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[karlhenning]

Happy Langgaardalia!

Huzzah!

Langgaard
Symphony № 13, Undertro (Belief in Wonders), 1946-47
Danish National Radio Symphony
Dausgaard

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Huzzah!

Langgaard
Symphony № 13, Undertro (Belief in Wonders), 1946-47
Danish National Radio Symphony
Dausgaard

I join you - No. 13 is a favourite of mine. I love the music starting at 23'44''. Langgaard Unbuttoned!

Just noticed - you have the Dausgaard... My timing is for the Stupel. But you'll know which passage I mean - where the bass drum goes berserk (don't know whether Dausgaard's dampens the rather plebeian boisterousness, though!)

[Gabriel]

It's interesting that you mention this CD, Traverso. It's the only CD I own of Brunetti's music, and I would like to know more of it before trying to describe the style of the composer. But specifically about these few string quartets I can say that it is some of the most intriguing chamber music of the classical period. Perhaps it is the use of listening to the Viennese composers of the time, but even compared with Boccherini's works these are very special; I would even say that they are very strange. Their emotional approach is a light one, but the music in itself is quite twisted: very strange textures, unexpected modulations, irregular subjects, and lots of other surprises.

If I had to describe these works, I'd say they are like a piranha. Their size is deceiving. And when gathered in groups, they can create a very powerful force. According to Wikipedia, he wrote a considerable amount of chamber music (44 string quartets, 66 string quintets, and so on). If most of his music had at least the level presented by this CD, we would be in front of a very sadly forgotten composer; and considering that Brunetti was active in Spain at the same time Boccherini was, they both could offer a most distinguished counterpoint to the Haydn-Mozart Austrian chamber music writing of this period.

[The new erato]

Thank you Gabriel. This seems like just the thing to explore, I love string quartets and find Boccherini very interesting as well. Sigh; another one for the wish list.

[George]

Ach, Teknologie...

And?

Check PM. 

[not edward]

For me, the first two books of Etudes are one of the towering monuments of late 20th century music, and this is a performance that matches the quality of the music.

[Keemun]

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1 (Evgeny Svetlanov; USSR Symphony Orchestra)

[George]

For me, the first two books of Etudes are one of the towering monuments of late 20th century music, and this is a performance that matches the quality of the music.

I agree. I think the same of the SQ from that same Sony series.

BTW, was that the LP? 

[ChamberNut]

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 Winter Dreams

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Brilliant Classics

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky: Pulcinella (complete), with Igor conducting the Columbia Symphony. I think I'm getting to prefer the complete work to the orchestral suite. Of course it's almost a different piece, so there's no reason to express a preference. I've always loved the suite (esp. in Klemperer's droll, truculent reading). BTW Stravinsky's sounds very different from Abbado's LSO (DG). I'll have to compare them to find out why.

Langgaard: disc 7 of the complete set of symphonies. Various short pieces along with symphonies 15 and 16. What an engaging, stimulating composer! There's always something to make the ears perk up in delight or in surprise. Beautiful playing and recording.

Bonjour, André!  Entirely with you (and Johan) in enthusiasm for Langgaard.

Thread duty:

With André, too, in the complete Pulcinella from [the Big Stravinsky Box]

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[Valentino]

And?

One goes back to (one of) the earliest recording(s) of the Diabellis, and what does one get? Fresh, vintage, true Beethoven! Further exploration of Schnabel's Beethoven is necessary, selbstverständlich!

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Orpheus

[karlhenning]

Milhaud
L'homme et son désir

[Harry]

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 1 (Evgeny Svetlanov; USSR Symphony Orchestra)

Most excellent choice.

[ChamberNut]

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor

Sir Adrian Boult
London Philharmonic Orchestra
EMI Classics' 'Big Box 'O RVW'

[Diletante]

PHILIP GLASS
Einstein on the Beach



1,2,3,4...

[karlhenning]

Milhaud
Concerto № 2 for piano & orchestra, Opus 228

[Opus106]

All that talk of Cherubini in Gurn's thread...
...one among the most Classical string quartets in my collection.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Alban Berg Quartet

[George]

[The new erato]

Cool, nordic, neoclassical stuff. But I find Wirens quartets on the same label more fun and inventive, and Rosenberg's quatets more probing. Still a good and worthwhile listen.