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Continuing on with Scriabin...

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Listening to Symphony No. 2.

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Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 6, 4 Pieces For String Quartet


Disc 5 of this excellent boxed set


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Now playing the following CD, which arrived weeks ago for a first listen ...

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Now playing the following CD, which arrived weeks ago for a first listen ...

My favorite Symphonie Fantastique! Sir Colin Davis is the best Berlioz conductor on the planet. Have you heard his recording of the Requiem? Man, what a performance!

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My favorite Symphonie Fantastique! Sir Colin Davis is the best Berlioz conductor on the planet. Have you heard his recording of the Requiem? Man, what a performance!

I think I have the recording on LP but have not listened to it in ages.  This twofer by Norrington, which I bought a few months ago, has been well received ...

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I think I have the recording on LP but have not listened to it in ages.  This twofer by Norrington, which I bought a few months ago, has been well received ...

I try to avoid Norrington like the plague. Have you heard Munch's performance. This is another favorite besides the Davis/LSO on Philips.

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I try to avoid Norrington like the plague. Have you heard Munch's performance. This is another favorite besides the Davis/LSO on Philips.

The Munch's Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique was among the first few SACD's I bought.  Great SQ IMO ...

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I have this newer version by Colin Davis as well but think the older version with the RCO, which I am listening to now may be better ...

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I have this newer version by Colin Davis as well but think the older version with the RCO, which I am listening to now may be better ...

Yes, I actually own three performances of Symphonie Fantastique with Davis: RCO, VPO, and LSO Live. I'm sure he's done more, but I think three, with the same conductor, is enough.

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Yes, I actually own three performances of Symphonie Fantastique with Davis: RCO, VPO, and LSO Live. I'm sure he's done more, but I think three, with the same conductor, is enough.

This is my 4th Beethoven cycle by Karajan.  I have all his DG cycles on CD plus the 77 cycle on LP ...

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This is my 4th Beethoven cycle by Karajan.  I have all his DG cycles on CD plus the 77 cycle on LP ...

How many Beethoven symphony cycles do you own?

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How many Beethoven symphony cycles do you own?

25

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Now playing the following CD from my early music collection ...

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25

I take it you like Beethoven then? I only own around 6 or 7. Probably too many, especially for somebody who doesn't care much for Beethoven.

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More delicious gebrauchsmusik.

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This dude can play:

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1

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If only all obscure music could get such wonderful performances and recording jobs

That's a outright winner for me Sarah.

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morning set:
SCHOENBERG    Serenade op. 24  for septet and baritone voice
1949 ISCM recording, Dimitri Mitropoulos cond.
ensemble included Louis Krasner, vn.,    Seymour Barab, cello  Warren Galjour, bar.
BRAHMS    Symphony no. 3 for 2 pianos, 4 hands
   Variations on a theme by Schumann op. 23  -1  piano 4-hands
Bracha Eden & Alexander Tamir

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BORODIN:  Symphony No 2                             / Orchestra of the Radio Stuttgart, Carlos Kleiber

Intense, powerful and dynamic, with an amazing coherency, this version live (1972) is a tribute to the art of Carlos Kleiber, perhaps the last of the genial conductors. It is also the best version of this Symphony.

His father, Erich Kleiber with a mediocre orchestra (the NBC Orchestra) left a version with a great energy but deprived from the extraordinary architectonic sense of Carlos. However, the Andante is a sublime moment of poetry.

The versions of Kletzki and Svetlanov (this one too emphatic) offer less interest.