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[Brahmsian]

Wednesday Weaning Listen! 

Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra, Op.125

USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky


Kabalevsky - Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op.77

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Kabalevsky

Daniil Shafran, cello

Cello Classics

Loved both works, however the sound recording on the Prokofiev piece is dreadful.

I love the ominous first 5 minutes of the Kabalevsky CC# 2

[Antoine Marchand]

I think this set (old Philips recordings from the seventies) will be a durable favorite. I'm not particularly excited about Davis/BBC-London Symphony Orchestras; but Kovacevich is really outstanding: clear and poetic at the same time.   

[Opus106]

This music is so wonderful, as is usual with Brahms' chamber oeuvre, I wonder why I had not paid much to it attention all this while.


Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
András Schiff|Tátrai Quartet

1 Nov, 1977|Budapest

[Bulldog]

J.S. Bach
French Suites
English Suites
Notenbuechlein fuer Anna Magdalena


Are you kidding me? Strongly isn't even the word.

The English Suites are fantastic, and they're the weakest part of that set!
The French Suites are super-fantastic (that's a technical term), and
the Notenbuechlein is super-triple-duper fantastic: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2005/11/harpsichord-like-rarely-ever.html
The sound is phe. no. me. nal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvu4VARsao) Rich, lush, blooming like flowers... the playing a dream of rubato and hesitation...

The only recordings that come even close to Rousset's on Ambroise (not those on Decca, which are far tamer) are those of Blandine Ranou. (French, English)

Concerning the French Suites, I favor David Cates/Music & Arts and Alan Curtis/Apex over Rannou and Rousset.

[listener]

TCHAIKOVSKY (Tschaikowskii,,,,etc.), P.I.    Sonata in G  op. 37
BUSONI     Indian Diary
                 Stephen Manes, piano  makes the Tchaikowsky seem shorter than usual, a little towards rushing (no pun intended) than languorous.   

KRENEK:   Santa Fe Timetable  -   a setting for chorus of the names of the stations from Albuquerque to Los Angeles    Entering California is celebrated in a 6-part fugue: "Ibis-Goffs-Fenner-Essex"
O Lacrymosa   - 3 poems by Rilke
Tape and Double  for 2 pianos and electronic tape.  One of the pianos is "prepared" by stretching a tight metal chain across the strings to modify the timbre of the instrument.
Toccata for accordion

HINDEMITH   Sonatas for flute, English Horn, Oboe, Bassoon

[Que]

Pity he hasn't done more Bach on Ambroisie, as I would be interested in seeing where this was heading.

He hasn't recorded that long for the Ambroisie. I'm pretty sure there will be more to come - hopefully. A WTC would be nice, which hasn't recorded that yet! And I'm curious if he will redo the Bach stuff that he recorded for Deccca previously - not yet so far, at least not in Bach.

Q

[SonicMan46]

Ariosti, Attilio (1666-1729) - Stockholm Sonatas II w/ Thomas Georgi on viola d'amore (by Thomas Eberle, Naples, 1783) - 6 gut playing strings + 6 sympathetic strings; plus, Lucas Harris on archlute or Baroque guitar & Mime Brinkmann on violoncello - lot of information on Georgi's website HERE; picture below of some Eberle instruments w/ the 6/6 stringed-one likely similar to the one in this recording; excellent liner notes by Georgi; second of a 3-disc set on BIS - 

 

[Gabriel]

No, it is Antoine ! 

I must protest!

[Gabriel]

No, mi estimado Gabriel. Yo también he comprado en la Feria del Disco. 

Como todo buen chileno que se precie de tal, estimado Antonio. El surtido hace algunos años, sin embargo, era allí bastante más generoso.

[listener]

LALO  Concerto pieces
   Symphonie Espagnole  (complete),  Concerto Russe,  Concerto in F, op. 20
   Romance-Serenade, Fantaisie-Ballet, "Guitarre",  Fantaisie Norvegienne
   for violin and orchestra                     Ruggiero Ricci, violin
   Concerto in D minor for cello             Laszlo Varga, cello
   Concerto in F minor for piano            Marylène Dosse, piano
   orchestras of Radio Luxembourg, Bochum, and Stuttgart Philharmonic
I don't see an easily available CD of the Romance-Serenade, Fantaisie-Ballet, "Guitarre", (if there be any) so this thin-sounding LP set stays.  Maybe a Sansui QS decoder would have helped.  Ricci's technique in 1977 was still pretty good.

[kishnevi]

LALO  Concerto pieces
   Symphonie Espagnole  (complete),  Concerto Russe,  Concerto in F, op. 20
   Romance-Serenade, Fantaisie-Ballet, "Guitarre",  Fantaisie Norvegienne
   for violin and orchestra                     Ruggiero Ricci, violin
   Concerto in D minor for cello             Laszlo Varga, cello
   Concerto in F minor for piano            Marylène Dosse, piano
   orchestras of Radio Luxembourg, Bochum, and Stuttgart Philharmonic
I don't see an easily available CD of the Romance-Serenade, Fantaisie-Ballet, "Guitarre", (if there be any) so this thin-sounding LP set stays.  Maybe a Sansui QS decoder would have helped.  Ricci's technique in 1977 was still pretty good.

At least some of it is available on this set

http://voxcd.com/VOX/CD5X3611.htm

Thread duty--provoked in part by this post and recent discussion on the "best PC" thread

From CD 4: Valse nonchalante, Op. 110

[listener]

At least some of it is available on this set

http://voxcd.com/VOX/CD5X3611.htm

I can't bring myself to spend anything more to duplicate these performances, there's so much else.

[Bogey]

Bach
Harpsichord Concerti
1055; 1056; 1053
Leonhardt Consort/Leonhardt
MHS Label
Recorded 1972 or 1976

[Que]

Good morning!

Q

[George]

Good morning!

Q

Good Morning! 

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book One
Sviatoslav Richter
Russian Revelation RV 20003
Moscow, 20 and 21 April 1969

[The new erato]

Gerard Finley in Ives songs. Bruckner Masses with Jochum.

[Sergeant Rock]

RVW Symphony #5 D major




Sarge

[SonicMan46]

Gombert, Nicholas (c. 1495- c.1560) - Sacred Vocal Works w/ Henry's Eight & Jonathan Brown - recorded in 1996; another BRO bargain and a composer not known to be, but I love this era - all vocal w/o instruments.     P.S. interesting in the liner notes about him being condemned to the galleys after 'violating' a choir boy, but soon granted a pardon by Emperor Charles V, his boss!

[Christo]

Not very dissimilar:
       

[The new erato]

and a composer not known to be,

Oh yes, he was!