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[Harry]

Singphonic Comedians.

Delightful German songs from films around 1930 till 1950.
Re workings for this a capella group of excellent singers.

Saw many a film of that time, often based in turbulent Berlin, the cooking pot of culture, until the Germans themselves ended that.

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Valentino]

Good lunch to all! 

Beethoven: SQ op. 18/3. Italian Quartet. Nice, but maybe too nice, at least today. A reminder to get the Takacs op.18.

[Harry]

Die Singphoniker.

Singphonic Serenade & Concert Collection II.

Delightful pastime music, keeps you happy, while being not strictly classical.

[Lilas Pastia]

Highly inventive chamber music by a French contemporary of Haydn, Jean-François Tapray. This is a disc of concertante works in a chamber setting. Quite unusual combinations of viola, clarinet, fortepiano and bassoon (2 quartets), harpsichord, flute, viola and cello (quartet) and  pianoforte, viola and cello (a trio). Note that the latter work was composed two years before Mozart's famous Kegelstatt Trio. Experimentation with new instrumental combinations was widespread around Europe in the 1780s and Tapray was at the forefront of musical development in his time.



Very melodic and 'modern' music.  He concentrated on the emotional content of music and was a precursor of the budding romantic movement.  There are quite a few discs of his works, but they're generally mixed with other stuff. This is one of only three I know entirely devoted to him as a composer. Highly recommended.

Check out this site for some really off the beaten path repertoire:
http://www.canadacd.ca/en/browse/?labelID=101&page=1

[Valentino]

Mozart: Diverimento for string trio K. 563. L'Archibudelli.

What a fantastic piece of music this is. Again thanks to Harry for pushing that Biljsma 70 box set on me. A very good investment.

[Harry]

Mozart: Diverimento for string trio K. 563. L'Archibudelli.

What a fantastic piece of music this is. Again thanks to Harry for pushing that Biljsma 70 box set on me. A very good investment.

I am so glad I can make you happy with so little.

[Harry]

Rimsky-Korsakov.

Symphony No. 3 in C major.

Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi.

Well after hearing this a couple of times I decided that this is not a very good performance of the complete Symphonies. It is devoid of inspiration simple as that. I heard this much better done. And the recording is not good either.
Jarvi on his least attractive side.

[Florestan]

Rimsky-Korsakov.

Symphony No. 3 in C major.

Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi.

How does it compare to this one?

[Harry]

How does it compare to this one?

Far superior in performance, although there are some sluggish tempi in some of the Symphonies.
The sound is a tad bright, but detail is fine throughout.
Reminds me that I have to order it.
Lend it to a Russian friend of mine, and he took it to Novosibirsk.
He is a monk, so it was kind of hard to demand it back, he seems happy with it.

[johnQpublic]

Glinka - Overture to "Ivan Suslin" (Svetlanov/Regis)
Myaskovsky - Violin Concerto (Feigin/Melodiya)
Vainberg - Chamber Symphony #1 (Rachlevsky/Claves)

[karlhenning]

Glinka - Overture to "Ivan Suslin" (Svetlanov/Regis)

Ivan Susanin, yes? A/k/a, A Life for the Tsar.

[George]

Shostakovich:  2nd Piano Trio Beaux Arts Trio

great piece.........

They are great, as always, here.

[George]

so moving & adventurous...the symphonies of Brahms, so musically rounded & contain great musical profundity...
listening to the 3rd mvt. (allegretto grazioso) from Brahms's glorious 2nd.

Are those the 60s Brahms symphonies? If so, I love HvK's way with Brahms. 

[bhodges]

Louis Andriessen: Workers Union and Hoketus (Bang on a Can)

Niels Gade: String Octet in F Major (Süddeutsches Streichoktett) - What a discovery!  I bought this CD a year ago, for the Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet (great piece, beautifully done here), but only now returned to give the Gade a listen.  To my ears, just as appealing and well-crafted as Mendelssohn's. 

Peter Warlock: Choral Music (Layton/Polyphony)

--Bruce

[BachQ]

Louis Andriessen: Workers Union and Hoketus (Bang on a Can)

Niels Gade: String Octet in F Major (Süddeutsches Streichoktett) - What a discovery!  I bought this CD a year ago, for the Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet (great piece, beautifully done here), but only now returned to give the Gade a listen.  To my ears, just as appealing and well-crafted as Mendelssohn's. 

Peter Warlock: Choral Music (Layton/Polyphony)

--Bruce

No Händel, Bruce?

[bhodges]

No Händel, Bruce?

  No, but thinking about him does make me hungry for some Schnittke.

--Bruce

[George]

Presto from Sonata in G maj  ....EXPLOSIVE!

Another gem, James! 

[Drasko]

[not edward]

Piano Concerto #2 - Adagio sostenuto

Brilliant masterings of these stellar performances....musicanship of the highest order. Just beautiful music.

And the quality of the performances makes it all the more sad that Rachmaninov took those disfiguring cuts in the 3rd concerto.

I'm listening to the Ginastera piano sonatas on Naxos....performances seem acceptable, though I've not heard anything else. To me, the first sonata feels like it has a bit too much undigested Bartok in its system; the second is still Bartokian, but more individual; the third is the most striking, but very brief.