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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Madiel - Today at 06:51:41 AM

You have been duly hit. *kapow*

#22

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 06:49:36 AM

It's your turn for your inbox to be full. It needs some room.

Room made. Hit me.

#23

Composer Discussion / Re: Vitezslaw Novak (1870-1949...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 06:43:41 AM

I found the first movement "In Church" (with Senja) here.  Really lovely!

PD

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Madiel - Today at 06:37:11 AM

It's your turn for your inbox to be full. It needs some room.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by AnotherSpin - Today at 06:28:36 AM

Op. 106

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by pjme - Today at 06:16:41 AM

I don't think No.1 is cut often/ever(?) - the main question is how much percussion to include.  From memory that Slatkin uses some but not all - Litton and Petrenko go the full hog.

Was the symphony ( Rachmaninov 1 - or am I mixing up things?) cut and re-orchestrated?
That percussion set up is very normal for a 19th century symphony and used rather parsimoniuously...No unusual instruments at all.

I'm curious. Do you know if Petrenko and Litton changed the percussion parts? What can be left out - according to Slatkin?

On IMSLP I read:" Full score lost after composer's departure from Russia. Reconstructed posthumously by Pavel Lamm from a set of parts discovered in 1944 (this version was published in 1947.
Percussion:  -timpani, snare drum, tambourine, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam
Details on Wiki: the symphony is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B♭, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B♭, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum (movements 1, 2 and 4 only), triangle (movements 2 and 4 only), snare drum, tambourine, tam-tam (movement 4 only).

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Last post by Madiel - Today at 06:13:35 AM

Not pianists only. They create fictional galactic stars out of nothing, like Taylor Swift.

Reported. You posted this for the sole purpose of harassing me.

[Kenneth Leighton.Orchestral Works, volume I.See details on back cover.John Scott, Organ. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox.Recorded: 2006, at the St. David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales.]

#28

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Harry - Today at 06:12:47 AM

Kenneth Leighton.
Orchestral Works, volume I.
See details on back cover.
John Scott, Organ.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox.
Recorded: 2006, at the St. David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales.

For me Kenneth Leighton is one of the most distinguished post-war British composers, ever.
His music is always tonal, usually lyrical, often dramatic, and fits comfortably into the more conservative English modernist world. I like his music very much, for there are awe inspiring moments in his music, one does not forget easily. Superb sound and performances.

#29

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings

Last post by Brian - Today at 06:12:11 AM

I have the Hatto CD (of course!) You must mean Matsuzawa.

http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/chopin1.html

Oh shoot, I got my Yuki(o)s confused. That's embarrassing.  I even went and listened to the wrong person's etudes to compare them directly...

I was listening on headphones so the left/right issue was really clear vs. in a room where it would probably feel more natural.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 05:54:06 AM

(compare to Yukio Yokoyama, a.k.a. Joyce Hatto).

 I have the Hatto CD (of course!) You must mean Matsuzawa.

http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/chopin1.html

I'm quite enjoying the general room ambience created by Yunchan Lim's op 25. I'm letting it kind of wash over me, I'm fine with that in this sort of music. He's certainly got a voice of his own, and it doesn't ever seem to feel unnatural or self regarding. The sound's OK too, I wouldn't have thought to have criticised it without reading what you said.