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Harry

#56581
October 30, 2009, 11:32:04 AM
Quote from: Brahmsian on October 30, 2009, 09:39:54 AM
Prokofiev

Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25 'Classical'
Symphony No. 4 in C major, op. 47 (original version)

Neeme Jarvi
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos

Please Ray, if you please, a full report?! ;D

Harry

#56582
October 30, 2009, 11:33:38 AM
Quote from: Cato on October 30, 2009, 10:41:06 AM
Just arrived:




Mehul:
The Symphony #3 caught my attention some weeks ago: imagine a French Rossini as a symphonist, and you will have some idea of the style!  The Finale is a furious flurry of fiddling fun!   :o

And what about the famous Nimbus echo, which plagued many of their recordings?

Brian

#56583
October 30, 2009, 11:35:51 AM
Sonics on this album are kind of bizarre.

greg

#56584
October 30, 2009, 11:43:47 AM
Quote from: Harry on October 29, 2009, 11:54:32 PM
Common Greg, if you can't see at first glance this is a woman, look at her slender body, and for that matter the inkling of a cleavage, than you need to go to the eye doctor. ;D
I do have my contacts in.  ;D
I guess if you look at the face first and look for a second while ignoring the cleavage it can be confusing... and then look down a little, and... aha!



Quote from: Coopmv on October 29, 2009, 06:45:22 PM
Half of the selections on CD2 came from this original release.  Philips probably should have used the old cover ...


That one does look a bit better.

Marc

#56585
October 30, 2009, 12:22:35 PM
Quote from: opus106 on October 29, 2009, 09:45:32 PM
That was a recent find, as were many of Bach's organ works. But this one has quickly risen to the top of my favourites list. :)

I think I shall pop the CD in right now to listen to that work again. 

One tema for plm. 15 minutes (OK, 1/2 of it in the Fugue), and it's never boring!!

Marc

#56586
October 30, 2009, 12:26:38 PM Last Edit: October 30, 2009, 12:29:33 PM by Marc
Quote from: Harry on October 30, 2009, 03:55:28 AM
From this very inexpensive box [Famous Dutch Organs], CD V, with works by Max Reger, his opus 27, 30, 40, No. 1 & 2.

Wouter van den Broek, plays on the Organ of the Grote or Onze Lieve Vrouwe Church, Breda.

The recording of 1989 is all little distanced and muffled, and funny enough that suits the music. Its one of the largest organs in the Netherlands, but it did not start out to be that. In 1534 the new organ was build with only 16 stops, divided among Great and Positive.

http://www.orgelland.nl/orgels/breda/history.htm

BTW: the entire box was/is a real brilliant (re-)issue!

Keemun

#56588
October 30, 2009, 01:43:06 PM
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Celibidache
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Live: April 20, 1993 at Symphony Hall, Osaka, Japan

My daily dose of Bruckner.  0:)
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Christo

#56589
October 30, 2009, 03:03:31 PM
Extremely beautiful, have been playing it for weeks on end:

             
... 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

#56590
October 30, 2009, 03:30:26 PM
Quote from: Christo on October 30, 2009, 03:03:31 PM
Extremely beautiful, have been playing it for weeks on end:

             

Christo my friend, its good to see you back. :)

Cato

#56592
October 30, 2009, 04:26:34 PM
Quote from: Harry on October 30, 2009, 11:33:38 AM
And what about the famous Nimbus echo, which plagued many of their recordings?

On the Mehul Symphonies I have noticed nary an echo!

At least on my copy!  0:)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Coopmv

#56594
October 30, 2009, 04:56:50 PM
Now playing this Gimell early music CD, which arrived late last week ...

Coopmv

#56595
October 30, 2009, 06:17:34 PM
Now playing another early music Gimell CD that arrived last week ...

Conor71

#56596
October 30, 2009, 07:34:11 PM
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 5 - Daniel Barenboim

Coopmv

#56597
October 30, 2009, 08:50:18 PM
Now playing this CD ...

Orpheus

#56598
October 30, 2009, 10:33:43 PM
The Supreme



Fantasie and unfinished fugue in C minor BWV 906

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBMsndmuHJA

Orpheus :D

Christo

#56599
October 30, 2009, 11:05:01 PM
Quote from: Harry on October 30, 2009, 03:30:26 PM
Christo my friend, its good to see you back. :)

Many thanks! (Four months of reclusion - not in a monastery, but moving with my family into a new house).  :P  >:( :)

Playing this `entirely beautiful'  0:) cd again (much of it will be to your taste, no doubt! :-) as an early morning music:

                 

... 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
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