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Florestan

#35880
April 27, 2025, 11:33:58 AM
Quote from: DavidW on April 27, 2025, 11:28:56 AMI really like this recording.

So do I.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Symphonic Addict

#35881
April 27, 2025, 11:47:27 AM
Quote from: Roasted Swan on April 27, 2025, 11:21:27 AMOnce in a while I go onto Ebay and click a link to see "seller's other items".  Its a kind of online equivalent of browsing in a good old fashioned record store - remember those!!??  So I had a really good crop recently - all around the £5 mark (delivered):



These Merikanto discs are great. I'm glad that his symphonies have been performed in very good recordings.
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

vandermolen

#35882
April 28, 2025, 06:23:48 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on April 27, 2025, 11:47:27 AMThese Merikanto discs are great. I'm glad that his symphonies have been performed in very good recordings.
I agree Cesar!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Roasted Swan

#35883
April 28, 2025, 06:59:39 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 28, 2025, 06:23:48 AMI agree Cesar!

The only other Merikanto I had was a 2-disc "Meet the Composer" collection from Finlandia records - I'm enjoying these symphonies a lot - a distinctive musical voice I think.

vandermolen

#35884
April 28, 2025, 07:09:06 AM
I have a significant (for me) birthday coming up in a couple of months and my brother kindly said that he wanted to give me something which I really wanted (I could hardly ask my wife for obvious reasons  :o ):
So, here it is:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Der lächelnde Schatten

#35885
April 28, 2025, 07:16:27 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 28, 2025, 07:09:06 AMI have a significant (for me) birthday coming up in a couple of months and my brother kindly said that he wanted to give me something which I really wanted (I could hardly ask my wife for obvious reasons  :o ):
So, here it is:



[Wipes drool from mouth.]

What a fantastic gift! I LOVE Berglund's conducting so much. When this set came out, I was rather torn because I already own so much from it that it hardly seemed worth it, but then I realized I didn't own any of his Shostakovich, which is highly acclaimed. Well, if it still in-print around Christmas time, I might have to ask Santa to gift it to me.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and I'm not going to wish you a Happy Birthday yet. ;D
"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it." ― Ralph Vaughan Williams

vandermolen

#35886
April 28, 2025, 07:26:08 AM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on April 28, 2025, 07:16:27 AM[Wipes drool from mouth.]

What a fantastic gift! I LOVE Berglund's conducting so much. When this set came out, I was rather torn because I already own so much from it that it hardly seemed worth it, but then I realized I didn't own any of his Shostakovich, which is highly acclaimed. Well, if it still in-print around Christmas time, I might have to ask Santa to gift it to me.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and I'm not going to wish you a Happy Birthday yet. ;D
Thanks very much John!  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Brian

#35887
April 28, 2025, 12:17:06 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 28, 2025, 07:09:06 AMI have a significant (for me) birthday coming up in a couple of months and my brother kindly said that he wanted to give me something which I really wanted (I could hardly ask my wife for obvious reasons  :o ):
So, here it is:
Congrats on turning 30!  ;)

vandermolen

#35888
April 28, 2025, 01:36:17 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 28, 2025, 12:17:06 PMCongrats on turning 30!  ;)
If only!  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Kalevala

#35889
April 28, 2025, 02:23:12 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 28, 2025, 01:36:17 PMIf only!  ;D
Ah, but the wisdom that you have gained--as well as all of the CDs! ;D

K

vandermolen

#35890
April 28, 2025, 10:27:04 PM
Quote from: Kalevala on April 28, 2025, 02:23:12 PMAh, but the wisdom that you have gained--as well as all of the CDs! ;D

K
;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Que

#35891
April 29, 2025, 04:48:50 AM
Purchased yesterday:

 

 






I noticed that my previous order at jpc was over a year ago!

Times have definitely changed.... ::)

André

#35892
April 29, 2025, 03:05:08 PM




Der lächelnde Schatten

#35893
April 29, 2025, 05:56:26 PM
"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it." ― Ralph Vaughan Williams

vandermolen

#35894
Today at 04:59:58 AM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on April 29, 2025, 05:56:26 PMFantastic recording!
What's the music like John?
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Der lächelnde Schatten

#35895
Today at 07:17:00 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on Today at 04:59:58 AMWhat's the music like John?

Difficult to put into words, but if you're familiar with late Penderecki, then the music inhabits a Neo-Romantic sound-world with plenty of dissonance, but also moments of beguiling beauty, too.

You can listen to it here:


"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it." ― Ralph Vaughan Williams

vandermolen

#35896
Today at 07:34:58 AM Last Edit: Today at 07:40:59 AM by vandermolen
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on Today at 07:17:00 AMDifficult to put into words, but if you're familiar with late Penderecki, then the music inhabits a Neo-Romantic sound-world with plenty of dissonance, but also moments of beguiling beauty, too.

You can listen to it here:



Many thanks John. It sounds more approachable than the St Luke's Passion for example.
PS I think that I have it in a Penderecki boxed set that you very kindly sent to me a while back.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Der lächelnde Schatten

#35897
Today at 08:09:54 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on Today at 07:34:58 AMMany thanks John. It sounds more approachable than the St Luke's Passion for example.
PS I think that I have it in a Penderecki boxed set that you very kindly sent to me a while back.

Ah, very nice. Yeah, I would say it's more approachable than St Luke Passion, which actually comes from his earlier, more avant-garde period. Truth be told, I love all periods of Penderecki's music and he's a composer that took me awhile to get into, but once I understood the musical language and his general style, everything just opened up for me.
"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it." ― Ralph Vaughan Williams

DavidW

#35898
Today at 08:29:46 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on Today at 07:34:58 AMMany thanks John. It sounds more approachable than the St Luke's Passion for example.
PS I think that I have it in a Penderecki boxed set that you very kindly sent to me a while back.

It is more approachable, but the 2nd and 3rd are still the most neoromantic and the easiest of his symphonies to listen to imo.

ritter

#35899
Today at 10:06:01 AM
Drove past the Juan March Foundation on my Vespa this afternoon, and popped in to get the third instalment of their live recordings of Conrado del Campo's string quartets: the Quatuor Diotima playing SQs 8 & 9 (on two CDs).

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