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Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 6, Ruda, Roberto Duarte, Slovak Radio Symphony Orch., Marco Polo


This is really is an incredible recording as are all of Roberto Duarte's Villa-Lobos recordings on Marco Polo. Sadly, they're all out-of-print now, but hopefully they'll be re-released by Naxos one day. I was fortunate to find all of these recordings form Amazon Marketplace sellers.

[Conor71]

A very Bach kind of day - listening so far:

[Drasko]

[pi2000]

Ricci Festival

[Peregrine]

[Lethevich]

A friend out of the blue asked if I had any Brahms that they could listen to, so we chillaxed to:


                  (String Sextet No.1)

Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 6, Ruda, Roberto Duarte, Slovak Radio Symphony Orch., Marco Polo


This is really is an incredible recording as are all of Roberto Duarte's Villa-Lobos recordings on Marco Polo. Sadly, they're all out-of-print now, but hopefully they'll be re-released by Naxos one day. I was fortunate to find all of these recordings form Amazon Marketplace sellers.

I'm dreaming of Brilliant Classics licencing them (admittedly this is unlikely given Naxos' track record). For some reason his symphonies are totally obscure yet his quartets are popular and enjoy many complete cycles...

[Sergeant Rock]

And - Hélène Grimaud.

I have seen the reply of Navneeth, but Hélène Grimaud is not included among the performers of this particular set....

Confusion reigns. Grimaud plays the Second and Third Sonatas in the 6-CD Brilliant piano box (according to amazon.de and JPC). If Grimaud is not in the Brilliant big box, who plays those two sonatas, Antoine?

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm sure delivery schedules are delayed due to all those heavy Bundespost deliveries to Sarge's house.   

[Antoine Marchand]

Confusion reigns. Grimaud plays the Second and Third Sonatas in the 6-CD Brilliant piano box (according to amazon.de and JPC). If Grimaud is not in the Brilliant big box, who plays those two sonatas, Antoine?

Hi, Sarge: Those sonatas are played by the excellent American pianist Alan Weiss. I don't know, but probably Grimaud's disc was a licensed recording; this one is a Brilliant Classics original production. 

[greg]

Greg, that is such a childish comment, you should be ashamed. Anyway, for maximum punnage you should have said 'ova', not 'above. And you failed to mention that the 'Rach' is situated similarly.....   I would never stoop so low, myself.....

Looks like you're even more observant than me. 

[Florestan]

[Antoine Marchand]

I don't know, but probably Grimaud's disc was a licensed recording; this one is a Brilliant Classics original production.

Maybe the Second and Third Sonatas are taken from these Denon discs:





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What a painfully beautiful girl! But she is also a great pianist playing Brahms. I have her Piano Concerto No. 1 and some Klavierstücke (Warner) and she is excellent there, especially in the piano concerto.

[cosmicj]

Generally speaking, I don't like my Beethoven sonatas slow.  But Christoph Eschenbach's playing in this twofer is so good that I can make an exception.  To be fair, most of the playing is not slow, but the slow movements sure are.  The Adagio of Op 106 is around 25 minutes, making it one of the longest out there, and it works well, especially when the solid, large scale, yet nuanced playing of the rest of the sonata is taken into account.

Thanks for your rave - I have been meaning to get this set.  I used to have Eschenbach's Op 106 on LP and have never found another performance, esp of the Adagio, as powerful and moving.  (Not claiming to have heard them all.)

[Franco]

Mozart: Piano Sonatas
Ronald Brautigam

[Papy Oli]

good evening all 

Received this boxset today.



Starting with No.6 

[Keemun]

I'm giving Mahler's 8th another try, this time with a new recording.  I hope this one is the breakthrough and I finally enjoy this work.

[Lethevich]

The production of this thing is phenomonal. The playing and singing aren't too bad either

[bhodges]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yuja Wang/Claudio Abbado/Lucerne Festival Orchestra, live performance archived on SymphonyCast) - My first real encounter with Yuja Wang, and so far, she's doing quite a job.  She and Abbado are not taking the piece extraordinarily fast, enabling sections that can sound blurred to be heard more clearly.

And now:

Michael Finnissy: Snowdrift (Nicolas Hodges, piano) - A beautiful episode by one of the most interesting composers today writing for piano.

Salvatore Sciarrino: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Massimiliano Damerino, piano) -  Somehow missed this water sprite of a piece, rippling with glissandi.

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

The production of this thing is phenomonal. The playing and singing aren't too bad either

The following most recently remastered set is sonically superior to any previous releases on CD.  I picked the set up about 2 years ago ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 - all Liszt works from this set ...