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Pettersson
Symphony No. 7
Segerstam
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

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Prokofiev
Le pas d'acier, Op. 41
Rozhdestvensky
USSR Ministry Of Culture SO



I doubt I'll finish this tonight as I'm pretty tired, but I'll listen to the rest tomorrow.

[SimonNZ]

Couperin's Motet de Sainte Suzanne - Anthony Lewis, cond.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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My 1st ever Graupner recording! 

Q

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Pettersson
Symphony No. 7
Segerstam
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

A fine CD!

Early morning listening here.
Four Legends for Orchestra.
Best performance since Thomas Jensen and better recorded. The opening of 'Lemminkainen in Tuonela' is wonderfully urgent and mysterious:

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New arrival.

This is quite remarkable music, right up my alley. Did enjoy this quite a bit. This is the first from the Ondine recordings. I keep my eye out at other CD'S with his music.

The second release is even better I think Harry.

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Elgar Symphony No. 3 C minor, Hickox conducting the BBC Wales




Sarge

That and the Andrew Davis version are my favourites.

[Irons]

Nielsen: 4th Symphony.



Launy Grondahl (pictured left on cover) with the Danish SRSO conducting "The Inextinguishable" recorded in Copenhagen 1951. A version of this symphony I could not be without. Superb transfer by Keith Hardwick.

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  First listen.

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Bach

[Harry]

The second release is even better I think Harry.

Yep, its ready to be played, bought the pair together.

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Yep, its ready to be played, bought the pair together.

Excellent!

[vers la flamme]

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125. Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic, Wiener Singverein, soloists. I try to only listen to this symphony once every 3 months or so. It used to be that I didn't like it much at all, and now that I do, I want to avoid burnout. Anyway, I remain rather unimpressed with this famous recording, preferring Fricsay/Berlin and Reiner/Chicago. Somehow the brass here feels harsh and the overall dynamic seems a little flat. But what do I know. Anyway, it's still Beethoven's 9th and there will always be much to love here, anything else is just nitpicking.

[San Antone]

Bach : Suite for Cello No. 6 in D major
Thomas Demenga



I think I prefer listening to Demenga's recordings of the Bach cello suites in their original iteration, i.e. with the contemporary works mixed in.  Enjoying this recording this morning.

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Bach

Weihnachtsoratorium

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich, the real Second Jazz Suite. Not the Suite for Variety Orchestra that spent decades being misidentified.

https://www.youtube.com/v/kUscdue3RMw

I'm not sure there's actually a commercial recording of this yet? Almost everything that claims to be "Jazz Suite No.2" is the wrong thing.

Fun piece. Thanks for posting that.

Sarge

[Tsaraslondon]

Sometimes played by a full compliment of strings, the lovely Souvenir de Florence is here performed in its original string sextet version, and coupled to the String Quartet no 1.

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A fine CD!

Early morning listening here.
Four Legends for Orchestra.
Best performance since Thomas Jensen and better recorded. The opening of 'Lemminkainen in Tuonela' is wonderfully urgent and mysterious:

Yes, indeed. I'm not a huge Pettersson fan, but the 7th has always been my favorite of all of his symphonies. I can't wait to hear those Horst Stein Sibelius recordings.

[Maestro267]

Glazunov: Symphony No. 3
Russian State SO/Polyansky

[ChopinBroccoli]

Do you feel like we do?!

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