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[listener]

GLIÈRE    Symphony no. 3 "Ilya Muromets"
Czecho-Slovak Radio   Orch.    / Donald Johanos, cond.
Playing here 75:35, about 20 min. faster than the old Scherchen or Farberman recordings, and a lot more interesting.
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also this disc of BUXTEHUDE organ works played by Armin Schoof on the two organs in St. Jakobi, Lübeck.
Excellent set of notes comes with the disc, help to make sense of the 3 longer pieces (Te Deum, Wir schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, Magnificat primi toni)  for one not brought up with plainsong.

[Coopmv]

Of late:



This set is actually getting kind of pricey....never thought the Philips Duos would fall into a "collectible" category.

Bill,  I have this Philips Duo in my collection as well.  As Philips the classical music label ceased to exist about a year ago after more than at least a half century or possibly longer, there is that nostalgia factor even though all former Philips recordings are now re-issued under the London/Decca label.  Personally, I prefer the original Philips recordings to stay Philips and still have many Philips LP's.

[TheGSMoeller]

[Lethevich]

First listen to Toch's 3rd. I have the whole cycle on CPO, but am unable to rip it atm



Edit: hahahaha, the acid opening followed by the central toy march

Our former resident Pettersson fanatic thought Albrecht (CPO) the best Seventh though.

Same, although it's swimming against the tide. The CPO sounds less pleasant, and I like that - the angularity seems better identified and finds a possible lineage with music like Schoenberg's explosive expressionism. Although if you are to make any of his symphonies Romantic, I suppose it should be that one I admit, I would be intrigued with a perverse, Vasks-like take of the 6th - Kamu doesn't go quite far enough.

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Listening to Foreign Bodies and what a great work this is. I eagerly await a recording of Salonen's Violin Concerto.

[KeithW]

Takacs Quartet's Bartok cycle
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Takacs Quartet's Bartok cycle

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Thumbs up! The best Bartok SQ cycle in my opinion.

[Mirror Image]

KeithW, you gave me a good idea, now listening:



Listening to String Quartet No. 6.

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Now:

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Fantastic symphonies and performances. These two are better performed than Andrew Penny's recordings.

[North Star]

Debussy:
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[Lethevich]

I have a one-hour journey in the pissing rain ahead of me, better listen to something limpid and sunny

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better listen to something limpid and sunny

You sure you don't want to listen to some Pettersson?

[The new erato]

Now playing the following CD, a recent arrival for a first listen.  Don't really know anything about Gurzenich Orchestra der Stadt Koln ...

They have quite a pedigree:

The world premieres performed by the Gürzenich Orchestra include the following works:

Johannes Brahms, Double Concerto (1887)
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3 (in collaboration with the Städtischen Kapelle Krefeld, 1902)
Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (1904)
Max Reger, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Johann Adam Hiller for Orchestra (1907)
Richard Strauss, Don Quixote (1898)
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Sinfonia prosodica (1964)

!!!!!!

[mc ukrneal]

Charming music indeed (Thaleberg, Piano Concerto):
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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

From this box CD VI. A very fine disc filled with instrumental works from Antonio de Cabezon, ( 1510-1566). As said before this box is offering me a lot of joy, and does not disappoint in any way. It is a milestone in the musical history and one that should not be overlooked. And I have it from trustworthy sources that much that now lands in the budget price will not resurface for a long time, and maybe not at all in this form. That goes for about 80% of the releases, the industry will concentrate on streaming.
This is a box I would not like to be without. For 20, euro's its a steal.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

The last CD from this box, and then it will disappear in my collection, probably never to be played again. That's the curse of having too many CD'S, but then, what is too many? Anyway I wrote more as once about this, and it still upsets me greatly that there is so much music, and so little time to listen to it. And the flow doesn't seem to stop. A big frustration for me. A devilish dilemma that breaks my heart from time to time. Anyway, the last CD of this fabulous set, which I greatly enjoy, for the sheer musicality and verve with which it is played. Many a enjoyable hour was spend with Biondi and his art. The sound is beautifully captured too.

L'Estro Armonico.
Concerto No. 7-12.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

You sure you don't want to listen to some Pettersson?

Ideal rainy day music.

[The new erato]

I have them both Harry (though in earlier incarnations), so EMI can stream them away to their hearts delight.

[Opus106]

The last CD from this box, and then it will disappear in my collection, probably never to be played again.

That statement is disturbing in many ways.

That's the curse of having too many CD'S, but then, what is too many?

It's too many when you begin to think of the source of such wonderful music as a curse. (Yeah, I know your question was rhetorical. 0:))

And reading your posts makes me quite happy with what little I have, which I already find unmanageable because of my tendency to buy in boxes!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

My resolve to finally listen to a bunch of boxes from 2009/10/11, is getting roots. My attention is kept at this place firmly, and I manfully resist all the new CD'S that lay awaiting for me to be played, they have to wait till 2012/13. Meanwhile this box is a pleasure too, in my player CD III, with some delicious works by Boccherini. Very well played and recorded.

Sonata for Cello Solo & BC, G8/G10/G 9/G2/G15.
Fugue for two Cellos, G73, No.2/ G 73, No.3/G73, No.5

Second Cello, Kenneth Slowik.