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[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Symphony #8 D minor, Handley, Liverpool





Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Second listen

[Sergeant Rock]

A bleeding chunks afternoon.




Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

A bleeding chunks afternoon.

Listening, too! CD 2, with the Ring excerpts...

[karlhenning]

Cube ahoy! (Picking up from where I had to break off yesterday.)

Wagner
Das Rheingold, Scene iv
Karl Böhm, conducting

Recorded live at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening, too! CD 2, with the Ring excerpts...

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Sarge

[DavidW]

After more Bach cantatas and more Haydn symphonies... I will finally be ready for Schnittke's 1st symphony later today.

Overall I've been spending my listening over the past few days on Weil's Haydn symphony set and a Herreweghe set of Bach oratorios and cantatas.  Both feature an excellent sampling of music with nuanced, heart felt playing:

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[Sergeant Rock]

Cube ahoy! (Picking up from where I had to break off yesterday.)

Wagner
Das Rheingold, Scene iv
Karl Böhm, conducting

Recorded live at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival

Excellent, Karl! At this rate you should be finished with the Ring around mid May 2013 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Excellent, Karl! At this rate you should be finished with the Ring around mid May 2013 

Hah, Sarge! Will I finish the Ring, or White Nights, first?

(Sadly . . . .)

; )

[marvinbrown]

Excellent, Karl! At this rate you should be finished with the Ring around mid May 2013 

Sarge

  Baby steps Karl??

  marvin

[Brahmsian]

Antonin Dvorak.

Chamberworks, Volume VIII.


Rondo for cello and piano in G minor opus 94.

Robert Cohen, Cello.
Roger Vignoles, Piano.

Drobnosti, opus 75a for 2 Violins and Viola.
Bagatelles opus 47 for 2 violins, cello & Harmonium.

Alberni String Quartet.

Serenade for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 3 horns, cello and double bass, in D minor opus 44.

Nash Ensemble.

What a delightful close, after hearing the complete box in just a couple of days. Dvorak's music never disappoints really. There is always something for the heart to be found, and consolation for the ones that are sad. Dvorak was a man of deep emotions. Hearing the first four of his symphonies last night, and then the intro of the first symphony, "The bells of Zlovice" there you find the core of his oeuvre, from which he emerged as a comet. Allthough he himself did not think much of his first symphonic works, he was in error when he dismissed them as mere trifles.
Well then, recommended is this box without doubts.

This disc is what I'm listening to right now, from this fantastic set.

I had never heard Dvorak's Drobnosti Op.75a for 2 violins and viola, what a beautiful, delightful piece!! 

[karlhenning]

  Baby steps Karl??

Oh, please.

; )

[marvinbrown]

Oh, please.

; )

  I am pleased that you have taken the plunge.  The Bohm Ring is my favorite Ring cycle.  It surpassed Solti many weeks ago when I first heard it.  So you have one of the best recordings of this music drama in your collection.  Take your time with it.  Wagner can be very heavy for the first time or even second time listener.  But I promise you Karl the music is worth it!

  Please ignore my remark above it was uncalled for, please forgive  0:)!

  marvin

[SonicMan46]

Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950) - Les Heures Persanes, Op. 65 - solo piano (w/ Stott) & orchestral versions (w/ Holliger) - just received the latter yesterday, so giving both a listen this morning; BOY, that Holliger performance w/ orchestra is wonderful! 

   

[Scarpia]

Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950) - Les Heures Persanes, Op. 65 - solo piano (w/ Stott) & orchestral versions (w/ Holliger) - just received the latter yesterday, so giving both a listen this morning; BOY, that Holliger performance w/ orchestra is wonderful! 

   

That looks like a significant temptation.  I have enjoyed Kathryn Stott's performances of Faure a lot.

[marvinbrown]

Cube ahoy! (Picking up from where I had to break off yesterday.)

Wagner
Das Rheingold, Scene iv
Karl Böhm, conducting

Recorded live at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival

  Karl quick question the recording you have of Bohm's Ring is at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival??  Are you sure it is not the 1966-1967 festival?

  marvin

[Lethevich]

@SonicMan: Glad that you got the piano version too, I prefer it slightly - as luxurious as the orchestration sounds, I really enjoy Koechlin's way with the piano. It seems to represent in some ways the final chapter in the French school before (albeit his highly unconventional) tonality was abandoned by most significant composers.

[Scarpia]

That looks like a significant temptation.  I have enjoyed Kathryn Stott's performances of Faure a lot.

Ooops, I see it is "Persian" music.  Never mind.

[karlhenning]

  I am pleased that you have taken the plunge.  The Bohm Ring is my favorite Ring cycle.  It surpassed Solti many weeks ago when I first heard it.  So you have one of the best recordings of this music drama in your collection.  Take your time with it.  Wagner can be very heavy for the first time or even second time listener.  But I promise you Karl the music is worth it!

  Please ignore my remark above it was uncalled for, please forgive  0:)!

No worries, Marvin. But for the record, this isn't my first, nor even second time.  I've assayed the Ring several times over the years.  I don't believe that it is any matter of difficulty for me (not any musical difficulty, at any rate).  This recording is not my first (or second) exposure to Das Rheingold . . . and actually, this is my second go with this very recording, indeed.

In all events, that I sprang for the Cube back in the day underscores the fact that I've long felt that enjoying the Ring on its own terms will be but a matter of time.

[karlhenning]

  Karl quick question the recording you have of Bohm's Ring is at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival??  Are you sure it is not the 1966-1967 festival?

  marvin

It's part of the Cube, and the booklet indicates the 1971 Festival, Marvin.

Die Walküre, though, is from the 1967 Festival.