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[Sadko]

Mahler:

Songs

Fischer-Dieskau
Karl Engel

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Fischer-Dieskau seems unrelaxed in this live recording, but I really like Karl Engel's accompaniment.

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Tonight must be ballet night. Anyway, this is really an outstanding work.

[TheGSMoeller]

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My first Schnittke symphony, delivers such an ethereal quality, very powerful and thoughtful, I think I'm going to enjoy this journey.

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My first Schnittke symphony, delivers such an ethereal quality, very powerful and thoughtful, I think I'm going to enjoy this journey.

I actually liked the 2nd pretty well, Greg.

[listener]

SCRIABIN   Le Poème de l'extase (Symphony no. 4) op. 54
                  Rêverie  op. 24               Piano Concerto in f# op 20
Garrick Ohlsson, piano    Czech Philharmonic Orch.    Libor Pešek, cond.
ALKAN   Symphony for solo piano  op. 39/4-7     Alleluia  op. 25
Salut, cendre du pauvre!  op. 41    Paraphrase on Psalm 137: super flumina Babylon op. 52
Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux dans le genre pathétique op. 15
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
GOULD (Morton)  Boogie-Woogie Étude
Geoffrey Douglas Madge, piano
checking this one out to see if that's the encore piece Ben Grosvenor gave us on Saturday, it is, and went well if unexpected after the Ravel concerto

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[mc ukrneal]

Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836) Symphony #1 C minor, Frieder Bernius conducting the Hofkapelle Stuttgart




Sarge

I love me some Burgmuller (and the first symphony in particular)! Hope that recording does it justice!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Good morning all, I will play this very enjoyable disc again!

[Sadko]

Dvorak

Symphony No. 9

Philharmonia Orchestra
Giulini

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Not too enthusiastic about this interpretation and recording per se. The music could be good, if the staid interpretations on Gallois did not spoil it. Tempi are too often at the wrong side, to slow. The performance is very much in the style as the ASMF did under Ioana Brown, albeit the proportion of the orchestra gives a leaner tone. Anyway they rub me in the wrong way. Maybe Gallois should stick to his instrument instead of conducting a orchestra! The recording is a tad uneasy on the ear.

Symphony in B flat major. Benton 125. ( 26:37) 2010 recording

[Sergeant Rock]

I love me some Burgmuller (and the first symphony in particular)! Hope that recording does it justice!

It does...I was completely bowled over by the performance and the quality of the music.

Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Symphony in g major, Benton 130.

The first movement starts in a well proportioned "Allegro Assai!. And the textures are lighter and more detailed, as if it was better rehearsed as the one in B flat major. But he slows down certain parts where the lower strings have more to say as if to boost their effect, but actually breaks the flow of the music. All in all a better interpretation. Sound is slightly adjusted too!

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Previn conducting the LA Phil




Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Flute concerto in c major. Benton 106. Edited by Jean Pierre Rampal.

Gallois is a excellent Flute player, and he should stick to that. The sound of this orchestra is too big for me, I like smaller scaled ensembles, to avoid this fatty tone the performance has here. Another thing that bothers me is that it sounds quite ordinary, and it comes close to wallpaper music, at least for me. At 00:42 in the second movement Gallois doesn't keep his tone straight. Well after two playings I will abandon this disc into my collection.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

When I started listening to classical music, some odd 35 years ago, a friend lend me the symphonies by Roussel. I was just restoring my strength after being loopholed by Brahms take on the symphony, and was not prepared for what Roussel had to say about it. I heartily disliked it, and abandon this composer to the recesses of my brain. A composer on the brink of a nervous breakdown I told my friend, and left it at that. Twenty years later I got as a present the complete Symphonies performed by Dutoit on Erato. I was nice about it, and said wow, and thought OMG. So with some trepidation I put the first disc in my player, and after the first Symphony thought.....WOW.  A revelation, I found them to be absolutely wonderful. Still puzzles me though! Any ways, the disc now in my player has my thumbs up, Deneve does a excellent job. This ballet music is nothing short of fabulous. Performance and sound are top notch.

"Les festin de 'l Araignee".

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

This is a terribly good work, I admire its fine orchestration, and the wealth of detail, very balletic. The concentration and sheer musicality overwhelms me at times. Excellent performance.

Padmavati-Opera-Ballet in two Acts.

[bhodges]

Some tracks from this fantastic (so far) set:

Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vol. 6 (1990-2000)

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Claus Peter Flor / Martha Argerich, recorded Dec. 16, 1993) - Fantastic: I replayed the final movement 3-4 times.
Dallapiccola: Liriche Greche per soprano e diversi gruppi strumentali (Reinbert De Leeuw / Lucy Shelton, Apr. 29, 1993) - Gorgeous - and Shelton is one of the world's best for this kind of music.
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (Riccardo Chailly, Apr. 29, 1994) - Perhaps softer-edged than some versions, but no less exciting.
Schoenberg: Fünf Orchesterstücke (Mariss Jansons, Nov. 24, 1995) - Superb, done while Jansons was still working in Oslo.
B.A. Zimmermann: Trumpet Concerto in C, "Nobody knows de trouble I see" (Edo de Waart / Peter Masseurs, June 29, 1995) - Jazz-inflected piece, new to me and marvelous. For trumpet aficionados, Masseurs is fantastic.

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--Bruce

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Sarge

And your opinion of the performances?

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Previn conducting the LA Phil

Sax or baritone on Kizhe, Sarge?

[Lethevich]

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Edit: ahh, this is my kind of Schubert - the first movement of D.850 really shimmers towards the end.

Caveat: I love Brendel, so what is exciting to me in Schubert may be boring to somebody else