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[marvinbrown]

Currently listening to this:

 

  My God what a trashy tart, I'd hardly call her a lady  .  The recording is wonderful though.

  marvin

[George]

I need to get that one at some point, Marvin.

[karlhenning]

Not actually listening to it at the moment, but I can't get "Dan's Theme" from House of Frankenstein out of my head. Damn, that's good music!

Wait till you hear the score to the sequel: Carriage-House of Frankenstein

(j/k)

[karlhenning]

      The Mahler Resurrection Symphony, featuring Maria Cebotari, Rosette Anday, and the Vienna Philharmonic being led by Bruno Walter. What whole-encompassing music! My orchestra played it almost a month and a half ago, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since!

Delighted to see you returned, mon vieux!

[karlhenning]

Johannes Brahms- marvinbrown's unsung hero!

So, get singing him, laddie!

[karlhenning]

Skrowaczewski/Halle gets through in 4:09, Karajan digital in 4:16, but! These kids do it in 3:54...

Simply phenomenal (and not just for speed) - the nonplussed, detached-looking blonde man in the blue shirt in the front row is a person whom I will never be able to understand.

What a blast!

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Reich
The Desert Music
Alarm Will Sound

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony № 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
Cz Phil
Karel Ančerl

Ančerl takes the first movement (which is marked Moderato, and so of itself a bit ambiguous and debatable) even quicker than does Kondrashin (and Kirill Petrovich takes it quicker than I should prefer).  The running eighth-notes (after the initial theme, and before the clarinet solo, of the exposition) feel very allegretto-ish to me.  The lilting eighth-notes of the latter part of the clarinet solo, though, have a good, moderate weight to them.

I have no way of knowing the tempo that Rattle took this with the Clevelanders, when I first heard the piece in McGaw Chapel long ago; I have no way to judge whether that somehow 'imprinted' my read of the piece. The composer's son takes the Prague Symphony through the first movement at a long-breathed 24:26 (compared to Ančerl's 20:47), which I find enormously satisfying.

All this notwithstanding, I very much enjoy this recording.

[George]

Bruckner
Symphony 7
HvK
DG

Though I had mixed feelings of HvKs Bruckner 1-6, this one seems to be right on the money.

[Bogey]

      The Mahler Resurrection Symphony, featuring Maria Cebotari, Rosette Anday, and the Vienna Philharmonic being led by Bruno Walter. What whole-encompassing music! My orchestra played it almost a month and a half ago, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since!

Where is the Bing avatar?   

[karlhenning]

Schumann
Symphony № 3 in E-flat Major, Opus 97 Rhenish
iv. Feierlich
v. Lebhaft
Philharmonia Orchestra
Muti

[karlhenning]

Schumann
Hermann und Dorothea Overture, Opus 136
Philharmonia Orchestra
Muti

[karlhenning]

Schumann
Die Braut von Messina Overture, Opus 100
Philharmonia Orchestra
Muti

[karlhenning]

Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto № 4 in C Minor, Opus 44
Jean-Philippe Collard
Royal Philharmonic
André Previn

[karlhenning]

Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto № 5 in F, Opus 103 Egyptian
Jean-Philippe Collard
Royal Philharmonic
André Previn

[Henk]

Schoenberg - SQ no. 1

[Bogey]

[bhodges]

On SymphonyCast, recorded live earlier this year, this very fine performance:

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Vesko Eschkenazy, violin

Barber: Violin Concerto

--Bruce

[ChamberNut]

Beethoven

Op. 18 (1 and 2)

Quartetto Italiano
Philips

[Que]

Some seriously HIP and magnificent Schubert SQ interpretations.

Q