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[madaboutmahler]

Now:
http://www.youtube.com/v/V7f8LSu4Uzo

Jón Leifs: Dettifoss

INCREDIBLE!! Such great music!

[mc ukrneal]

Well, obviously, that's because I read the textbook. How to Not Like Delius: Critical Readings: 2nd edition, revised and expanded, from the Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Is that the one written by Deeley Uss Tinks?    Seriously, Delius can be a bit 'pastoral' in his sound at times (and I don't have a clue if that is the right cd of music to start with him), but he uses orchestral color differently. I find it can be useful to start with something from an earlier period, like On the Mountains (or another one) and then then try something from a later period to see the progression. Reading about him can be helpful as mentioned.

Another piece I enjoy is considered a tough one - A Song of the High Hills. It really requires that you listen closely (here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpElB955hQ. I tend to think of Delius as 'shifting sands' rather than the violent life of the desert (which sees all sorts of extremes). Maybe that will help, maybe not.  I admit that he is not always right for my mood.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

http://www.youtube.com/v/49dEdhsNpKE

[madaboutmahler]

http://www.youtube.com/v/evnlQqegpiM

Jón Leifs: Fine II op.56

Incredible music, such a beautiful nostalgia to it!!

[listener]

BRAHMS:  Variations on a Theme by Haydn;   Symphony no. 3
Columbia Symphony Orch., / Bruno Walter
ROPARTZ: Piano Trio in a  RHENÉ-BATON   Piano Trio op. 31
Trio Hochelaga
ELGAR:  String Quartet in e, Piano Quintet in a
Peter Donohoe, piano    Maggini String Quartet

[North Star]

First-listen Monday

Feldman
Crippled Symmetry
http://www.youtube.com/v/OEFictzerXs

[TheGSMoeller]

Preparing for my Rangstrom discs to arrive by listening to what Spotify offers. This is one I did purchase.

[Mirror Image]

Is that the one written by Deeley Uss Tinks?    Seriously, Delius can be a bit 'pastoral' in his sound at times (and I don't have a clue if that is the right cd of music to start with him), but he uses orchestral color differently. I find it can be useful to start with something from an earlier period, like On the Mountains (or another one) and then then try something from a later period to see the progression. Reading about him can be helpful as mentioned.

Another piece I enjoy is considered a tough one - A Song of the High Hills. It really requires that you listen closely (here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpElB955hQ. I tend to think of Delius as 'shifting sands' rather than the violent life of the desert (which sees all sorts of extremes). Maybe that will help, maybe not.  I admit that he is not always right for my mood.

Well said. His music is an acquired taste and thank goodness I acquired it. A composer I never tire of and that has remained a favorite since the first work I heard The Walk to the Paradise Garden. I think starting at the beginning of his oeuvre is a good idea for a newbie.

[mahler10th]

Preparing for my Rangstrom discs to arrive by listening to what Spotify offers. This is one I did purchase.

YESSS!!  Bravo!  Rangstrom.  Music for men and visionaries!  Brilliant stuff.  I hope you enjoy Rangstrom even half as much as I do.

Meanwhile, re-listening to Gergievs' recent Mahler cycle with the LSO.  Some of it anyway, as I do not have all of it.  It is much better than I thought (a new mish-mash audio hardware setup has changed the way I listen to music.)  Gergiev likes making you know that Mahler used Timpani...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha is little known to me aside from his stupendous Prokofiev piano concerto cycle (which should be in some hall of fame somewhere). Now he shows his prodigious chops again in Saint-Saëns's second piano concerto, only this time it's the more lyric, playful side of El Bacha that's on display. Wonderful stuff once again. I gotta find some more from this guy.



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[Gold Knight]

Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.11 and Symphony No.5 in D Major, Op.107 {"Reformation"}. Both works feature the Herbert von Karajan led Berliner Philharmoniker. I have really come to enjoy Maestro Karajan's readings of Schumann.
Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.2 {"A London Symphony"}, reverently and expressively performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult.
Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony NO.5 in D Major, Op.107 {"Reformation"}, once again featuring Maestro Boult, this time at the helm of the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

[PaulR]

Via Spotify:
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[Bogey]

Exceptional in every way.  Recorded in "The Pulse" back in the day.

[Brian]

Dancing D, thanks for alerting me to that. I'm another huge fan of El Bacha's Proka.

Time for a first listen to this!

[Mirror Image]

Now playing:



Listening to Piano Concerto with Piers Land and Vernon Handley conducting the Royal Liverpool PO. Excellent performance.

Next:

[stingo]

Inspired the old/unusual instruments thread, I picked up this...

Glass Harmonica Works by Mozart, Reichardt, Rollig, Schulz and Naumann
Bruno Hoffman, glass harmonica
et al

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[TheGSMoeller]

YESSS!!  Bravo!  Rangstrom.  Music for men and visionaries!  Brilliant stuff.

[Brian]

Time for a first listen to this!

Oh, Monkey Greg, you're gonna love this so much. It's the second entry on my 2013 Recordings of the Year advisory list.* I'm seriously ready to marry Lavinia Meijer. I don't know if she's ready though 

*the first was Mendelssohn: Songs without words. Ronald Brautigam, period piano, BIS

[TheGSMoeller]

Oh, Monkey Greg, you're gonna love this so much. It's the second entry on my 2013 Recordings of the Year advisory list.* I'm seriously ready to marry Lavinia Meijer. I don't know if she's ready though 

*the first was Mendelssohn: Songs without words. Ronald Brautigam, period piano, BIS

I'm ready for it! 
And send me an invite to the wedding please.

[TheGSMoeller]