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[Conor71]

Liszt: Consolations

First up a shuffle of this this excellent Disc of Liszt from Barenboim followed by a shuffle of the Nocturnes: Disc 2

[mc ukrneal]

Knocking up fake covers for non-professional releases is fun This whole series (Tucson (Arizona) Winter Chamber Music Festival) is just depressing to see the actual thumbnails of in my media player, so I had to fix them



This volume includes RVW's somewhat obscure quintet for piano and strings, rather than the ever-popular phantasy quintet for strings alone.

Outstanding work! I've got a few covers I'd like to change myself. What program do you use?

[classicalgeek]

A 20th-century string quartet that should appeal to those who like the Martinu or Bartok quartets:

Karel Husa (b. 1921)   
String quartet no. 2   
Fine Arts Quartet

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[mc ukrneal]

A 20th-century string quartet that should appeal to those who like the Martinu or Bartok quartets:

Karel Husa (b. 1921)   
String quartet no. 2   
Fine Arts Quartet

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A very interesting composer - I've heard him conduct several of his own pieces, including his Music from Prague 1968, a very moving piece.

[Lethevich]

Husa... another for the list

Outstanding work! I've got a few covers I'd like to change myself. What program do you use?

Paint to crop to square and to paste the logo on at the end (I have yet to find any app that makes cropping and transparencies as easy as Paint), and GIMP for everything else. It's worth browsing around free font sites for some nice neutral looking ones in the style of Times New Roman, but with a twist - as TNR and other defaults tend to stand out a little too much.

[Cato]

Husa... another for the list

Husa seemed to be played more - and talked about more - 40 years ago.

I see he is past 90 now!  I found an interview with him when he was 80:

http://www.bruceduffie.com/husa.html

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony #90 C major, Fey conducting the Heidelberger Sinfoniker



"Despite the obvious brilliance of the playing much of the time, very good engineering, and the consistency of Fey's approach, the final result, expressively speaking, is frustrating. Others may feel differently." --the Huwitzer, Classics Today

Sarge raises his hand 

[KeithW]

Corelli Violin Sonatas / Manze

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[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn Symphony #90 C major, Fey conducting the Heidelberger Sinfoniker



"Despite the obvious brilliance of the playing much of the time, very good engineering, and the consistency of Fey's approach, the final result, expressively speaking, is frustrating. Others may feel differently." --the Huwitzer, Classics Today

Sarge raises his hand 

Interesting...let's go through this, the reviewer approves the playing, the engineering and the interpretation...but is frustrated? 

listened to this on Spotify and it's real good..now Fey just needs to get to #80 and #98 for this Monkey.

[Karl Henning]

Joe Jackson sez to Hurwitz, You can't get what you want, till you know what you want . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Interesting...let's go through this, the reviewer approves the playing, the engineering and the interpretation...but is frustrated?

Yeah, his review is rather puzzling. But then his past reviews of Fey's Haydn have been inconsistent. High praise for some; excessive damnation for others despite the fact I find Fey's approach to various Haydn symphonies consistent.

Sarge

[Sadko]

Brahms

CD 3:

Polonaisen op. 116
Intermezzi op. 117
Klavierstücke op. 118 & op. 119

Mikhail Rudy

[classicalgeek]

A very interesting composer - I've heard him conduct several of his own pieces, including his Music from Prague 1968, a very moving piece.

Yes, an interesting composer indeed!  Was it the band or orchestra version you heard?

Husa seemed to be played more - and talked about more - 40 years ago.

I see he is past 90 now!  I found an interview with him when he was 80:

http://www.bruceduffie.com/husa.html

Thanks for the link - the interview is a great read!  No doubt this is a fine composer with a very distinctive voice.

Thread duty.  After the Husa, this:

Richard Strauss
Schlagobers, op. 70: suite
Karl Anton Rickenbacher; Bamberg SO

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[Papy Oli]

good evening all 

Landed today :

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Starting by my favorite set on CD2 "Pièces de Clavecin (Paris, 1724)" - with the stunning "Rappel des Oiseaux".

Very clear recording, good pace but not like Scott Ross'  . Good alternative.

[Lethevich]

As one who finds Fey's approach to be consistent and logical, but doesn't love it - my feeling is that it combines two approaches to create a kind of undesirable result. Essentially it's a style that goes out of its way to take HIP as its basic frame of reference, and then perform it completely incorrectly to those ideals. Maybe some people do think that this is what Haydn's music could well have sounded like at the time, and there is no way to prove either way, but Fey's radical differences from other HIP ensembles seem to indicate that this is a perverse if interesting approach.

I suppose my issue is, even other hybrid HIP groups don't perform the music like this, so at which point does "historically informed" become "historically informed, but deliberately ignores those lessons"? If it were a modern instrument group making the recordings, it would be easier to take it on its own merits.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Orchestral Set No. 2. A very cool work and the last movement reminds me of why I love Ives' music so, it's complete everything but the kitchen sink approach.

[Sergeant Rock]

As one who finds Fey's approach to be consistent and logical, but doesn't love it - my feeling is that it combines two approaches to create a kind of undesirable result. Essentially it's a style that goes out of its way to take HIP as its basic frame of reference, and then perform it completely incorrectly to those ideals. Maybe some people do think that this is what Haydn's music could well have sounded like at the time, and there is no way to prove either way, but Fey's radical differences from other HIP ensembles seem to indicate that this is a perverse if interesting approach.

I suppose my issue is, even other hybrid HIP groups don't perform the music like this, so at which point does "historically informed" become "historically informed, but deliberately ignores those lessons"? If it were a modern instrument group making the recordings, it would be easier to take it on its own merits.

Since his band is a hybrid, I'm not looking for any consistency in an historical approach. I find most HIP arguments to be not convincing anyway. We really don't know what the music sounded like 200 years ago. It's all conjecture. I just enjoy hearing the music performed in different ways....and boy, is Fey different 

Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

Interesting...let's go through this, the reviewer approves the playing, the engineering and the interpretation...but is frustrated? 

listened to this on Spotify and it's real good..now Fey just needs to get to #80 and #98 for this Monkey.

Are you a lawyer, Greg? Because you slightly changed Hurwitz's words to create your effect. I mean he doesn't say he approves "the interpretation" (on the contrary); he only talks about the brilliance of the playing which is a different thing, IMO. 

[Lethevich]

Since his band is a hybrid, I'm not looking for any consistency in an historical approach. I find most HIP arguments to be not convincing anyway. We really don't know what the music sounded like 200 years ago. It's all conjecture. I just enjoy hearing the music performed in different ways....and boy, is Fey different 

I am a bona-fide sissy: it makes me feel battered around Although I do enjoy it sometimes - and also like the keyboard concertos disc

[Sergeant Rock]

Are you a lawyer, Greg? Because you slightly changed Hurwitz's words to create your effect. I mean he doesn't say he approves "the interpretation" (on the contrary); he only talks about the brilliance of the playing which is a different thing, IMO. 

Are you a defense attorney, Antoine? 

Sarge