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Sergeant Rock

#1160
April 21, 2007, 02:50:41 AM
Quote from: MrOsa on April 21, 2007, 02:46:08 AM
SchostakoWITSCH - doesn't that just look good! (Notice the SCH repeated at the end!) ;)

Can you tell I bought this in Germany?  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Que

#1161
April 21, 2007, 02:57:44 AM Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 03:05:45 AM by Que


Disc 7: sonatas nos. 30, 46, 45 & 42 played on a beautiful sounding harpsichord.


Quote from: Choo Choo on April 21, 2007, 02:24:23 AM
Following a discussion on another thread, I am starting the day with this:



- specifically, the 8/12/52 Eroica

I have that one too - super. :D


Quote from: Harry on April 21, 2007, 12:17:26 AM
Goodmorning Q. Cold but sunny ehhh! ;D

Perfect!  :)

Q

Harry

#1162
April 21, 2007, 03:20:20 AM Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 03:22:13 AM by Harry
Ethel Smyth.

String Quintet opus 1 in E major.

Mannheimer Streichquartett.
Joachim Griesheimer, second cello.


Absolutely amazing experience. Music for heart and head. The 4th movement Adagio con moto, is spinning forever, so beautiful it is.

sound67

#1163
April 21, 2007, 04:06:17 AM Last Edit: April 21, 2007, 04:11:16 AM by sound67

ARTHUR BENJAMIN: Overture to an Italian Comedy*; Cotillon (Dance Suite)**; North American Square Dance Suite; Symphony (1945)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman*; London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite**; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita)

Lovingly polished accounts of four well-crafted works by this Australia-born English composer known chiefly for his miniature "Jamaican Rhumba". The Symphony of 1945 is, as could be espected, a tumultuous, conflict-ridden work that betrays strong influences of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. Slightly overlong perhaps, but full of brilliant touches and thrilling passages and motifs. The entertaining North American Square Dance Suite would probably not have found favor with Aaron Copland, but its symphonic gravitas elevates it above the level of almost every other British light music piece I know. Accomplished performances and superb recorded sound throughout (the Symphony and NASDS were never before released, having been recorded in the early 1990s just before the original Lyrita's demise), with Wordsworth's stormy account of the Symphony edging out Lyndon-Gee's performance on Marco Polo.

Thomas (so here we go again with yet another renewal of the forum).

"Vivaldi didn't compose 500 concertos. He composed the same concerto 500 times" - Igor Stravinsky

"Mozart is a menace to musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his own time and are meaningless to ours." - Norman Lebrecht

johnQpublic

#1164
April 21, 2007, 05:07:35 AM
Berlioz - Waverley Overture (Davis/RCA)
Chausson - Piano Quartet (Touchwood/ASV)
Boulanger - Psaume 24 (Tortelier/Chandos)
Ferroud - Foules (Naive)

Christo

#1165
April 21, 2007, 05:40:59 AM
Ahmed Adnan Saygun, just another powerful modern symphonist, this time his Fourth Symphony from 1976:
           
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Harry

#1166
April 21, 2007, 05:50:26 AM
Quote from: Christo on April 21, 2007, 05:40:59 AM
Ahmed Adnan Saygun, just another powerful modern symphonist, this time his Fourth Symphony from 1976:
           

O, Christo we all knew that! ;D ;D ;D

Christo

#1167
April 21, 2007, 05:57:05 AM
Quote from: Harry on April 21, 2007, 05:50:26 AM
O, Christo we all knew that! ;D ;D ;D

No, dear Harry: YOU knew that perhaps, but I only received this CD yesterday (had the other ones in the series, but not THIS one yet).

I guess, it's not really to your taste, is it?
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

SonicMan46

#1168
April 21, 2007, 06:19:00 AM
Quote from: Harry on April 21, 2007, 03:20:20 AM
Ethel Smyth.  String Quintet opus 1 in E major. Mannheimer Streichquartett.  Joachim Griesheimer, second cello.

Absolutely amazing experience. Music for heart and head. The 4th movement Adagio con moto, is spinning forever, so beautiful it is.

