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[Mirror Image]

Sid, the Milhaud Cello Concertos sound interesting. I haven't heard either of them.

[Mirror Image]

Taking a break from my RVW symphony marathon with this...



So far this is just an amazing recording. Listening to Hiawatha, which I have never heard before. Lovely work.

[Que]

Harmoniae Sacrae
17th-century German Sacred Cantatas

http://www.ramee.org/0905gb.html

Looks like a really wonderfull disc!

Matthias Weckman - Complete Cantatas

A must-have for people interested in German cantatas of the XVII century. 

And that one as well. How is the musical quality of Weckmann's cantatas?

Hi, ~ Que ~. I must confess you have gotten the most stylish change of name seen on this forum. Congratulations! 

Thanks.

Anyway, I'm back from a one week hiking trip to the island of La Palma (Canary Islands) (hope you guys didn't miss me too much ) and this morning I'm returning to this recent purchase:

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Q

[Lethevich]

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The la folia variations really don't work, I think that the tune is too basic to be able to modify in any meaningful way, so Salieri just chops it up a bit across different sections of the orchestra, speeds it up, slows it down, but there is no real transformation going on. At 18 minutes it's a bit much to take.

[Conor71]

Now Playing:

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Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33

Making a second attempt on this one as I did'nt finish listening to it last week - an interesting Opera with some beautiful moments and also the only Opera in my small collection which is sung in English

[The new erato]

Schnittke

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Definitely a retaliatory listen.  I luxuriated in the image of you Schnittke haters cowering in the corner as this music played.   

One of those Schnittke pieces where things start out sounding like a Vivaldi concerto, before things start to fall apart.  The beginning of the second movement had the most palpable impact on me.

The cello concerto no 2 is simply amazing.

I'm having a Finnish morning:



The Songs of Life and Death are aq very moving requiem, The Iron Age Suite is worth listening to, but hardly on the same level.



I find Englund very worthwhile though in a definitive Shostakovich style, and would like more of his oeuvre to be recorded.

[Sid]

Sid, the Milhaud Cello Concertos sound interesting. I haven't heard either of them.

Well they're not too bad, but not his best either. Upon that first listen to them last night, I get the feeling that they're works in progress more than anything else. There are some moments in them that sound like they had potential but were not fully fleshed out, even by half. They're like something that he rushed off just to meet the commission deadline. Maybe you know a bit more about his working methods than I do? I know that he was highly prolific & was even composing things when he died in his 80's. All of the other works that I have heard by Milhaud are very good, I especially like La Creation du Monde, Scaramouche (either sax/orchestra or 2 piano versions do the job), Saudades do Brasil, the Sacred Service, the Paris Suite for 4 pianos, even the Ox on the Roof has it's moments, & so on. But I only bought that LP of the cello works at a second hand store for $2, so I'm not complaining, I'm always one for taking a "risk" if the asking price is very low like that...

[val]

ORLANDO GIBBONS:      Fantaisies Royales                 / Savall, Coin, Casademund

A sublime music, extraordinary beauty, perfect interpretation.

[Lethevich]

Sorabji - St. Bertrand de Comminges 'He was laughing in the tower'
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I am so dense. Until a few months ago I has been reading this title (without thinking much about it) as some Messiaen style Saint François-type religious figure-based piece, but have since read the MR James ghost story it was written to depict and the pieces fell together Having said this, I still get zero sense of the programme from listening to it, but it's good music so that doesn't matter too much.

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams, A Pastoral Symphony, Boult, LPO




Sarge

[Brian]

Until a few months ago I has been reading this title

Sounds like you has been reading too many lolcats.

[Brian]

Just arrived!

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MusicWeb are really pushing their luck entrusting me with a disc that's such a Big Deal.

[Sergeant Rock]

George LLoyd, Symphony #3




Sarge

[Coopmv]

Looks like a really wonderfull disc!

And that one as well. How is the musical quality of Weckmann's cantatas?

Thanks.

Anyway, I'm back from a one week hiking trip to the island of La Palma (Canary Islands) (hope you guys didn't miss me too much ) and this morning I'm returning to this recent purchase:

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Q

Any good?

[Coopmv]

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The la folia variations really don't work, I think that the tune is too basic to be able to modify in any meaningful way, so Salieri just chops it up a bit across different sections of the orchestra, speeds it up, slows it down, but there is no real transformation going on. At 18 minutes it's a bit much to take.

I like the line used in the early run of that "Amadeus" Broadway show when F Murray Abraham, who went on to star in the movie version as well, said "I am the patron saint of mediocrity".  I have the following CD of his work and it does sound quite mediocre ...   

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this twofer, which arrived a few days ago for a first listen ...

[Drasko]

MusicWeb are really pushing their luck entrusting me with a disc that's such a Big Deal.

Maybe nobody else wanted it. Word of the mouth that came to me on the recitals from which the disc was culled was mostly very negative. Most comments were in the range of: unacceptably sloppy, unprepared, under-rehearsed, no better than a sightread ...

[Brahmsian]

Harnoncourt/CoE performs the Eroica so intensely that it is emotionally exhausting!!

Love the Funeral March 2nd movement in this recording, David.    I think the overall best recordings on this set are the 4th and 7th.

[mc ukrneal]

I like the line used in the early run of that "Amadeus" Broadway show when F Murray Abraham, who went on to star in the movie version as well, said "I am the patron saint of mediocrity".  I have the following CD of his work and it does sound quite mediocre ...   

Nothing boring or mediocre about this one:
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[DavidW]

Love the Funeral March 2nd movement in this recording, David.    I think the overall best recordings on this set are the 4th and 7th.

Yes that Funeral March was amazing!