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[listener]

Where was that? Great program...

--Bruce

Vancouver BC   Orpheum    Bramwell Tovey conducted
I almost skipped it, but caught the hockey score midway and realized Boston would calm things down.   Maybe Monday if there be a 7th game, we'll have the Mahler 1st which should supply competitive volume (and Tchaik. Violin Cto with James Ehnes - a great music month)
thread duty:    French mélodies sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:,
CHABRIER, SAINT-SAËNS,  FRANCK, GOUNOD, CHAUSSON, HAHNetc.

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Listening to Helix. A virtuosic showpiece worthy of repertoire status I think. This would be an incredible opener to a concert of more Modern music.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

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Listening to Lindberg's VC. Beautiful work. Virtuosity, brilliant orchestration, and a gorgeous lyricism that runs through much of Lindberg's work.

[Que]

 

Serge Schoonbroodt plays the organ of the Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache, built by Jean Boizard in 1714. A favourite amongst French organs!

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[TheGSMoeller]

I really like Boulez's approach here. Some people say he over intellectualizes the music, but I don't think so. If anything, as typical with Boulez, he lays the notes right out in front of you where you can understand it with great clarity.

Couldn't have said it better, MI. Earlier I was listening to Boulez/Schoenberg from the Sony Classical series and it too is fantastic.
And I have become a huge admirer of Boulez, even with his Mahler/Bruckner recordings.

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Couldn't have said it better, MI. Earlier I was listening to Boulez/Schoenberg from the Sony Classical series and it too is fantastic.
And I have become a huge admirer of Boulez, even with his Mahler/Bruckner recordings.

Well Boulez does extremely well with the The Second Viennese School I think. This music requires a conductor to become slightly detached, but still somewhat present emotionally. I've admired Boulez for many years now. Besides Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, I think he does great things with Bartok, Ravel, Debussy, Mahler, and more recently Szymanowski, but I doubt he will continue his foray into Szymanowski as Boulez seems to be slowing down a bit. He took a year off from conducting not too long ago.

[TheGSMoeller]

Gesualdo...
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A little night music...

[listener]

SCHUMANN - day
Symphonies 2 & 3   Dresden Staatskapelle      Wolfgang Sawallisch cond.
Requiem, op. 148     Requiem for Mignon, op. 98b
Bavarian Radio Orch.     Sawallisch, again
Mignon-Lieder, op. 98a, Liederkreis, op. 39  Kerner-Lieder, op. 35
Lieder der Maria Stuart  op. 135
Mitsuko Shirai, sop;   Hartmut Höll, piano
I"ll keep the Schumann-Mahler symphony set for tomorrow

[Lethevich]

I can finally give this a play without spoiling mystery clip

(Carl Loewe - Piano Sonatas)
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These are really easily recommendable pieces - Loewe finds in this music a rich vein of poetry and drama which is quintissentially early/mid Romantic. Influences abound from his contemporaries, but these are rather individual creations. One includes baritone and soprano, another has beautiful Beethovenian mood swings, and all are of a substantial duration, but not a note too long. Varied and interesting works

[Brian]

Some outstanding Beethoven playing by a 75-year-old I'd never heard of before (Luke seems to have had a similar Aha! moment with one of his other discs):

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[Lethevich]

That disc got a very strong review in Gramophone too - it looks really interesting.

[DavidW]

Mozart Piano Concertos #12, 13 and 21 performed by V. Sofronitsky.

[karlhenning]

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Listening to Earth Cry right now. This performance absolutely smokes. Wow...

That's a piece I've known of for a long time (one of my mates at Buffalo is from Oz).  I should really give it a listen sometime!

[karlhenning]

Couldn't have said it better, MI. Earlier I was listening to Boulez/Schoenberg from the Sony Classical series and it too is fantastic.
And I have become a huge admirer of Boulez, even with his Mahler/Bruckner recordings.

Though I cannot specifically answer to the Mahler & Bruckner, I sign on to the enthusiasm for Boulez's conducting in a breadth of style.

[TheGSMoeller]

The Martinu Violin Concerto #2...
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Great Violin pieces, very well played, plus family ties to this Orchestra so I have to boast a little 

[karlhenning]

The Martinu Violin Concerto #2...

Ooh, I need to revisit those . . . .

[DavidW]

Though I cannot specifically answer to the Mahler & Bruckner, I sign on to the enthusiasm for Boulez's conducting in a breadth of style.

Mahler, Schoenberg, Szymanowski... Boulez' conducting is rewarding in transparency.

[karlhenning]

You may have meant to search for Le's heiress persanes.

I want some of what that software in smoking!

And now, again:

Koechlin
Les heures persanes, Opus 65 (1913-19)
Stuttgart Radio Symphony
Holliger

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[DavidW]

Cacklin' to the oldies Karl?