Harry - I've been contemplating some Ethel Smyth music for a while now - this disc looks like a great start for me!  :)

This morning, finishing up my 'box sets' of Carulli & Spohr, both of which I'm enjoying tremendously; in particular, the Spohr Violin Concertos are quite varied in their writing, virtuosic in the violin playing (Ulf Hoelscher), well conducted (Christian Frohlich), and w/ great sound by CPO (review here by Robert Cummings). 

 

Bogey

#1169
April 21, 2007, 06:24:01 AM
More from this set today:




There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Harry

#1170
April 21, 2007, 06:37:24 AM
Quote from: Christo on April 21, 2007, 05:57:05 AM
No, dear Harry: YOU knew that perhaps, but I only received this CD yesterday (had the other ones in the series, but not THIS one yet).

I guess, it's not really to your taste, is it?

Absolutely Christo!
I am deep into the SQ right now.
One word, Awesome, and very impressive.

Harry

#1171
April 21, 2007, 06:39:17 AM
Quote from: SonicMan on April 21, 2007, 06:19:00 AM
Harry - I've been contemplating some Ethel Smyth music for a while now - this disc looks like a great start for me!  :)

This morning, finishing up my 'box sets' of Carulli & Spohr, both of which I'm enjoying tremendously; in particular, the Spohr Violin Concertos are quite varied in their writing, virtuosic in the violin playing (Ulf Hoelscher), well conducted (Christian Frohlich), and w/ great sound by CPO (review here by Robert Cummings). 

 

It is the best start Dave into Smyth, it is in all respects a amazing composer, and the CPO disc is inexpensive!
I am glad you loved both boxes, I did too!

Harry

#1172
April 21, 2007, 07:30:18 AM
Woldemar Bargiel.

Complete pianotrios Volume II.

Adagio for Violoncello with Orchestra opus 38.
Piano version by WB in G major.

Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin opus 10 in F minor.

Trio Parnassus.

Lovely works, a delight to listen to, as was the first volume. by no means inferior to other well known composers.

sound67

#1173
April 21, 2007, 08:09:51 AM

ERIC COATES: The Merrymakers; Summer Days Suite, The Three Bears Phantasy; The Dam Busters March, etc. + Marches by Grainger, Delius, Walton, Vaughan Williams, Holst etc.
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (Lyrita)

A colorful lot, this collection of marches by various composers and other pieces, mostly by Eric Coates (70% of the CD). Presented with exactly the right amount of youthful panache by the elderly Boult (some of these items he conducted when he was over 80!), this is an appealing hodgepodge to be sure. Considerably less appealing:


PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No.8
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies (OMM)

Here we go again. Glass speaks of great "novelty" in the liner notes to the release of this Bruckner-Orchester-financed 8th Symphony (yet again, Davies has managed to persuade one of his employers to invest in a "new" piece by his old buddy, as he had done in Bonn before that, and in Stuttgart before Bonn, and ...) - yet somehow, the result sounds exactly the same as any other given Glass work that came before. Amazing consistency, if you ask me. Amazing mediocrity, too.

Thomas

"Vivaldi didn't compose 500 concertos. He composed the same concerto 500 times" - Igor Stravinsky

"Mozart is a menace to musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his own time and are meaningless to ours." - Norman Lebrecht

PaulR

#1174
April 21, 2007, 08:49:55 AM
Mahler: Symphony #6 Abbado/BPO

rubio

#1175
April 21, 2007, 08:54:08 AM
I'm working my way through another box set; Blomstedt's recordings of Beethoven's Symphonies. Now I just listened to Symphony no. 2 and 4. I think especially no. 2 was excellent, and probably my favourite recording so far. I really like the sound of Staatskapelle Dresden - one of my favourite orchestras.

"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

Danny

#1176
April 21, 2007, 08:57:36 AM
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 played by Heinrich Schiff and conducted by Maxim Shostakovich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Haffner

#1177
April 21, 2007, 09:24:34 AM
Profokiev "Classical" Symphony (Mackerras)




My second time hearing this piece and composer. WOW is all I can write.

Danny

#1178
April 21, 2007, 09:30:53 AM
Quote from: Haffner on April 21, 2007, 09:24:34 AM
Profokiev "Classical" Symphony (Mackerras)




My second time hearing this piece and composer. WOW is all I can write.

Sergei leaves me breathless!   :o

Danny

#1179
April 21, 2007, 09:32:11 AM
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 played by Heinrich Schiff and conducted by Maxim Shostakovich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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