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Listening to the outstanding Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" and this is one of my favorite performances of this symphony with Solti. I also love Bernstein's and Kertesz's performances as well. Bohm, Abbado, and Harnoncourt are also up there.

[Opus106]

Celebrating John's return: the Rott Symphony: Dennis Russell Davies conducting the RSO Wien

Sarge

Good idea.

Hans Rott
Symphony in E major

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra|Neeme Järvi

Musikfest Berlin 2007 -  Philharmonie, Berlin
29 September 2007

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Listening to the outstanding Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"....

That Fifth is a great one too---one of my favorites along with Wand and Weil.

Sarge

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Good idea.

Hans Rott
Symphony in E major

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra|Neeme Järvi

Musikfest Berlin 2007 -  Philharmonie, Berlin
29 September 2007

I haven't heard that version of the "Triangle" Symphony. Must have been a download?

Sarge

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That Fifth is a great one too---one of my favorites along with Wand and Weil.

Sarge

Absolutely, Sarge. It's too bad Solti didn't record the whole cycle of Schubert symphonies.

[Opus106]

I haven't heard that version of the "Triangle" Symphony. Must have been a download?

Sarge

Indeed. I read your post just as the first movement was coming to a close.

[karlhenning]

Do you really consider it an option to have assembled the same forces twice?

Hah! Well, no, rather not.  In my mind, I was already thinking Marco Polo = Naxos, and it was only shortly before I read your post here, that I realized that I must have fetched in one of the now-few legacy Marco Polo issues.

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My favorite recording of this overplayed workhorse. Somehow Shaham's approach makes this popular work sound fresh.

[mahler10th]

I haven't heard that version of the "Triangle" Symphony. Must have been a download?

Sarge

http://rapidshare.com/files/92280445/CONCERT_ARCHIVE_571.rar.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/92280909/CONCERT_ARCHIVE_571.rar.002

These are the links, but you need a little program called HJ Split which will join both files to make an unpackable rar.  Contained therein is this most glorious symphony, played at a ravishing tempo by Jarvi and one of the finest Orchestras in the World!

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http://rapidshare.com/files/92280445/CONCERT_ARCHIVE_571.rar.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/92280909/CONCERT_ARCHIVE_571.rar.002

These are the links, but you need a little program called HJ Split which will join both files to make an unpackable rar.  Contained therein is this most glorious symphony, played at a ravishing tempo by Jarvi and one of the finest Orchestras in the World!

Thanks, John! Really appreciate it. And I'm familiar with HJ split. No problem there    We're still waiting for Paavo's version to appear. I thought it would be out by now.

Sarge

[jlaurson]

Thanks, John! Really appreciate it. And I'm familiar with HJ split. No problem there    We're still waiting for Paavo's version to appear. I thought it would be out by now.

Sarge

To be out in late spring. Also centre-piece of the Salzburg Festival Mahler Celebrations!

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To be out in late spring. Also centre-piece of the Salzburg Festival Mahler Celebrations!

Cool. And this year may be my year to attend the festival.

Sarge

[Lethevich]

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I'm digging this a lot.

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Lethe, I have been wondering about Scott's music for many years, but haven't heard a note of it. What do you think about the music?

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Schubert

Piano Trio in E flat, D929
Trio movement in B flat, D28 "Sonata"

Beaux Arts Trio
Philips

[Lethevich]

Lethe, I have been wondering about Scott's music for many years, but haven't heard a note of it. What do you think about the music?

Every time I listen to him he somehow sounds nothing like I expect- very un-English in style, his music was simultaneously daring and dated. As with many composers of the early 20th century, his compositions were a melting pot of ideas (and yet, his style was not eclectric, it was quite unified), strongly influenced by contemporary art movements (such as symbolism) and sundry weird philosophical ideas. On a base level I could say it sounds like Stanford meets Debussy, and Scott draws heavily from the latter, but there are countless other similarities to contempories such as Szymanowski, Delius, Schreker, etc.

To me it sounds as though he was very interested in concertante instrumental interplay, as inventive instrumental passages in his music are something I notice again and again and keep the music from becoming too drab. He is also heavy on 'transcendent' sounding textures, vocalising choirs, etc. The fact that the overture on this disc includes a choir as well kind of sums him up well - everything but the kitchen sink, but at the same time with a perfumed restraint rather than typical late Romantic loudness. I suppose that Vaughan Williams came close to this soundworld in Flos Campi.

I don't consider any of it to be a masterpiece, but it's great fun. The slightly mad third symphony in particular I enjoy just for the embelished orchestra, wind machine and just when you think it can't get more decedant, along comes the wordless choir in the finale And yet, whenever I listen to his music, it often sounds more subtle than my memories of it suggested.

[bhodges]

Last night, a thoroughly enjoyable recital by Renée Fleming, with the excellent support of Hartmut Höll on piano.  The program had some unusual items, such as the opening Schoenberg and the Mehldau set.  My favorites were the Korngold songs--all new to me, and magnificent.

Schoenberg: "Jane Grey," Op. 12, No. 1
Zemlinsky: Fünf Lieder
Korngold: "Sterbelied," Op. 14, No. 1
Korngold: "Das Heldengrab am Pruth," Op. 9, No. 5
Korngold: "Was du mir bist," Op. 22, No. 1
Brad Mehldau: Songs from The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
·· I love you, gentlest of Ways
·· No one lives his life
·· His caring is a nightmare to us
·· Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you
R. Strauss: "Winterweihe," Op. 48, No. 4
R. Strauss: "Winterliebe," Op. 48, No. 5
R. Strauss: "Traum durch die Dämmerung," Op. 29, No. 1
R. Strauss: "Gesang der Apollopriesterin," Op. 33, No. 2

Encores:
R. Strauss: "Zueignung," Op. 10, No. 1
Korngold: "Glück, das mir verblieb" from Die tote Stadt, Op. 12
Bernstein: "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story
R. Strauss: "Morgen," Op. 27, No. 4

--Bruce

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After all the Bantock talk...took this disc from the shelf, blew off the dust and listened to The Sea Reivers. It's always a shock hearing this again: so short! so violent! Listening now to the very different Celtic Symphony. Pure magic.




Sarge

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Schubert

Symphony No. 1 in D major, D82
Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D125
Overture 'Des Teufels Lustschloss' D84

Istvan Kertesz
Wiener Philharmoniker
Decca