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[Que]

Good morning.

Q

[The new erato]

Late last night, home from a concert of the b minor "Hohe" Mass, these wonderful "cantatas" by Carl Nielsen in idiomatic performances and a state of the art recording:

[val]

HAYDN:          Piano Trio in D major

BEETHOVEN:     Piano Trio opus 97, "Archduke"

/ Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Rostropovitch   (1951/1956)

The version of Haydn's Trio is the best I ever heard. I heard it 40 years ago and never forgot it.

Regarding Beethoven it is different. A good version, lyrical,natural, but far from the greatness, the contrasts, the eloquence of Stern, Istomin and Rose.

[The new erato]

HAYDN:          Piano Trio in D major

BEETHOVEN:     Piano Trio opus 97, "Archduke"

/ Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Rostropovitch   (1951/1956)

The version of Haydn's Trio is the best I ever heard. I heard it 40 years ago and never forgot it.

Regarding Beethoven it is different. A good version, lyrical,natural, but far from the greatness, the contrasts, the eloquence of Stern, Istomin and Rose.

Provided you are playing the 2CD reissue, this set contains the best version of a Schumann trio I've ever heard.

[CD]

Late last night, home from a concert of the b minor "Hohe" Mass, these wonderful "cantatas" by Carl Nielsen in idiomatic performances and a state of the art recording:

Are these in his unique later style or his more Brahmsian early style?

[val]

erato

Provided you are playing the 2CD reissue, this set contains the best version of a Schumann trio I've ever heard.

No, it is a 5 CD reissue. It includes Trios from Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Shostakovitch, Fauré's First piano Quartet and other works. I only heard the first CD. In a few days I will listen to the others.

[karlhenning]

. . . these wonderful "cantatas" by Carl Nielsen in idiomatic performances and a state of the art recording

That's a beauty!

[The new erato]

They are spread over a number of years, The Hymnus Amoris being his first major success and the Springtime in Funen being reasonably late (and The Sleep being inbetween), and the "Funen" bearing lots of unmissable fingerprints from works like the 4th/5th symphonies.  And if you by referring Brahms think of works like the 2nd/3rd symphony, I guess that the Hymnus Amoris are more like them. The Sleep, however, is a dramatic, chromatic, occasionally cataclysmic work that I think of as more of a one-of-a-kind in Nielsen's oeuvre.  

They are all deeply individual however, and speak of a highly original and personal composer, and quite simply unmissable.

[Valentin]

[Conor71]

Satie: Piano Works - Pascal Roge

[CD]

They are spread over a number of years, The Hymnus Amoris being his first major success and the Springtime in Funen being reasonably late (and The Sleep being inbetween), and the "Funen" bearing lots of unmissable fingerprints from works like the 4th/5th symphonies.  And if you by referring Brahms think of works like the 2nd/3rd symphony, I guess that the Hymnus Amoris are more like them. The Sleep, however, is a dramatic, chromatic, occasionally cataclysmic work that I think of as more of a one-of-a-kind in Nielsen's oeuvre.  

They are all deeply individual however, and speak of a highly original and personal composer, and quite simply unmissable.

Thanks for the description, I'll be sure to pick it up when I'm in a Nielsen mood.

[bhodges]

On the radio Saturday afternoon:

Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (Michael Hofstetter, conductor/Houston Grand Opera) - Completely new to me.  Joyce DiDonato and Norman Reinhardt were the title characters, singing very well.  Hofstetter seemed to be getting great results from the ensemble, especially the HGO chorus.  Would have liked to see the production, by Elijah Moshinsky, originally done for Opera Australia.

--Bruce

[Orpheus]

Ludwig Thuille



Sextet for Winds and Piano Op.6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9WUjES5CpU&feature=PlayList&p=86BDB62DA095AFBA&index=0&playnext=1


Enjoy!!!

Orpheus

[Harry]

I am a great admirer of Thuille, and have most of his Chamber music, and the only Symphony/Piano concerto he wrote.

[Orpheus]

I am a great admirer of Thuille, and have most of his Chamber music, and the only Symphony/Piano concerto he wrote.

My only Thuille's recording



astounding winds treatement!

Orpheus

[Harry]

My only Thuille's recording



astounding winds treatement!

Orpheus

Yep, that was also a recent purchase from me, and it is a very good performance/recording.

[Orpheus]

Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев

Overture on Hebrew Themes Op.34



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3uPYj9MVi4

Orpheus

[Harry]

Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев

"Orpheus", we are not only Russians on this board, but use the English language as a communication tool, so please which composer is this again?

[karlhenning]

This one:

[Gabriela]

Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев

"Orpheus", we are not only Russians on this board, but use the English language as a communication tool, so please which composer is this again?

Of course is Serghei Sergheevici Prokofiev ...