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[Brian]

A wonderful change in pace!



Number 4 right now. Greatly enjoying these performances, as always.

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Romeo & Juliet, Opus 64
Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra
Gergiev

[Brian]

BACH | Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Ilya Kaler, violin; Naxos

Since it's coming from the Naxos label, and from romantic-era stalwart Kaler, I did NOT expect this to be a HIP CD. But there you go. I don't know if it technically counts or is a "hybrid", but it sounds pretty darn HIP. I'm really liking this performance...

[mozartsneighbor]

[karlhenning]

Should have posted this here, I suppose . . . .

[Dundonnell]

From the "Great Conductors of the 20th Century" reissue series: NICOLAI MALKO.

First came a slow and steady overture to "Ruslan and Ludmila"; now a Borodin Symphony No 2 in mono, which is certainly very good, although I am fonder of Tjeknavorian. I am unfamiliar with Malko generally, as the librarian brought this disc to me by mistake when I asked for the George Szell volume. Nicolai Malko is a bit of an unknown, relative to the other conductors in this series, but he premiered the DSch 1 and 2 (neither of which is present in this collection) and participated in EMI's very first stereo recording session (a Prokofiev 7th, which is on this disc). Malko's successor at the helm of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, after he chose to emigrate from Russia, was a young man named Evgeny Mravinsky.

My late father once got Nikolai Malko's autograph. He had Beecham's and all sorts of other famous conductors' autographs too. Sadly the autograph book went awol long ago

[PaulR]

Schnittke: Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kogan  Alban Gerhardt (Cello)

[mn dave]

[mn dave]

[Que]

                 ~ Ordres 26, 12 & 16 ~

Q

[Wanderer]

Exquisite!

I'm listening to Cziffra's take on Chopin's sonatas.

[Harry]

Good morning Que, Tasos, Andrei, and all that are of good will.

Luigi Boccherini.
Symphony  opus 37, No. 1,3,4.
Neues Berliner Kammerorchester, Michael Erxleben.
Recorded in 1992.

Most excellent renderings of the opus 37 Symphonies, well played and recorded. Alert playing, with enough drive to get into Mach 1, with all the additional fireworks.

[Florestan]

Good morning all!



Suite espagnole, op. 47

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Good morning to everyone! Inspired by the Elgar thread:

Elgar, Symphony No. 2 (Downes/Naxos)

[Wanderer]

Good morning, everyone! 



(also inspired by the Elgar thread - my inspirations are sometimes weird like that:-)

[Harry]

Luigi Boccherini.
Symphonies opus 41, 42, 43, 45.
Neues Berliner Kammerorchester, Michael Erxleben.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Henning, Out in the Sun

[Opus106]

                 ~ Ordres 26, 12 & 16 ~

Q

Birthday celebration?


My first listen to Mahler's 5th
Tonhalle-orchester Zürich /Solti

Apparently this was Solti's last concert. (19970713)

[val]

SIBELIUS:       The Oceanides; Karelia Suite; Scenes historiques; Tapiola; Finland; Two Serenades

/ Ida Haendel, Bournemouth Orchestra, Berglund


Except for the Oceanides and Tapiola, this CD offers minor works.
Beecham was much more suggestive in the Oceanides.
However, the great moment of this recording is Berglund's remarkable interpretation of Tapiola (one of Sibelius supreme works), mysterious and sometimes with a very impressive violence.

[Harry]

Henning, Out in the Sun

What sun, I don't see any sun outside my window!