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[prémont]

Girolamo Frescobaldi - Canzone
Il Primo Libro delle Canzone, a una, due, tre e quattro voci per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti (1628)

P.S.: Curiously, the 21th track of the second CD was defective when I played it in my CD player Advance Acoustic, but it worked correctly in my NAD CD player. Does anyone have this set to check that track?

I listened to this a few months ago, - did not notice any problems. My CD deck is a Naim Nait.

[karlhenning]

First listen! (To this recording . . . .)

Liszt
Mephisto Waltz № 1,  S.514
Jorge Bolet

Thanks, Dave!

[Antoine Marchand]

I listened to this a few months ago, - did not notice any problems. My CD deck is a Naim Nait.

What do you think about Loreggian and his project, Premont? Apparently, Brilliant has issued 6 volumes to this date.

[Coopmv]

In memory.

Obituary from NY Times.  What a career Earl Wild had ...

Earl Wild, Pianist, Dies at 94

[karlhenning]

First listen!

Liszt
Funérailles, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S.173, № 7
Jorge Bolet

Thanks, Dave!

[karlhenning]

I've actually got some Liszt played by Wild . . . will fetch that forth later . . . .

[Coopmv]

Taking a little break before playing CD4, the last CD from Wagner Parsifal.  Wagner opera is just too heavy to listen through the whole set with no break ...     

This has to be one of the best Wagner Parsifals.  I first listened to this set on LP over 20 years ago.  The CD version, with the clarity of sound, does justice to the superb performance by the soloists/chorus as well as the Berlin Philharmoniker.  I also believe this was the first Karajan opera recorded in digital technology and also his last recorded opera.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set ...

[bhodges]

Last night, the opening night of the 2010 Focus! festival, with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky.

Copland: Nonet for Strings
Bernstein: Halil, Nocturne for Flute and Orchestra
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Opus 24
Schuman: Symphony No. 5 (Symphony for Strings)

The entire program was excellent, but the Schuman sort of stole the show.  I have never heard it live (and probably won't again for like, another 50 years).  The Copland, new to me, is also a terrific piece and the Juilliard students did a beautiful job with it.  Bernstein was fine--only heard it once before.  And always a treat to hear the Barber live, with its delicious woodwind writing. 

--Bruce

[zorzynek]

Sonata in B-flat major, D960

[karlhenning]

Last night, the opening night of the 2010 Focus! festival, with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky.

Copland: Nonet for Strings
Bernstein: Halil, Nocturne for Flute and Orchestra
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Opus 24
Schuman: Symphony No. 5 (Symphony for Strings)

The entire program was excellent, but the Schuman sort of stole the show.  I have never heard it live (and probably won't again for like, another 50 years).  The Copland, new to me, is also a terrific piece and the Juilliard students did a beautiful job with it.  Bernstein was fine--only heard it once before.  And always a treat to hear the Barber live, with its delicious woodwind writing.

But, Bruce . . . who sang the Barber?  I agree, the whole program looks lovely.

[Conor71]

And Haitink's account of the Opus 60 is very fine, too.

For sure Karl, really enjoyed what I have heard from the Haitink set so far  .


Now listening:
Again:

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 In Eb Major, WAB 104, "Romantic"

[bhodges]

But, Bruce . . . who sang the Barber?  I agree, the whole program looks lovely.

The soprano was Emalie Savoy.  She was good--very expressive and excellent intonation--but I prefer a simpler approach, less Wagnerian (e.g., Dawn Upshaw's version seems just about as perfect as it gets).

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

CD5 from this set ...

[offbeat]

Alan Pettersson Symphony 9
After many plays its gradually taking shape in my slow witted brain 

[The new erato]

Alan Pettersson Symphony 9
After many plays its gradually taking shape in my slow witted brain 

The resolution in this symphony is so achingly lovely - and so much harder achieved than in nos 6-8 - that I'm slowly beginning to wonder whether this isn't the best of them all!

[SonicMan46]

Arriaga, Juan (1806-1826) - String Quartets w/ Camerata Boccherini - these are quite good!  Pity that he died so young (from a pulmonary infection according to the liner notes?).

Chopin, Frederic - Nocturnes w/ Earl Wild - in memory - my only recording by this long-lived pianist - any other suggestions?   


 

[Coopmv]

Chopin, Frederic - Nocturnes w/ Earl Wild - in memory - my only recording by this long-lived pianist - any other suggestions?   

Try this one I am about to play on Chesky Record ...

[George]

Debussy
Children's Corner
Cortot
Biddulph
1928
Mastered by Ward Marston

[listener]

Leoncavallo    ZAZÀ
Zazà, disturbed by her new beau's reluctance to commit and desire to go to America instead, is urged by her ex- to visit him to see if there be another woman, but she encounters only a small child whose singing playing of an "Ave Maria" by Pergolesi convinces her that the "other woman" must be a  good mother and wife, wereupon after some argument she and the new beau part.   (Similar use of an on-stage pianist occurs in Giordano's Fedora.)
Zazà is a music-hall singer and Leoncavallo uses the genre to background the action in a way similar to the use of Russian songs in Giordano's Siberia.
and filling the second disc three excerpts from Alberto Franchetti's Germania.

There is occasional pre-echo to be heard in Zazà, probably from tape as I'm not hearing bad tracking as if from an LP.