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[Antoine Marchand]

Matthias Weckman - Complete Cantatas

Greta de Reyghere, Jill Feldman, sopranos
James Bowman, countertenor
Ian Honeyman, Guy de Mey, tenors
Max van Egmond, bass
Ricercar Consort
Capella Sancti Michaelis (Eric van Nevel, direction)

Weine nicht, es hat überwunden
Zion spricht, der Herr hat mich verlassen
Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe
Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste
Dialogo von Tobias und Raguel
Kommet her zu mir alle
Wenn der Herr die Gefangen zu Zion erlösen wird
Angelicus Coeli Chorus
Gegrüsset seist du, Holdselige
Rex Virtutum
Der Tod ist verschlungen
Es erhub sich ein Streit

2 CDs - DDD - TT: 105' 53

A must-have for people interested in German cantatas of the XVII century. 

[Coopmv]

Yes, I agree that Harnoncourt really worked wonders with Beethoven's symphonies. I have not heard all of his performances, but his conducting of the first, second, and third have been excellent. I have the Beethoven/Harnoncourt box that has 14-CDs, so I still have a lot of listening to do.

Does anybody else own this too?

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I bought this set over a year ago ...   

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Milhaud: Symphonie Nr. 5 op. 322 under the laser right now

Excellent! The 5th along with the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 10th are my favorite Milhaud symphonies. How are you enjoying that set?

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Listening to Sinfonia Antarctica right now. I've forgotten how great this symphony is and Thomson conducts it with such authority.

[Conor71]

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Listening to Sinfonia Antarctica right now. I've forgotten how great this symphony is and Thomson conducts it with such authority.

An excellent idea!  - Think I'll put on some Vaughan Williams Works too  :

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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6

Ive found RVW's 4, 6 & 9th Symphonies a bit harder to appreciate than his other works - Now listening to Symphony No. 4 and enjoying it!, it has been a fair while since I've listened.

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An excellent idea!  - Think I'll put on some Vaughan Williams Works too  :

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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6

Ive found RVW's 4, 6 & 9th Symphonies a bit harder to appreciate than his other works - Now listening to Symphony No. 4 and enjoying it!, it has been a fair while since I've listened.

Yes, that's a good idea!

The 4th, 6th, and 9th are tougher nuts to crack, but I've come to really enjoy all of his symphonies, even A Sea Symphony, which I consider the weakest link of the cycle.

I believe I recommended that Boult to you back on another forum a few years ago. I'm glad to see you're still getting enjoyment out of it as I have.

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Now listening to Symphony No. 9. Damn, just damn...

[listener]

Roger MATTON Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra      Renée Morisset & Victor Bouchard, pianists
Oskar MORAWETZ Piano Concerto no.1                Anton Kuert, piano
Toronto Symphony Orch.     Walter Susskind, cond.
CARTER  Piano Concerto      Jacob Lateiner, ^piano
COLGRASS  As Quiet As....  a leaf turning colors, an uninhabited creek, an ant walking, children sleeping, time passing, a soft rainfall, the first star coming out
Boston Symphony                Leinsdorf, cond.
the Colgrass is utterly charming
        I think these don't duplicate any other recent listings.

[Sid]

Only listened to this again last night:

Richard MEALE
Incredible Floridas (Homage to Rimbaud) (1971) for sextet - piano, violin, cello, clarinet, flute, percussion
(Coupled with sextet works by Ross EDWARDS & Roger SMALLEY)
Seymour Group/Anthony Fogg, director (at piano)
ABC



I talked about this work yesterday on this same thread but every listen seems to give me more to talk about. I'm hearing much more structure & melody in this work than when I first heard it last week. The fragmentary flute solo in the opening movement becomes the basis of much that follows in this 6 movement piece. There is quite a bit of fragmentation & chaos in the first half, but in the 4th movement everything seems to come together. The piano plays this chordal melody which sounds to me a bit like Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 slowed down greatly with a slight feel of the darkness in Rachmaninov's Preludes (the G minor, or is it the C-Sharp minor one? - anyway the feel of those is similar, but not the style). In this movement, the instruments play together for the first time in the piece, there is much more unity than before. The 5th movement has almost jazzy dance-like episodes, much like Varese's Integrales. In the 6th (final) movement, the broken flute melody returns, but it now flows beautfully and is uninterrupted. The birdsong of Messiaen comes strongly to mind here at the end, as does the way Takemitsu uses the flute in some of his works.

