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[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon 



Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C Minor Op.68
VPO / Giulini

[Sadko]

BOY, I have enough Goldberg Variations discs, but read great reviews on that earlier performance by Lifschitz - just bought him doing the clavier concertos (pic added above) - thanks for the thumbs up! 

And this looks interesting too, I don't know much of "contemporary Lifschitz".

[Sadko]

Bach

Piano Transscriptions

Kempff

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[Coopmv]

Bach

Piano Transscriptions

Kempff

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I have had this twofer for a while and Kempff gave his own special touch to these Bach piano transcription pieces ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following SACD, another recent arrival for a first listen ...

[Sadko]

I have had this twofer for a while and Kempff gave his own special touch to these Bach piano transcription pieces ...

... but I realised I needed something different and switched to:

Bruckner

Symphony #5

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Georg Tintner

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[Papy Oli]

Brahms - Symphony No.2 in D Major Op.73
VPO / Giulini

[nico1616]

Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie - William Christie

[Wakefield]

Listening to some Prokofiev, as a preparation for next Wednesday recital of Nelson Freire:

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CD4: Visions fugitives, Op. 22

[Papy Oli]

Matthaeus Pipelare - Chansons / Motets / Missa L'Homme Armé
(Secret Labyrinth CD6)

Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel

[listener]

neither French nor vinyl as I had planned, but all British until the Delius
BAX:  Magnificat     Nunc Dimittis,   Te Deum     Gloria   Epithalamium
WHITLOCK: Solemn Te Deum   3 Introits   2 @ Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (1924, and 1929/30)
Communion Serevice
The Ramsey Singers    / Mark Fenton
ARNELL: Punch and the Child       BERNERS: The Triumph of Neptune*    DELIUS: Paris
Royal Philharmonic Orch.       *The Philadelphia Orch.       /  Beecham

[Conor71]

Verdi: Rigoletto


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[nico1616]

Verdi: Rigoletto


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Still my favorite Rigoletto. Slow tempi that bring out all orchestral detail. Cappuccilli is heartbreaking in the title role, Cotrubas is all innocence and Domingo a vain Duke in splendid voice. Just perfect!

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No.1

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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD4 from the following set for a first listen ...

[Lilas Pastia]

Have you heard Emil von Sauer? Hardly note perfect but definitely worth hearing imo. Here's it complete on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjimYyhq3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pNj72GGW-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQz776QV90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVUSKV61Cg

It does indeed. Kondrashin conducting Moscow Philharmonic in 1969 on Melodiya. And furthermore I have it, but never listened to the piece, got the disc for coupled Piano concerto.

Thanks for the links Milos, I'll give it a good hearing. Sound seems to be antediluvian, but the opening bars are arresting: imperious, aristocratic, very individual. What's the orchestra?

Khatchaturian: I knew you'd come up with the real article  .  I'd be curious to hear what the locals do with that music. Any soviet era composition has always lost something in translation when travelling West. This is truly bizarre music. Only an amplified theremin and the Don Cossacks' Choir seem to be missing to make  it the clear winner in the Most Garrulous Composition ever penned. A fascinating object, actually.

[Lilas Pastia]

My set of Vierne chamber music was to provide me hours of unalloyed pleasure, basking in the fiery, hothouse atmosphere of this sumptuous music. Alas, it was a festival of clicks, pops and skips which made it all but unlistenable. I've made a copy of it. Maybe it will read the music and not the disc defects? Will report later. I played disc 1 twice and can swear it contains musical treasures of the first magnitude. But my view is partially blocked by these technical issues. I suppose I can return it to the seller ?

[jwinter]

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[listener]

NIELSEN Piano Music   - 3 lps worth
not all that tough an assignment, Naxos requires only 2 cds for their edition. 
Arne Skjold Rasmussen, piano

[Gold Knight]

Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.1 in E Minor, Op.39 and Symphony No.4 in A Minor, Op.63, both featuring the Utah Symphony led by Maurice Abravanel.
Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.2 {"A London Symphony"}, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult.
Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.3 {"A Pastoral Symphony"}, again featuring Maestro Boult, this time conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra.