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[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays! (This recording.)

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
Symphony № 1 in D, Classical, Op.25
CSO
Giulini

Delighted to find in this opening Allegro, and no less in the Larghetto, that Giulini favors the graceful, light-treaded approach which I've enjoyed so well in the Ozawa account.

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[Brian]

That box looks mighty appetizing, Karl! And it's just wrong to do the First in a heavy-handed way.

For me, a voyage of discovery into some really marvelous music:

[Cato]

A Clarinet and String Quartet work called Souvenirs de Voyage and a String Quartet called Echoes by Herrmann: both works have assorted personality traits recognizable from his film music.  Echoes is particularly dark.

Jauntier, and also recognizable from his film music, especially his masterpiece The Big Country, is the Sonata for Piano Duet and String Quartet by Jerome Moross.

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays! (This recording, and hoping it does The Trick.)

Schubert
Symphony № 9 in C, D.944 “The Great”
CSO
Giulini

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[Brahmsian]

Following Karl's lead from yesterday.  De la belle boite brilliante de Brahms.

Brahms

Works for Choir a Cappella, Vol. 6

Two motets, Op.29
Geistliches Lied, Op.30
Two motets, Op.74
Three motets, Op.110
Missa Canonica, WoO 18

Chamber Choir of Europe
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
Nicol Matt, conductor

Brilliant Classics

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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A great recording so far of some very good music.

[kishnevi]

I love soundtracks and really enjoy the music on this disc (even the much maligned Warsaw Concerto, an obsession when I was a teen). Most of it sounds like sub-Rachmaninoff--which is probably all you need to know to make a decision.

Sarge

I love that little CD. 
For those that don't have it, the liner notes include plot summaries so the listener can understand how the music fitted into the film--several of them were written to be music played onscreen as part of the film's action.

[Sadko]

Sokolov plays Scriabin

Sonata No. 3
Sonata No. 4
12 Études op. 8
Désir op. 57/1                 
Énigme op. 52/2                 
Caresse dansée op. 57/2     
Feuillet d'album op. 45/1
Vers la flamme op. 72     
Poème op. 69/1                         
Poème op. 69/2                           
Poème fantastique op. 45/2       
Étude op. 2/1   

[kishnevi]

Carter: String Quartet No. 2 - Pacifica Quartet



Listening on Naxos Music Library, and one thing I've noticed which is problem for an otherwise excellent website is the gap between tracks while the track loads.  Could be my computer is slow, but I doubt it, and for most works it is not a huge problem (although in rare cases the track will not load) - but for a work like the Carter SQ2, where the movements are written to be seamless - it is a distraction.

Anyone else have this problem?

That seems to be a problem inherent in many players. 
I have both of the CDs, btw;  excellent through and through.
(And you image doesn't seem to be showing.)

[DavidRoss]

First, some of this:
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(Still a fave)

then this:
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(Lovely and sensitive in all the right ways, Schreier superb, but Finnilä's a bit shrill for my taste)

and now, inspired by Karl's recent acquisition of same, this:
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(Certainly my choice for best value in complete cycles, though my knowledge is hardly as encyclopedic as Todd's.  Following George's practice recommended on the LvB sonatas thread, I'm starting w/ op 2 no 1 and expect to listen sequentially to the entire set--though not without diversions from time to time!)

[Keemun]

I'm not sure what I am in the mood for, so I am listening to this until I figure it out. 

Sibelius
Symphony No. 6
Maazel
VPO

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays! (This recording, and hoping it does The Trick.)

Schubert
Symphony № 9 in C, D.944 “The Great”
CSO
Giulini

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A beautiful piece.  As has happened more than once before, when a certain performance or recording "opens" some certain music to me, I find it hard to think what ways I had erewhile found the piece objectionable.

Does this mean that this Giulini/CSO performance from 1977 is a great recording?

Well, I think it just may . . . .

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Schumann
Fantasiestücke, Opus 88
Renaud Capuçon, vn
Gautier Capuçon, vc
Martha Argerich, pf
Recorded live, June 2009

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[listener]

lp s
STRAVINSKY   Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Capriccio for Pîano and Orch.,   Mouvements for Piano and Orch.
Michel Beroff, piano        Orchestre de Paris        Seiji Ozawa, cond.   
R. STRAUSS   the 3 Horn Concertos
Dennis Brain, horn      Philharmonia Orch.,        Wolfgang Sawallisch, cond.

[karlhenning]

STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Capriccio for Pîano and Orch.,   Mouvements for Piano and Orch.
Michel Beroff, piano        Orchestre de Paris        Seiji Ozawa, cond.   

Mm.  I like all the recordings I have with Béroff, so I am inclined to like this, I should think.

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays! (two-piano version)

Mendelssohn
Overture & Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Martha Argerich & Cristina Marton, pf
Recorded live, June 2009

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[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Mendelssohn
Piano Sextet in D, Op.110
Friends of Martha
Recorded live, June 2009

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[listener]

Mm.  I like all the recordings I have with Béroff, so I am inclined to like this, I should think.

There's a 2-disc set of the same on CD  EMI CMZ 767 276
- all-Stravinsky that I have also.      solo and concertante pieces

[Antoine Marchand]

Shostakovich - The String Quartets
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Rec.: All Saints Church, Petersham, Surrey, 1975-1977
6-CD set, ADD
Decca

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CD1:
String Quartet No. 1 in C major, op. 49
String Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 68

I purchased this box set some ten years ago. I always knew it was a great set of performances, but I always had too a problem with its bright sound and restrained bass. Now using the reverse polarity function of my system all it's just OK, with more natural trebles and unbuttoned basses. 
                               

[kishnevi]

First-Listen Fridays!

Mendelssohn
Piano Sextet in D, Op.110
Friends of Martha
Recorded live, June 2009

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Have you listened to the Glinka yet?

Thread duty:  Shostakovich Symphony 13/Marius Rinztler-Concertgebouw Orchestra and (Gentlemen of the) Chorus/Haitink.   From the box set.