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[Sergeant Rock]

I think my current two favourite Hungarian Dances are # 4 and # 14.  # 4 has always, always been my favourite.   

4 has always been my favorite too.
You really need to hear Ivan Fischer's orchestration of 14: it is stunning, the kind of thing that makes you say "it sounds like a whole different piece of music."

I'm just about to listen to 4 (Fischer) just to refresh my memory, and to experience what you guys are talking about.

My long time favorite is the First--has been since hearing it played as a rare encore at a Cleveland Orchestra concert. Aldo Ceccato had just conducted the most thrilling Bruckner Third I'd ever heard. I thought the concert was over but Ceccato, responding, I guess, to the long and rapturous applause (for Bruckner! in 1973!  from an Ohio crowd!!!) suddenly launched into the Brahms. I still see him dancing on the podium 

Edit: listening now. Oh yeah, nice. I especially love the way it begins. Not one of my absolute favorites but really digging Fischer's orchestration. Brilliant.

Sarge

[DavidW]

After rewatching Barry Lyndon I've been obsessively listening to Schubert's Piano Trio #2.

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Awesome, passionate yet beautiful performance.
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Atlantis Trio has a more relaxed but charming performance.
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This might be the best performance I've heard, charming and subtle and bold and powerful at other times, they are flexible and dynamic.  I enjoy this recording more than the Florestan Trio!

[Brian]

Have you heard Kungsbacka on NML/Classicsonline? It was highly praised by some.

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This might be the best performance I've heard, charming and subtle and bold and powerful at other times, they are flexible and dynamic.  I enjoy this recording more than the Florestan Trio!

Only $3.56 to download at Amazon!! 

[karlhenning]

Brian
Symphony № 8 in b^b minor
Royal Liverpool Phil
Sir Chas Groves

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[DavidW]

Have you heard Kungsbacka on NML/Classicsonline? It was highly praised by some.

I haven't, maybe that will be next.  Either that or Trio Eisenstadt.

Only $3.56 to download at Amazon!! 

I'm going to pull the trigger at home.  Ah streaming... causing you to buy more music!

[TheGSMoeller]

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
National Philharmonic Orchestra/ The Man Himself

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Also features Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 with Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello), and Cantata misericordium, Op. 69 with Peter Pears (Tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone)

Quite a line-up!

[karlhenning]

Love that piece, Greg!

[listener]

"Music of the Four Countries"
Ethel SMYTH  The Wreckers -  Overture     Hamilton HARTY   With the Wild Geese
MacCUNN Overture: The Land of the Mountain and Flood     GERMAN (not the country): Welsh Rhapsody
Scottish National Orchestra    /Alexander Gibson
BAIRD:  Four Essays     Expressions for Violin and Orchestra     Variations without a theme
Wanda Wilkomirska, violin       Warsaw National Philharmonic S.O.    / Witold Rowicki
more quintets: BOCCHERINI op.17 for flute ansd strings
Christian Lardé, flute   Quartet Via Nova

[karlhenning]

Brian
Symphony № 8 in b^b minor
Royal Liverpool Phil
Sir Chas Groves

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Like this a lot. Maybe a trick of memory . . . but I don't remember taking to it quite like this, when I first listened.  Might have been distractions of the workplace, though . . . .

[Todd]

Finishing up a second run through of Beecham's Haydn and mono Mozart recordings by listening to The Seasons.  An old fashioned approach, yes, but superb.

[Brian]

Listening to the latest "Name that piece!" puzzler, now that its identity has been revealed. Kraus' "Olympie" incidental music.

[haziz]

Listening to my favorite renditions of the Dvorak (Fournier) and Elgar (du Pre) cello concertos.


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[haziz]

Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre for Guitar and Orchestra (John Williams - guitar)


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Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 2. Outstanding.

[Conor71]

Martinu: Cello Sonatas


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[The new erato]

This is a very good version of the same texts that F Martin used in his masterful Der Cornet.

[listener]

BRAHMS   for 2 Pianos
Variations on a Theme by Haydn  op. 56b
Sonata in f after the quintet  op. 34
Alfons and Alioys Kontarsky
DELIUS   North Country Sketches    Life's Dance     A Song of Summer
Royal Philharmonic O.    / Groves
MILHAUD   Le Carnaval d'Aix
Viola Concerto        Concerto for Percussion
Radio Luxembourg O.,     / Milhaud, cond.

[Conor71]

Faure: Piano Quartets


This music is definetely below the green lemon - a great set!


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[haziz]

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher - voting against it and wanted to remind myself of the work, yes, I still don't like it.

Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Janine Jansen


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[mc ukrneal]

Offenbach: Les Brigands:
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Joyful and infectious music! And some rediculously funny text. A sample:

(from Act II)
Falsacappa: ...they say Falsacappa is in the area.
Captain: But I have cut him to pieces!
Falsacappa: But are you sure it was him?
Captain: Positive! And the next time I meet him I will cut him to pieces again!
Falsacappa: But if you have already cut him to pieces, how can you possibly do it again?
Captain: Well, I could answer that having already cut him to pieces up- and down-wards, I could could him to pieces crossways next time. But I prefer to admit that I was wrong to say I had already cut him to pieces. The truth is that I haven't yet cut him to pieces, but that I certainly will.
Falsacappa: And why didn't you cut him to pieces?
Captain: Because I have never been able to catch up with him.
Falsacappa: Well, that is a pretty good reason.
Captain: But I will catch up with him.
Falsacappa: Do you think?
Captain: I am sure of it. Becuase I know why I've never been able to until now...
Falsacappa: And why is that?
Captaion: It's because each time I got near him, the sound of our trumpets told him we were coming. So, no more trumpets.
Falsacappa: Damned clever!
Captain: I think it is a pity. They had a very nice timbre and a lovely tone.
Falsacappa: And you don't think you should use something else?
Captain: Something else?
Falsacappa: Yes. Drums for example.
Captain: You must think I'm stupid!
....

Other funny lines (and rather relevent even today):

Carabinieri: We are the police, we protect your homes, but by an unhappy coincidence, we always arrive too late.
....
Treasurer: (I took hold of the eraser and started altering the accounts)...Every time I saw a woman, my heart would start to pound. And every time the heart would pound, the eraser erased. You might say that my will faltered and figures were altered!
....
Antonio: So princess, you are from Grenada [the princess is really the Bandit Chief's daughter in disguise]
Princess: Why of course!
Antonio: And can you tell me who is on the throne at present in Granada?
Princess: My father!