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[DavidRoss]

Selections, via Naive's website, here.  Sounds terrific so far!  Brisk, clear, characterful, spirited, exactly what I seek in HIPI performances.

[Coopmv]

These 2 sets just arrived this PM from MDT.  I hope to get to the Acis & Galatea set before I call it a night ...

[Coopmv]

Continuing with this Beethoven cycle by Andre Cluytens and the BPO ... Now playing CD3 - S5 and S7 from this set ...

[prémont]

The set is discontinued now but was certainly widely available in the US.  The fact that the set is labeled "London" rather than "Decca" indicates that it was intended for North America.  The same recordings were also available in various "Weekend Classics" and "Jubilee" editions over the years.

No, the weekend classics release was the 1958 recording.

[prémont]

Continusing with this Beethoven cycle by Andre Cluytens and the BPO ... Now playing CD3 - S5 and S7 from this set ...

A remarcable cycle IMO.

[George]

Exquisite beauty here. Or as George Costanza's Dad would say, Serenity Now!! 

[George]

A bit more info on the above work:

Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen is an unqualified masterpiece. Although he's previously written music with similar notions of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic economy, this work successfully incorporates and develops material that in this context easily could become unwieldy. The texts are taken from the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church, a subject that has occupied the composer for many years. These songs of transformation "invoke the border between day and night ... prophecy and fulfillment, the here and the hereafter." Supervised by the composer, this performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is pure gold, and likely will remain the definitive recording. Pärt's music rises from gentle valleys to impressive dramatic heights; from single voices to full choir. Here is 83 minutes of exquisite a cappella music in which time and space seem one, and rhythms find their place in a perfect synchrony with breathing and heartbeat. Whether any of this is conscious on the composer's part is incidental. Pärt is tuned into something that finds and touches us all. --David Vernier

[Daverz]

That other Nielsen.  Late Romantic music with some glorious melodies that remind me a bit of Suk.

[Antoine Marchand]

A delightful must after our last conversations with John about that ravishing bassoonist named Sergio Azzolini:



Here some reviews on AMAZON.

[George]

[Coopmv]

A remarcable cycle IMO.

I am beginning to share your view.  Some consider this as the ground-breaking first full stereo recording of Beethoven cycle.

[Coopmv]

George,  This looks like a rather enticing recording.  I do not have a single recording on this label ...

[George]

George,  This looks like a rather enticing recording.  I do not have a single recording on this label ...

Great sound and thus far, very nice performances.

[SonicMan46]

Soler, Antonio - Harpsichord Sonatas w/ Belder - just finishing up w/ my two volume set (2-discs each) of these well done compositions and performances; Spanish w/  'Scarlatti' influences - a total of 4-CDs at a cheap price - nice acquisition! 

 

[Conor71]

Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs"



Nice, the sound in this one is great! 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from MDT last week ...

[listener]

ALKAN:  Études de bravoure op. 12   Études op. 76 for left hand, right hand, both hands
  Le preux op. 17       Le chemin de fer  op.27
Alkan's rail journey is on an express train and without unfortunate incident as found in Rossini's Un petit train de plaisir
This is one of Martin's best collections of Alkan's works.

[Harry]

First listen.

From this box the Third Symphony.

[Que]

A delightful must after our last conversations with John about that ravishing bassoonist named Sergio Azzolini:



Here some reviews on AMAZON.

A superb disc, that! Which reminds me that I urgently need to catch up on Opus 111's Vivaldi Edition... Anyone knows of some nice sale going on?

Soler, Antonio - Harpsichord Sonatas w/ Belder - just finishing up w/ my two volume set (2-discs each) of these well done compositions and performances; Spanish w/  'Scarlatti' influences - a total of 4-CDs at a cheap price - nice acquisition! 

 

Hope you enjoyed those as much as I did and that you're satisfied with Belder in this, Dave!

Q

[Que]

Back to the "other master" (besides J.S.) with:



Good morning everybody, a gorgeous, sunny spring morning with clear skies at this part of the globe.

Q