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[mc ukrneal]

MAHLER 7 - Mezzo RIGHT NOW!! Just started. Lucerne/Abbado...

EDIT: Wow oh wow! The first movement was very nicely done. I've never seen a conductor seem so alive when he conducts as Abbado does here. He looks like he is absolutely loving it.

This was really quite outstanding. There was so much detail that you could hear, yet the tuttis were tremendous. I realluy felt the connection within the movements. I normally dislike videos, as they tend to be fake a bit, but Abbado seemed to be genuinely having a wonderful time. The quality of the playing was impressive. I hope I can catch the repeat, whenever they have that.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Now:



Remarkable performance of a truly mesmerizing work.

Yes, A Mass of Life is a much underrated piece. It isn't the sprawling work many people take it for. It's simply spacious and rich. Delian heaven, for me.  I also have performances by Del Mar, Sargent and Groves (digitised from an LP). I prefer Del Mar and Groves to Hickox.

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Yes, A Mass of Life is a much underrated piece. It isn't the sprawling work many people take it for. It's simply spacious and rich. Delian heaven, for me.  I also have performances by Del Mar, Sargent and Groves (digitised from an LP). I prefer Del Mar and Groves to Hickox.

I'll have to checkout the Del Mar and Groves. Most of Delius' work is atmospheric and textural, but even his music has outbursts that will delight for days on end. One particular "outburst" I'm thinking about is the one in Florida Suite in third movement. Man, if that doesn't get your feet tapping and your heart racing I don't know what will.

[FideLeo]

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[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which came with 2 of the 6 outstanding orders from the UK today for a first listen ...

[Mirror Image]

Listening to this recording yet again, so beautiful:

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I have not heard Maazel's highly-acclaimed recording of this work, but this performance is simply exemplary.

[jlaurson]

Dittersdorf (1739 – 1799), Hoffmeister (1754 – 1812), Vanhal (1739 – 1813),
Concertos for Double Bass
Edicson Ruiz / C.Vasquez / Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar
Phil.harmonie


Well played, by all means... but especially the Vanhal is not perfect (note-hitting wise) which, on disc, it should be.

[Sid]

Beethoven
String Quartets Opp. 127, 131, 132, 135
LaSalle Quartet
Brilliant Classics

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
(Margrit Weber/RIAS SO Berlin/Ferenc Fricsay)
Mozart: Rondo in D major for piano & orchestra, K.382
(Annie Fischer/Bavarian State Orch./Fricsay)
Schumann: Introduction & Allegro appassionato Konzertstuck for piano & orchestra in G major, Op. 92
(Sviatoslav Richter/SONP Warsaw/Stanislav Wislocki)
From DGG LP Set - "A festival of concert favourites"

We've been subjected to a massive heatwave here in Sydney over the past few days so I have been staying up late (unable to sleep) & listening to these late quartets by Beethoven. I feel that there is something very comforting in these works. I listened to Op. 127 for the first time last night, and I think that it might well be the most complex of the lot - so fragmented. I'm going to listen to Opp. 130 & 133 (the Grosse Fuge) tonight, I've been leaving that for last. I'd like to know who or what the LaSalle Quartet were named after, so if anyone here knows, please tell me by PM, thanks.

I also listened to the vinyl record from a set I got for free & particularly liked Annie Fischer's delicate and finely wrought account of the Mozart...

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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD17 from this set for a first listen ...

[mahler10th]

Quote from: Jezetha on 02 February 2011, 14:09:47
Segerstam is unbeatable in this work. If you like, I'll upload it for you...

That would be most kind of you, TIA.

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Be careful Andrei...this was the first thing by Rangstrom I ever heard!
It is one outstanding piece of work.
And its Johans fault.


Thread Duty:  Mendelssohn - Hebridies Overture

[listener]

a break from Vivaldi...
R STRAUSS   Alpine Symphony               Concertgebouw Orch.,  Haitink
SZYMANOWSKI   Harnasie       Symphonie Concertante
Polish Radio Orch.          Wit, Semkow   cond.
2 Mazurkas      Theme and Variations op. 3      Felicia Blumenthal, piano   
very odd.   I was distracted in the Symphony and started to pay attention at the entry of the second theme, and the work seemed better for that.   And the Variations kept reminding me of Schubert's Death and the Maiden.   A repeat listen might be instructive and would be enjoyable.
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[FideLeo]

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[Harry]

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[Harry]

I loved the lyrical flowing of the melodies, to me that's special. Whatever turn this composer takes, he hardly writes one banal note, and what he reworks from other composers, he does with excellent taste. Enough is left over to make out his own voice, original, and lingering it is. I have the CPO recordings too, they are less romantically played as on these Dacapo's , but equal in quality.
The violin concerto is a absolute beauty, very well played.


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[Florestan]

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[Florestan]

Schumann

Carnaval op. 9

Sergey Rachmaninoff, piano

THAT is one of the Great Recordings of The Century!!

Agreed.

[Lethevich]

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I'll follow suit, hehe.

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The opening to the first symphony has a very intriguing echo of Tristan (especially the prelude to act 3). Edit: and now broody Tchaikovsky. I should've listened to this sooner - I like this style of late Romantic music. A lot of Romantics that crossed over into the 20th century turned their backs to Wagner and Tchaikovsky's hyper Romanticism, electing for a cooler sounding style which risks making the music sound insignificant. I like how ernest this composition sounds so far (it reminds me a bit of how Hans Huber also went all guns blazing in this fashion). Edit2: Okay, now this dude is just blatently cribbing from Tchaikovsky The composer is no original or great, but it sounds really fine. Last edit, honestly: the scherzo is... interesting. It's still pure Tchaikovsky, but, quite out of the blue it's based around a theme that almost pre-empts the Russian national anthem. This guy sure didn't look to Grieg for his models, I guess?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The composer is no original or great, but it sounds really fine.

Good, clean Danish fun, then. 

[abidoful]

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Symphony nr3 in D sharp Major (!); What a choise of key

[Florestan]

Ture Rangstrom

Symphony No. 1

Leif Segerstam / Helsingborg SO

Courtesy of Jezetha.