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[Harry]

Henri Rabaud.
Orchestral Works.

Dances from Marouf, cobbler of Cairo.
Symphonic Poem after Lenau's Faust.
Suite Anglaise No 2 & 3, after the Merchant of Venice.
Symphonic Poem after Virgil.
Divertissement on Russian Songs, opus 2.

Rheinland Pfalz Philharmonie/Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz, Leif Segerstam.

A impressive composer that makes my heart leap. Wonderful music, that is well performed and recorded.

[Mirror Image]

Opinions on the whole set ASAP please!

I don't have much time to give a detailed description, but let just say that the Andrew Davis RVW cycle is one of my favorites along with Thomson and Boult. A must buy!

[Sergeant Rock]

Schönberg, Chamber Symphony #1 op.9, Gielen

Sarge

[springrite]

Lou Harrison:

Solstice
Canticle #3
Ariadne
A Summerfield Set

(Dennis Russell Davies conducting various artists)

Oh, I love Harrison's music!

[Sergeant Rock]

Schönberg, Piano Concerto, Gielen, Brendel

Sarge

[springrite]

Lucia Popp Recital:

Dvorak: Five Evening Songs
Wolf: Morike Lieder
Schubert: Songs

Goerg Fischer at the piano, LIVE at Covent Gardern, 1975

[Keemun]

Pettersson
Symphony No. 7
Leif Segerstam
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

[springrite]

Pettersson
Symphony No. 7
Leif Segerstam
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

For the past two months, my favorite symphony!

[listener]

THALBERG:  Variations on operas by Rossini:
Semiramide,   The Lady of the Lake,  The Barber of Seville,  Moïse
Francesco Nicolosi, piano
BRAHMS    Intermezzi, op.117;  Pieces, opp.118 & 119;  Scherzo, op. 4
Idil Biret, piano

[pjme]

Whenever my eye falls upon this CD, I think, You know, I haven't listened to the Four Tone Pictures yet, let me listen this time.  But then, when I put the disc in the tray, I want to listen to The Main Event piece . . . which is so magnificent, that at its end my ears are too full of and sated with the Music of the Spheres, and I feel I don't want to listen to the Four Tone Pictures just yet, as they must unfairly pale in comparison if I listen now, while flush with spherical exultation.
Yes, just happened again.

Will try again later . . . .

Just in case you are in London on august 11th:
Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish forces in Tchaikovsky's ever-captivating Violin Concerto and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final-movement 'Swan Hymn' climax.

Three short choral pieces by György Ligeti – including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey – take us to ethereal heights, while Ligeti himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Rued Langgaard's 1918 Music of the Spheres as prefiguring his own style.

Ligeti Night (3 mins)
Ligeti Morning (2 mins)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (35 mins)
interval
Ligeti Lux aeterna (9 mins)
Langgaard Music of the Spheres (36 mins)
(UK premiere)
interval
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (32 mins)
Inger Dam-Jensen soprano
Henning Kraggerud violin
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor

I just might go...
Peter

[Keemun]

For the past two months, my favorite symphony!

It really like this symphony, but I don't listen to it often.  I have to be in the mood for it. 

Now:

Sibelius
Symphony No. 4
Maazel
VPO

[karlhenning]

Sibelius
Symphony No. 4
Maazel
VPO

Great piece, fine recording!

[karlhenning]

Just in case you are in London on august 11th:
Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish forces in Tchaikovsky's ever-captivating Violin Concerto and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final-movement 'Swan Hymn' climax.

Three short choral pieces by György Ligeti – including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey – take us to ethereal heights, while Ligeti himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Rued Langgaard's 1918 Music of the Spheres as prefiguring his own style.

Ligeti Night (3 mins)
Ligeti Morning (2 mins)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (35 mins)
interval
Ligeti Lux aeterna (9 mins)
Langgaard Music of the Spheres (36 mins)
(UK premiere)
interval
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (32 mins)
Inger Dam-Jensen soprano
Henning Kraggerud violin
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor

I just might go...
Peter

Great program, Peter! . . . though those choral miniatures make for something of a strange 'intro' to the Tchaikovsky Opus 35.

[pjme]

Indeed... but it just might work well. Anyway: Music of the sferes at the Royal Albert Hall! It is a treat and something that won't be repeated that soon.So....(I'll keep you informed).

However, it is much easier for me to stay in Belgium and go Bruges and Antwerp for Musica Antiqua ( the MA Festival) and Laus Polyphoniae. Next Friday I'll be in Bruges for Le Poème Harmonique .

Peter

[George]

I ordered the Thibaudet box. Listening to clips online he seems to occupy the interpretive middle-ground between Ciccolini and de Leeuw. I notice particularly exquisite phrasing too. I think owning the three sets will satisfy any Satie mood I'm likely to have 

Sarge

Yes, his phrasing, touch and tonal shading are all lovely. Enjoy!

[Conor71]

[Disc 4]
Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 2, W 100
Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 12, W 496
Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 16, W 526

Slowly working my way through this so far excellent set - First listen to this Disc.

[not edward]

Thanks, Sarge, for the reminder about this fine disc which I've not listened to in a very long time.

Also gave another listen to this excellent disc:

[Philoctetes]

Shostakovich's Piano Concertos 1 and 2

I particularly enjoy these pieces for a few reasons. They possess that percussive Prokofievian pianistic quality, but the orchestra sounds seemingly post-romantic, and I love that contrast. I also love the sense of irony that pervades throughout the entire piece. It keeps that sense of play, that always allows it to be endlessly entertaining to me.

[Brahmsian]

Strauss, R.

Two of my favorite Strauss works, on the same disc! 

Metamorphosen - study for 23 solo strings
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64

Rudolf Kempe
Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI Classics

[bhodges]

Just in case you are in London on august 11th:
Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish forces in Tchaikovsky's ever-captivating Violin Concerto and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final-movement 'Swan Hymn' climax.

Three short choral pieces by György Ligeti – including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey – take us to ethereal heights, while Ligeti himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Rued Langgaard's 1918 Music of the Spheres as prefiguring his own style.

Ligeti Night (3 mins)
Ligeti Morning (2 mins)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (35 mins)
interval
Ligeti Lux aeterna (9 mins)
Langgaard Music of the Spheres (36 mins)
(UK premiere)
interval
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major (32 mins)
Inger Dam-Jensen soprano
Henning Kraggerud violin
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor

I just might go...
Peter

Peter, that is some concert--with not one, but two intervals!  It may be "too much of a good thing," but what a good thing it is.  Definitely go, just for the oddity of it all.  The Ligeti Lux aeterna is absolutely gorgeous, and I can't believe that the Langgaard is making its first UK appearance here.  (We got it here a couple of years ago, in a not-bad performance by Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra.)  And then to end with the Nielsen--man, what an evening. 

Do report back if you go.

Now listening to disc 8 of the Concertgebouw Anthology 1980-1990, with the following program:

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 (Bernard Haitink/Alfred Brendel, taped Dec. 8, 1985)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Sir Colin Davis/Choir of the Concertgebouw, Oct. 30, 1983)
Roussel: Symphony No. 3 (Hans Vonk, March 1, 1984)

--Bruce