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[Que]

Tonight from this set:

Camille Saint-Saens:
Havanaise, in E major for violin & piano (or orchestra), Op. 83; LPO/ Alceo Galliera
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin
Pablo de Sarasate:
Spanish Dances: Playera y zapateado, for violin & piano, Op 23 No. 2, Zapateado; Malagueña y Habanera, Op 21 No. 2, Habanera; with Leon Pommers
Zigeunerweisen ("Gypsy Airs"), Op. 20; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin
Hora Staccato by Grigoras Dinicu; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin
Moto perpetuo in C major, Op. 11, MS 72 by Niccolo Paganini; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin
La capricieuse — morceau de genre, for violin & piano, Op. 17 by Edward Elgar; with Leon Pommers
The Old Refrain by Johann Brandl; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin
The Flight of the Bumble Bee, musical picture for orchestra (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan) by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov; Hollywood Bowl SO/ Felix Slatkin

Nocturne for piano No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27/2, CT. 115 by Fryderyk Chopin
Scènes d'enfant, No. 5, Jeunes Filles au Jardin, arranged for violin & piano No. 5 Jeunes filles au jardin by Federico Mompou
Etude for piano in D flat major, Op. 8/10 by Alexander Scriabin
Sea-Shell for violin & piano by Carl Engel
The Love for Three Oranges, opera, Op. 33 Marsch by Sergey Prokofiev
Pieces (4) for violin & piano, Op. 17 No. 4, Burleska, by Josef Suk
All with Leon Pommers, piano.

Q

[Lethevich]

The Quintet is good stuff. I was concerned during the opening that this might be a bore-fest, but a scherzo with some cool effects and a perky finale make this worthwhile.

[Sergeant Rock]

Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust, Solti, Chicago, and the divine Miss Frederica von Stade:



Sarge

[kishnevi]

The Quintet is good stuff. I was concerned during the opening that this might be a bore-fest, but a scherzo with some cool effects and a perky finale make this worthwhile.

Any recording that contains Metamorphosen can not be a bore-fest. 

Thread duty.
One of the local public TV stations is actually allowing a classical broadcast to air (this one usually never does any classical music).  Probably has to do with the fact that the Cleveland Orchestra spends a few weekends here for the last few seasons, once the Florida Philharmonic went under.

Bruckner, Symphony No. 7, Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most, cond.
Taped in Cleveland , but didn't catch the performance date.

[Antoine Marchand]

That's one of the most sought after harpischords; a superstar among players. Christine Schornsheim calls it "the Nightingale", because it looks kind of dowdy... black with a bit of yellow trim -- but it just sings. She's recorded/recording her WTC on it.

Great news, Jens! I don't strictly consider Schornsheim as a baroque player (I believe she is more comfortable in the second half of the XVIII Century), but I usually like all of her performances...   

[Conor71]

Good morning - listening to works for Violin & Piano from the first 2 discs and Piano Quintets from the last set (all recently aquired):

[Antoine Marchand]

J.S. Bach: The French Suites BWV 812-817
David Cates (harpsichord)
Instrument: Harpsichord by Owen Daly, 1999, after Antoine Vaudry, Paris, 1681   
Music & Arts
Recorded Nov 2001 in Takilma, Oregon
2-CD / TT: 95:00

[PaulR]

Kalinnikov Symphony #1

What a great piece of music!  Extremely fun to play as well.

[not edward]

Two fine performances of 20th century violin concerti, courtesy of Rolf Schulte and co-conspirators:




This performance of the Carter work convinces me in a way the older Bohn/Knussen one never quite managed.

[Daverz]

Symphony No. 98.

[Coopmv]

"Who told you to put the Bartok on? I didn't tell you to put the Bartok on?"

There is a conspiracy ...

[Opus106]

http://www.youtube.com/v/SApSILYF9Mo

Quatuor Ébène plays the theme from the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction. [Verbier, 2008] It was an encore, but I'm using it as a starter before I listen to some Haydn (Op. 71/2), Schubert (D. 810) and Fauré (Op. 121) from a concert held in Portland last year.

[Papy Oli]

good morning 



symphony No.3

[The new erato]

good morning 



symphony No.3

22 Euros for the complete set on amazon.de.

Worth having?

[Papy Oli]

22 Euros for the complete set on amazon.de.

Worth having?

Hi Erato

My listening of it has been very sketchy (only the 1st, 2nd and 6th prior to today, and bits of the 9th ) but i have enjoyed it. Not as oddball as my perception of sinopoli was when his name is mentionned here.

The CD's are crammed and many symphonies are split ( 2 - 3 as expected but also 4 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9), if that's a hindrance you take into account.

Still, considering the price of the previous version of the boxset, this is an absolute bargain 

[The new erato]

Thanks! Yes I noticed that several works were split (I would happily pay extra for a couple of CDs more in the set to avoid that); no problems with the remastered sound?

[Papy Oli]

no problems with the remastered sound?

Nothing wrong noticed on that side personnally so far (I do most of my listening on headphones HD650). Your perception may vary 

[Antoine Marchand]

The talented and beautiful Russian harpsichordist Maria Uspenskaya playing some movements of the Gamba Sonatas with Paolo Pandolfo. I think I would like a disc with Uspenskaya more than I like Pandolfo/Alessandrini (Harmonia Mundi):


http://www.youtube.com/v/goilpZwbIcg

[Sergeant Rock]

Quatuor Ébène plays the theme from the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction.

That was cool. Thanks for posting it.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Finishing up La Damnation de Faust, which I started late last night. I'm always bemused hearing the brass fanfare that opens part III. That is an American army bugle call, Retreat (Evening Colors), used to signal the end of the work day and calling one to attention as the flag is about to be lowered. I heard that bugle call almost every day for more than twenty years. So odd to hear Berlioz using the tune.




Sarge