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Harry

#620
April 13, 2007, 11:37:26 AM
Quote from: wintersway on April 13, 2007, 11:33:47 AM

Love it when I get home from work to find the postman has left goodies!

I had that recording for quite a while and its absolutely wonderful.
I added a few from MDG, and they fit in perfectly.

wintersway

#621
April 13, 2007, 11:55:18 AM
Quote from: Harry on April 13, 2007, 11:37:26 AM
I had that recording for quite a while and its absolutely wonderful.
I added a few from MDG, and they fit in perfectly.

Ahh.. you see that MDG is next up! I am having a Scharwenka shindig!
"Time is a great teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students". -Berlioz

Harry

#622
April 13, 2007, 12:01:04 PM
Quote from: wintersway on April 13, 2007, 11:55:18 AM
Ahh.. you see that MDG is next up! I am having a Scharwenka shindig!

MDG have recorded two cd's, one with piano trio's, and the one I posted with the SQ, and a piano Quintet, both very well recorded and performed, a little more relaxed then the Hyperion team.

Bogey

#623
April 13, 2007, 12:31:40 PM
Back to the Walcha Bach Organ Works set: Disc 2
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71 dB

#624
April 13, 2007, 02:02:19 PM
Saint-Saëns - Organ Music - Robert Delcamp - Naxos 8.557285
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Maciek

#625
April 13, 2007, 03:28:53 PM
Andrzej Kurylewicz - various songs (sung by his wife to his accompaniment) and selections from his film scores.

George

#626
April 13, 2007, 04:33:02 PM Last Edit: April 13, 2007, 05:06:20 PM by George

Bogey

#627
April 13, 2007, 04:57:40 PM
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

SonicMan46

#628
April 13, 2007, 05:01:49 PM
Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897) - half-brother of Clara Schumann, thus friend of Robert and also Brahms - nice pieces w/ those influences in mind!

Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) - comtemporary & friend of Beethoven; these are wonderful pieces - the guy wrote about 30+ SQs - these were dedicated to Haydn - must hear some more!

Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956) - just beginning to explore this composer (just have one disc of Piano Trios) - need to obtain more - BTW, I've not listen to these yet - but sure that I'll enjoy!  :)

These are all Harry recommendations & I can vouch for their excellence - I'm really loving this MDG label -  ;D

   

not edward

#630
April 13, 2007, 05:43:17 PM
A Mahler evening:

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Fischer-Dieskau/Philharmonia/Furtwangler)
Kindertotenlieder (Fischer-Dieskau/BPO/Kempe)
Das Lied von der Erde (Ludwig/Wunderlich/Philharmonia/Klemperer)
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Gurn Blanston

#631
April 13, 2007, 06:03:18 PM Last Edit: April 13, 2007, 06:05:14 PM by Gurn Blanston
4 Sinfonias by Wenzel (Václav) Pichl - Naxos - One of the more accomplished Classical Era composers, a very close friend of Ditters. Pichl really could write a nice entertaining sinfonia. :)  Toronto CO / Mallon

4 symphonies by Antonio Rosetti - Arte Nova - Every time I drop a Rosetti disk in the player, I always wonder why it has been a while since I have listened to one. This is a very good composer, 6 years older than Mozart, but died the same year. So contemporaneous. But he has his own unique voice, and can make an evening pass in grand style.

2 composers that should be better represented, I think (Rosetti is well handled by CPO, Pichl is not. I now have 2 disks though... ) 

8)




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Solitary Wanderer

#632
April 13, 2007, 06:04:06 PM


Disc 1. Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 2 ~ Karajan

Exciting stuff!
'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

Dancing Divertimentian

#633
April 13, 2007, 09:08:04 PM
This is my first encounter with Jacob's Ladder and so far I'm mightily impressed!

Schoenberg finds all sorts of ways to amaze. And it doesn't include a single "big number"! ;D

All the better... 




Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Poetdante

#634
April 13, 2007, 09:18:50 PM


I recently got this album.  :)
Chopin, forever.

Danny

#635
April 13, 2007, 11:09:14 PM
Debussy's La Mer conducted by Charles Munch with the BSO.

Que

#636
April 13, 2007, 11:33:45 PM
Morning everybody!

Global warming means we have summer in April... ;D (24 C°)

(Now we have to spend billions on raising the dikes... 8))




Sonatas Kk 392-409

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Drasko

#637
April 13, 2007, 11:58:49 PM
Quote from: Que on April 13, 2007, 11:33:45 PM
Global warming means we have summer in April... ;D (24 C°)

Yep, same here (not that I mind)

val

#638
April 14, 2007, 12:52:18 AM
HAYDN:  Quartet opus 77/2 by the Pro Arte Quartet.

This an historical recording from 1935, perhaps the first of this extraordinary masterpiece. Compared to the version of the Mosaiques Quartet it seems pale, too simple and literal, in special in the sublime march of the Andante.
But we must not forget the perfect balance, the right choice of the tempo in each movement and the fact that this set of the Pro Arte was a reference to all the future interpreters of Haydn string quartets.

Que

#639
April 14, 2007, 01:08:00 AM
I'm revisiting this. Still find it seriously excellent! :D



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