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[Antoine Marchand]

The 18 Chorales called Leipzig Chorales

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(CD6-CD7)

Right now: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, another historical recording with Benno Moiseiwitsch for a first listen.  The recording was again reconstructed/ remastered by Ward Marston, who did a stellar job IMO.  I almost cannot believe the recording was originally made in 1945 ...

[Todd]

Skipped ahead to disc three to hear Giulini's Dvorak 8.  Superb!  The paired Pictures at an Exhibition is so good it almost makes me like the orchestral version.

[Todd]

This is Joseph Haydn - delicious!

Q

A great disc, and a favorite Haydn disc for me for what, a decade now.  It only gets better with time.

[Conor71]

Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 21-25


A first listen from this recently arrived set

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from the following set for a first listen ...

[TheGSMoeller]

Good evening, everyone...

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Britten Choral Works II: A Ceremony of Carols - Harry Christophers/The Sixteen

Another wonderfully and beautifully performed disc of Britten vocal music.

[listener]

cd's for the evening
MacDOWELL  Piano Sonata 1 'Tragica' op. 45
GRIFFES   The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan,   Three Tone Picture sop. 5,     Legend
James Tocco, piano
English Clarinet....
FINZI    5 Bagatelles    HOROWITZ  Sonatina
Alan RICHARDSON   Roundelay    IRELAND   Fantasy-Sonata
ARNOLD   Sonatina       Paul HARVEY Suite on themes of Gershwin
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet     Gwenneth Pryor, piano
and Jean Costa playing 2 Merklin organs in Corsica
at Saint Roch d'Ajaccio and Saint-Jean Baptiste, Porto Vecchio
BACH, BRAHMS, COUPERIN, GRIGNY, MENDELSSOHN (etc.)

[Sadko]

Grigory Feigin (vn) plays Taneev, Rubinstein, Medtner, Auer

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Wonderful playing!

There are some treasures to be found in this series "Talents of Russia".

[Conor71]

Bizet: Carmen


This Opera blows me away every time I hear it - superb! 


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Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 5. My favorite Parry symphony.

[Que]

EDIT: listening to this in relation to a clean-up of my collection. Relistening confirmed my previous reservations on the originality of the music and the so-so performance - mainly the soloists.

Anyone willing to cover my costs of mailing it, is welcome to it! Just PM me.
(wouldn't recommend outside of Europe, considering the rates of Dutch postal services)

Q

[prémont]

But knowing communist skills for successful commercial strategies,  I tend to think that recordings from East Germany never were widely available out of the Iron Curtain, excepting - I guess - when it was pursued a propagandistic goal.

It was difficult to get hold of the complete Eterna catalogue, but this was true of many French (e.g. Erato) and West German (e.g. Eurodisc) labels too. This may partly reflect the import policy in my country at the time, but my point is, that much Eterna was not that difficuly to find.

[Que]

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Keep being attracted by the disc in this set with music by Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger. 

Q

[Conor71]

Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13, 7 & 9

[Drasko]

wasn't really in the mood, took the Wozzeck off after 2nd scene, now:

[Coopmv]

Bizet: Carmen


This Opera blows me away every time I hear it - superb! 


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I used to enjoy Bizet Carmen on a 3-LP set by Solti ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD - Vol. 6 of Pachelbel Complete Organ Works, which arrived a few weeks ago for a first listen ...

[SonicMan46]

Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) - Complete Sonatas, Vol. 5 w/ Costantino Mastroprimiano of fortepiano - another 3 disc set on Brilliant (in a 2-CD sized jewel box); WOW - that makes 15 discs (so far - more to come?) - I can understand the pic (below, right) from his website - 


 

[Todd]

When I picked up Giulini in America II, I figured I might as well get his Vienna Brahms cycle on Newton Classics, too.  (His EMI Dvorak, too, for that matter.)  Listened to the First and Second yesterday and today, and while I like the LAPO recordings a bit more, these are both top flight recordings of the symphonies.