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[Conor71]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 103, "Year 1905"


Playing a Shostakovich Symphony now - one of my favourites. Great performance! 


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[North Star]

First-listen Friday - these recordings

Tippett
Concerto for double string orchestra
Barshai
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Elgar
Symphony no. 1, Pomp and Circumstance Marches nos. 1, 3 & 4
Andrew Davis & BBC SO
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Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Dances of the Persian Slave Girls
Gergiev & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
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[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.2

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Another one of my Christmas favourites. The performance is far from perfect, but the music is to die for. I am talking about Saint Saens Christmas Oratorio.

The Mikaeli Chamber Choir and Musicians, Anders Eby.

Britt Marie Aruhn, Anne Sofie von Otter, Ing Mari Landin, Erland Hagegard, Ulf Lundmark.
Recorded 1981

[Sadko]

Haydn

Piano Chamber Music

Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
Cornelia Löscher (violin)
Martin Bramböck, Dominik Taschler (horn)

CD 2
Divertimento C-dur Hob. XIV:4
Concertino C-dur Hob. XIV:11
Divertimento C-dur Hob. XIV:8
Concertino G-dur Hob XIV:13
Divertimento F-dur Hob. XIV:9
Violinsonate G-dur Hob. XV:32

[Karl Henning]

Probably a first listen for First-Listen Fridays!

Arnie
Six pieces for men's chorus, Op.35
BBC Singers
Boulez, presiding

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Christmas Cheer.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Artemiy Ayvazian
Armenian Dance
Daniel Shafran vc
Nina Musinyan, pf

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[KeithW]

Also thanks Keith for mentioning that (Naive) SACRED BAROQUE box set with the Alessandrini.  That's a savings compared to the original issue, especially if the other offerings are any good.

It's a good bargain - Amazon MP sellers have it at $17.45 - cheaper than the Bach Mass alone.  The box includes four recordings (6 CDs in total), each in jewel cases with original liner notes:  the box is

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the contents are:

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Naive seem to be releasing a number of these boxes:

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[Karl Henning]

That box looks very nice, indeed, Keith.

Thread Duty: First-Listen Fridays!

Сергей Васильевич [ Sergei Vasilyevich (Rakhmaninov) ]
Moment musical in g minor, Op.16 № 3
Jean-Philippe Collard

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[Karl Henning]

'Tis still the month!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
String Quartet № 3 in F, Op.73
The Mandelring Quartet

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[Karl Henning]

Very tasty, this:

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
«Новый Вавилон», соч. 18 [ New Babylon, Opus 18 ]
Music to Reel 7: To the firing squad. "There is peace and order in Paris."
basel sinfonietta
Mark Fitz-Gerald

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[Sergeant Rock]

Ernst Toch Symphony #5 op.89 "Jephta Rhapsodic Poem" (1963)




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Ernst Toch Symphony #5 op.89 "Jephta Rhapsodic Poem" (1963)

Excellent choice, Sarge, I shall join you!

[Karl Henning]

Ernst Toch Symphony #5 op.89 "Jephta Rhapsodic Poem" (1963)

The clarinet material near the beginning (and generally, continuing on) feels almost like a curious mixture (in roughly equal parts) of the D-Es-C-H motif, The Firebird and Sheherazade : )

[marvinbrown]

Probably a first listen for First-Listen Fridays!

Arnie
Six pieces for men's chorus, Op.35
BBC Singers
Boulez, presiding

  I'll join you in the spirit of First-Listen Fridays!  I'll see your Schoenberg and I'll raise you a Ligeti  !:

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  Oh yes, first time listen and such a strange composer, his sound world is unlike anything I have ever heard before.  Just finished CD1 (Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto and quite possible the strangest composition of all Mysteries of the Macabre  !

  I fear that which awaits on CD2......... (Lontaine, Atmospheres, Apparitions and the Romanian Concerto)....

  marvin

 

[Opus106]

  I'll join you in the spirit of First-Listen Fridays!  I'll see your Schoenberg and I'll raise you a Ligeti  !:

  Oh yes, first time listen and such a strange composer, his sound world is unlike anything I have ever heard before.  Just finished CD1 (Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto and quite possible the strangest composition of all Mysteries of the Macabre  !

  I fear that which awaits on CD2......... (Lontaine, Atmospheres, Apparitions and the Romanian Concerto)....

  marvin 

I've only heard Atmospheres out of the lot you've listed, and it's really good!

[Karl Henning]

Party, Marvin & Nav!

[marvinbrown]

I've only heard Atmospheres out of the lot you've listed, and it's really good!

  The chamber concerto and the piano concerto are wonderful too. I came to Ligeti after recently listening to Pettersson's symphonies.....so I have already been immersed in the "unusual", the "bizarre" but nothing could have ever prepared me for the Mysteries of the Macabre!

  marvin

[Lisztianwagner]

On BBC Radio 3:

Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung, Act 3^

Brünnhilde.....Susan Bullock (Soprano)
Siegfried.....Stefan Vinke (Tenor)
Gunther.....Peter Coleman-Wright (Baritone)
Hagen.....John Tomlinson (Bass)
Gutrune.....Rachel Willis-Sorensen (Soprano)
Woglinde.....Nadine Livingston (Soprano)
Wellgunde.....Kai Ruutel (Mezzo-Soprano)
Flosshilde.....Harriet Williams (Mezzo-Soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Conductor, Antonio Pappano