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Joining Ilaria in hearing this recording.



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.10 in F-sharp major (Deryck Cooke version). Riccardo Chailly, RSO Berlin

So far so good. I do admire Chailly as a Mahler conductor, though I've heard very little. His complete cycle is now very, very expensive—that being said, I think I prefer Rattle with the BPO. This is one work that I think Rattle just nails. But I am keeping an open mind.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
Symphony № 5 in B^b, Op. 100
BSO
Erich Leinsdorf

[brewski]

Should be listening to some Mahler for the birthday! Maybe in a bit. But for now:

John Luther Adams: Lines Made by Walking (2019, JACK Quartet). In typical Adams style, slowly evolving phrases—in this case, a repeated ascending melody. Sometimes a tranquil piece like this is just what the doctor ordered.



-Bruce

[brewski]

Joining Ilaria in hearing this recording.



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.10 in F-sharp major (Deryck Cooke version). Riccardo Chailly, RSO Berlin

So far so good. I do admire Chailly as a Mahler conductor, though I've heard very little. His complete cycle is now very, very expensive—that being said, I think I prefer Rattle with the BPO. This is one work that I think Rattle just nails. But I am keeping an open mind.

That's a great recording (and I like Rattle, too). Chailly's cycle is superb, but sorry it's so expensive. (I mean, it's great, but competition among Mahler recordings is fierce.) I have heard all of them, and while some might not be one's first choice for a particular symphony, overall it's an outstanding set.

-Bruce

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From what I have heard in the music and read by way of review, I think it may be of interest to you. Echoes of Sibelius are mentioned, and the more turbulent #1 has a bit of uneasy struggle going on. Of the two, I reckon #1 might be the place to begin.

I quite like them both.

Thanks 

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Thoughts on the performance?

It's a long time since I heard No.8.
I have the DGG LP (Comissiona) and a CD on BIS.
I enjoyed this recording on Orfeo and my attention was held throughout. 6,7, 8 and VC No.2 are my favourite works by AP. I must listen to this recording again soon.

[JBS]

Yes, the finest Unknown String Quartet Cycle of the Century.

I have them in this recording

as part of this set

Going by current Amazon pricing, the set is not worth getting but the double CD of Malipiero only is very much worth getting.

[Karl Henning]

Certainly a very easy album to listen to. And don't we all love butterflies?

[JBS]

TD

Piano Concerto in One Movement
First Symphony
"His Resignation and Faith" from Ethiopia's Shadow in America.

[Karl Henning]

Certainly a very easy album to listen to. And don't we all love butterflies?

Chinese orchestra

[Karl Henning]

TD

Piano Concerto in One Movement
First Symphony
"His Resignation and Faith" from Ethiopia's Shadow in America.

How was't?

[JBS]

How was't?

Worth getting. The symphony comes off much better than the Naxos recording. (I don't have the Nezet-Seguin recording.)
The Piano Concerto is an interesting piece. The short movement from Ethiopia's Shadow makes me hope someone records the four movement tone poem in full.

[Karl Henning]

And again, because when I listen to a piece which I hear so seldom, I'm in no rush to purge it from my Media Monkey now playing list:

Holmboe
Symphony № 3, Op. 25 / M. 126 (1941) « Sinfonia rustica »

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It's a long time since I heard No.8.
I have the DGG LP (Comissiona) and a CD on BIS.
I enjoyed this recording on Orfeo and my attention was held throughout. 6,7, 8 and VC No.2 are my favourite works by AP. I must listen to this recording again soon.

Excellent choices there. There is a recording of the 7th from the same forces as your CD on CPO. I like it—it's from that recording that I really got into AP—but there is at least one Petterssonite here on GMG who is a fervent hater of that performance, so perhaps it has its problems.

[Que]

Morning listening, arrived yesterday:



Like the Gombert vol.3 motets, this comes in a cardboard folded envelope with 2-page notes printed inside.
Wonderful performances: a nice dark sound, with a good medium between blending and highlighting individual voices. The interplay between the singers is intense and expressive but they keep a nice flow to the music. Very happy that the development in performance practices in Franco-Flemish music has brought us to this point of no choirs (1-2 VPP) and no upward transposition. The performances of these masses by Barbignant and Johannes Tinctoris are major additions to the repertoire.

I wanted to take Fra Bernardo up on their offer in the notes of the Gombert motets to provide the texts via email, but their website turns out to be down... And their Facebook page hasn't been updated since March - I do wonder...

[Wanderer]

[Que]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'

Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano, Graf from around 1819)


I'm not always keen on period pianos, but this performance for me, is an example of where they really shine.
Its virtues are immediately apparent, even in the opening three chords, where a bareness, a quality of fragility in the sound, unattainable on modern pianos, seems so completely apt to the moment. And such 'a consummation devoutly to be wished' between instrument and expressive purpose, never really lets up from then on. There seem so many more micro events and shades within the music, whether it's rattling along or more intimate, greatly enriching it.
No doubt this also has a lot to do with Brautigam, who comes out of it smelling of roses as well as the Graf. And now he's got me interested I'll be exploring more of the set to see if my affection could widen, rather than being just another one-off.

Nice!    If you have access to streaming: please do try Paul Komen (Globe) and Badura-Skoda (Naïve) on fortepiano.

[Wanderer]

I wanted to take Fra Bernardo up on their offer in the notes of the Gombert motets to provide the texts via email, but their website turns out to be down... And their Facebook page hasn't been updated since March - I do wonder...

That's unfortunate. Yet another reason to be wary of internet-based offerings versus physical/downloaded media (not just regarding recordings/streaming, but also documentation): they're not future-proofed and there's no guarantee they'll even be there tomorrow. A situation like this is why recording artists shouldn't be stingy with their printed notes. I hope you'll be able to track down the texts.

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Excellent choices there. There is a recording of the 7th from the same forces as your CD on CPO. I like it—it's from that recording that I really got into AP—but there is at least one Petterssonite here on GMG who is a fervent hater of that performance, so perhaps it has its problems.

Thanks. Amazon tells me that I purchased that recording in 2004 - so I should look out for it. I also have another CD of the 7th Symphony conducted by Comissiona, bizarrely coupled with Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, as well as a rather good performance conducted by Segerstam on BIS.

[Que]

Some not so anonymous French viol music from the late Baroque.

http://paraty.fr/en/portfolio/lanonyme-parisien-2/

Hat-tip Mandryka! 

EDIT:  charming, but of passing interest... For those into viol music worth a listening if you stream.

A French viol music anthology on my shelves by Philippe Pierlot (now reissued as part of a 3CD set) also features a single fugue by Charles Dollé: