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[Mirror Image]

Finishing up this performance of Salome from many nights ago:

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello  wright now I am cooking a soup, ingredients
- two zuchinnis sliced thin
- a coupe of Echalottes
- Spinach lots of it
- Beef & Onion sauce
- canola oil, a bitter garlic butter too
And voila , you have a tasty soup, I am an expert coock trust me, my guest always compliment my meals, dessert , entré, etc... cuisine has no secrets.I am finish it took 35 minute at 5 on a scale of ten so it ment, Cooking an art,  anyone can cook but coock well, different story I faulter  in the start for fews meals all does , total failures were not observe , only minus details.


But I am here to talk about Music, this forum is about my currently listening, guess what in Renaissance Italy, hudge statement of Deprofundis (myself), Sigismondo is sandwitch between Carlo Gesualdo avant-garde music and Monteverdi and could be a better composer than the great Carlo & Claudio, quite sunny music... just like great Giaches DE Wert one of my favorite composer too, But Sigis = Simon in German, Mondo  because is name was Italianized too (dunno? just guessing), is wonderfully a one of a kind composer on Glossa , Musique D,abord, The Five Centuries ensemble too love this mighty composer  of Sicily origin  (Palermo), you should try to listen to him is music fantastic. Now don't force me to swear I'Mm a catholic, it's forbiden but Christ investigated this  true genius  work, Sir Sigismondo D'India. 

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/AFurkYhG6nQ

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Arthur Butterworth



I cannot speak too highly of this CD which I enjoyed immensely. Butterworth's music is evocative and I very much like his style of using large forces sparingly. Three Nocturnes "Northern Summer Nights" is the best new piece (for me) I have heard in a long time and looking forward to get fully acquainted with the symphony.

Oh, I must fish this CD out Lol. I remember enjoying the Symphony No.5 but must go back to 'Northern Summer Nights'. I have the highest view of his sibelian 4th Syphony and own two recordings on Dutton and Lyrita.

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Pēteris Vasks
Symphony 2
Distant Light

Third hearing of this in the last few hours, following his Flute Concerto and Symphony 3. I'm captivated by the haunting beauty of the VC, but the symphonies are excellent also.

Symphony No.2 is one of my favourite modern symphonies and I find the ending, in particular, very moving. The excellent booklet note is by Christo of this forum.

Now playing:
Frederic Austin 'The Sea Venturers' - a bracing, early morning start to the day!

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The Butterworth Symphony No. 5 is a fine work. 

TD: Shostakovich



The Shostakovich is with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

+1 for Butterworth
Actually I like Previn's Shostakovich symphony recordings, especially the Chicago No.4, the LSO No.8, which is perhaps my favourite recording of the work. I recently bought the Japanese remastering with the restored LP cover image. I also like his No.10 with the slower than usual second movement and the deeply moving No.13 'Babi Yar'.

[Traverso]

Harpsichord & Consort Music

[Harry]

New acquisition, First listen.

CD I.

Claudio Veggio.
Complete Organ Music.

Rocco Rodio.
Complete Organ Music.

Luca Scandali, Organ.
Instrument: Lorenzo da Prato (1471-75) Basilica of San Petronio. Bologna, Italy.
Mean tone Temperament. Pitch= a'=466 Hz.


Two composers I did not know, but these are  very rewarding musical propositions. The so called Manoscritto di Castell' Arquato is one of the earliest and most important collection of Italian Keyboard music from the first half of the 16th century, containing ricerari, mass movements, magnificat, motets, chansons, dances and madrigal Intabulation in often excellent quality, as is to be heard on this set. Both composers on this CD excel in those forms, and make for a very interesting listen. The info in the booklet tells me what I need to know about composers, music and how they fit in the historic context. Luca Scandali's playing is sober, and without energetic movements, never lets his hair down, but keep his eye firmly on the music. That has its rewards.
The organ is is well recorded, although a bit clouded in the upper registers, but not much so!

[Roasted Swan]

+1 for Butterworth
Actually I like Previn's Shostakovich symphony recordings, especially the Chicago No.4, the LSO No.8, which is perhaps my favourite recording of the work. I recently bought the Japanese remastering with the restored LP cover image. I also like his No.10 with the slower than usual second movement and the deeply moving No.13 'Babi Yar'.

Horowitz just made the Previn/CSO/No.4 his Capo dei Capi

[Traverso]

Schubert

Symphony No.8

[Traverso]

Kurtág

Four Capriccios op.9
Four Songs op.11
Grabstein Für Stephan op.15c
Messages of the late Miss R.Troussova op.17

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all !

[Harry]

New acquisition, first listen.

Herman Severin Løvenskiold.
La Sylphide-Ballet in two acts.
Music was commissioned by Auguste Bournonville, for the Bournonville Ballet, of which he was a principal dancer..

Royal Danish Orchestra, David Garforth.
Kim Sjøgren, Solo Violin.

I must admit that I did not know about this composer, let alone about this ballet. I was utterly unaware of it all. Only because a friend of mine who dances in the Iceland ballet company did I become aware. One day she called me, and told about this amazing music. I found this recording of it, and a good one it is. Chandos made this recording in June 1986, with a conductor also quite unknown to me. Tim Handley was the producer of this disc, and this you clearly hear.
Løvenskiold is a composer remembered almost exclusively for this single work. He was a member of a Norwegian aristocratic family with the title of Baron, and wrote this ballet when he was 20 years of age. Quite remarkable, writing such a ballet. One can hear that he admired Weber. Everywhere in the score this is apparent. A thoroughly Romantic ballet then, in line with the established art form. This era brought a revitalisation of ballet which had been staggering in its use of mythological and allegorical subjects, which is in all cases a serious art form in my opinion. Being a great ballet music lover I can say that it delivers everything you might expect. Well written, super recording, and a performance that can hold its trousers up...top notch!

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Horowitz just made the Previn/CSO/No.4 his Capo dei Capi

Don't understand.

[Harry]

Anton Bruckner.

Symphony No. 2 in C minor. (1877)

Northern Sinfonia, Mario Venzago.

A sublime performance in every respect.

[Biffo]

Oh, I must fish this CD out Lol. I remember enjoying the Symphony No.5 but must go back to 'Northern Summer Nights'. I have the highest view of his sibelian 4th Syphony and own two recordings on Dutton and Lyrita.

Just listened to Symphony No 5 (RSNO/Butterworth), very enjoyable but kept reminding me of other composers, mostly Debussy. I have his 1st Symphony (Halle/Barbirolli?) but haven't listened to it for ages.

[André]

[Florestan]

[Harry]

Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Complete Symphonies and other Orchestral Works.
CD 5.
Symphony No. 5 in E minor.
The Voyevoda.
Capriccio Italien.

Gothenburg SO, Neeme Jarvi.

Cesar Cui had the audacity in criticizing the Fifth Symphony, writing that it was a characterless and mundane piece of rubbish, and even the Capriccio Italien could not find his favor, and thought it should be relegated to the outdoors concerts, for the noise could better escape that way. Well who knows Cesar Cui these days, almost no one, he is completely forgotten, and rightly so, for being jealous of a composer that was far his superior.
Fine performances and sound.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice!