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[Coopmv]

Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896)

Symphony No. 8 in C minor ("Apocalyptic"; "The German Michel"), WAB 108

Hamburg North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gunter Wand 

I am hoping to start listening to this set before the summer is over.  It has been collecting dust since it arrived a few months ago ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD5, the last CD - Symphony 9th from this set for a first listen ...

This Beethoven 9th is first-rate and it stacks up against the B9 in the Karajan 63 cycle quite well ...   

[Coopmv]

Back to baroque - now playing CD4 from this set for a first listen ...

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Now playing CD5 from this set for a first listen.  I have been nicely surprised by the virtuosic playing of this ensemble.  Well, it turns out members of Musica Amphion are all members of important baroque orchestras of the moment such as the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Les Musiciens du Louvre and The Academy of Ancient Music. Most of them enjoy successful solo careers as well.  I paid an absurdly low price for this wonderful set ...

[Brahmsian]

Stravinsky

I just really love these performances!

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Stravinsky

I just really love these performances!

I've heard a lot of people talk bad about this recording, which I own as well, but I think the performances are just fine and Rattle's totally in-tune with Stravinsky's idiom.

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Listening to Symphony No. 5 right now. Excellent performance.

Before the Martinu:

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A satisfactory account of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. I wish Rattle would record more Strauss.

[not edward]

If I were allowed only to keep one Honegger disc, it would be this one--no doubts in my mind.

[Brian]

Beethoven
Op 109
Paul Komen

Hat tip: Gurn Blanston

[kishnevi]

I've heard a lot of people talk bad about this recording, which I own as well, but I think the performances are just fine and Rattle's totally in-tune with Stravinsky's idiom.

Agreed.  Do you have the box set EMI issued of his earlier Stravinsky recordings, mostly with the CBSO (including his earlier recording of the Symphony in Three Movements)?  Mostly, but not completely, the ballets: the only performance by the Berliners is Symphonies of Wind Instruments, from 2007.

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Agreed.  Do you have the box set EMI issued of his earlier Stravinsky recordings, mostly with the CBSO (including his earlier recording of the Symphony in Three Movements)?  Mostly, but not completely, the ballets: the only performance by the Berliners is Symphonies of Wind Instruments, from 2007.

Oh yes, I've owned that box set for awhile now and really have enjoyed it. I'll have to dig that box set back out and listen to as it's been awhile. Hell, I'm still making way through Stravinsky's own 21-CD box set on Sony.

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. This is a one hell of a performance!

[Dana]

Opinions on the whole set ASAP please!

[Que]

May I have some comments Que?

Will post comments shortly, Harry.

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[one_o_six]

I am hoping to start listening to this set before the summer is over.  It has been collecting dust since it arrived a few months ago ...

I also have that one somewhere in the shelf, but the Lubeck Cathedral recording sounds much better to me.

The ones with the Berlin Philharmonic are even worse, IMHO.

[springrite]

Ahmet Adnan Saygun: Symphony #1; Concerto da Camera (Northern Sinfonia, Griffiths)

Excellent music! This is my very first exposure to this composer.

[mc ukrneal]

Beethoven
Op 109
Paul Komen

Hat tip: Gurn Blanston

How does it compare to others? It is one of the few pieces that I will buy multiple performers (as part of an experiment to see how buying mulitple performers adds to the experience). It is my favorite sonata, and has been for quite some time. I just do not get tired of this one.

[Christo]

A great, atmospheric concerto `Over the Water' for recorder and strings from 2004, by Elis Pehkonen (b. 1942), the highlight of a disc filled to the brim with terrific pieces:

                 

[Harry]

Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck.

Third Book of Davids Psalms.
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der Kamp.
CD II.

I could not wish for better performances, its extraordinary good.