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George

#5340
June 19, 2007, 03:43:24 PM
Quote from: edward on June 19, 2007, 01:55:49 PM
Just a shame about the butchery in the slow movement. It completely unbalances work (not to mention excising the best melody in the whole concerto).

I didn't notice, though I have heard that they take the cuts.  :-\

Solitary Wanderer

#5341
June 19, 2007, 03:50:47 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Bogey

#5342
June 19, 2007, 04:10:15 PM
Quote from: Scriptavolant on June 19, 2007, 01:59:41 PM


Love songs of the middle ages - Sequentia

Highly mystical.

I definitely need to sample this.

The wife is spinning disc one yet again.


There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

George

#5343
June 19, 2007, 04:11:45 PM
Quote from: Bogey on June 19, 2007, 04:10:15 PM
I definitely need to sample this.

The wife is spinning disc one yet again.




I heard it this morning, she certainly has the right idea!  :D

PaulR

#5344
June 19, 2007, 04:22:41 PM
Shostakovich: 2nd Waltz from Jazz Suite #2 Jansons/Philadelphia

sidoze

#5345
June 19, 2007, 04:28:37 PM
Rach PC 3 - Gilels / Ormandy - live 1966. Incredible. The Testament recording goes straight to Ebay after this.

Lilas Pastia

#5346
June 19, 2007, 04:45:10 PM
Hilding Rosenberg's ballet Orpheus In Town. This is a 60 minutes work based on the familiar story. It takes its pretext from a group of statues facing the Stockholm Concert Hall called the Orpheus Fountain, by Carl Milles.



One of the statues elopes (Eurydice) and goes out in town, followed by Orpheus who re-enacts the familiar mythological quest for the lost soulmate. The score is delightful and masterly put together. It includes as signposts numerous quotes and transformations from Che faro senza Eurydice from Gluck's own Orpheus (J'ai perdu mon Eurydice for those who know the aria from the Callas or Simoneau recordings). This brilliant use of familiar soundbites allows the listener to always 'know his way' in the story. Very entertaining, it mixes the light with the serious and the whole hour passes by very quickly.

This is prefaced by an excerpt from another Rosenberg ballet, The Last Judgment. We hear the Prelude, a majestic, saturnine march that develops in a strikingly vivid tone poem. It even has that rarity, an instantly recognizable, hummable tune. Excellent playing and recording. On Phono suecia.

Bonehelm

#5347
June 19, 2007, 04:48:27 PM
Max Bruch's symphony No.1 in E-flat major, London symphony orchestra/Richard Hickox

Gurn Blanston

#5348
June 19, 2007, 04:50:14 PM
Op 136 Cantata: "Der glorreiche Augenblick" (The Glorious Moment) - Coro e Orchestra dell'Academia Nazionale di Sante Cecilia / Chung Orgonosova / Vermillion / Robinson / Hawlata

From the Complete Beethoven Edition - Vol 19.

One of only 2 complete recordings of this work I was ever able to find, even after diligent searching. Though derided by some (mainly for the "libretto"), it has actual Beethovenian music attached to it, like an interesting choral fugue in the third part. Quite interesting, if not as a steady diet, at least as an occasional tasty snack!  :)

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sidoze

#5349
June 19, 2007, 05:05:44 PM
Mahler DLvDE - Baltsa/Winkler BPO/Karajan 4 Jan 1978 Berlin

beclemund

#5350
June 19, 2007, 06:18:47 PM



I checked out a pirate label release of this performance over a week ago from a library... in the Bruckner thread on the Composer's forum another poster pointed out that a better transfer existed from Dutton--I managed to purchase their last copy which arrived today--and the difference is night and day. From a poor transfer from obviously warped vinyl that seemed to have mach 5 tempi to a very straightforward reading with excellent playing. A very pleasant surprise. Böhm's '73 with the VPO is a broader reading and still my prefered, but both are very satisfying.
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." -- Albert Camus

Solitary Wanderer

#5351
June 19, 2007, 07:20:38 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Kullervo

#5353
June 19, 2007, 07:33:33 PM


As per the recommendation of someone here. Deserves 11 out of 10 stars.

Solitary Wanderer

#5354
June 19, 2007, 07:35:18 PM
Quote from: Kullervo on June 19, 2007, 07:30:45 PM
Is that a Juan Gris painting on the cover?

Yes.

Still Life With a Guitar

:)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Mozart

#5355
June 19, 2007, 08:28:20 PM
Mozart symphony in D

Florestan

#5356
June 19, 2007, 10:26:31 PM
Buna dimineata, doamnelor si domnilor / Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!

Last night session:

Sibelius / Symphony No. 3

Neeme Jarvi / Gothenburg SO


Shostakovich / Piano Concerto No. 1

Evgeny Kissin / Vassily Kan, trumpet / Vladimir Spivakov / The Moscow Virtuosi


Shostakovich / Piano Concerto No. 2

Mikhail Rudy / Mariss Jansons / London PO
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Que

#5357
June 19, 2007, 10:32:14 PM
Goedemorgen /good morning Florestan and all others. :)

Start of the early morning session:



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Valentino

#5358
June 19, 2007, 10:49:17 PM
God morgen!

Something wonderful to start the day:

I love music. Sadly, I'm an audiophile too.
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Que

#5359
June 19, 2007, 10:56:15 PM
More oldfashioned Bach - Johann Sebastian would have been absolutely bewildered! ;D



Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg

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