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[Harry]

Shall be ordered together with my next JPC order.

Me thinks that is a good decision.

[listener]

Reizenstein's Variations on "The Lambeth Walk" à la Chopin, Verdi, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Wagner and Liszt  as reconstructed and played by Philip Martin,    then Beecham.

[Brahmsian]

Although I have been in a Classical mood for the past few days, I don't seem to have much trouble "getting into" this Bartok work right now.

[First Listen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/CK57jiF_qXY&feature=PlayList&p=E24AE4309EFE0554&index=1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
RIAS Symphony Orchestra|Ferenc Fricsay

That's a dandy work, indeed! 

[Valentino]

Haydn Sonata in B minor Hob. 16/32. Alfred Brendel. Magnificent.



(Philips 4 CD box just recently rereleased on Decca Originals. Was super cheap on Prestoclassical.)

[Benji]

More early Copland! This arrived from the US today:



It is from this ballet, Grohg, Copland's first orchestrated work, that the later Dance Symphony was drawn. And man, I am crazy for the Dance Symphony, so this is going to be such a treat. 

[Drasko]

Occasionally I almost forget just how magnificent Double Concerto is.

[Papy Oli]

Good Evening All 

Schubert - Impromptus
Jando

[bhodges]

Occasionally I almost forget just how magnificent Double Concerto is.

Just a fantastic piece.  My intro to it was in Amsterdam, on a trip when the main draw was Chailly in the Mahler 8th.  After I arrived I bought a ticket to the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, and the Double Concerto was the final piece on the program.  (The evening also had another highlight: Queen Beatrix was in the audience.) 

The trip was memorable for the Mahler, but that Martinů probably made an equally strong impression, and it quickly became one of my favorites.  I must have 8 or 9 recordings of it.

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived a few weeks ago with the early music order ...

[Bulldog]

Norrington's recording of Haydn's The Creation - excellent performance, rather lean and with fine vocal soloists.

[Lethevich]

I don't find this 5th to be particularly competetive, despite the interesting couplings.

[SonicMan46]

Couple of 'repeat' performances for me this afternoon:

Stojowski - my second disc (previous one solo piano); this one orchestral suite + several cantatas - I'm liking this Polish composer who spent most of his adult life in NYC (USA); lush & romantic music.

Fischer, Johann Caspar - Keyboard Sonatas on harpsichord; a wonderful disc - the instrument is quite 'up front' w/ a pleasant tone - might convert a 'doubter' for the music of this period played on this keyboard? 

 

[SonicMan46]

Small package from MDT arrived today which included the disc below - a superlative recommendation in the Nov-Dec issue of the American Record Guide:

Corelli, Arcangelo - Opus 5 'Ornamented Versions' as played on the recorder by Stefan Temmingh & accompanied on the harpsichord by Olga Watts; of course, these 'transcriptions' from a variety of composers post-Corelli are of the famous Op. 5 Violin Sonatas - 

If you're occasionally into trying out 'alternate' ways of performing classical compositions, this disc is highly recommended; Temmingh is just phenomenal on a variety of different recorders; Watts is 'up front' on the keyboard and an enthusiastic partner in this effort.  The recorded sound is unbelievably good - close your eyes and the two instrumentalists are in the room w/ you!   

[Benji]

He looks a little too smug for a recorder player. 

[Benji]

Walton - Cello Concerto. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Paavo Berglund; Paul Tortelier (Cello)

Magical stuff, played to bits.

[SonicMan46]

He looks a little too smug for a recorder player. 

Ben - yep, there are some other 'goofy' pics in the liner notes (likely intentional) - although his training is European, he is from South Africa (wife & I are taking horse lessons locally from a South African - seemed to be an 'easy' going personality); BUT forget the portrait - this performer is just outstanding on a wood tube w/ some holes in it! Dave   

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set ...

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 - Daniel Barenboim

[Lilas Pastia]

This is a different version than the familiar Süssmayr. Most of it is very good. there's a startling scoring change from stentorian, doleful trombones to intimate, sweet basset horns in the Benedictus. Not so great is the addition of a brief, inconclusive Amen after the familiar Lacrimosa.  A case of a Mona Lisa mustache, I'd say. It strikes me that Mozart was never keen on composing fugues, so i wonder if his heart was in it (assuming he did compose that bit). But this can easily be skipped. The interpretaiton as a whole is fervent and tasteful. An intimate, ingratiating Requiem.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD from my Chopin collection.  This SACD is now selling for $106 used on Amazon?