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[Sergeant Rock]

This is my favourite one, although I feel almost duty-bound to prefer the 4th. The 2nd is so... fun, I suppose, without being skipping-in-the-meadows cheery.

Now that I've heard all four symphonies, it's the Third that impressed the most. But that's basically a kneejerk reaction to a first listen.  I need to hear them again, soon.

Sarge

[mahler10th]

Expressive, beautiful, hits all the right keys with me.  Jeffrey (vandermolen) sent this to me a few years ago, but I see on Amazon, today,  it's retailing @ over £13!  I would pay the £13 for it.  I think it is a Respighi must have.

[PaulR]

Good morning everyone

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Symphony #5

[not edward]

I forget if I posted on the matter already, but if not I'll second James' view that Abbado isn't the way to go for Gruppen. I've not heard the Eotvos he recommends, but the composer-led recording formerly on DG and now grossly overpriced on Stockhausen Verlag is on a completely different plane (and although I am a Stockhausen agnostic I've no doubts about the musical merits of Gruppen).

Thread duty:

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An amiable reading of the Serenade, my favourite of the three that I have. Also a strong Five Pieces for Orchestra, to my mind.

[Coco]

Currently going through a biography of Bach and reading about his admiration for Buxtehude — it's not difficult to see why he did.

[Robert]

Thank you Dundonnell for the reminder.

Bernard Stevens
Cello Concerto
A Symphony Of Liberation
BBC Philharmonic Orch

Downes

Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 2
BBC Orchestra
Downes

These have been favorites for at least 20 years........Thanks for the reminder its been awhile....

[not edward]

There is tremendous musical merit to his entire output as i've been discovering .. how much of it have you actually delved into Ed or is the pricing/availability of it preventing you from really diggin' in .. ca.370 works in all ..  so much good stuff.

Not full coverage by any means--a few sections from Licht (Michaels Reise, Weltparlament, Lichter-Wasser, Helikopter-Quartett), most of the Klavierstucke, Mantra, Inori, Kontakte, plus Gruppen, of course. Plus some of the less ambitious/big-scale works. But there's so many other composers with competing claims on my listening that I'm not planning to pick up anything more for now unless it's cheap or it starts to become a pressing desire.

Meanwhile, time to delve into this collection of live Scelsi recordings courtesy of the Henze-founded Montepulciano Festival.

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[Antoine Marchand]

Out of the four sets I own (Stern/Istomin, Capucon/Braley, Perlman/Ashkenazy are the others in order of preference) this is my favorite.

That's a great set of the sonatas

Yes, I totally agree.

As complete sets I also have Schröeder/Immerseel (DHM), Terakado/Vodenitcharov (Denon), Stern/Stomin (Sony), Kapustin/Koekkoek (Olive Music/Et'cetera), Oistrakh/Oborin (Philips) & Capuçon/Braley (Virgin).

IMO all of them are finely done, but I prefer the Faust/Melnikov set over all my other versions played on modern instruments and consider it as an equal of those versions played on period instruments (Schröeder & Terakado).

Actually I consider the interplay between Faust and Melnikov - their intimate complicity - as hardly surpassable. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Leonhard Lechner.

Sacred and Secular Songs.

Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel.

Recorded 1990.

Wonderful music, and so well performed, that I hardly think it is possible to do it better, certainly not in term of voices.
Fine recording too! I now played the entire box three times, and will land in my collection, to further notice, probably God willing to hear it again.

[Antoine Marchand]

Leonhard Lechner.

Sacred and Secular Songs.

Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel.

Recorded 1990.

Wonderful music, and so well performed, that I hardly think it is possible to do it better, certainly not in term of voices.
Fine recording too! I now played the entire box three times, and will land in my collection, to further notice, probably God willing to hear it again.

Although the DHM editions dedicated to the Collegium Aureum and the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra were also tempting, finally I just ordered the Cantus Cölln Edition from Amazon. I am avidly waiting for it...     

[prémont]

I have Suk/Ruzickova and my principal problem is not the vibrato, but the weak articulation.

This is what bothers me too, but unfortunately this is so to say a part of their style. However they find much beauty in the music, particularily true of their first recording of the works for Supraphon ca. 1964. They made ASFAIK four recordings of these works, which of them are you referring to?

[Sergeant Rock]

Mahler Fourth, Honeck, Pittsburgh




Sarge

[SonicMan46]

Kummer, Friederich (1797-1879) - Cello Duets w/ Phoebe Carrai & Tanya Tomkins played on Baroque cellos w/ gut strings and classical bows; delightful and subdued music and performances - review from MusicWeb HERE - interesting liner notes explaining that the proceeds from the sale of this recording are donated completely to a project called Cellos for Chelsea to benefit kids w/ cancer.

Chaminade, Cecile (1857-1944) - Piano Music V.2 w/ Peter Jacobs - own V.1, both BRO purchases, and there is a V.3 - don't know much about this French lady composer but about 350 works are attributed to her.  Most of the piano pieces are short miniatures w/ much variety and melodic invention; Jacobs plays beautifully and the recorded sound is warm and up front - steals now on the Helios label from BRO - another MusicWeb REVIEW HERE - 


 

[Robert]

Mahler Fourth, Honeck, Pittsburgh




Sarge

Sarge,

Is this a new disc?  Never have seen or heard about this one.....opinion....

[Antoine Marchand]

This is what bothers me too, but unfortunately this is so to say a part of their style. However they find much beauty in the music, particularily true of their first recording of the works for Supraphon ca. 1964. They made ASFAIK four recordings of these works, which of them are you referring to?

Mine is a digitally remastered version from 1969 (Elatus), recorded at the Eglise Evangélique Allemande in Paris.

[Robert]

KAIJA SAARIAHO
Du Cristal  L.A. Phil Orch Salonen
a' la fumee' L.A. Phil. Orch  Salonen
Nyphea  Kronos Quartet





Graal Theatre  BBC S.O.
Chateau De L'Ame   Finnish Radio S.O.
Amers  Avanti Chamber Orch.

Salonen

[Mirror Image]

Expressive, beautiful, hits all the right keys with me.  Jeffrey (vandermolen) sent this to me a few years ago, but I see on Amazon, today,  it's retailing @ over £13!  I would pay the £13 for it.  I think it is a Respighi must have.

Oh, definitely John. There's more to Respighi than the Roman Trilogy. This particular recording with Geoffrey Simon and the Philharmonia Orchestra is outstanding. Much better than the recording with Jesus Lopez-Cobos. Have you heard Simon's other Respighi recordings? His performance of Queen of Sheba will blow you out of here.

[not edward]

Another Boulez/Schoenberg collaboration I find most successful, this time the Septet-Suite:

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I think what I particularly enjoy with Boulez's Sony recordings of the middle-period Schoenberg works is a sense of amiable good humour that's drawn from the less strenuous tempi and the contrast between legato and non-legato playing. Not laugh-a-minute stuff, but music that isn't afraid to smile.

[karlhenning]

That recording really illumined the Septet for me, Edward!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I am signing of for today, have a house full of guest and will celebrate my birthday, already got a lot of CD'S, what a lucky fellow I am. Thanks for all the wishes.