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[bhodges]

Cover art of the day, James!  Beautiful...

--Bruce

[Lethevich]

Loving this so far. I don't think I recognise the orchestra name but the playing is lively and engaging. I hadn't heard many of these works before I had these discs - at the moment my favourite is Semiramide, which is lengthy, but action-packed. Tons of fun.

[ChamberNut]

Schubert

Piano Music for Four Hands
The Carnegie Hall Concert

Fantasie in F minor, D940
Allegro in A minor, D947 Lebennsturme

Sonata in C, D812 Grand Duo
Characteristic March No. 1 in D, D968b
Military March No. 1 in D, D733

Evgeny Kissin, piano
James Levine, piano

Live recording, May 1, 2005
RCA Red Seal

Until today, the Fantasie in F minor D940 (WOW ) had been my only exposure to Schubert's Piano Music for Four Hands.

I found the Allegro in A minor D947 to be equally stunning!  I'm sure at least Henk will agree with me.   

[karlhenning]

Prokofiev
Symphony-Concerto for Cello & Orchestra, Opus 125
Slava / LSO / Ozawa

[greg]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony 1/Gergiev (live)

Ahhhhhhhhh..... this symphony is so perfect until it gets to the ending, which is irritatingly long and pointless. Oh well, a couple of minutes can't harm the rest of it.....

[The new erato]

Fanfare for Brass
Suite in D - a birthday suite for Prince Charles
Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
Little Music for Strings
Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Tippett- a composer need to explore more.

[Keemun]

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (Haitink/LSO)

[Mark]

Loving this so far. I don't think I recognise the orchestra name but the playing is lively and engaging. I hadn't heard many of these works before I had these discs - at the moment my favourite is Semiramide, which is lengthy, but action-packed. Tons of fun.

Thus was among a series of works which arrived through my letterbox on a mini DVD some months ago thanks to the generosity of a member here. And I agree it's very good.

[Mark]

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (Haitink/LSO)

I have the whole cycle on LSO Live under Haitink. Not as attention-grabbing as Marriner or Solti, but Bernard's way with the Fourth is well worth a listen.

[Drasko]

I don't think I recognise the orchestra name but the playing is lively and engaging.

London pick-up band.

[Lethevich]

Currently listening to random stuff from Operashare's concert archives series. Turnage - From the Wreckage I'm not particularly into. Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina are actually very pleasant listening. Having read about how boring the full work is, it does make me respect the composer a bit more, although not enough to dare listen to the full thing.

London pick-up band.

Ah, danke. I wonder what the circumstances were for using that and not an established orch... meh, it's not that interesting 0:)

[Drasko]

Ah, danke. I wonder what the circumstances were for using that and not an established orch... meh, it's not that interesting 0:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Philharmonic_Orchestra

[Lilas Pastia]

The NPO was a quicksand band whose personel constantly shifted from one recording to another. But always players from the first ranks. Stokowski's unequalled Sibelius 1 (Sony) is one of the Thing-From-Greater-London's offspring. Some great film scores were recorded by this group (Bernard Herrmann's for example) .

[calvin]

Brahms Requiem for the whole day


Solti/CSO


Levine/CSO


Abbado/BPO


Giulini/VPO


Celibidache/MPO


Rattle/BPO


Karajan/BPO

All of them are good, especially the version of abbado, celibidache and giulini....part 2 and 6 were well-played .....

[Brian]

Calvin, I admire your devotion to that cause!

While I labored at the Wal-Mart checkouts today, the Dvorak "American" Quartet swirled around my head almost endlessly, interrupted only by snippets from Tchaikovsky's First Quartet and a thoroughly original composition of my own devising depicting a sunrise, involving an intensive viola solo, some smashing modulations, and apparently nothing to prevent me from forgetting the whole thing five minutes later.

[Brian]

Loving this so far. I don't think I recognise the orchestra name but the playing is lively and engaging. I hadn't heard many of these works before I had these discs - at the moment my favourite is Semiramide, which is lengthy, but action-packed. Tons of fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Philharmonic_Orchestra

The NPO was a quicksand band whose personel constantly shifted from one recording to another. But always players from the first ranks. Stokowski's unequalled Sibelius 1 (Sony) is one of the Thing-From-Greater-London's offspring. Some great film scores were recorded by this group (Bernard Herrmann's for example) .

Allow me to recommend this as maybe the best Borodin album ever produced:



Symphony No 2
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Prince Igor: Overture, March, Dance of the Maidens, and Polovtsian Dances (full choral version)

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[calvin]

Calvin, I admire your devotion to that cause!

While I labored at the Wal-Mart checkouts today, the Dvorak "American" Quartet swirled around my head almost endlessly, interrupted only by snippets from Tchaikovsky's First Quartet and a thoroughly original composition of my own devising depicting a sunrise, involving an intensive viola solo, some smashing modulations, and apparently nothing to prevent me from forgetting the whole thing five minutes later.

Any tickets available for entrance to that scenario?

[The new erato]

I am listening to Sallinens 1st symphony on cpo.  I am slowly listening my way through this series that by and large has proved a revelation with marvellously inventive symphonies in fine sound and what seems good performances.

[Christo]

Kaljo Raid (1921-2005), Symphony No. 2 `Stockholm' (1946)


Koch somehow decided to sell this CD with just Tubin on its cover, but in reality it starts with the 37 minutes and five-part long Second Symphony by his compatriot Kaljo Raid, who was still very young in those years (25, finishing his Second in January 1946 in his Swedish exile).

The heart lies in the melanholic fourth movement, Larghetto.