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[Philoctetes]

[listener]

MOZART and BACH
or rather REGER on   BACH    Brandenburg Concertos 3 & 5 arranged for piano 4-hands    (played here on 2 pianos)    Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart for 2 pianos  op.132a
Peter Rösel, Santiago Rodriguez, pianos.
It's fun to hear the Bach this way, the mind wants to superimpose the orchestra over it, then gets suddenly startled at the harpsichord cadenza in number 5.

[Henk]

Chopin - Nocturnes op. 27, 32 / Woodward

I really like these performances, very nice atmosphere does Woodward create (beautiful full sound). I'm also a fan of his performance of Bach's WTC and also his Takemitsu sounded great at a quick listening.

[George]

Oohh!

Tell me more!

[Philoctetes]

Oohh!

Tell me more!

It contains a butt load of historical violin recordings, all pre-WWII, and a lot that are pre-WWI. The sound is as good as can be expected, but to hear the titans of yore playing, is not something that is to be missed, if I do say so myself, and I did.

[George]

It contains a butt load of historical violin recordings, all pre-WWII, and a lot that are pre-WWI. The sound is as good as can be expected, but to hear the titans of yore playing, is not something that is to be missed, if I do say so myself, and I did.

Nice!

[Philoctetes]

Nice!

For sure. I'll definitely post some of the pieces on youtube. 

[Conor71]

Good morning
Dvorak: Piano Quintets

[SonicMan46]

Chopin - Nocturnes op. 27, 32 / Woodward

I really like these performances, very nice atmosphere does Woodward create (beautiful full sound). I'm also a fan of his performance of Bach's WTC and also his Takemitsu sounded great at a quick listening.

Henk - I have Woodward's Bach WTC and really enjoy - this may be another to put on my 'wish list'?   

[SonicMan46]

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) - born in Cothen, likely a pupil of JS Bach (and from another musical family who were friends w/ Bachs); ended up in London and put on a series of concerts w/ Johann Christian Bach - wonderful performances -    P.S. check out his now 'short' thread for further recommendations!

 

[DavidRoss]

Good morning
Dvorak: Piano Quintets

Wow--looks like a great set!

now playing:

[Brahmsian]

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) - born in Cothen, likely a pupil of JS Bach (and from another musical family who were friends w/ Bachs); ended up in London and put on a series of concerts w/ Johann Christian Bach - wonderful performances -    P.S. check out his now 'short' thread for further recommendations!

Dave, got the Heinrich CD of Mr. Abel's Fine Airs from the library and really enjoyed it.  Much prefer it to the Paolo Pandolfo CD.

[Brahmsian]

Good morning
Dvorak: Piano Quintets

I have the string quartets set of these.  Now I wish I had got this box set instead, which includes a lot more than just the string quartets! 

[SonicMan46]

Dave, got the Heinrich CD of Mr. Abel's Fine Airs from the library and really enjoyed it.  Much prefer it to the Paolo Pandolfo CD.

Ray - I read your posts in the Abel thread and plan not to purchase the Pandolfo - try to get a listen to some of the others listed (including the one I just posted of the symphonies) - Dave 

[greg]

I highly recommend this one.
The Dun Pipa Concerto is... interesting. Interesting because it has several moments where the performers are instructed to just yell. Not to mention there aren't many Pipa Concertos out there. I'm not sure I like his style overall, though.

The Hayashi Violin Concerto is pretty good. It sounds almost exactly like late Shostakovich. Probably one of my favorite moments is that little melodic line near the end that the viola plays. Think of the 15th SQ- same vibe.

Takemitsu's Nostalghia is good, too, but I think here it was played too slow.

[karlhenning]

The Tchaikovsky-athon for Harry rocks ever on:

Пётр Ильич [Pyotr Ilyich]
Piano Trio in a minor, Opus 50
Kremer / Maisky / Argerich

[listener]

hearing this "live" this weekend
VERDI  REQUIEM
Robert Shaw      Atlanta Symphony Orch & Chorus
(I've got Giulini on hand for later)

[jlaurson]

I highly recommend this one.

What Chinese / Asian 'Classical' Piano Concertos do you know? Which ones do you think are any good?

[Sid]

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8, arr. Barshai for string orchestra)
A very dark work but I like to listen to it because (although it's pretty intense), it's over in less than half an hour. This was composed in memory of those who died in the Dresden bombings, but it's also related to Shostakovich's feelings of depression about having to join the Communist party in 1960, a thing which he saw as a kind of moral death.


Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto
Rachmaninov: Vocalise for cello & piano
The Miaskovsky is not the greatest cello concerto in the world, but it can be quite moving and this disc has had a good run over the last 18 months since I bought it.


& also these two great ABC Classics releases which I recently got:

Haydn: Piano Trios - especially like the bounciness of the gypsy-like finale of the trio in A major, the only one here not arranged by Salomon.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (ed. Haas) - this has to be one of the great 7ths by any composer, a lyrical and life-affirming masterpiece.

[Mirror Image]

Really something of an eccentricity for Schoenberg, but both charming and masterly, all the same.

Absolutely, definitely not something I'm used to hearing from Schoenberg, which in turn, makes me appreciate the fact that he was such a versatile composer and a hell of an orchestrator.