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[Operafreak]

Book 1

[Pohjolas Daughter]

CD 40

Shostakovich
Symphony № 10 in e minor, Op. 93
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (NY Phil)
Rec. 18 Oct 1954 (i.e. only about a year after the piece's completion.)

Cool!

How was the audio end of things Karl?  And how is this set overall?

PD

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 28.
BWV 62/139/26/116.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Béla Bartók's
Piano Concerto No. 1

Ferenc Fricsay, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
Géza Anda (piano)

Great choice!  I love Anda's Bartok recordings. 

PD

[Mookalafalas]

cover is nothing like mine, but closest I could find.

[Mandryka]

Yuki Matsuzawa playing the Chopin etude op 25/7. I've fallen in love, I am a Matsuzawa op 27/7 addict, I can die happy. It's so elegant. So intelligent. That Chopopopin rag!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Hhft...86a2f423384870

[Harry]

Carl Nielsen.
The Danish Symphonist.
CD III.
Symphony No. 5 & No. 6
Royal Liverpool PO, Douglas Bostock.

Bostock is a conductor under appreciated and even neglected and at times ridiculed, if there is a comparison between conductors and Bostock's merit, which is really very offending. I consider Bostock a valuable conductor that did a lot of good for Nielsen obviously, but also for British composers. The Liverpool players are of world class level, no doubt about that either. State of the Art recording also.
The whole box is a feast for my ears.

[Spotted Horses]

Mozart Piano Sonata No 5, K283, Zacharias



A generally charming work. The central slow movement, opening with an atmosphere of innocence, has some startling harmonies in it's central section.  Zacharias, as usual, cannot be faulted.

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson: Symphony No.3 (my favourite of his symphonies, although I like them all)

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Le Chant de Virgile

[Karl Henning]

Cool!

How was the audio end of things Karl?  And how is this set overall?

PD

The audio is clean and sweet overall, PD. Lovin' it!

[ritter]

A CD kindly prepared by a friend of mine (with transfers from LPs, totalling 90+ minutes), of some vintage recordings of music by Roberto Gerhard with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Dances from 'Don Quixote' and Symphony No. 1 (conducted by Antal Doráti), Collage (Frederik Prausnitz), and Concerto for Orchestra (Norman del Mar).

These are the original LP covers (AFAIK, none of these recordings was ever reissued on CD):



Great stuff!

[prémont]

Carl Nielsen.
The Danish Symphonist.
CD III.
Symphony No. 5 & No. 6
Royal Liverpool PO, Douglas Bostock.

Bostock is a conductor under appreciated and even neglected and at times ridiculed, if there is a comparison between conductors and Bostock's merit, which is really very offending. I consider Bostock a valuable conductor that did a lot of good for Nielsen obviously, but also for British composers. The Liverpool players are of world class level, no doubt about that either. State of the Art recording also.
The whole box is a feast for my ears.

I have always rated this box rather highly, Bostock's recordings of the symphonies being the best part of it. The recording of the wind quintet is also highly enjoyable.

[Harry]

I have always rated this box rather highly, Bostock's recordings of the symphonies being the best part of it. The recording of the wind quintet is also highly enjoyable.

I am glad to hear that Poul!

[Harry]

Organ Works of the North German Baroque.
Volume VI.
CD I.
Franz Tunder.
Complete Organ Works.
Freidhelm Flamme, Organ.
Instrument: Christian Vater organ, 1724, St. Petri-Kirche, Melle.
Pitch: Chorton G sharp A=c. 441 Hz.
Temperament: 1/6 comma after Valotti.

A friend of mine sent me a large box with organ music played exclusively by Friedhelm Flamme. I did some insignificant research for him. Little did he know that I always stayed clear of Flamme. You do not however look a gifted horse in the mouth, that's a saying with us Dutch, so I started some weeks ago to play them all. Apart from the Buxtehude and W.F. Bach by Flamme he sent all the Baroque series, or so I think. All of them have their merit, others are well appreciated, more so as I thought, one was a downright failure (Vincent Lubeck) and on others I found the choice of the organ not appropriate. And what I also noticed that Flamme is not really an ace in the (stylus phantasticus) and just in the Lubeck recording, that is much in evidence. To have mastered this skill is really a pre-requisite to play  organ music of the North German Baroque. However within limitations I have enjoyed most of Flamme's recordings.
Franz Tunder is a composer in which the SF is a necessary element, one has to make compromises when listening to this CD, but since Flamme is playing on a fine organ, and let some things pass, and in essence enjoy what I hear. The instrument is at least one that fits the music. Fine recorded sound too.

[Traverso]

Debussy


Pelléas et Mélisande Symphony

Nocturnes

Berceuse héroïque

Trois Études

[Harry]

New acquisition.

Nicolas Gombert.
Motets Volume I.
CD I.
Beauty Farm.

I am in the process of changing the cover art, until then, look away.
As to the performances I am mightily impressed. I find the balance in this ensemble phenomenal, in musical and expression matters. All the voices are separately distinguishable, so one never loose the musical threads. A fine counter tenor, that does not disturb the equilibrium. Well, the singers are drawn from different top ensembles in the field, so it does not come as a surprise. This is how I like my Gombert, and if the rest that is in my ordering book is as excellent as this. I will collect them all. It is truly a find.
One note of caution, be aware of the loudness of these recordings, the volume has to go a notch of three to four lower.

[SonicMan46]

Via Spotify:

 

Familiar repertoire which sounds in the hands of Paolo Cherici amazing.

Thanks Que for the recommendation - put together a Spotify playlist of both volumes - greatly enjoy the vihuela and Cherici is a fine performer on the instrument and the recorded sound is excellent.  Dave

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE (1714-1788) - Keyboard Concertos w/ Michael Rische on piano (and others on the cover art below) - this is the 4-CD offering in a 2-disc size jewel box - he has recorded about a dozen more CDs of these works (HERE); I have 2 other singles - not sure if plans are to box up some of the others?  Reviews attached of a variety of the recordings for those interested.  Dave