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[Que]

This morning the journey through this miracle of a set goes on to CD11: with sacred and secular music by Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564), another composer of the Franco-Flemish School.

 

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[jlaurson]

Bach Organ Works (Mono recordings) Walcha Archiv

Disc 6 of the 10 disc Walcha mono traversal.

That means Part III of the Clavier-Uebung,
Prelude BWV 552
Chorale settings and four Duets BWV 802-805

Sound is very good even on these very earliest recordings
for Archiv. (In fact, the first recordings for Archiv, made
in 1947, in Luebeck. But after a little over half of this 'cycle',
I think I can say that I prefer the later recordings.

[val]

PAGANINI:   Violin Concert n. 1
WIENIAWSKI:   Violin Concert n. 2

/ Michael Rabin, Philharmonia Orchestra, Goossens


One of the greatest violinists of the century, with his warm sound, and natural phrasing. The best version of the Paganini concert and one of the best of the Wieniawski, at the level of Heifetz or Stern.

[Que]

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[Marc]

Tempos a bit on the quick side, the organ is a smaller one with reeds and mixtures on all manuals so the counterpoint can be heard. 4 Stops in the pedal 2@16 ft. so the bass is never  cloudy, and the building is not over-resonant.  Over-bright registration over-all, and a somewhat staccato touch.   Nice display of the organ, using Bach works.  Not bad, I did like his Mendelssohn program on this organ more  (SOCD 66)

Thanks for informing.
Decided to order his Noël disc at the library. I think that one is played on a different organ, the Orgue Rémy Mahler de l'église Saint-Étienne de Baïgorry.
Some pics of the instrument at this site:
http://fracturafresca.over-blog.com/1-album-61167.html

[George]

Bruckner Symphony 4
Sergiu Celibidache  Sinfonie Orchester der Suddeutischen Rundfunks
Sttutgart 22 11.1966(more likely 9 11. 1973) Arkadia 751.1

My absolute choice for the 4th..

He's the one that I go to for Bruckner! Great youthful photo, I didn't even recognize him. 

Now playing:



Mozart
K. 281 - 309
Gieseking
EMI

I am very glad I got this set. It makes for great Sunday morning listening.

[mahler10th]

If it wasn't for Orwain Hughes, (who I heard conducting Walton 1 in 1990 in Glasgow Concert Hall) few of us would know about Vagn Holmboe.  I like Homlboe, and I wish there was more of him.
Thanks Orrie!

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Piano Sonatas w/ Ronald Brautigam - just finishing up the last couple of discs of this superb box (interrupted by playing a LOT of holiday music!) - the sonatas go for 11 discs; the last 4 are miscellaneous works + the 'Seven Last Words.....' (the last disc, #15) - 

[pi2000]

Great youthful photo indeed!!!Hard to imagine that someone sells it even for 500E. https://ssl.kotte-autographs.com/eng/katalog/frame_katalog.php)
Art1563

[Brahmsian]

Dvorak

Othello Overture, Op.93
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op.13

Libor Pesek
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Virgin Classics

That 1st movement of Symphony No. 4 has shot to the top as one of my favorite Dvorak symphonic movements.  Great music! 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD11 from this set, which has been thoroughly enjoyable ...

[bhodges]

Happy New Year, everyone!   

Started 2010 with a terrific performance of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Met, with Renée Fleming, Susan Graham and Christine Schäfer, and some mighty fine playing from the Met Orchestra, all conducted by Edo de Waart.  Sitting next to us were a pianist and composer couple, dressed in identical pajamas with a moon-and-stars print, who made fine company for the evening. 

Later on TV, I caught the last half of a repeat broadcast of the New York Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert.  Thomas Hampson did some Cole Porter songs--OK, but I didn't think Hampson was the ideal match for them--and Alan Gilbert led a dashing Gershwin American in Paris, with attention paid to the Parisian car horns that the percussion section found in Philadelphia.  In his first season, Gilbert is already wonderful, but I think he's only going to get better.

--Bruce

[Antoine Marchand]

Haydn, Joseph - Piano Sonatas w/ Ronald Brautigam ... the sonatas go for 11 discs; the last 4 are miscellaneous works + the 'Seven Last Words.....' (the last disc, #15) -

I have a special weak spot for that superb version of the "Seven Last Words...". 

[Coopmv]

CD3 from this set - Symphony No. 3.  The set arrived after Christmas ...

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72

[SonicMan46]

Well, this afternoon a change of pace from the fortepiano:

Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751) - Double Oboe & String Concertos w/ Robson & Latham + Standage & Collegium Musicum 90 - 2 volumes; now I have the 3-CD Brilliant Box of the same works, but I really love this group; Robson's oboe is a copy by Richard Earle & Keith Rogers (1994) after Thomas Stanesby, London, c. 1710, while Latham's is a copy by Toshi Hasagawa (1992) after a Jacob Denner, Nurnberg, 1720.

 

[PaulR]

SQ#6

[SonicMan46]

SQ#6

ROF - well, what are they like?  I own nothing by this composer, but just checked a Wiki article HERE, which stated that he wrote 22 Symphonies & 17 String Quartets!  Dates are 1919-96, so 20th century Russian composer - must be considered up there w/ Shosty & Prokofiev?   

[PaulR]

ROF - well, what are they like?  I own nothing by this composer, but just checked a Wiki article HERE, which stated that he wrote 22 Symphonies & 17 String Quartets!  Dates are 1919-96, so 20th century Russian composer - must be considered up there w/ Shosty & Prokofiev?   

He's a fantastic composer, in my opinion of course.  I own all three volumes of the SQs that CPO has released, but I have not really listened to them in their entirety.  But I am loving this one.  The playing is really great.  He knows how to write for the string quartet obviously.  He also wrote a great piano quintet on the CD called "On The Threshold of hope".

He also wrote wonderful symphonies, at least the ones I've heard on Chandos recordings and one CD with Kondrashin conducting.  I am hoping Chandos releases more volumes of the symphonies.  So far, they only released 4,5,14 and 16.  I would put them on the level of Shostakovich and Prokofiev.  (Weinberg considered himself a pupil of Shostakovich, even though he was never a student of Shostakovich.  And Shostakovich thought highly of Weinberg.)

I'll always like Weinberg for his bass sonata.  I got the chance to actually play 2 of the movements of the piece on my recital.  It's a great piece, and I hope becomes part of the (very limited) bass standard rep.  There's a great CD of the piece with the Toronto Bassist Joel Quarrington on the Anelekta label. 

But to the String quartet #6, it seems to me it's almost symphonic in sound.  I love it.

Now onto:  String Quartet #8, same composer, same CD

[Coopmv]

Well, this afternoon a change of pace from the fortepiano:

Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751) - Double Oboe & String Concertos w/ Robson & Latham + Standage & Collegium Musicum 90 - 2 volumes; now I have the 3-CD Brilliant Box of the same works, but I really love this group; Robson's oboe is a copy by Richard Earle & Keith Rogers (1994) after Thomas Stanesby, London, c. 1710, while Latham's is a copy by Toshi Hasagawa (1992) after a Jacob Denner, Nurnberg, 1720.

 

Dave,  I have owned these 2 CD's for a few years now.  They are excellent IMO ...