I'm planning on going to a concert of this work Saturday week & by then, I think I'll have come a long way to understanding it as much as I can. I have enjoyed this work a lot more than other works by Meale that I have heard. I was more familiar with his later works where he returned to tonality in a big way (a bit like Penderecki, around the same time in the 1980's). His opera Voss from that later more conservative period is also very fine, but I enjoy Incredible Floridas more (not surprisingly because I'd take any chamber over opera any day). In the upcoming concert, this Meale work will be sandwiched between Liszt & Beethoven, & honestly, I can't say that Meale suffers by way of comparison to them in any sense. Not a note seems out of place in this work, & I'm just as amazed by how he could develop themes in such imaginative ways as with the works of the earlier greats. Meale may well have been Australia's finest composer of the generation born between the two world wars - & he had stiff competition from the likes of Peter Sculthorpe, Barry Conyngham, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards, Roger Smalley (who are all still alive). Whatever the verdict, Meale's music is an interesting & quite sophisticated synthesis of c20th styles from all over the world - namely Europe, Asia & the USA...

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Sid and I were talking about Szymanowski's 3rd the other night and so...

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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 In G Major, D 894
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 14 In A Minor, D 784

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Listening to Symphony No. 5 right now. I love Tubin.

[Conor71]

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 In C Major, D 944, "Great"

An exciting and budget friendly reading of this Symphony - this one clocks in at around 50 Minutes in length, so it's a short "Great" but a good one

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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 In C Major, D 944, "Great"

An exciting and budget friendly reading of this Symphony - this one clocks in at around 50 Minutes in length, so it's a short "Great" but a good one

Interestingly enough, Eloquence have also released this rather better filled disc:



SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9. Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra / Krips. Eloquence

[Luke]

CARTER  Piano Concerto      Jacob Lateiner, ^piano
COLGRASS  As Quiet As....  a leaf turning colors, an uninhabited creek, an ant walking, children sleeping, time passing, a soft rainfall, the first star coming out
Boston Symphony                Leinsdorf, cond.
the Colgrass is utterly charming
        I think these don't duplicate any other recent listings.

I have that disc - I agree, the Colgrass is such a wonderful idea, beautifully realised. I had the score in my hands once, years ago. A miraculous sequence of delicate, imaginative gestures.

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Excellent! The 5th along with the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 10th are my favorite Milhaud symphonies. How are you enjoying that set?

I'm far from done with it but I like what I hear so far. Listened to 1,2, 4, 5.  However I must admit that too much Milhaud at once hard to digest (alomst as with too many escargots  )  so I am taking my time with the set....

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Matthias Weckman - Complete Cantatas

A must-have for people interested in German cantatas of the XVII century. 

I love this record. A true stunner !

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First listen.

Volume V.
Slovak State PO, Kosice, Oliver Dohnanyi.

A truly excellent performance. Dohnanyi applies all the right tempi and accents. Not a foot wrong here.

[Conor71]

Interestingly enough, Eloquence have also released this rather better filled disc:



SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9. Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra / Krips. Eloquence

Hmmm, have'nt seen that Disc before looks like a good one! - I have a Krips/RCOA set of the late Mozart Symphonies and really like it!

[The new erato]

Hmmm, have'nt seen that Disc before looks like a good one! - I have a Krips/RCOA set of the late Mozart Symphonies and really like it!

I don't have it, but it is considered a classic.