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Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. I still think this is Bruckner's most underrated symphony. It's a fine work.

[listener]

Beecham!
BEETHOVEN  Symphony 2;   The Ruins of Athens - incidental music
Royal Philharmonic O.
BIZET    Symphony in C      LALO Symphony in g minor
French National Radio Orch.

[seasons]

Beethoven Symphony No.9 by Furtwangler recorded live on 30.V.1953, Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Wein.

An old great performance !

[Que]

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Q,  This CD has been part of my baroque collection for a number of years.  How do you like it?

It's a nice and intersting disc, shows stylistic similarities with Bach's efforts though as compositions a bit more uneven IMO. A short previous note HERE.


LISTENING: revisiting this wonderful set for a new run. (One of) the most significant purchases of last year, for me break-trough into Renaissance keyboard music. Amazing how sudden and rapidly I've gotten into Early Music the last year or so after over two decades of listening to Classical Music. It must be the age...   (I'm 41) At least there are some benefits to the progressing of time! 

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[mc ukrneal]

Here's an opera I have not listened to that often (Massanet's Don Quichotte), but the music is excellent. I got it thinking it might not stay in print that long and it looks like that is the case (an issue of Universal France). I really like the cover. The singing is pretty good (Bacquier/Ghiaurov/Crespin), though I think the orchestra and chorus are the real stand outs here.

[val]

GEORGE ONSLOW:     String Quartets opus 54, 55 & 56           / Diotima Quartet  (2009)

I was amazed with the exceptional value of this works. The influence of Beethoven's last quartets is obvious - Onslow had discovered them five years before in Paris - but there is genuine inspiration in this composer, strong, powerful, never superficial. The interpretation is splendid, by one of the best string Quartets of our time.

[mahler10th]

Saw this live a couple of years ago, same conductor and Orchestra.

[Antoine Marchand]

Mozart's PC #21:

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Mozart - The Complete Piano Concertos
English Chamber Orchestra
Murray Perahia, piano & conductor



CD9

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C Major K. 467
1. [Allegro maestoso, cadenza: Murray Perahia]
2. Andante
3. Allegro vivace assai (cadenza: Rudolf Serkin)
Recorded at EMI Studios, London, England, September 20 & 22, 1976

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 22 in E flat Major K. 482
4. Allegro (cadenza: after Johann Nepomuk Hummel)
5. Andante 
6. Rondo. Allegro (cadenza: after Johann Nepomuk Hummel)
Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, England, September, 1979

[jlaurson]

W.G. Mozart (1756 – 1791),
Complete Violin Concertos
Zehetmair / Brueggen / O.d.18th Ct.

[Florestan]

[mc ukrneal]

Listening to Disc 3 of Mozart Sonatas (9-11), performed by Klara Wurtz. The famous #11 is quite attractive - not overdone as it sometimes is. Fun disc with some excellent playing.

[Gurn Blanston]

Just recently been reading about this one, Florestan. What say you?

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian, Symphonies 20 & 25





Sarge

[Florestan]

Just recently been reading about this one, Florestan. What say you?

Well, this is the first time I ever listen to this music and I already wonder why Haydn's operas are that neglected. As for the performance, Quasthoff is excellent (I only recently fell in love with his wonderful voice and want to make up for all the time lost till now). To my ears, this is a splendid disc. 

[Sadko]

An album of the Kazakh singer Kulyash Baiceitova:



I found there is now a legal download site for Kazakh music, with her album also:

http://asylmura.kz/english/diski/index.php@p=kulesh

I guess many Western listeners will find the style of her voice odd, even a bit funny, but I like it.

[MishaK]

Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. I still think this is Bruckner's most underrated symphony. It's a fine work.

...and one of the better performances from that uneven set.

[DavidRoss]

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Today I'm enjoying this more than I ever have before.  Not the first time I've heard this recording, which I would not hesitate to recommend for both the thoughtfulness of the performance and the quality of the sound.

Perhaps it's the drizzly day outside, which coupled with sleep-deprived depression makes me more sympathetic to this piece than usual.  Or mjwal's praise for Schubert's songs elsewhere today. 

[The new erato]

Winterreise
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Scary picture. Looks like Alfred's about to be eaten alive. I've seen Goerne live, from the front row, and yes; this picture is realistic.

[Scarpia]

Winterreise
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You might think he is reacting to the sadness of Schubert work, until you compare with this one:

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That's his reaction to Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C-major?

[Antoine Marchand]

45 minutes ago - Ipod listening - road to the super market...



Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord

I would swear this is one of the best Italian Concertos ever recorded on disc. Rhythmically demolishing. Charmingly cantabile. A perfect imitation of an Italian concerto with a single instrument.