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Listening to Symphony No. 4.

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Listening to Shosty's 5th. Incredible performance.

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RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (36 Variations on a Chilean Song)
Ursula Oppens, piano
ELGAR  From the Bavarian Highlands
HOLST   Dirge and Hymeneal, The Evening Watch, Sing me the men, 5 Partsongs op. 12
CBSO Chorus, Richard Markham, piano    Simon Halsey, cond.

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. A very nice work and one that I'm enjoying more with each listen.

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First listen.

CD I

Jean Henri D'Anglebert. ( 1628-1691)

Suite for Harpsichord in G major & G minor
Ouverture de Cadmus-M. de Lully( Cadmus 1673)
Ritournelle de Fees de Rolland-M. de Lully. ( Roland 1685, Acte V, Scene I.)
Chaconne de Phaeton-M. de Lully. ( Phaeton 1683, Acte II, Scene 5.)
Overture de la Mascarade-M. de Lully. ( Le Carnaval 1668)
Les sourdines d'Armide-M. de Lully. ( Armide 1686, Acte II, Scene 4.)
Les Songes agreables d'Atys-M. Lully. ( Atys 1676, Acte III, Scene 4.)
Air d'Apollon du Triomphe de l'Amour-M. de Lully. ( Le Triomphe de 'l Amour 1681)
Passacaille d'Armide-M. de Lully. ( Armide 1686, Acte V, Scene II.) 

French harpsichord by Emile Jobin, after Vincent Thibault.

The first disc of this twofar, and so far its pretty awesome. Celine Frisch, is a accomplished Harpsichord player, with a very elegant touch and great dignity in presenting the music. The disc starts of with the Suite in G major, which has a grandeur that is awe inspiring, The tempi are never rushed, and the notes have a chance to unfold all their felicities. The G minor makes me happy too, and that has to be for a great part Frisch's playing, for I have more interpretations of these suites, but non that makes me feel like this. My first disc of Celine Frisch, and a very good start. The instrument she is using sounds deliciously detailed and warm, and not too robust. I begin to like the Jobin instruments! As always with the label Alpha the booklet is a treasure trove, and the artwork beyond approach. The recording is state of the art.

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Glenn Bould playing 4 Ballades Op.10
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CD II of this set.

Jean Baptiste Lully.

Overtures, Airs, Chaconne's, etc.

Cafe Zimmermann.

There is nothing in this recording which I dislike. Well balanced, fine playing, excellent recording. This is in my view how the music from Lully should sound.

[Conor71]

Bach: Chorale Settings


Listening to Disc 13 of this excellent set then I will listen to Disc 12 of the same set which has the Kirnberger Chorales on it

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Jean Baptiste Lully.

Works for Organ.

Fugue 1-5.

Celine Frisch, plays on the Historic Organ of the "La Chapelle de l'Hospital Charles Nicolle de Rouen.

CD II

The instruments impresses by its sheer sensuousness. Engaging and thoroughly idiosyncratic. Lull's works for organ are master works,  and this is the instrument to play it on. Frisch makes the most of it, as on the Harpsichord. Wonderful.

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BRAHMS:        Piano works opus 116, 117, 118 & 119           / Wilhelm Kempff  (1964)

Good versions, very poetic. But I would like more energy and tension. The best of this interpretations are the Fantasias opus 116, even if Gilels (or Kempff himself in 1950) did better.

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No comparisons are needed: this is superb! 

Ha! I dare you to put the Festetics to the GMG test. Let's see if it does better than their embarrassing last place finish in the op.50 contest 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Dey wuz framed!

[Sergeant Rock]

Dey wuz framed!

Listening to the first place finisher now: the Tokyo Quartet playing Haydn String Quartet op.50/5 "The Dream"




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Peter Mennin Concertato "Moby Dick" David Alan Miller conducting the Albany Symphony




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Peter Mennin Symphony #5 (1950), David Alan Miller conducting the Albany Symphony.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Peter Mennin Concertato "Moby Dick" David Alan Miller conducting the Albany Symphony

That's in the queue directly after my present listening, which is:

"Papa"
String Quartet in B^b, Op. 76, № 4 Hob.III/78
Quatuor Mosaïques

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