at the drop of a hat throughout Carnaval, and indeed frequently doing so, which of course suits the ever-shifting character of the music perfectly. He drops with equal ease into reverie and tenderness, and characterisations of every hue throughout are brought to life vividly. A superb reading which I enjoyed immensely.

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday:

[Karl Henning]

[Todd]

[AnotherSpin]

[André]

Maiden-Listen Monday:

The 7th is slowly crystallizing in my mind as the greatest of Arnold's symphonies. I like them all, love 5 and 9, but that 7th ...

[André]

The cello concerto from this disc. A quite extraordinary work.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak
China NCPA Orchestra, LÜ Jia

[San Antone]

Liszt : Via crucis
Leif Ove Andsnes, The Norwegian Solists' Choir, Grete Pedersen (2025)



Very good recording of this work: transparent, pristine, austere.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op.21
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op.67
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[VonStupp]

Anton Bruckner
Symphony 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (Nowak)
Chicago SO - Georg Solti

VS

[JBS]

Photos are from the booklet, from the same series as the cover photo.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bülent Tarcan: Süit № 3. Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hikmet Şimşek.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Excellent!

[Mapman]

Sohy: Symphonie en ut dièse mineur
Waldman: Orchestre National de France

Thanks to @Symphonic Addict for praising this work in the New Releases thread. This is an excellent late-Romantic symphony. The beginning reminded me a bit of Franck (and like Franck's Symphony, this is in 3 movements), but many passages are clearly more modern: a passage in the middle of the 3rd movement is almost jazzy. I'd need to listen a few more times to comment about the structure. I'm impressed, and I'm sure I'll return to this at some point. (But when? There's so much other music I've never heard!)