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[karlhenning]

Ahhh Karl, I really love this one! 

Ooh, and the Finale especially cooks!

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays! (This recording.)

Пётр Ильич [Pyotr Ilyich]
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Opus 48
Phila Orch
Muti

[Brahmsian]

Maiden-Listen Mondays! (This recording.)

Пётр Ильич [Pyotr Ilyich]
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Opus 48
Phila Orch
Muti

This Karl, was one of the first Tchaikovsky works to win me over to him!  I fell in love with this piece on first listen (and even used the first movement at our wedding). 

[karlhenning]

That's beautiful, Ray!

[Brahmsian]

Maiden Monday Listen! (from the library)

Bach

Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530

The Purcell Quartet
Chandos

[Gurn Blanston]

Maiden Monday Listen! (from the library)

Bach

Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530

The Purcell Quartet
Chandos

That's a good listen, Ray. I'vew enjoyed that disk.

For me, it's 2 violin concertos by Pierre Rode:



Nice stuff, French Violin School from the earliest 19th century.

[Conor71]

Lovely!

[Scarpia]

Maiden Monday Listen! (from the library)

Bach

Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530

The Purcell Quartet
Chandos

I didn't feel that giving the two melody lines to violin and viola da gamba was ideal for clarity.    I've recently gotten this one:

[DavidW]

I have this recording of Rameau as well and it's fantastic. I should revisit it!

I couldn't believe how edgy, almost modernist like in some passages (like the opening), how fun dance like some passages were and just how utterly satisfying that music was!  I falsely considered Rameau to be a minor composer before.  I was wrong, this is top shelf material!

[Mirror Image]

I couldn't believe how edgy, almost modernist like in some passages (like the opening), how fun dance like some passages were and just how utterly satisfying that music was!  I falsely considered Rameau to be a minor composer before.  I was wrong, this is top shelf material!

Thankfully, I never thought Rameau to be a minor composer, but I did mistakingly dismiss his music earlier on. He was a very advanced Baroque composer for sure. This specific recording (w/ Minkowski) made me a fan and also taught me a valuable lesson of being patient with music before dismissing it out-of-hand.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

[Daverz]

2 4th symphonies.

[Coopmv]

It's pretty good. Some might say that Davis is a little too restrained with Sibelius, but he's been working with this music for almost 50 years, so he knows what he's doing imo. I used to own a mono recording from the 1940's by Beecham of the 2nd symphony, which was different, but it's hard to remember exactly how. Having not heard it for years, I didn't remember how dark and "oppresive" the slow movement is - as one contemporary critic put it. It kind of sounds like a foretaste of what he'd do in his very gloomy and pared down 4th symphony. I think that Pohjola's daughter is also done quite well, compared to others I have heard (I have known these works for about 20 years)...

Colin Davis has always been known to be top-notched interpreter of works by Berlioz and Sibelius ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD for a first listen ...

[Bogey]

Well if you like LvB's Septet, Op. 20 then you should enjoy this:

LvB
Trio for piano, violin, and cello, Op. 38 (arrangement of Septet, Op. 20)
Kobayashi(v)/Saito (c)/Wagner (p)
Brilliant
Recorded 2007

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Revueltas' Sensemaya. So barbaric and ritualistic. I love it! 

[Sid]

To mark the passing of Rudolf Barshai, I listened to these recordings last night:

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8, arr. Barshai for string orchestra)


Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives (originally for solo piano, arr. Barshai for string orchestra)
ASMF/Marriner
Bartok: Divertimento for strings
Vivaldi: Two concertos from L'Estro Armonico
Moscow Chamber Orch./Barshai


I can tell that Barshai was an excellent arranger, because you'd swear that these arrangements were done by the composers themselves. I don't have Barshai performing any of his own arrangements, so I also heard him with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra (which he founded) play classic accounts of the Bartok and Vivaldi. He was also apparently a great Mahler conductor in his later years (and did an orchestration of the 10th symphony, which I haven't heard). He was definitely one of the outstanding musicians of the c20th...

[Sid]

Colin Davis has always been known to be top-notched interpreter of works by Berlioz and Sibelius ...

Yes, & we can give him credit for championing the works of these composers in earlier times (1960's), when perhaps they were not as popular or generally well known as they are today...

[Sid]

Got this today & listened to the middle movements (Adagio, Scherzo) earlier:

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (ed. Haas)
Queensland SO/Muhai Tang (live recording)
ABC Discovery Label


I used to own a Solti recording of this symphony before, and this shapes up well in comparison with that, as far as I can remember. A generation ago, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra wouldn't have been able to successfully handle this repertoire, but now they are really up to it. I can't really tell the difference between them & the Sydney or Melbourne orchestras. Muhai Tang is also an accomplished conductor, who has worked with the likes of Karajan in the past. All up, a very enjoyable performance, which I will listen to in full tonight...

[Que]

Good morning.

Q