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[Sergeant Rock]

Martinů Symphony #2, Thomson conducting the Royal Scottish




Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

J.S. Bach - Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Obligato Harpsichord
[plus Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV 1011, transcribed to D minor]



Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba (attributed to N. Bertrand, Paris, ca. 1700)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord (Bruce Kennedy, 1991, after Ruckers)

[Sergeant Rock]

Martinů Symphony #3, Thomson conducting the Royal Scottish.

Sarge

[The new erato]

Som Cherubini fra the 7CD Muti box. And Heifetz does Sibelius from this:

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A very fine box of standard (mostly) repertoire.

[TheGSMoeller]

Vivaldi: Concerto: Flute and 2 violins, or 3 violins, bassoon in G minor RV. 104

Amazon.com has many of the naive Vivaldi series in their MP3 store for cheap, this disc, along with others, was only $5.99. This disc also features Cantana, RV 671, 654, 670 and Concerto RV 97, 105

[Sergeant Rock]

Martinů Symphony #4, Thomson conducting the Royal Scottish.

Sarge

[Coco]

First listen, and my introduction to Pesson's piano music:



One of those most interesting composers working today. Bruce, snyyprrr — are you reading this?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

http://www.youtube.com/v/7KwHErv7Ryk
Andreas Scholl sings Venus' Birds (John Bennet)

This. It is such an extraordinary beauty! Lovely. I could whistle it all day long.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

[Opus106]

Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/v/JQYNIfxLqw8

This just after listening to a performance of M7. (And mainly to follow up what I've been reading about it in The Rest is Noise.) I haven't heard much of Berg's music; this movement from the Three Pieces probably compensates for the too-sunny-for-the-night finale of the Mahler.

[listener]

IVES    Symphony no. 2
London Symphony Orch.     Bernard Gerrmann, cond
FRANÇAIX    Clarinet Concerto
Jacques Lancelot, clarinet    Nice Chamber Orch.     Pol Mule, cond.
DAMASE   Sonata for 2 Pianos;
4  Pièces Brèves, Tarantelle, Carillon
Michèle-Elise Quérard, piano, with Jean-Michel Damase

[bhodges]

First listen, and my introduction to Pesson's piano music:



One of those most interesting composers working today. Bruce, snyyprrr — are you reading this?

Corey, many thanks. I've heard of Pesson, but don't know a note of his music. Will look around for some samples...

Just heard the last half of the re-broadcast of the NY Phil's opening night, with the Intermezzo, Dance of the Seven Veils and final scene from Salome, with Deborah Voigt. The whole concert was good, but this R. Strauss segment was the best.

--Bruce

[Conor71]

Mendelssohn: String Quintets Nos. 1 & 2


Disc 08 from this set - great music!


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[DavidRoss]

...and when he was good, he was very, very good:

[DavidRoss]

Unfazed by GMGers who peer down their noses at her, ASM continues to play like a crossroads angel and to commission some of the most interesting and beautiful new music around.  On first hearing I like Currier's revised concerto best, but it's all good:

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[Antoine Marchand]

Revisiting this excellent disc:

Alessandro Scarlatti - Toccate per cembalo
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
Instrument: harpsichord Franciscus Debbonis, Roma 1678
Arcana

Prompted by the acquisition of these two new Scarlatti:



Invariably every reviewer who writes about Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard output deplores the carelessness with which posterity has treated this excellent music. Almost every reviewer who writes about his son Domenico stresses the unparalleled originality of his keyboard works which, it is said, almost doesn't recognize precedents. Maybe wouldn't be totally pointless to listen to Domenico after some listen of Alessandro.

[Gurn Blanston]

If, like me, you like to recreate a recital for your listening pleasure, then 1781 in Vienna or Esterhazy could well include Haydn's first set of 12 German Lieder. And of the various performances I have of these, this one here is damned near perfect in all ways:



Andrea Folan has a wonderful voice, and it meshes perfectly with Tom Beghin's Hammerflügel. This is one disk that I am very pleased with myself for acquiring with no rec or idea, at the time, who the performers were. Wish I got a payoff like that more often!

[Lethevich]

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That is easily the most bizarre first symphony I've ever heard. (4 out of 5)

Not a word I usually see applied to the composer - glad you liked it

[Lethevich]

The whole thing was fantastic. Have you ever heard his first? It wasn't what I was expecting at all. It was pretty spectacular. 

I have long had a soft spot for it, to the extent that I didn't realise it was considered a "problem piece" until I read about that opinion on this forum. Personally, it grabs me from the outset, and the word-setting is so ideal that I cannot become tired of it. If it were any shorter, the work wouldn't fit the ambitions of the text and concept, so I don't consider it overly-long or padded as it has sometimes been accused of.

[Todd]

   



A variety of big works: Inbal leading Das Lied von der Erde, Kubelik conducting Schumann's Third and Fourth, and Slatkin leading RVW's First.  Good all.