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[Conor71]

Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 9, Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 - Polonaises and Andante Spianato for a first listen ...

[Lethevich]

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[Que]

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[Henk]

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[The new erato]

Simply outstanding. Forunately I have the texts from other issues.

[Antoine Marchand]

Sonata No. 16 in D major, opus 53 D. 850 (1825)

Sonata No. 7 in E flat major, opus posth. 122 D. 568 (1817)

Fortepiano a=430

built by Conrad Graf, Vienna ca. 1835. Restored in 1994 by Edwin Beunk and Johan Wennik, from the Beunk collection of pianos.

Wonderful disc, superbly played by Malcolm Bilson.

[Sadko]

1st symphony



Dvorak: Symphonies (Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner)

Edit: Someone just had a similar idea

[Lethevich]

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Rubinstein, given his reputation as a pianist, seems to have written surprisingly un-challenging music for the instrument. It's so often warmly Romantic, affecting, but blighted by surprising technical deficiencies - a lack of variation, a very easy to anticipate gesture reoccuring almost exactly where you expect. It's the very opposite of Chopin's unpredictable compositions. This is still enjoyable, though, and the Barcarolles sum up his style the best - mixing the beautiful and the inane.

[Harry]

Vivaldi.
L'estro Armonico.
Concerto No 1-6.
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante.

Absolutely wonderful.

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - Piano Sonatas w/ Michael Endres - finishing up this small box today - 

Beethoven, LV - Piano Concertos w/ Paul Lewis - just arrived the other day - coming up next!

 

[Harry]

Rachmaninov.
Complete Solo Piano Music.
Piano Sonata No 2, opus 36.
Morceau de Fantasie in G minor.
Song without words.
Piece in D minor.
Fughetta in F major.
Fragments.
Oriental sketch.
Three nocturnes.
Four pieces.

A stunning recital, well played and recorded, could not do without them.

[Antoine Marchand]

Franz Schubert - Les sonates pour le pianoforte (sur instruments d'époque)
Paul Badura-Skoda
8-CD set
Arcana



CD3: D. 568, D. 613/612, D. 625/505

Pianoforte Conrad Graf 1118, ca. 1825

Pianoforte J.M. Schweighofer, ca. 1846 (D. 625/505)

[Harry]

Martinu.
Works for Violin and Piano, Complete.

Ariette for Violin and Piano.
Sonate No. 2.
Seven Arabesques.
Sonatina in G major.
Intermezzo, Four pieces.

Captivating performances, deeply felt and performed. Would not like to miss this. A necessary complement to other interpretations I already had. This is the best of the very best.

[Sadko]

Fikret AMIROV
Sevil   (1953) opera in 3 acts + prologue "devoted to the emancipation of Azerbaijan women on the eve of the Revolution and during the first years of Soviet power in Azerbaijan"
Moscow Radio Choir and Orchestra       Niazi, cond.     
+ "brass band" for the Act 2 chorus of striking workers
exotic orchestration, like in the Azerbaijan Mugams.
sung in Russian translation

Sounds interesting. That gave me the idea to listen to his "1001 Nights" ballet (Rozhdestvensky).  I like it.

[DavidRoss]

Mozart's PC #21:

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[Bogey]

A beautiful Sunday here in Colorado.  Coffee is brewing and a Panera apple muffin has my name on it.

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[Scarpia]

Mozart's PC #21:
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That's a fine one.  Last time I listened to that piece it was Brendel, and it wasn't as good.

But that said, my favorite recording of that piece remains the first I heard, on this LP.



Hint, the guy now goes by the name of Stephen Kovacevich.

[DavidRoss]

Hint, the guy now goes by the name of David Kovacevich.

Whoops...typo...you mean "Stephen."    And I have that very LP.  Perhaps I'll spin it later today to compare!