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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD5 from this set for a first listen ...

[Keemun]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Karajan
BPO

[AndyD.]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Karajan
BPO

OO you be JAh-min'!


Me: Bach Partitas and Sonatas (Perlman)

[Brahmsian]

OO you be JAh-min'!


Me: Bach Partitas and Sonatas (Perlman)

Andy, you must have worn out a hole through this disc man! 

[AndyD.]

Andy, you must have worn out a hole through this disc man! 

Both the Bach and the Bruckner!

[Lethevich]

Cooke - Symphony No.3


Rather fascinatingly, as I was retrieving the cover from Amazon.com, I noticed a reviewer claiming Brian's 16th to be largely "atonal". I know that he has a difficult soundworld, but this takes the biscuit.

[The new erato]

Cooke - Symphony No.3


Rather fascinatingly, as I was retrieving the cover from Amazon.com, I noticed a reviewer claiming Brian's 16th to be largely "atonal". I know that he has a difficult soundworld, but this takes the biscuit.

As amazon reviews go, I consider that pretty middle of the road.

[Brian]

TCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No 6
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

A live recording. Perfectly competitive with the likes of Muti, though maybe not Mravinsky or Gatti; why Naxos isn't recording this cycle with these forces, I have no idea.

[karlhenning]

Rather fascinatingly, as I was retrieving the cover from Amazon.com, I noticed a reviewer claiming Brian's 16th to be largely "atonal". I know that he has a difficult soundworld, but this takes the biscuit.

It's an adjective which is slung about in often intriguing ways : )

[Brian]

It's an adjective which is slung about in often intriguing ways : )

   

[Lethevich]

I thought that I would listen to the Brian afterwards, but Cooke's soundworld has drawn me in again, and demanded that I listen to the concerto and suite from this disc:



His music is such a deliciously improbable combination of Hindemith and Walton - and it's good-natured, despite its drive and occasionally pointed edges. The concerto for string orchestra is marvellous and I will never forget the perfect first movement, dominated by an exceptional interplay with the wonderful main theme and quieter interludes for chamber-like groupings of the orchestra.

[Brian]

His music is such a deliciously improbable combination of Hindemith and Walton - and it's good-natured, despite its drive and occasionally pointed edges. The concerto for string orchestra is marvellous and I will never forget the perfect first movement, dominated by an exceptional interplay with the wonderful main theme and quieter interludes for chamber-like groupings of the orchestra.

That might be enough to sell me. I really like hard-driving, pointy-edged, grinding 20th century music that's also really happy. It's a fascinating combo for me. Other suggestions welcome.

[Brian]

That might be enough to sell me. I really like hard-driving, pointy-edged, grinding 20th century music that's also really happy. It's a fascinating combo for me. Other suggestions welcome.

I think I'll listen to some now...

KOMEI ABE | Symphony No 1
Russian Philharmonic
Dmitry Yablonsky

It's like a Japanese Stravinsky on happy pills!

[Lethevich]

I like those conservative Japanese composers - Yasushi Akutagawa on Naxos is another - his Trinita Sinfonica sounds somewhere in between Ifukube and Prokofiev, its finale is just ""-inducing. The Ellora Symphony on the same disc is more individual.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD10 from this set for a first listen - BWV 996 and 997 performed on Guitar - not exactly my favorite instrument when it comes to classical music ...

[Brian]

I like those conservative Japanese composers - Yasushi Akutagawa on Naxos is another - his Trinita Sinfonica sounds somewhere in between Ifukube and Prokofiev, its finale is just ""-inducing. The Ellora Symphony on the same disc is more individual.

Just switched hemispheres:

JOLIVET | Trumpet Concerto No 2
Maurice Andre, trumpet
Concertgebouw
Jean Fournet

13 minutes of sheer silliness! Tons of percussion, harp glissandi, gongs, and jazzy exuberance. Although the jazzy exuberance does sometimes border on atonal honking...

[Lethevich]

I'll bite:

[Drasko]

I'm getting pretty much nowhere with EMI matrix disc, so it's going to get shelved for few years, or till some other pianist. Dutilleux sonata does sound promissing but Ogdon's playing is just too aimless, shapeless, monotonous and monochrome for me to get anything but bored.

Dufay disc is just plain refusing to leave my player for weeks now, and sure ain't going to force it.

[Lethevich]

Jolivet - Trumpet Concerto No.2 (thanks to Brian)

I love how Jolivet can get when he is in eclectic mode - sort of like Les Six crossed with Stravinsky with a distinct jazzy edge. His idiom is so unique as well - a tonalist at heart, tearing the seams of expression, but always retaining an accessable core.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set for a first listen ...