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[Conor71]

Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu In C# Minor, Op. 66

Still listening to Piano Music today - now playing Disc 03 of Magaloff's Chopin set followed up by Disc 4 of the Martha Argerich Collection (Volume 1) which is also an all-Chopin Disc.

[classicalgeek]

Started the day off with some chamber music by an interesting but little-known Russian composer:

Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Piano quartet in D minor, op. 37
Artis Piano Quartet

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Now up:

Edison Denisov (1929-1996)
Partita for violin and chamber orchestra
Leonid Kogan, violin; Pavel Kogan; Moscow Philharmonic

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Amongst Scandinavian composers I admire are Asger Hamerik, Atterberg, Leif Kayser, August Enna, Poul Schierbeck, Louis Glass, Finn Hoffding, and many more. Another one joins the ranks by the name of Peder Gram. A prominent composer because of his fine craftsmanship and artistic standards, influential, sparkling and effect full, highly dramatic and illustrative, festive and powerful, that sums up this composer, and I confirm all of this wholeheartedly.  The works on this CD, Orchestral Works Volume I contain 4 works, all of them to my liking, tight knitted melodious music, that has the capacity to charm you into his world with a ease, that before you know it, captures you, heart and soul! It took me by surprise and I am glad of it.  The recording and performance are top notch!
Recommended! If you like Atterberg or Hamerik, you will appreciate Gram!

Overture in C major, opus 21.
Poeme Lyrique, opus 9.
Symphony No. 1, opus 12.
Prologue to a drama by Shakespeare, opus 27.

South Jutland SO, Matthias Aeschbacher.

[classicalgeek]

Amongst Scandinavian composers I admire are Asger Hamerik, Atterberg, Leif Kayser, August Enna, Poul Schierbeck, Louis Glass, Finn Hoffding, and many more. Another one joins the ranks by the name of Peder Gram. A prominent composer because of his fine craftsmanship and artistic standards, influential, sparkling and effect full, highly dramatic and illustrative, festive and powerful, that sums up this composer, and I confirm all of this wholeheartedly.  The works on this CD, Orchestral Works Volume I contain 4 works, all of them to my liking, tight knitted melodious music, that has the capacity to charm you into his world with a ease, that before you know it, captures you, heart and soul! It took me by surprise and I am glad of it.  The recording and performance are top notch!
Recommended! If you like Atterberg or Hamerik, you will appreciate Gram!

Overture in C major, opus 21.
Poeme Lyrique, opus 9.
Symphony No. 1, opus 12.
Prologue to a drama by Shakespeare, opus 27.

South Jutland SO, Matthias Aeschbacher.

Fascinating - I hadn't heard of Gram, or most of the other Scandinavian composers on your list!  I think Naxos Music Library has Dacapo recordings, and I do like Atterberg and Hamerik, so I'll have to sample this.  Not to mention, a friend of mine from college plays trombone in the South Jutland Symphony...

[bhodges]

yMusic: Beautiful Mechanical - A group of (mostly) Juilliard grads, playing an appealing array of recent works by Son Lux, Annie Clark, Shara Worden, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein and Gabriel Kahane.

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--Bruce

[Conor71]

Ravel: Piano Concerto In G Major

First up Ravel's awesome Piano Concerto, then I will play Rachmaninov's 4th from the same Disc followed up by the Martha Argerich Disc of Tchaikovsky's PC No. 1 which is a favourite in my collection.

[Sergeant Rock]

Schumann Symphony #2 C major, Goodman conducting the Hanover Band




Sarge

[classicalgeek]

Continuing today's theme of lesser-known composers:

Samuel Zyman (b 1956)
Soliloquio
Eduardo Diazmuñoz; Mexico City Philharmonic



Enjoyable and accessible, with a definite Latin flavor.  And Zyman has the distinction of being the last composer, alphabetically, in my classical library

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

In the repeat mode!

[fridden]

Neeme Järvi conducting Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius 3d symphony.
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[classicalgeek]

Now wallowing in this:

P. Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, op. 20
Charles Munch; Boston SO



Chailly/Cleveland is probably still my #1 pick for this work, but Munch is right up there!

[Mirror Image]

Now listening:

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Too early to comment on this opera. It sounds cool so far.

[classicalgeek]

More Russian romanticism:

Mily Balakirev
Piano sonata in B-flat minor, op. 5
Alexander Paley, piano



Decent performance, just OK music.  Followed immediately by this:

Robert Schumann
Variations on the name 'Abegg', op. 1   
Clara Haskil, piano

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Now that's more like it!

[fridden]

Yu Long conducting the China Philharmonic Orchestra in some music by Wang Ming

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[classicalgeek]

Some delightful chamber music:

Louis Spohr
Octet in E major, op. 32
Gaudier Ensemble

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Enjoying this a lot, especially the lovely variations of the slow movement, and the catchy finale!

[Mirror Image]

Tippett's The Ice Break was an interesting work. Fascinating orchestration. It even has profanity in it and a police siren in it.

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 4.

[classicalgeek]

And, as if it couldn't get any better on the heels of the Spohr Octet, this just started:

Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 4 in G major
Eliahu Inbal; Frankfurt Radio SO; Helen Donath, soprano

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It's Mahler time!!  First movement, that swooning second theme as I write.  Pure bliss.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

More Russian romanticism:

Mily Balakirev
Piano sonata in B-flat minor, op. 5
Alexander Paley, piano

I heard so many negative stories about performance and recording, that I refrained from buying, you obviously are not very enthusiastic either.

[Karl Henning]

Tippett's The Ice Break was an interesting work. Fascinating orchestration. It even has profanity in it and a police siren in it.

Was the police siren in response to the profanity?

[mc ukrneal]

America for two with Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov. Very lively and crisp. They really get into the style of the music. I'd forgotten how good this was! It can still be found at Berkshire. It has Gershwin (three preludes, Cuban overture, Porgy and Bess Fantasy), Copland (Danzon Cubano and El Salon Mexico), and Bernstein (Symphonic Dances from West Side Story).
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