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[Dr. Dread]

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[karlhenning]

Ah, the altered perspective from Lower Moldavia  

[Brian]

Svetlanov conducts Rimsky's Scheherazade and Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy!

[karlhenning]

JS Bach
English Suite № 6 in D Minor, BWV 811
Christiane Jaccottet, hpschd

[Fëanor]

Alan Hovhaness: Cello Concerto, Op. 17; Janos Starker, Dennis Russell Davies / Seattle Symphony

[Fëanor]

Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor, "Great"

My first audition of this work.  I'm afraid its greatness eludes me: the same tedious, boring, bloated, pompous grandiloquence I usually associated with Bruckner.

[SonicMan46]

New arrivals today and just getting started!  A total of 8 CDs of listening pleasure! 

Telemann, GP - Paris Quartets w/ Jed Wentz & Musica ad Rhenum; period instruments - just on the second of this 3CD set; absolutely wonderful and needs fuller discussion in another thread! 

Fretwork - Music for Viols - this 5CD set (nicely packaged in a double-jewel box) has been well recommended in the GMG Forum - I've  been collecting this group's performances for years - should be a 'no-brainer' for me!

 

[Lilas Pastia]

(An almost telepathic reaction, André!)

Indeed ! 

I'm glad to see Liszt's choral music is liked at least by a few of us.  Via Crucis is also very rewarding, albeit in a totally different register. In a sense it reminds me of some pof schoenberg's thorniest chamber music pices (like the Trio op. 24 or the Phantasie op. 47). An austerity so intense it borders on the ugly. But the inner beauties are real once past the forbidding exterior.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD14 from this set ...

[ChamberNut]

Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor, "Great"

My first audition of this work.  I'm afraid its greatness eludes me: the same tedious, boring, bloated, pompous grandiloquence I usually associated with Bruckner.

You could have stopped after the first part.  You just don't 'get' Bruckner.  Just like me, I don't get Carter.  Though I would never call him tedious or boring.  I just don't understand it yet.

Maybe you are just not into the late Romantics, Feanor?

[Dr. Dread]

Beethoven - Kreutzer Sonata - Thibaud/Cortot

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1. PC's #1 & 2

[Solitary Wanderer]

Today disc's 1,2 & 3  0:)

Bit of a slow burner this one.

[PaulR]

Symphony #7

[Antoine Marchand]

Playing the new set of Bach flute sonatas performed by Jed Wentz (Brilliant, 2 CDs).

This set just includes the flute sonatas currently considered authentic and the Partita BWV 1013. Therefore, it excludes the sonatas BWV 1031 and 1033 and replace them for two trio sonatas for two instruments (BWV 1038 and 1039).

Surprisingly, this double-CD also includes the Musical Offering (BWV 1079), although it is not announced in the title.

Wentz is a virtuoso, who privileges fast and sometimes whimsical tempi, I'd say in "muscular", fibrous versions. IMO, these versions are rather different (even totally opposite) to the warm and fragile performances by Stephen Preston on Brilliant (licensed from CRD, UK).

[Lethevich]

In a bit:

Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No.2

Both debut hearings - if I have heard them before, it wasn't a proper listen. G'morning!

[Florestan]

Good morning everyone!

Liszt

Album d'un voyageur S. 156

"Fleurs melodiques des Alpes"

Leslie Howard

[Florestan]

Edvard Grieg

Piano Sonata in E minor op. 7

Mikhail Pletnev

[Florestan]

Mily Balakirev

Symphony No. 2 in D minor

Igor Golovchin / Russian State Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

Bernhard Crusell

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in F minor op. 5

Håkan Rosengren, Okko Kamu / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra