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[AnotherSpin]

Symphony No.2 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

Sibelius' Second Symphony blazes with heroic climaxes, and its triumphant, exultant finale brims with defiant hope for Finland's liberation from Russian oppression. This is music I can listen to endlessly, with undiminished fervor.

[Traverso]

Byrd

A beautiful recording with works by Byrd, Susanne Fair sung by Tessa Bonner is very endearing. Red Byrd's contribution is, as always, excellent.

[Mandryka]

Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony 6
PMD
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos

Revisiting after listening again with great profit in the small hours. Always worth the effort.

I've just made another discovery where I sense a masterpiece - Ave Maris Stella. The ending is so extraordinary that it makes me want to listen to the whole thing again straight away.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 4

[DavidW]

I forgot how much I like Korngold's VC. The whole album is great:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Vincent Lübeck organ works. Léon Berben.

[VonStupp]

WA Mozart
Horn Concertos 1 - 4

Gerd Seifert, horn
Berlin PO - Karajan

A dreamy performance.
VS

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - Songs Without Words with Brautigam on a reproduction fortepiano after a 1830 Pleyel and Gortler on a modern instrument - both equally enjoyable to me.  Dave

   

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Serenade, Op.24

David Atherton & London Sinfonietta

[AnotherSpin]

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Netherlands Bach Collegium - Pieter Jan Leusink

[pianococo90]

Jorg Widmann
Fleurs Du Mal for piano solo

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

György Sándor plays Bach.

[Linz]

Richard Strauss Complete Orchestral Works CD7
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8, Ulf Hoelscher violin
Sinfonia domestica, Op. 53, Staatskapelle Dersden. Rudolf Kent

[brewski]

In honor of Michael Finnissy's birthday, "Etched Bright with Sunlight," from The History of Photography in Sound, performed by pianist Ian Pace.

[Madiel]

Somewhat apt for current mood...

Brahms: Piano Quartet no.3

[hopefullytrusting]

Brahms, Op. 116



Good Brahmsian pianism is difficult to find, or at least what I am looking for. Too much of the Brahms pianists, I've heard, are far too romantic, which makes sense given his era, and some of his works are definitely romantic, but his last piano works require a different touch - one in which each finger can act independently of all the others. I think, sometimes, his late work gets lumped in with the "lyrical" movement of that period (Grieg, Medtner, etc.), but I view it much more in line with the late piano sonatas of Beethoven (not in scope, obviously, but in style), but this recording has a great set of op. 116 - concise and precise.

High recommendation.

[foxandpeng]

I've just made another discovery where I sense a masterpiece - Ave Maris Stella. The ending is so extraordinary that it makes me want to listen to the whole thing again straight away.

Again, I also find this work extremely worthwhile, although I confess that it is a little thrilling places!

[foxandpeng]

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony 4
Neeme Jarvi
Scottish National Orchestra

I like Prokofiev's symphonies under Jarvi.

[Madiel]

Now, I haven't listened to these for a very long time. Since 2011.

Books 1 and 2 (the first 10 dances).



I want to get a piano duet version.