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[vandermolen]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917':

[Harry]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917':

That's in my playing queue too. Looking forward to it. I guess it is up to scratch?

[vandermolen]

That's in my playing queue too. Looking forward to it. I guess it is up to scratch?

I like it very much Harry (also Symphony No.15). I've always enjoyed No.12 since hearing Pretre's old CFP LP. Storgards tracks a middle path conveying both hushed expectancy at the start and urgent excitement later on.

[Harry]

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906– 1975).

Symphony No. 12, Op. 112 'The Year 1917' (1959–61) in D minor.
Symphony No. 15, Op. 141 (1971) in A major,

BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds.
Recording venue MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester; 5 and 6 August 2022 (Symphony No. 15)
& 15 and 16 September 2022 (Symphony No. 12)

@vandermolen was right, this performance is really very good. The detail in the score is audible in all desks, and the emotional flow, and urgency is quite captivating. I am duly impressed. SOTA sound.

[DavidW]

Not yet. Actually, none of his concertos is known to me, except for the one for orchestra.

I recommend his piano sonata and his works for solo violin and solo cello.

[Spotted Horses]

Dohnanyi Sextet for piano, horn, clarinet and string trio



Wow! What a captivating work, and what a splendid performance, especially the horn. Even though it is a late opus number, it shows the influence of Brahms, more typical of Dohnanyi's early works.

[VonStupp]

Gustav Mahler
Blumine
Totenfeier
Bamberg SO - Karl Anton Rickenbacher

I don't think I ever bothered with these two before. The Blumine movement is certainly inoffensive; not sure how it would play in a five movement symphony.
VS

[Harry]

Dmitri Shostakovich.
Violin Concertos No 1 & 2.
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin.
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons.
Recorded: 2006 Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz.

It is no secret that I am enormously fond of Arabella's violinistic artistry, which is present in abundance on this recording. I like her not much less as I like Mordkovitch, and they come awfully close in interpretation. She is definitively in my Pantheon of greats. The haunting quality Steinbacher displays is nothing short of awesome, to phrase a term. Technical these works are fiendishly difficult but she is able to let Shostakovich shine and sparkle, and does no seem to be bothered by the difficulties in these Violin concertos. The performance is thus superb. The sound is big and bright, but quite acceptable. The orchestra follows Steinbacher in every step of the way. Brilliant.

[Symphonic Addict]

I recommend his piano sonata and his works for solo violin and solo cello.

Thank you. There's more probability that I grasp those works better than the orchestral ones.

[Symphonic Addict]

Koechlin: The Seven Stars' Symphony

This unique symphony is much better than I remembered. This performance made me appreciate it much more. Koechlin's use of harmony and orchestral colour is second to none. In these times when record labels are bringing to life a lot of different stuff, I have faith that they will also record his other two symphonies.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach Transcriptions. Leonhardt.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Kindertotenlieder

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Roasted Swan]

Koechlin: The Seven Stars' Symphony

This unique symphony is much better than I remembered. This performance made me appreciate it much more. Koechlin's use of harmony and orchestral colour is second to none. In these times when record labels are bringing to life a lot of different stuff, I have faith that they will also record his other two symphonies.

this is an excellent version of this elusive work - and the coupling is very good too.  I preferred it to the version in the Holliger set.

[Spotted Horses]

Koechlin: The Seven Stars' Symphony

This unique symphony is much better than I remembered. This performance made me appreciate it much more. Koechlin's use of harmony and orchestral colour is second to none. In these times when record labels are bringing to life a lot of different stuff, I have faith that they will also record his other two symphonies.

Every review of a Koechlin orchestral piece should have an ondes Martenot disclosure. I know it is used in the seven stars symphony. In the coupling?

[Linz]

Bruckner  Symphony in F Minor 'Study Symphony' 1863 One version only - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bruckner Orchester Linz; Markus Poschner

[Spotted Horses]

Dmitri Shostakovich.
Violin Concertos No 1 & 2.
Arabella Steinbacher, Violin.
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons.
Recorded: 2006 Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz.

It is no secret that I am enormously fond of Arabella's violinistic artistry, which is present in abundance on this recording. I like her not much less as I like Mordkovitch, and they come awfully close in interpretation. She is definitively in my Pantheon of greats. The haunting quality Steinbacher displays is nothing short of awesome, to phrase a term. Technical these works are fiendishly difficult but she is able to let Shostakovich shine and sparkle, and does no seem to be bothered by the difficulties in these Violin concertos. The performance is thus superb. The sound is big and bright, but quite acceptable. The orchestra follows Steinbacher in every step of the way. Brilliant.

Steinbacher is fantastic. I particularly like her recording of the Bartok concerti.

[pjme]

an ondes Martenot disclosure. I know it is used in the seven stars symphony. In the coupling?

Mais non! Il n'y a pas de Martenot dans La voûte étoilée.

In the symphony only Greta Garbo, a "choral paiën", gets a very discreet and mysterious touch of ondes Martenot.

Lovely music!

[ritter]

A real rarity: Serge Nigg's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Pierre Barbizet as soloist, and the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens.



Nigg was a fellow student of Pierre Boulez in both the Messiaen and Leibowitz classes, and apparently gained notoriety early on. This notoriety faded quickly, but he did hold several administrative positions at state level, and succeeded Messiaen as teacher in the Paris Conservatoire.

TBH, little Messiaen, or Leibowitz-derived 12-tone style,  can be appreciated in this concerto from 1954. It actually sounds kinda Hollywoodesque, and is pleasant enough.

On CD 10 of the big Cluytens box Erato:

[Daverz]

Johan De Meij, "Lord of the Rings" Symphony



Coming rather late to this fantastic work for symphonic wind band.

[ritter]

And now, from the pupil to the teacher: Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine (conducted by Marcel Couraud in 1954) and Les Offrandes oubliées (Roger Désormière, 1942).