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Vaughan Williams Job, Hickox conducting the Bournemouth SO




Sarge

My favorite Job without a doubt.

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My favorite Job without a doubt.

A great performance, with excellent sound: more refined, more pleasing than Boult, the other Job I've been listening to this afternoon. I prefer Boult's pacing, though, consistently faster except in the three short dances at the end (Pavane, Galliard, Altar Dance) where he and Hickox are essentially identical. The drama is more gripping with Hickox but the music more pleasing with Boult. As I said before, I'm not sure what that means 

Sarge

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A great performance, with excellent sound: more refined, more pleasing than Boult, the other Job I've been listening to this afternoon. I prefer Boult's pacing, though, consistently faster except in the three short dances at the end (Pavane, Galliard, Altar Dance) where he and Hickox are essentially identical.

Sarge

It does have great audio and the beginning of Job's Dream never sounded better than on this Hickox recording. This is usually a quiet introduction but it seemed like to me the audio was boasted a little bit in this section. Even though it only lasts about a minute or so, it's one of the most beautiful, subtle, yet simple things I've heard from RVW.

[Karl Henning]

I'll go back to Handley at some point too. I've noticed that once I've found a performance that makes a piece of music work for me, earlier performances that didn't, suddenly do    Or at least they don't seem as uninteresting or boring as I had initially thought.

Sarge

Exactly!  Winds up as a rising tide which lifts all Boults boats.

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Now:

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Schumann
Symphonies 2,3 & 4
Zinman & Tonhalle Zürich
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Mahler Das Lied von der Erde with Waltraud Meier and Ben Heppner, Maazel conducting the SOBR




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Louis Couperin
Suites & Pavane
Gustav Leonhardt

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Now:

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Louis Couperin
Suites & Pavane
Gustav Leonhardt

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A lovely recording, Divertimentian. Davis certainly knows his Berlioz and conducts him with authority.

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A lovely recording, Divertimentian. Davis certainly knows his Berlioz and conducts him with authority.

Amen to that, MI.

I actually have this R&J as part of the Berlioz Cube, one of the best classical investments I ever made:

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Wasn't aware, Harry. Sorry.

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a misc collection, and all 20^th century
POULENC a capella choral music:    La figure humaine    Mass in G   
Quatre petites prières de Saint-François d'Assise
Uppsala Academic Chamber Chorus,  KFUM Chamber Chorus   Dan Olof Stenlund, cond.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS   Symphony 9 in E
London Philharmonic Orch.     Sir Adrian Boult, cond.
David GUION  Mother Goose Suite, Valse Arabesque, The Arkansas Traveller and 5 other short pieces
Steve Buchanan, piano

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A little break from Wagner with this recording:

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Absolutely gorgeous so far. Kamu and the Lahti SO are no strangers to Sibelius' music though, so I'm expecting a distinguished performance.

[Lisztianwagner]

Bohuslav Martinu
Symphony No.4



Absolutely thrilling music! I should really look for Martinu's Piano Concertos too.

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Bohuslav Martinu
Symphony No.4



Absolutely thrilling music! I should really look for Martinu's Piano Concertos too.

Yes! I'm glad you're enjoying Martinu's music, Ilaria. The Neumann set is such a good one. The PCs are definitely top-drawer Martinu, so I say go for it. The set on Supraphon with Belohlavek is top-notch!

[Lisztianwagner]

Yes! I'm glad you're enjoying Martinu's music, Ilaria. The Neumann set is such a good one. The PCs are definitely top-drawer Martinu, so I say go for it. The set on Supraphon with Belohlavek is top-notch!

Thanks for the feedback, John Belohlavek/Leichner set looks certainly amazing, I think the Czech Philharmonic is the best performer of Martinu's music. It might be one of my next purchases.

Enjoy Sibelius in the meantime!