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[Conor71]

This from the DG 'Pianist of the Century' boxed set:



Beethoven:
Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat
Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 37

Ditto!
Now playing:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5

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Freakin' fantastic! Great recording!

[karlhenning]

Fist-pumping fantastic!! 

Shostakovich

Cello Concerto No. 1, Op.107
Cello Concerto No. 2, Op.126

Heinrich Schiff, cello

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Maxim Shostakovich
Philips

Aye, great stuff!

[karlhenning]

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Freakin' fantastic! Great recording!

Yes, that's a beauty, too!

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First listen!

[MN Dave]

LvB "Pathetique" - Lupu

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Listening to Concerto for Orchestra and I really like it. Very Bartokian.

[otare]

Enjoying some old russian recordings: Bella Davidovich plays Saint-Saëns' 2. piano concerto:



I'm in a kind of Saint-Saëns mood at the moment. Fantastic composer.

[Florestan]

[Conor71]

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2, Concert Fantasy
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Todays theme: Piano Concertos

[Brian]

Today is brought to you by the letter Z!

Listening for the first time ever to these works:

Zador: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong. Frankenland SSO; W. Schoenherr
Zador: Divertimento for Strings. Frankenland SSO; Eric Kloss
Zador: Hungarian Caprice. Frankenland SSO; Eric Kloss
Zelenka: Missa votiva. Kammerchor and Barockorchester Stuttgart; Frieder Bernius

   

[Brahmsian]

Shostakovich

*Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op.112 "The Year 1917"
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op.141

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai
Brilliant Classics

*I think it's only the 2nd time I've ever listened to Symphony No. 12.  I did enjoy it, although it isn't groundbreaking like his 10th or 4th, and not as interesting as his 11th, 7th, 5th or 8th.

It is interesting to note in the liner notes to this CD, by Dr. David Doughty, that he essentially flogs and slams this Symphony (No. 12).  I just find it odd that it slams the work itself, in the liner notes of the CD.  I find that a tad unusual!?

[Benji]

Shostakovich

*Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op.112 "The Year 1917"
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op.141

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai
Brilliant Classics

*I think it's only the 2nd time I've ever listened to Symphony No. 12.  I did enjoy it, although it isn't groundbreaking like his 10th or 4th, and not as interesting as his 11th, 7th, 5th or 8th.

It is interesting to note in the liner notes to this CD, by Dr. David Doughty, that he essentially flogs and slams this Symphony (No. 12).  I just find it odd that it slams the work itself, in the liner notes of the CD.  I find that a tad unusual!?

At least something about that release is groundbreaking then

[karlhenning]

Hah!

[Brahmsian]

First Listen!

Schoenberg

Violin Concerto, Op.36

Hilary Hahn

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen
DG

[Florestan]

[karlhenning]

First Listen!

Schoenberg

Violin Concerto, Op.36

Hilary Hahn

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen
DG

Looking forward to your report, Ray!

[Brian]

It is interesting to note in the liner notes to this CD, by Dr. David Doughty, that he essentially flogs and slams this Symphony (No. 12).  I just find it odd that it slams the work itself, in the liner notes of the CD.  I find that a tad unusual!?

Once I went to a Houston Symphony concert where the program note writer actually spent several paragraphs trashing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue! I couldn't help replying in a column for my university's magazine:

There were just two sour notes at the Houston Symphony Orchestra's concert Saturday night. One came when the clarinetist flubbed his opening solo in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, but the other was not in the music at all. It was in the concert's program, the author of which went out of his way to insult and generally belittle Rhapsody in Blue for no good reason.

According to the program—which is, after all, supposed to supply information which helps the audience enjoy the music even more—Rhapsody in Blue is too light-hearted, structurally flawed, and a host of other things. Worst of all, because it is so well-organized, apparently, calling the piece a "rhapsody" is uncouth.

Well, excuse us! When did it ever become common practice for an orchestra to tell their patrons that the music the musicians have chosen to play, and that we have paid to see, is bad? I suppose this might be excusable in the case of very obviously bad music chosen by the conductor in a moment of temporary insanity. But Rhapsody in Blue is one of the great masterpieces of American music, as notable for the rules it breaks (to the note-writer's displeasure) as for the glorious way in which it brings jazz into the classical concert hall.

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Still trying to pick my jaw up from off the floor. Astonishing recording.

[Saul]

Beethoven Choral Fantasy
Barenboim plays and leads the Berliner Phil...

Mendelssohn Pslams 42

Some Chopin Nocturnes