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[Lady Chatterley]

Faure Piano Quartet no2 in g for piano and strings opus 45 ,Ames piano Quartet.

[BachQ]

Bach, Fantasy & Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Bruckner 5 (Jochum / Dresden)

[The new erato]

Great playing in nr 15, very different from my so far favorite Haitink. Interesting Boris Tchaikovsy work, need to listen more.



Currently playing (nr 4). Very promising.

[rubio]

Piano concerto no. 3 and 4 by Lupu and Mehta/Israel PO. I really like to listen to Lupu's pianism. On the other hand, I'm not so sure how great the performances of these works are. I think some manage to get more emotion/depth from the slower movements, and also make these concertos sound more like coherent works. So I feel it's more about Lupu's playing than Beethoven. But that's really excellent in itself from time to time. Annie Fischer/Fricsay still reigns supreme in the 3rd (according to my taste).

[Papy Oli]

Earlier on :



Really loving this one more and more after each listen - absorbing work and performance. Definitely making me more curious about that orchestra and ensemble.

Finishing now :



Superb. Period. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Alfvén, Elegi ur Gustav II Adolf, Okko Kamu/Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester (Naxos)

I love this man's music. It speaks to me.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Delius, Tone Poems, arranged for piano four hands by Peter Warlock (Noriko Ogawa, Kathryn Stott/BIS)

It's a refreshing difference to hear a work like On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring on two pianos. You lose some colour, you gain some clarity. All the same - wonderful music!

[Brian]

Earlier on :



Really loving this one more and more after each listen - absorbing work and performance. Definitely making me more curious about that orchestra and ensemble.

Wow, beautiful cover too!

[Dana]

      Beethoven's Eroica, as presented by Klemperer. A slow, yet engaging endeavor, but it would be so much better if that blasted clarinet was in tune in the last scale it plays at the end. Graaaah!!! It leaves a sour taste in ones mouth after a fair amount of good musiking.

[PerfectWagnerite]

      Beethoven's Eroica, as presented by Klemperer. A slow, yet engaging endeavor, but it would be so much better if that blasted clarinet was in tune in the last scale it plays at the end.

OF course it would, but it WAS a British orchestra so inaccuracies in intonations are pretty much the norm.

[Bonehelm]

Irreplaceable Doodles, Op. 89 (clarinet unaccompanied)

Karl Henning


Not sure if I understand the difficult modernism in the music, but I am certain that the performance, by the composer himself, is truly masterful. If only each player of the clarinet section in my orchestra possessed that ability... 0:)

[Brian]

Bound to become one of my favorite discs! Of course, the New Zealand Quartet are my first exposure to Mendelssohn's SQs...

[Harry]

Muzio Clementi.
Sonatas for Piano, Flute & cello.
Opus 32, 1-3.
Opus 31,

Pietro Spada, Piano.
Gianni Biocotino, Flute.
Andrea Bergamelli, Cello.

Interesting music, well played and recorded.

[Harry]

Goodmorning all.
There is going to be a heavy storm in Holland today, with wind speeds over 100 kilometers, which is very unusual in these parts, rain, hail, even snow.....
And I have the beginning of flu, how bad that will become I don't know.

[Harry]

The instrumental parts in this Vespro Solenne are written by Giovanni Buonnamente.
I think this is one of the vocal highlights that I heard so far this year.
The recording is topnotch, and the performance leaves nothing to be desired.

[The new erato]

The instrumental parts in this Vespro Solenne are written by Giovanni Buonnamente.
I think this is one of the vocal highlights that i heard so far this year.
The recording is topnotch, and the performance leaves nothing to be desired.

This is a very rich sounding record IIRC, but I am not ultimately sure how interesting I found the music to be.

[karlhenning]

Irreplaceable Doodles, Op. 89 (clarinet unaccompanied)

Karl Henning


Not sure if I understand the difficult modernism in the music, but I am certain that the performance, by the composer himself, is truly masterful. If only each player of the clarinet section in my orchestra possessed that ability... 0:)

Thank you for the kind thought!

[Bogey]

Goodmorning all.
There is going to be a heavy storm in Holland today, with wind speeds over 100 kilometers, which is very unusual in these parts, rain, hail, even snow.....
And I have the beginning of flu, how bad that will become I don't know.

Take care and be safe Harry.

Now:
Mozart String Quintets Nos. 3 and 4 (K 515 and 516)
Smetana Quartet/Suk
Denon

[karlhenning]

Stay indoors, drink lots of hot tea, Harry.  (Believe it or not, tea is actually better for you even than whisky  )

Good morning, Bill!

[ChamberNut]

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E major

Jochum/Dresden
EMI

Good morning everyone!