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[Traverso]

Mozart

CD 1

Jaap Schröder is the driving force behind these recordings. I don't see these recordings often, and that's a shame.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Mozart

Violin Concerto No.3

Concertone in C

Berliner Philharmoniker  Oistrakh

[Que]

1st impression: excellent.

[Madiel]

Arias for tenor, first half

A second listen, with my own listening volume turned down a touch, is yielding somewhat better results. Though there are still times I wish for a bit more subtlety in the performance.

EDIT: On the whole, the album just lacks the musical variety of the equivalent volumes of bass arias and contralto arias. When it does have a moment of repose it's a real highlight.

[brewski]

Dipping into a performance of Satie's Vexations, with pianist Roman Borisov. At the moment, a student is filling in while Borisov takes a short break.

At the moment (11:15 am EDT) looks like about another 7 hours to go.

[ritter]

Sylvano Bussotti: La Passion selon Sade, extraits de concert (Elise Ross —sop—, instrumental soloists, Marcello Panni —cond—), and Le Bal Mirò (Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Lothar Zagrosek —cond.—).

[DavidW]

1st impression: excellent.

Yes, they have really brought their own distinctive personality to these works. It is not just about performing on period instruments.

[Mister Sharpe]

It has been too long a time since I last heard Tempesta di mare and as I enjoy what might be loosely termed "sea music" (and do some collecting along those lines), I crank this up with great expectations.  I do hope I don't catch Vivaldi-itis from Madiel...   BTW, it's past time to re-listen to Vivaldi's Gloria; some months ago after reading an engaging survey of recordings of it in Gramophone, I resolved to renew my acquaintance with the work and still haven't done that. Cattivo ragazzo.





 

[Todd]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak
Wiener Symphoniker, Yakov Kreizberg

[Mandryka]

1st impression: excellent.

I can't get past the name spunicunifait. I don't know about in Dutch but in English it sounds a bit like a teenage joke.

Very good booklet I think

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/11/000213911.pdf

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat

Agnes Baltsa, Benjamin Luxon, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Peter Schreier
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Sladkovsky

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1899 Edition [Doblinger] Ed. Cyrill Hynais
Wiener Symphoniker, Charles Adler

[Symphonic Addict]

Rautavaara: Symphony No. 5

A work rich in textures and sonorities that manages to conjure up surreal soundscapes.

[Symphonic Addict]

Kalliwoda: Symphony No. 5 in B minor

[Symphonic Addict]

Wordsworth: Symphony No. 5 in A minor

Hauntingly atmospheric music. The misty, somber, reflective quality that predominates in the first movement is quite special, not too dissimilar to what one hears in works by Vadim Salmanov or Boris Tchaikovsky.

[Linz]

Antonin DvořákThe String Quartets [CD1]
String Quartet No.1 in A major, Op.2 B.8
Quartet Movement in A minor
Prager Streichquartett

[Symphonic Addict]

Silvestrov: Symphony No. 5

It's hard not to be moved by this immensely sorrowful music. However, around the min. 30 onwards it can't sustain its material, it gets a little monotonous in my view.