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[Bogey]

Earlier:



Now:

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[rubio]

Chopin Mazurkas performed by Luisada and Zilberstein. The ones played by Luisada are just fantastic!! What poetic interpreatations. The few ones from Zilberstein do not really reach the same class for me. Far from it.

[not edward]

Is this a good recording, Robert?

Robert may have different views, but I have this disc and don't regard it as a first choice (I prefer both Polyansky and Rozhdestvensky). However it's an important disc because it contains the only recordings of For Liverpool and the (IMO) very fine Symphonic Prelude.

[Drasko]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1.  Acts 1 & 2

[Robert]

Is this a good recording, Robert?

My least favorite interpretation...my favorite is Rozhdestvensky then Polansky.. Lu seems to miss the mark..I am trying to figure out whether the problem is Lu or the orchestra.  Probably both....I think he was trying to lighten them up... The other works Symphonic Prelude and For Liverpool are maybe slightly better, but not that interesting. ...If you want just the symphony get Roz............

[paul]

[Mark]

Just downloaded this (in FLAC) from Linn's site:



Enjoying it now.

[Kullervo]

Tonight:

Elgar - Cello Concerto (Schiff, Elder, Hallé)

Sibelius - Lemminkäinen Suite (N. Järvi, Göteborgs)

Scriabin - Poème d'Extase (N. Järvi, Chicago SO)

and this, a disc of Nørgård's choral works:

[George]

Chopin Mazurkas performed by Luisada and Zilberstein. The ones played by Luisada are just fantastic!! What poetic interpreatations. The few ones from Zilberstein do not really reach the same class for me. Far from it.

Indeed. Luisada is probably my very favorite in these works. 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Acts 1,2 & 3

[Que]

How is that? I got similar works by Charpentier, which is very nice:



Q

[bhodges]

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost" (Martha Argerich / Julian Rachlin / Mischa Maisky, Verbier Festival, July 27) - Needless to say, with Argerich it is a spirited reading. 

--Bruce

[val]

BUSONI: Violin Concerto; 2nd Sonata for violin and piano  / Frank Peter Zimmermann, Symphony Orchestra of the RAI, John Storgards (SONY)


Busoni's Violin Concerto is a masterpiece, with a remarkable thematic invention and more simple and direct that the Piano Concerto. And this is a superb version, elegant, with the beautiful sound of Zimmermann's violin.

[Daverz]

Lps:

William Schuman, Symphony No. 9 - Ormandy/Philadelphia on RCA.  A dreaded Dynaflex pressing, but still very good sounding.  I don't believe this has ever been on CD, even in Japan.

R. Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Mehta/LAPO on London.  This and Bohm on DG are my favorites of this work.  I used to find this work rather boring after the opening fanfare, but now it's one of my favorite Strauss works.  This is available in a cheap Strauss CD box.

Gliere, Symphony No. 3, "Ilya Murometz" - Nathan Rakhlin, USSR Large TV & Radio SO on a CBS/Melodiya set.  By far the best recording of this work.

[Bogey]

Mozart Symphony No. 39 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernstein (DG)

Good morning.

[Drasko]

How is that? I got similar works by Charpentier, which is very nice:
Q

Excellent! Definitely recommended as introduction to Lully as the selection of scenes and airs spans his entire career, from early collaborations with Moliere (plays with music) to his operas (tragedies liriques) of later period (Isis, Roland, Armide) and nicely presents his development (and that of French music of late 17th century at the same time). Performances are uniformly brilliant and so is the recording. 

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky
from Disc 21:

The one-a-day every-morning piece:

Threni

and:

Canticum sacrum

Good day, all!

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[Kullervo]

Good morning!

[karlhenning]

2 monumental & deeply profound masterworks of Stravinsky's oeuvre,
Canticum Sacrum & Threni from disc 21 - Sacred Works Vol. 2...

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