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[Antoine Marchand]

I have that too!  You like it, Antoine?  

I love that recording!  

P.S.: My only quibble is about certain excessive prominence of the cello in some passages. But, finally, I even like that. 

[SonicMan46]

Have you purchased his symphonies in CPO, Dave?

Hi Gabriel - just have one other CPO disc of FE Fesca's works which are Symphonies Nos. 2/3 (shown below) - I know that the same performers have done the first symphony w/ some overtures, which might be a future purchase for me.

Also own a delightful chamber disc of his son's Septets, i.e. Alexander Ernst Fesca (1820-1849) - both short-lived - sad! Dave 

 

[ChamberNut]

I love that recording!  

P.S.: My only quibble is about certain excessive prominence of the cello in some passages. But, finally, I even like that. 

I do agree with this.  You hardly notice Serkin's piano in this recording, in some instances.  Very cello prominent! 

[DavidW]

I've been listening to Bruckner's Te Deum on repeat.  When I tire of it, I'll turn to his Mass #2.

[Gabriel]

You should, for these are some of his best compositions at all.
Sorry for yet another addition to your collection Dave.
We are not sorry.

We aren't at all, Harry!

Hi Gabriel - just have one other CPO disc of FE Fesca's works which are Symphonies Nos. 2/3 (shown below) - I know that the same performers have done the first symphony w/ some overtures, which might be a future purchase for me.

Yes, Dave, it is a very interesting CD, but the most consistent is the one you own. I particularly appreciate the overture to Cantemire. The sound of Fesca is quite peculiar, something between Mozart, Weber and Spohr; a bit less Haydnesque than Beethoven or Rejcha, and showing some influence of Italian music (probably via Rossini). Excellent music.

I plan to buy the flute quartets CD, as I detected some delicious irregularities in the samples I heard. I'd be grateful for some impressions about the whole CD.

[marvinbrown]

 I finished work rather early today and came home to find a deluge of CDs (hey check the Purchases thread to see what I bought!!) in my mailbox.  Have not opened any yet as I have a pile of CDs waiting to be heard for the first time.  First on the agenda is this which I am currently playing:

 

 I am very familiar with most of Janacek's operas.  I have gotten used to Janacek's folk influenced style so evident in his operas but this composition On an Overgrown Path has got me quite confused. Nothing folk inspired here  .  Granted this is romantic era music with mood and tempi shifting continuously throughout the peice but where is the Janacek of Vec Makropulos??  

 marvin    

[ChamberNut]

Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

Seiji Ozawa
Boston Symphony Orchestra

*I normally wait until around the month of December to listen to this work, but couldn't wait.  Was in the mood to hear it.  I used to hate this piece and love it to bits now! 

[Opus106]

Throw-me-something-new Thursday


Discovering Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. YouTube. Currently: Fricsay conducting the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (the first movement).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2JxLMO-Xk

And from another video of another movement from the same work, I found where the opening music of a radio programme (Live from the Concertgebouw) was taken from.

[marvinbrown]

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) WWV 86d from this box.

Fauré, after having heard the entire Ring cycle in Munich in 1879 summed up it's powerful effect perfectly...
"Such things seep into you just like water seeps through sand." Amen.

 OOooohh yeah! Now that's what I call music!   The god of opera at his best  0:)!

   
  marvin

[ChamberNut]

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) WWV 86d from this box.

Fauré, after having heard the entire Ring cycle in Munich in 1879 summed up it's powerful effect perfectly...
"Such things seep into you just like water seeps through sand." Amen.

Value for money, indeed on that set!! 

[bhodges]

Throw-me-something-new Thursday


Discovering Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. YouTube. Currently: Fricsay conducting the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (the first movement).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2JxLMO-Xk

And from another video of another movement from the same work, I found where the opening music of a radio programme (Live from the Concertgebouw) was taken from.

Impressions?  This was for many years my favorite piece of music.  Still love it, even if I don't feel the need to choose a "favorite" at the moment.

--Bruce

[Opus106]

Impressions?  This was for many years my favorite piece of music.  Still love it, even if I don't feel the need to choose a "favorite" at the moment.

--Bruce

I'm pleased to say that I don't have any allergic reactions. Frankly, I think the last movement is AMAZING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsyVk0-YYjM&NR=1 - Grand stuff!


Incidentally, it was the opening of the last movement that was featured in the radio programme.



P.S.: I'm wondering if this is a side-effect of flipping through Alex Ross' book at the bookstore today.

[karlhenning]

This was the missing volume in my collection, listening to it, I am glad in finally arrived, for I enjoy Koukl's interpretation very much. He is a clear headed but warm player, that is squeezing every ounce of musicality out of these works, that contains many world premieres yet again.

BTW, all ye fans of Giorgio Koukl:  he is now on ReverbNation.

[Florestan]

 OOooohh yeah! Now that's what I call music!   The god of opera at his best  0:)!

Opera?! Shouldn't it be Gesamtkunstwerk? According to the man himself, operas were written by Meyerbeer and the likes.  

[karlhenning]

Opera?! Shouldn't it be Gesamtkunstwerk? According to the man himself, operas were written by Meyerbeer and the likes. 

Shh, Andrei! They're praying!

. . . just like water seeps through sand. Amen.

[Florestan]

Shh, Andrei! They're praying!

[karlhenning]

Ah, the Grand Litany has just started . . . .

Thou art so stupendous...thy glorious harmonic world filleth our musical mind that it takes over our own interior! Thou art the Body Snatcher of composers! Thy magnetic field hath major pull!

[Opus106]

[Wagner's] magnetic field has major pull ...

B major.

[bhodges]

I'm pleased to say that I don't have any allergic reactions. Frankly, I think the last movement is AMAZING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsyVk0-YYjM&NR=1 - Grand stuff!

A quick shot of Benadryl should remedy any hives or swelling. 

The last movement is one of those great things that really shows off a great orchestra.  That Boulez performance is excellent!  Hadn't seen that, so thanks for posting it.  IIRC the last time I heard this was with Dudamel and his Venezuelan orchestra.  If they weren't the Berlin Philharmonic, it didn't even matter; to see them play it so well, and with so much passion, was about as inspiring as it gets.

--Bruce

[Lethevich]