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[Symphonic Addict]

Guridi: Sinfonía Pirenaica

The only recording I am aware of this symphony, and thank God it is phenomenal. The work unto itself practically leaves nothing to be desired in terms of its content, narrative, memorable material, orchestration, etc. Superb in all respects.

[steve ridgway]

Strauss: Josephslegende

[Madiel]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 1 and 2



I don't entirely understand the choices about how to distribute the works across these discs, and I'm realising that telling the albums apart is going to be damned difficult (nothing on the physical product would tell you this is "volume 2")... but gee the playing is nice.

[Roasted Swan]

Guridi: Sinfonía Pirenaica

The only recording I am aware of this symphony, and thank God it is phenomenal. The work unto itself practically leaves nothing to be desired in terms of its content, narrative, memorable material, orchestration, etc. Superb in all respects.

that looks interesting - thanks for the tip!

[vandermolen]

that looks interesting - thanks for the tip!

It's a great work - Cesar is right. You won't be disappointed.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Some Vivaldi and Bassoon to start the day.

[pjme]

Last week I heard on WDR 3 music that sounded familiar , but I wasn't able to identify the hyper-late-romantic symphonic maelstrom immediately...
I can understand, I think, that Joseph Marx' Herbstsymfonie created some unrest at the premiere. It is unfair to call it a gigantic Sachertorte or giga Kaiserschmarren with extra Schlagobers ...however, with all woodwinds per four, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 bass tuba, piano, celesta, two harps, timpani, 9 percussionists and a large string orchestra, the Autumn Symphony is a long ( ca 65-75 minutes, depending on cuts) and mighty dish.

As reported in letters from the composer, newspaper articles and the Joseph Marx biography published in 1943 by musicologist Andreas Liess, the premiere of the Autumn Symphony turned into a concert scandal when a group of saboteurs of the performance and parts of the audience came to riots and physical confrontations. In an open letter dated February 9, 1922 to the Viennese music consultant Hans Liebstöckl, the composer declared the premiere a musical failure:

[...] There were only three rehearsals available, the tempo was just right so that all the notes were there - of course everything was in the rough, nothing dynamically worked out. Nevertheless, there was still enough of the work left that - if you had ears and wanted to - you could hear something bearable." (Wiki)

I do have the CPO cd and carefully listened again... what wildly extravagant mastery!

[Florestan]

[Traverso]

Mozart

Mozart

Sometimes you unexpectedly hear a piece of music that you know and  you are instantly  deeply touched. It happened to me when I heard the adagio from Mozart's 23rd piano concerto.
It is moving in its tender sadness, the mood doesn't really matter, it is like a beam of light that illuminates your heart. I have spoken to people who didn't like Mozart. It would be too little complex and you already know what the next measure will be.
What a stup.........

So no surprise to relisten this wonderful pianoconcerto.....

[Harry]

Luigi Boccherini (1743 –1805)
Symphonies.
London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert.
Recording venue St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London; 12 and 13 January 2009.
Front cover An Elegant Couple from Madrid (c. 1770; oil on canvas) by Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo (1736–1776).

I would say, decent playing, mediocre sound, at least for the standards Chandos usually employs. That Boccherini was a genius in his own right is very clear by the fine works on this disc.

[foxandpeng]

Luigi Boccherini (1743 –1805)
Symphonies.
London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert.
Recording venue St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London; 12 and 13 January 2009.
Front cover An Elegant Couple from Madrid (c. 1770; oil on canvas) by Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo (1736–1776).

I would say, decent playing, mediocre sound, at least for the standards Chandos usually employs. That Boccherini was a genius in his own rights is very clear by the fine works on this disc.

I used to really like these! Despite a shift in my overall preferences, I probably need to revisit them because of how good they really are

[JBS]

CPO has recorded all of his 8 string quartets, played by the Mannheimer Streichquartett:

Thank you. Amazon only shows the first two, although the two quartets on the CD it doesn't list were recorded by the Leipzigers. I've ordered the double CD with four quartets, so all I need is the Sixth. But both the CPO and the Tudor recordings seem OOP, so I need to look around for those.

[Harry]

I used to really like these! Despite a shift in my overall preferences, I probably need to revisit them because of how good they really are

In this you are right, but performances under Bamert tend to be slow, and somewhat bland in expression. Nevertheless, I have most CD'S in this series.

[Harry]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Ballet Suites.
See back cover for details.
London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley.
Recorded: 2006, at the St Silas the Martyr Church, London.

Really nicely done. The critics dismantled this recording to smithereens, well they had nothing better to do, but it shows the futility of that species. What I read about this recording shows how little it was understood. Anyways Hummel and ballet music, that was new to me. It is adorable, and at the same time it is charming you out of your boots. It's like a very good parfum, of which the smell will stay put for quite a while, and brings sublime associations. Detailed recording and alert playing. 

[Traverso]

Sweelinck his sources and influence vol.1






 

[Florestan]

[Madiel]

Dvorak Piano Quintet No.2 (Gaudier Ensemble on Hyperion)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Leon, L'orgue Dom Bedos de Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux.

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach

BWV 120, « Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille »
BWV 121, « Christum wir sollen loben schon »

[DavidW]