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Que

#29940
August 01, 2008, 11:46:13 PM


Q  :)

Mark

#29941
August 01, 2008, 11:51:29 PM
Quote from: calvin on August 01, 2008, 08:55:55 PM
Brahms Requiem for the whole day


Solti/CSO


Levine/CSO


Abbado/BPO


Giulini/VPO


Celibidache/MPO


Rattle/BPO


Karajan/BPO

All of them are good, especially the version of abbado, celibidache and giulini....part 2 and 6 were well-played :).....

Good man!

I have only the Rattle from the selection you posted ... along with 19 other recordings. ;D

Must add the Abbado and Levine sometime soon.

Peregrine

#29942
August 01, 2008, 11:59:32 PM
LVB/SQ's - Op.14/No.1 + Op.59/No.3

New Music String Quartet

Excellent, stunning virtuosity from this 'legendary' quartet

Nice  ;)
Yes, we have no bananas

val

#29943
August 02, 2008, 12:14:50 AM
PASQUINI:      Sonate for the harpsichord           / Rinaldo Alessandrini   (ASTREE)

Between the generations of Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, Pasquini was the most important Italian composer for the harpsichord. He had not the same talent of his contemporaries Froberger or Louis Couperin, but some of this little pieces, in special the Ricercar and the Allemandes are very beautiful.

Alessandrini seems too serious and heavy for this music, and the sound of his instrument seems a little aggressive.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#29944
August 02, 2008, 12:35:34 AM
Korngold, Piano Concerto for the left hand (Shelley/Chandos)

Foulds, Pasquinade Symphonique No. 2



Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Christo

#29945
August 02, 2008, 01:03:52 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on August 02, 2008, 12:35:34 AM
Foulds, Pasquinade Symphonique No. 2

Well, yes, Foulds, the modern mystic.  0:) Hardly available in the past, but nowadays ... where should I start? Any recommendations?  :P
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Harry

#29946
August 02, 2008, 01:11:41 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on August 02, 2008, 12:35:34 AM
Korngold, Piano Concerto for the left hand (Shelley/Chandos)

Foulds, Pasquinade Symphonique No. 2





I am very interested to know what you think about the Foulds Johan?

Harry

#29947
August 02, 2008, 01:12:33 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 02, 2008, 01:03:52 AM
Well, yes, Foulds, the modern mystic.  0:) Hardly available in the past, but nowadays ... where should I start? Any recommendations?  :P

May I join the bandwagon!  :)

J.Z. Herrenberg

#29948
August 02, 2008, 01:19:12 AM Last Edit: August 02, 2008, 01:26:58 AM by Jezetha
John Foulds - I am no expert. But his World Requiem (Chandos), the Three Mantras (Lyrita or Sony (?)) and the Dynamic Triptych (Lyrita, coupled with RVW...) are wonderful pieces, energetic, colourful and with a visionary streak...



Now listening to:

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Christo

#29949
August 02, 2008, 01:27:13 AM
Quote from: Harry on August 02, 2008, 01:12:33 AM
May I join the bandwagon!  :)

No!  $:) You're supposed to be the locomotive ...  ;)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Wanderer

#29950
August 02, 2008, 01:28:31 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 02, 2008, 01:03:52 AM
Well, yes, Foulds, the modern mystic.  0:) Hardly available in the past, but nowadays ... where should I start? Any recommendations?  :P

I don't have the Lyrita recordings (how are they?), but I can enthusiastically recommend the two Warner recordings with Oramo (and Donohoe in the Dynamic Triptych), as well as the World Requiem on Chandos.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#29951
August 02, 2008, 01:39:25 AM
It seems Oramo and Donohoe are the best in the Dynamic Triptych, if Musicweb is to be believed. The Three Mantras seem to be about equal (but I can't compare them myself). Try the Lyrita in this:

http://rapidshare.com/files/134267098/John_Foulds_-_Dynamic_Triptych_Op_8_III_Dynamic_Rhythm.mp3
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Harry

#29952
August 02, 2008, 01:42:44 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 02, 2008, 01:27:13 AM
No!  $:) You're supposed to be the locomotive ...  ;)

Not anymore my dear friend, other energetic members have pushed this old man aside, for the moment.

Christo

#29953
August 02, 2008, 02:23:39 AM
Quote from: Harry on August 02, 2008, 01:42:44 AM
Not anymore my dear friend, other energetic members have pushed this old man aside, for the moment.

Wdy mean with "pushed aside".  :-\ I probably missed something during my stay away?  ??? Hope you are alright?
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

J.Z. Herrenberg

#29954
August 02, 2008, 02:31:28 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 02, 2008, 02:23:39 AM
Wdy mean with "pushed aside".  :-\ I probably missed something during my stay away?  ??? Hope you are alright?

As Harry is offline - he simply means he is less active at the moment. He has rather a lot on his plate at the moment (much of it not very nice).
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Christo

#29955
August 02, 2008, 02:51:24 AM
Quote from: Wanderer on August 02, 2008, 01:28:31 AM
I don't have the Lyrita recordings (how are they?), but I can enthusiastically recommend the two Warner recordings with Oramo (and Donohoe in the Dynamic Triptych), as well as the World Requiem on Chandos.

Thnx very much! Only now I realize that those Warner CDs are part of an Oramo project in Birmingham, great that conductors take up projects like these. I heard the Lyrita LP with the Dynamic Tryptich in the old days (thanks to it's coupling, RVW's concerto), and can still recall it. I remember I was always intrigued by the story that Fould left for India and started some ambitious projects there too, only to die in obscure circumstances at the end of the 1930s.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Harry

#29956
August 02, 2008, 03:29:13 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 02, 2008, 02:23:39 AM
Wdy mean with "pushed aside".  :-\ I probably missed something during my stay away?  ??? Hope you are alright?

Rather a lot on my plate....not meant in a negative way....

Lethevich

#29957
August 02, 2008, 03:47:29 AM
Hehe, how strange. A fair while ago I mentioned that a song collection on the following disc (an excellent one BTW) will inevitably encourage comparison with Mahler due to its use of east Asian texts and being in the late Romantic style:



Well, I've just found that one of Operashare's Concert Archives (#756) does indeed couple this song cycle with Mahler's 5th, and the effect is wonderful.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Keemun

#29958
August 02, 2008, 06:11:08 AM
Dvorak: Stabat Mater (Vaclav Smetacek; Czech PO, Prague Philharmonic Choir, et al.)  I downloaded this from eMusic last night and it is the first time I have heard this work.  It is incredible. :o

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Brian

#29959
August 02, 2008, 06:53:46 AM
Quote from: Keemun on August 02, 2008, 06:11:08 AM
Dvorak: Stabat Mater (Vaclav Smetacek; Czech PO, Prague Philharmonic Choir, et al.)  I downloaded this from eMusic last night and it is the first time I have heard this work.  It is incredible. :o
Hey there! I've been looking at getting, via eMusic, Dvorak's Requiem (Ancerl). Do you have that one? How is this one? Which piece should I start off with?
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