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[Lisztianwagner]

Ilaria, what do you think about this concerto?

It's a very enchanting concerto! I extremely enjoyed the piano section, very beautiful, harmonic and powerfully expressive; also the orchestral part was excellent! You said that Hayasaka composed music a la Berg, instead this work showed a more late romantic style in my opinion.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from the following twofer, which arrived months ago for a first listen ...

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2

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[Brian]

Half awesome, half painful. Case in point: their rendition of "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is total catchy great fun, but then they turn around and sing an arrangement of "Summertime" that's painfully forced and overwrought. Having an innocent-sounding soprano sing "Ain't Necessarily So" is a weird mistake too.

[madaboutmahler]

Now:

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Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene Onegin

Brilliant!

[Sadko]

Skip Sempé (harpsichord)

A French Collection

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[Gold Knight]

On Spotify:

Anton Bruckner--Symphony No.8 in C Minor {ed. W.Furtwangler}, featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker led by Maestro Furtwangler.

[madaboutmahler]

Now:

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Jeux

Such a fascinating piece. Very atmospheric and beautiful, outstanding performance of course.

[Gold Knight]

Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.55 {"Eroica"} and Symphony No.4 in B-Flat Major, Op.60. Both works are performedby the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique led by John Eliot Gardiner.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.36 and Symphony No.4 in B-Flat Major, Op.60, both featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from the following twofer, which arrived months ago for a first listen ...

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet pieces

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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD14 - Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 & Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings from the following set for a first listen ...

[North Star]

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet pieces

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I'll join you, Ilaria.
So - what do you think of this performance (and composition, too!), and what about the whole set?

[Sadko]

Prokofiev

Sonata no. 7 B-flat minor
Piano concerti 3 & 5

Samson Francois
Philharmonia Orchestra
Witold Rowicki

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[madaboutmahler]

To bring the night to a close:
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Alborada del gracioso

Such brilliant, thrilling, amazing, uplifting music! Really great performance too. Ravel was such a genius!! Good night everyone!

[SonicMan46]

Franck, Eduard (1817-1893) - String Quintets & String Sextets on Audite - beautiful 19th century chamber music - checkout the thread on the Francks (father & son, Richard, and NOT Cesar Franck) - I may have started that one?     Dave

 

[Coopmv]

Here is the less famous Messiah Oratorio by Telemann

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

[DavidRoss]

This:

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I was wowed by it on first hearing. Now I'm not sure why.

[listener]

a 3 lp set of piano music by
MOZART      for 2 pianos and piano 4-hands
Piano Concerto #10 in Eb K.365 - 2 pianos
Sonata  in D, K.445  Fugue in c, K.426
Alfred Brendel, Walter Klien, piano    Vienna Volksoper Orch.     Paul  Angerer,cond.
Sonata 1 in G K.357  Sonata 2 in Bb K.358    Sonata 3 in G K.381    Sonata 4 in F K497
Sonata 5 in C  K.521  "Jugend Sonata" in C n K.19d,  Andante and Variations in G  K.501
Ingrid Haebler, Ludwig Hoffmann, piano *
«these are in 'processed' stereo in the Vox Box, but the same artists recorded the same set for Philips - CD 422 516

[Mirror Image]

It's a very enchanting concerto! I extremely enjoyed the piano section, very beautiful, harmonic and powerfully expressive; also the orchestral part was excellent! You said that Hayasaka composed music a la Berg, instead this work showed a more late romantic style in my opinion.

No, actually Ilaria, the composer I said who composed music inspired by Berg was Korean composer, Isang Yun. Hayasaka is a Japanese composer who was friends with Akira Ifukube and they didn't really run in those atonal social circles. These composers were probably more influenced by the late-Romanticism, which you heard in Hayasaka, and Stravinsky, which I hear in Ifukube.