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Henri Sauguet: Symphony No.1 'Expiatoire'

[Florestan]

a contemporary of Mozart.

That's the smallest of his accomplishments. He is much more famous as the teacher of Chopin. 

[Harry]

A Swedish Serenade.
Dag Wiren, Serenade for Strings.
Lars Erik Larsson, Little Serenade for Strings.
Lille Bror Söderlundh, Concertino for Oboe and String orchestra.
Ingvar Lidholm, Music for Strings.
Stockholm Sinfonietta, Esa Pekka Salonen.
See back cover for further details.

An oldie, but well worth to explore! I loved all the compositions on this disc, and in this Lidholm, was a welcome surprise. Always a little out of the realms of harmony, but still fascinating. This disc is a clear winner for me, also on account of Salonen, who delivers a pristine interpretation. Superb.
The recording is excellent, but at times the Strings can sound a bit harsh, but nothing to worry about.

[Harry]

Camille Saint Saens.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No.1.
Introduction et rondo Capriccioso in A minor.
Romance in C major.
Havanaise in E major.
Sarabande et Rigaudon.
Morceau de Concert, in G major.
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Violin & Conductor.
Recording date: 1997, at the Tapiola concert Hall, Espoo, Finland.

Really superb in all respects. Well recorded too. His Violin concertos are well liked by me, and although I have quite a few interpretations, this fits easily in as well.

[Harry]

French Ballet Music.
See back cover for details.
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon.
Recorded 1984, at the All Saints Church, Tooting, London.

Since long a firm favourite in my collection.

[Todd]

Disc two.  More acoustic recordings.

[Madiel]

French Ballet Music.
See back cover for details.
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon.
Recorded 1984, at the All Saints Church, Tooting, London.

Since long a firm favourite in my collection.

I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive from eBay.

[Madiel]

Having just read that Kathryn Stott is retiring, there's plenty of excuse to dip into this great set.



I'm starting with the Ballade, op.19, we'll see where else I end up.

[Maestro267]

Huber: Symphony No. 5 ("Romantische, Der Geiger von Gmünd")
Schneeberger (violin)/Stuttgart PO/Weigle

[Florestan]

Having just read that Kathryn Stott is retiring, there's plenty of excuse to dip into this great set.



I'm starting with the Ballade, op.19, we'll see where else I end up.

My first complete set of Faure's piano music. I enjoy(ed) it enormously.

[Florestan]

Most of these trifles are as short as a breath, yet they are the aural equivalent of, and have the same invigorating effect as, watching the fly of butterflies or the play of children: make the soul leap with joy.

[Madiel]

My first complete set of Faure's piano music. I enjoy(ed) it enormously.

My only complete set. I felt absolutely no need to find another. This set is a huge part of the reason I became such a fan of Faure's music.

And if I'm not careful I could easily stay up half the night listening to it. I can binge-listen to Faure more readily than practically any other composer. I truly think he's one of the greats, but the music is so subtle and so difficult to pull off that it doesn't always get the adulation.

[Madiel]

Apparently I've haven't listened to Faure's 5th Barcarolle for 5 years. How is this possible?!? I think it's one of the most astonishing pieces of anyone's piano music, never mind Faure's. Maybe it's just so well lodged in my mind that I didn't feel the need to actually play the recording. I pull out the last page of the sheet music from time to time to marvel at the coda.

All the listening:

Ballade, op.19
Nocturne no.3, op.33/3
Valse-Caprice no.2, op.38
Barcarolle no.5, op.66
Barcarolle no.9, op.101
Nocturne no.12, op.107
Mazurka, op.32

And I'll close the night out with the piece I frequently like to conclude with... Nocturne no.6, op.63, because for me (and I know for quite a few others) it's the very best work.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mari Fujiwara. Debussy: Sonata For Violoncello & Piano (1915) / Stravinsky: Suite Italienne (1932) / Shostakovich: Soonata For Violoncello & Piano, Op. 40 (1934).

[Traverso]

The Baroque Lute

Eugen Dombois has always been a lutenist after my own heart. Unfortunately, only two recordings appeared in the Seon series, if I remember correctly he suffered from tendonitis or something like that.
The recordings still sound fantastic.

[Harry]

George Frederick Bristow.
Symphony No.2, (Jullien) 1853.
Rip van Winkle, 1855.
Winter's Tale overture, 1856.
Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rebecca Miller.
Recorded: 2015, at The Sage, Gateshead, UK.

An almost unknown composer for me, save for a Chandos recording, and so I stumbled over this fine performance. Never heard any of these works, but I love them. He orientates himself stylistically very strongly on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, but not in the sense that he copies him , on the contrary, this composer has his own beautiful voice, just listen to the second symphony, melodically a strong composition and full of uplifting moments. It is well constructed, so boring moments are not in order. And that goes also for the two other works on this disc. Superb performed and recorded. I enjoyed it immensely. A pity for its negligence, for I cannot remember his name mentioned on GMG. Try it, you might like it.....

[prémont]

The Baroque Lute

Eugen Dombois has always been a lutenist after my own heart. Unfortunately, only two recordings appeared in the Seon series, if I remember correctly he suffered from tendonitis or something like that.
The recordings still sound fantastic.

According to Wiki he suffered from neurotmesis. This is a serious, usually traumatic injury to a peripheral nerve.

[SonicMan46]

Hanson, Howard (1896-1981) - Just have the discs below although the 'Delos Doubles' have a LOT of music including all of his symphonies.  Dave

Howard Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, and received numerous other awards including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946. (Source)

[André]

It's sad that Hanson's music has fallen out of favor. There is a place (and a market) for his brand of romanticism. Delos and Schwartz did him (and us) a great service with these recordings.

[André]

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