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[val]

HAYDN:            3 Quartets opus 55             / Lindsay Quartet

A splendid version, in special in the second Quartet with its extraordinary first movement, one of the more beautiful moments of Haydn's Quartets.

[Christo]

Labas rytas, all. Still digging my path through the complete symphonic cycle - seven symphonies in total - of Herman Koppel. Now turning back to were I started, with Symphonies Nos. 3 (1944/45) and 4 (1946).
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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Les Gouts-reunis ou Nouveaux Concerts.

CD 4.

Splendid on all counts.

[Fafner]

Now the Bruckner No. 8 from the same disc.

[North Star]

First-listen Saturday (this recording, naturally)

Mussorgksy
Pictures at an Exhibition
Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 4
Sokhiev & Toulouse

Fantastic playing - brutal or delicate when needed, beautiful orchestral timbres and superb sound. Can't imagine anyone doing the Pictures better.
First movement of the Tchaikovsky now, superb stuff. The woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion are all beautiful.

Searching for other recordings by Sokhiev now, he's done Tchai 5 and another disc with Prokofiev Violin Concerto no. 2 and Rach Symphonic Dances, and apparently mp3-only L'oiseau de feu & Sacre.
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[Fafner]

Searching for other recordings by Sokhiev now, he's done Tchai 5 and another disc with Prokofiev Violin Concerto no. 2 and Rach Symphonic Dances, and apparently mp3-only L'oiseau de feu & Sacre.
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I watched a couple of live streamings of Sokhiev with Toulouse orchestra at Medici.tv and I was quite impressed.
Very much so as compared to similar transmissions of Slatkin with Lyon SO, which always seemed to me a bit sloppy.

[Opus106]

How did you like it [Feldman's Rothko Chapel], Nav? And good on ya, mate!

Thanks, Karl. Rothko Chapel was quite good, although I would have preferred an "oooh-less" version... maybe the effect works its wonder at a different time and place. After that I went to the work for piano and string quartet. It held my attention for about six minutes. (Too sleepy.)

Thread duty;

Camerata Bern - The Early Viennese School - Sinfonia in C - Anton Zimmerman

Is that PI, Gurn? And how is it?

[North Star]

Continuing First-listen Saturday (this recording)...

Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Khachatryan & Masur
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[Lisztianwagner]

Leos Janacek
String Quartet No.2

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[Lisz]

Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu

Catherine Michel, harp 
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra 
Antonio de Almeida, conductor

PentaTone Classics 5186 135
length: 20:29



Beautiful selection I had never heard before, but I am longtime fan of Almeida.

[The new erato]

First listen to this disc and it is indeed rather good:

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BTW I happened to come across the Poema Autunnale by Respighi on the radio last night. A wonderful (and indeed autumnal) work.

[Brahmsian]

'Tis the month continuation!

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'

Barshai
WDR Sinfonieorchester

Sergei Aleksashkin, bass

The Choral Academy Moscow

*I love the bass vocal in this symphony, and the choral passages too.  I'd love to get Vaughan Williams 'A Sea Symphony' sung in Russian.  Such a beautiful language (even though I can't understand it). 

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

'Tis the month continuation!

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'

Barshai
WDR Sinfonieorchester

Sergei Aleksashkin, bass

The Choral Academy Moscow

*I love the bass vocal in this symphony, and the choral passages too.  I'd love to get Vaughan Williams 'A Sea Symphony' sung in Russian.  Such a beautiful language (even though I can't understand it). 

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Remember dear friend I made "Tis the month choice", not only Shostakovich but also "Purcell"

( By the way the Barshai set is one of the best around)

[TheGSMoeller]

'Tis the month continuation!

*I love the bass vocal in this symphony, and the choral passages too.  I'd love to get Vaughan Williams 'A Sea Symphony' sung in Russian.  Such a beautiful language (even though I can't understand it). 

Reminds me of a Steven Wright one-liner...
"It's a good thing a lot of people speak foreign languages, otherwise those people would have no one to talk to."

[KeithW]

Remember dear friend I made "Tis the month choice", not only Shostakovich but also "Purcell"

( By the way the Barshai set is one of the best around)

Quite. I made some progress yesterday, as you may have seen. This weekend sees me turn for a first listen to one of half a dozen Deller centenary boxes I bought last year.
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[Gurn Blanston]

Is that PI, Gurn? And how is it?

Navneeth,
No, Camerata Bern actually has been around since well before the 'PI Revolution'. They are a superb little orchestra though, and these disks are  very good. Of course, depending that you like Ditters, Vanhal, Zimmerman, Wagenseil etc.


For me, a bit of wakeup;

[Opus106]

Navneeth,
No, Camerata Bern actually has been around since well before the 'PI Revolution'. They are a superb little orchestra though, and these disks are  very good.

Thanks, Gurn. In my search, I found another disk containing music from Mannheim school. Seems like a nice little series (or just a pair?) worth exploring.

[Fafner]

'Tis the month!

Dmitri Dmitrievitch Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9

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[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Sinfonia antartica, Boult conducting the LPO




Sarge

[The new erato]

Have you listened to the de Boeck disc on Phaedra Sarge? I'm listening to it now, finding it pretty gorgeous.