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[Conor71]

Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie In Ab Major, Op. 61

Listening to Disc 2 of the Martha Argerich collection: Volume 1 which I will follow up with Sibelius Kullervo

[Cato]

I am hoping to hear all ten sonatas today!  Right now: #3 is nearing the end.

[Karl Henning]

I am hoping to hear all ten sonatas today!

That's an exhilirating ride!

[Opus106]

First listen (and with thanks to orpheus):

Schubert
Bootgesang, D.835
Arnold Schoenberg Chor

15-minute shipping, across the Atlantic? That's impressive!

[Karl Henning]

15-minute shipping, across the Atlantic? That's impressive!

Seemed to appear out of a Cloud . . . .

[Lethevich]

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Getting strange Pärt vibes from this. The title piece keeps coming frustratingly close to really catching fire, but always withdraws, But on a technical level it is superb.

[classicalgeek]

Highlights from this morning:

Jacques Ibert
Tropismes pour des amours imaginaires   
Jean Martinon; Orchestre National de l'ORTF



Franz Schubert   
String quartet in G minor, D 18   
Melos Quartet

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W.A. Mozart   
Piano sonata in D major, K 311   
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano

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I'm loving Brautigam's performance, and I'm not a big fortepiano fan.  I do find the recording a bit 'echoey', though - it sounds like Nimbus instead of BIS!

[fridden]

First listen for me of music by Johan Halvorsen. Neeme Järvi conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

First listen for me of music by Johan Halvorsen. Neeme Järvi conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Excellent choice and a very good recording too!

[classicalgeek]

Now up:

Antonin Dvorak
Cello concerto in B minor, op. 104
Gautier Capuçon, cello; Mark Wigglesworth; Melbourne SO

From a 2007 concert broadcast.

Just arrived at the sublime second theme horn solo.  Nice!

[Sergeant Rock]

Michael Nyman Piano Concerto




Sarge

[Lethevich]

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Until I scrolled down I thought this was an ECM disc when the image was half-cut off at the bottom of my screen

Michael Nyman Piano Concerto

Gosh I hated that piece :\

[Sergeant Rock]

Gosh I hated that piece :\

Past tense? Or do you still hate it 

It's a perennial favorite around here. Mrs. Rock requested it this evening.

Sarge

[Sadko]

Fauré

13 Nocturnes

Laurent Wagschal

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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all 

Another listen to this one :

[Karl Henning]

The Sinfonia da Requiem is one of my favorite Britten orchestral works.

[North Star]

Prokofiev (arr. Pletnev)
Cinderella suite for piano duo
Argerich & Pletnev
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Excellent.

Also Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye (arr. for Piano Four Hands) from this one
And Rakhmaninov's Symphonic Dances by Freire & Argerich

[Cato]

That's an exhilirating ride!

Yes!  The Eighth Sonata is now playing!  Waiting for the final two pianoclysms!

I remember my old Michael Ponti VOX set, which many criticized as "wrong-headed."  But he could slam-dunk these, and I suspect that is what some people disliked.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.1 "Titan"

Mariss Jansons
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

[Mirror Image]

The Sinfonia da Requiem is one of my favorite Britten orchestral works.

Mine too.