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Listening to The Bolt Suite from this excellent recording.:

[TheGSMoeller]

Shostakovich Symphony Month.

Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.10
Jansons/Berlin Phil.




Dmitri Shostakovich was 19 years old when he completed his Op.10. There's a lot to admire in this early effort, the solo instrument-heavy first movement, the prominent use of the piano throughout, a second movement Allegro that foreshadows some of the memorable brisk excitement found in No.10 and No.11, the brass-heavy fortissimos, and of course an edge-of-your-seat coda. I don't have many No.1 recordings to compare, but the Jansons has good sound with some spot-on playing.

[Brian]

Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies
Storgards

http://open.spotify.com/album/4qGIIqiQHPQuMSuWLXcdnW

Hey Dave! What did you think of this? I'm considering giving it a listen.

[Gold Knight]

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.9 in C Major, D944 {"Great"},  performed by the Nikolaus Harnoncourt led Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.6 in A Minor {"Tragic"}, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra under James Levine's baton.
Both the Harnoncourt and Levine readings of these works are quite stirring and expressive.

[TheGSMoeller]

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.9 in C Major, D944 {"Great"},  performed by the Nikolaus Harnoncourt led Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.6 in A Minor {"Tragic"}, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Levine's baton.
Both the Harnoncourt and Levine readings of these works are quite stirring and expressive.

Highly agree about the Harnoncourt, GK. Great set altogether.

[Gold Knight]

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on Today at 09:10:16 PM

Highly agree about the Harnoncourt, GK. Great set altogether.

Yes, based on my first listen to his rendition of the Ninth, I am greatly looking forward to what the rest of this Harnoncourt Cycle has to offer. Thanks for your input!

[Conor71]

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on Today at 12:57:21 PM

Shostakovich Symphony Month.

Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.10
Jansons/Berlin Phil.

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Dmitri Shostakovich was 19 years old when he completed his Op.10. There's a lot to admire in this early effort, the solo instrument-heavy first movement, the prominent use of the piano throughout, a second movement Allegro that foreshadows some of the memorable brisk excitement found in No.10 and No.11, the brass-heavy fortissimos, and of course an edge-of-your-seat coda. I don't have many No.1 recordings to compare, but the Jansons has good sound with some spot-on playing.

Well said, totally agree about the first - Jansons is also very good in the other early Symphonies.

[Conor71]

Milhaud: Symphony No. 2, Op. 247


Back onto the Milhaud again as his music is a good match for my mood today


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Good to see you enjoying the Milhaud symphonies, Conor. Since you like Milhaud's music, do pick up the Piano Concertos set on CPO with Korstick on piano and Alun Francis conducting. A great set that I believe you'll seriously enjoy.

[Octave]

Big +1 to the Milhaud symphonies; the only reason I didn't include those among my "favorite purchases of 2012" list is that I didn't put aside more time to revisit them.  Is Milhaud wildly underrated?  Sometimes I wonder if more people in the USA know him as an inspiration/teacher to Dave Brubeck (and namesake of Brubeck's son, apparently) than for his orchestral music.  My first encounter with this music was like two months ago.

[Conor71]

^^Yes Milhaud kind of flew under my radar too - only heard him for the first time last month! I may get that Piano Concertos set in future as funds allow

[Conor71]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op. 47


Listening to 2 versions of this work - first up the Heifetz. I think I like his performance of this one on EMI better but this recording has the advantage of being in much better sound. Next I will play Kavakos version of the Concerto - Ive been saving this one up for a while as Im expecting it to be a good one. I was blown away by the original version of the VC on the same Disc when I played it a few weeks ago!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I agree in both aspects, Harry.

In addition, I believe your favorite soprano performing "La Musica" is also the heavenly Mrs. Kirkby. 

Yes I treasure Emma Kirkby very much so!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Many will be glad that this is my last Christmas CD I play today. Done them all now. Tomorrow the tree will go down, which is always a hard thing for me to do, for its hard to let go this festive season. But my suggestion to my wife to leave the Christmas tree at its place is not agreeable to her. Have no clue why really!

Anyways I have no image of this CD "Music for Christmas" A classic CD No.19. (1999) release engineered  by Adam Crute, and its filled with fine pieces assembled from diverse labels, with names like Emma Kirkby singing Serafin que con dulce Harmonia together with the Westminster Abbey Choir, etc, etc. 

[Que]

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Disc 4 with the 2nd part of Book II, which includes interludes of organ fantasies played by Wim Winsemius (also featured on the complete keyboard set on NM Classics) on the transept organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

Q

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

CD 1 of this beautiful set, which I treasure very much.
Fourth listen.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

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Disc 4 with the 2nd part of Book II, which includes interludes of organ fantasies played by Wim Winsemius (also featured on the complete keyboard set on NM Classics) on the transept organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

Q

This complete set I bought, is one of my musical treasures in my collection.

[val]

DUFAY:         Missa "Se la face ay pale"            / Early Music Consort, David Munrow

A legendary recording with the famous ensemble of David Munrow. A version full of life, with beautiful voices (Bowman, Brett, Hill, Elliott). Sometimes they take too fast tempos (the Credo) and I miss the spirituality of more modern groups when they play this music. A style of interpretation very personal, perhaps more profane than religious.

Munrow also plays several versions of Dufay's beautiful song that gave the title to the Mass.

[The new erato]

DUFAY:         Missa "Se la face ay pale"            / Early Music Consort, David Munrow

A legendary recording with the famous ensemble of David Munrow. A version full of life, with beautiful voices (Bowman, Brett, Hill, Elliott). Sometimes they take too fast tempos (the Credo) and I miss the spirituality of more modern groups when they play this music. A style of interpretation very personal, perhaps more profane than religious.

Munrow also plays several versions of Dufay's beautiful song that gave the title to the Mass.

Yhis is the exact disc (in LP days) that seriously turned me on to early music.

[val]

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Yhis is the exact disc (in LP days) that seriously turned me on to early music.

Exactly the same. I also had that LP in the good old days.