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[Coopmv]

Pretty good.

Bill,   Is this stereo or mono?

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD5 from the following set for a first listen ...

[Gold Knight]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--Symphony No.39 in E-Flat Major, K.543, Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550 and Symphony No.41 in C Major, K.551 {"Jupiter"}. All three works feature the Herbert von Karajan led Berliner Philharmoniker.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21 and Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.55 {"Eroica"}, both works again performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Maestro karajan.
Franz Schubert--Symphony No.9 in C Major, D944 {"Great"}, featuring the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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Finishing Hassan. Beautiful work with a myriad of episodes and exotic tinges projected throughout.

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Listening to Appalachia. Great performance.

[Bogey]

Bill,   Is this stereo or mono?

Mono, but remastered, Stuart.

[Coopmv]

Mono, but remastered, Stuart.

Thanks Bill. 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD6, the last CD from the following set for a first listen ...

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Listening to In the Tatra Mountains. Lovely work. It's been quite some time since I've listened to any of Novak's music.

[kishnevi]

Now playing CD6, the last CD from the following set for a first listen ...

I'm going through that set now myself;  gave a listen to CD 3,  chamber works featuring woodwinds,  tonight.  I've got two more CDs to listen to:  the works for violin with and without piano, and one of the two CDs devoted to the piano works.

[otare]

I have been going through this set during the last couple of days:



Verdict? The set is let down by Barenboim's Beethoven concertos. Totally boring. Menuhin (Beethoven's violin concerto) isn't all that great either, but I loved Alan Civil in Mozart's horn concertos, and Annie Fischer in Liszt and Schumann is great.

Edit: Fischer's Schumann is slighty marred by a rather pedestrian last movement. But Oistrakh in Brahms' violin concerto is predictably wonderful.

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Leaves little nothing to be desired. And the music is breathtaking...

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Next up is this new purchase of consort music by Lawes, performed by Les Voix Humaines.
I did some comparing of the information on this recording with that about the "Consorts Sett a 5 or 6" on my beloved super-duper box set by Fretwork...

Could anyone confirm my impressions that these are indeed different works?

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Currently listening to.

[The new erato]

Vol 3 is in the release list for 2013. Then it is 4 more years to vol 4........

[val]

POULENC:    Chamber Music                    / Pascal Rogé, Patrick Gallois, Maurice Bourgue, Michel Portal

One of my favorite parts of Poulenc's music (the other being the Choral Music).
This CD includes the wonderful Sonata for flute & piano, one of his more inspired works, and the moving last two Sonatas, for clarinet and oboe. It also includes the Sextet and the Trio.

A delightful CD with superlative interpreters.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Vol 3 is in the release list for 2013. Then it is 4 more years to vol 4........

I know, and I do not understand why Naxos takes its time to complete the cycle.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

CD III from this fantastic box.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon 

Finishing the Bernstein Sibelius cycle with No.5.

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