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Dvorak: String Quartet No. 10 [Talich Quartet]





This is a terrific presentation of this work for me. I like the somewhat ardent but always lyrically flowing opening movement. The aria-like slow movement is filled with atmosphere, emotion, intensity and poignancy and it is performed here without sentimentality. The third movement has a certain delicacy due to the lightness of touch in the playing. The final movement is well driven and exciting.

That's a wonderful CD!  I'm a big fan of the Talich Quartet.  Are you familiar with their Janacek recordings Fergus?

PD

p.s.  Lots of Saint-Saens on at the moment (his birth anniversary is today).

[Karl Henning]

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 10 [Talich Quartet]





This is a terrific presentation of this work for me. I like the somewhat ardent but always lyrically flowing opening movement. The aria-like slow movement is filled with atmosphere, emotion, intensity and poignancy and it is performed here without sentimentality. The third movement has a certain delicacy due to the lightness of touch in the playing. The final movement is well driven and exciting.

Nice! I'm continuing with this box:

[Traverso]

CD 1

Veni Domine

Advent

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That's wonderful to hear! Vivaldi is one of my favorite composers.


This description sounded like a piece right up my alley and after having listened to it, I can confirm it indeed is! Especially the brilliant Allegro con fuoco. So thank you very much!

And from my side for today:



I find the album's title fitting since the spectrum of sounds that can be achieved on a violin is well represented here. From calming, very bird-like fluttering, sometimes as quiet as a whisper, through piano-like pizzicato passages, to a delighfully intense creaking turmoil.

My favorites from there are for sure the violin sonata by Erwin Schulhoff & the one by Paul Hindemith.

Looks like an awesome disc! Curious about Hindemith and Schulhoff's solo violin music. Hindemith also wrote music for solo viola; I've heard some of it before and found it fascinating. I for one am more than happy to see you posting more in this thread, I like your contributions!  A lot of us such as myself are very, very bad at talking about music, but do so incessantly anyway, so you're at the very least on my level 

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Granville Bantock: Sapphic Poem. Julian Lloyd Webber, Vernon Handley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

First listen to anything by this composer; I found it at a CD store yesterday and bought it blind. So far so good, very much of the lush late Romantic vibes that I enjoy so much when in a certain mood. Bantock must have had a deep interest in the great Lesbian poet to have written two works after her. Beyond these Greek influences, I understand he also drew from Celtic folklore.

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - London Symphonies, Nos. 100-104 w/ Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - lots of choices of course; also own Kuijken and Fischer in these works - Dave

[Lisztianwagner]

Claude Debussy
Images, Books I & II

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Krzysztof Penderecki: Partita. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish National RSO, w/ Felicja Blumenthal, harpsichord

So. Damn. Good.

[Daverz]

Haydn: Symphony No. 46



Fischer and his orchestra are really on here (1995 recording).  Beautiful.

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Krzysztof Penderecki: Partita. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish National RSO, w/ Felicja Blumenthal, harpsichord

So. Damn. Good.

Now the Cello Concerto No.1, w/ Siegfried Palm. Holy shit, man. Just bonkers, an all out assault on my ears. I think I even heard a synth at one point? It is amazing.

[VonStupp]

Quo Vadis has a few loguers but it is a fine work with a particularly moving final section demonstrating 'an affirmative sense of homecoming' as I recall the notes stating.

Yes, certainly a lyrical work; I was expecting an oratorio, but Quo Vadis seems more of an orchestrated song cycle. I really liked Roderick Williams' contributions in particular, but a fine recording overall.

For tonight:

George Dyson
St. Paul's Voyage to Melita
Agincourt

Neil Mackie, tenor
Bournemouth SO & Chorus - Vernon Handley

A first listen to Agincourt.

VS

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Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No.7 in F major, op.59 no.1. Guarneri Quartet

It feels so good to be listening to a Beethoven string quartet, after a long time of not being all that into any of them. These Guarneri performance are just amazing. Very warm and cozy performances.

[Symphonic Addict]

Schnittke: Piano Sonata No. 2

Cool and intriguing as usual with this composer.




Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata

There is something about this performance that didn't convince me, it's like the violinist struggled at moments and the performance didn't flow conveniently.

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Schnittke: Piano Sonata No. 2

Cool and intriguing as usual with this composer.




Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata

There is something about this performance that didn't convince me, it's like the violinist struggled at moments and the performance didn't flow conveniently.

No other peformance of the Violin Sonata, in my opinion, matches the one performed by the Music Group of London, however I much preferred this one to the totally unidiomatic performance by Jennifer Pike.

[foxandpeng]

Krzysztof Penderecki: Partita. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish National RSO, w/ Felicja Blumenthal, harpsichord

So. Damn. Good.

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[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bernardo Francesco Paolo Ernesto Bellotto

Born ca. 1721/2 – 17 October 1780.
Venitian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw).
He was the pupil and nephew of Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto".

propably this view of Munich (but mirrored)

Thank you for the info! It appears that Hewitt used the work too.

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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9 in D major. John Barbirolli, Berlin Philharmonic

[Symphonic Addict]

No other peformance of the Violin Sonata, in my opinion, matches the one performed by the Music Group of London, however I much preferred this one to the totally unidiomatic performance by Jennifer Pike.

I was comparing the EMI recording and the one I heard today and there is indeed a big difference, and the other performance you mentioned sounds nothing attractive. I'll stick with the EMI recording.

[Daverz]

Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra



This is the only stereo recording of the Symphony, and luckily it's a good one. (The only other recording, Bernstein with the "Columbia Symphony Orchestra" is a mono one from the 50s.)

[Peter Power Pop]

Rameau

Pygmalion

To be clear, it was David Hurwitz who, in one of his youtube reviews, made a comment that Leonhardt is somewhat like Frankenstein as far as he is concerned.

Thanks for clarifying.

I'm now watching David Hurwitz's video about Leonhardt ("Review: Warner's Gustav Leonhardt Edition--New, Improved, Expanded, Enlarged, and Amplified"). The Frankenstein joke (here) made me laugh.

I haven't heard much Leonhardt. The performances I have heard are anything but joyless. (I guess appearances can be deceiving.)

I love Leonhardt's Rameau. It's very galant.