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[DavidRoss]

Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky, Reiner/CSO



Another seldom-heard work, well worth revisiting. Big "thank yous" to the persistent Proky fans who keep this sensational composer on our collective radar!

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays on the Whirlygig!

Chas Wuorinen
Sonata for Violin & Piano (1988)
Benjamin Hudson & Garrick Ohlsson

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[TheGSMoeller]

Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky, Reiner/CSO



Another seldom-heard work, well worth revisiting. Big "thank yous" to the persistent Proky fans who keep this sensational composer on our collective radar!

Proky is the man, and Nevsky was one the first pieces of his I heard many years ago, much credit goes to it for grabbing my attention to his oeuvre. But I have yet to hear Reiner's there.

[Brian]

Two can play that game, David Ross!

The Dallas Symphony plays Nevsky:

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays on the Whirlygig!

Chas Wuorinen
Sonata for Violin & Piano (1988)
Benjamin Hudson & Garrick Ohlsson

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Marvelous! Cor, but I do love this stuff.

[TheGSMoeller]

Two can play that game, David Ross!

The Dallas Symphony plays Nevsky:

Can't see the pic, but if that's the one from Mata then it has one if the best Field of the Dead I've heard.

Thread duty...

[DavidRoss]

Proky is the man, and Nevsky was one the first pieces of his I heard many years ago, much credit goes to it for grabbing my attention to his oeuvre. But I have yet to hear Reiner's there.

To me he's one of the giants of 20th Century music, and of music throughout time. Aside from Bach and the Haydn-Mozart-Beethoven trinity, my favorite composers are all giants of the early 20th Century: Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Debussy, Sibelius, Mahler, and R. Strauss, to name the most prolific and inventive. Aside, perhaps, from Shosty and maybe RVW, have we seen their like since?

(Note, for those more inclined to disputation and accusation than to understanding and discourse: the exclusion of several other well-known and accomplished composers of the early 20th C from the list of "giants" above -- i.e. Elgar, Ravel, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, Janáček, Ives, Nielsen, et al -- does not imply that I neither know nor enjoy their music.)

[Brian]

Can't see the pic, but if that's the one from Mata then it has one if the best Field of the Dead I've heard.

Hrm, the pic works for me. But yes, it's the one from Mata. So far, so fantastic. Love the tuba!

[TheGSMoeller]

Hrm, the pic works for me. But yes, it's the one from Mata. So far, so fantastic. Love the tuba!

It's not you, it's me. 

(old computer at work is more than likely the culprit)

[DavidRoss]

It's not you, it's me. 

Breaking up is hard to do...

[Karl Henning]

Chopin

Nocturnes, Op.62
Claudio Arrau

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays on the Whirlygig!

Chas Wuorinen
Fast Fantasy (1979)
Fred Sherry & the composer

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[Karl Henning]

Chopin

Polonaises, Op.40
Adam Harasiewicz

[Sadko]

From this Marilyn Horne box, which landed today:



CD 1 + 2:



Opera arias, rec. 1965

[SonicMan46]

Weiss, Silvius (1687-1750) - Lute Music w/ Jakob Lindberg on several different lutes, one from 1590 (left below) which was discussed in the 'Old Instruments' thread:

 

[Papy Oli]

Good evening 

Stravinsky - Apollo (Apollo Musagète)

Again. Even better. 

[Papy Oli]

First Listen Fridays

Stravinsky - Agon

[Papy Oli]

one more....

Stravinsky - Card Game

[Wakefield]

Kaori Fujii & Eric Cecil: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, H. Villa-Lobos

http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-2AngS_Z5k

He's technically unobjectionable; she's simply sublime.

[Sergeant Rock]

Good evening 

Stravinsky - Agon

Stravinsky - Card Game

Agon, Jeu de cartes! ...a good evening indeed, Papy.

Sarge