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[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge,

Is this a new disc?  Never have seen or heard about this one.....opinion....

It was released in Germany last January. It appears to be part of an ongoing cycle. The First and Third are available too. It's sonically stunning (really, it's demonstration material) with the best horns I've ever heard in a recording of this symphony. Despite doing things that usually put me off a Mahler 4 performance (like sleighbells that, on first hearing, sound rushed), Honeck convinces me he's right. The grotesque, satiric elements in the second movement are really well done without resorting to mannnerism. (Honeck knows how an Austrian folk dance should go).  I'm completely satisfied with this performance.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Die junge Magd, Op.23 № 2
Ruth Lange, contralto
Staatskapelle of Dresden Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Keilberth

Exquisite!

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[Antoine Marchand]

This set again:

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Disc 3 - Sonata No. 6 in A major: Second movement "Adagio molto espressivo".

Faust's tone is expressive, tender and fragile, while Melnikov's piano is her gentle wrap.

[karlhenning]

Chávez
La obra completa para cuerda
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

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[mahler10th]

MI:  "Oh, definitely John. There's more to Respighi than the Roman Trilogy. This particular recording with Geoffrey Simon and the Philharmonia Orchestra is outstanding. Much better than the recording with Jesus Lopez-Cobos. Have you heard Simon's other Respighi recordings? His performance of Queen of Sheba will blow you out of here."

Thanks for that, sometimes one wonders if one is 'getting it about right' so it's always good to hear general agreement or otherwise.  I have not heard G Simons' take on "Queen of Sheba", and I am well up for being blown out of here....so I will first spotify it, then blow myself out to Amazon to buy it if impressed, which I see no reason why I shouldn't be.

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Milhaud cradles and does not punch you with his music.  Very beautiful, easy stuff, complexed only by fabulously intricate patterns.

[Robert]

SILVESTRE REVUELTAS

Night Of The Mayas (Orchestral Music of Revueltas)

String Quartets 1 - 4
Cuarteto LatinAmericano


good stuff

[karlhenning]

Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (Paris, 1741)
Rémy Baudet, Baroque violin
Rainer Zipperling, viola da gamba
Pieter-Jan Belder, hpschd

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[Brian]

Spent the whole morning listening to Mr. H. Andriessen (hat-tip Sara! Your comments on Symphony No 2 were spot-on) and some internal balancing-scale mechanism inside me demanded that this be counterweighted by something bubbly and classically proportioned.

Lo!:

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It was released in Germany last January. It appears to be part of an ongoing cycle. The First and Third are available too.

And what of the First and Third? Horns being so important to 3.i ...

[Robert]

It was released in Germany last January. It appears to be part of an ongoing cycle. The First and Third are available too. It's sonically stunning (really, it's demonstration material) with the best horns I've ever heard in a recording of this symphony. Despite doing things that usually put me off a Mahler 4 performance (like sleighbells that, on first hearing, sound rushed), Honeck convinces me he's right. The grotesque, satiric elements in the second movement are really well done without resorting to mannnerism. (Honeck knows how an Austrian folk dance should go).  I'm completely satisfied with this performance.

Sarge

Thanks for that review.  I will have to check this out...... (footnote) anyone that could have a photo of such fabulous looking beer mugs must love german beer.  I know you have been living there quite a long time.  We are in the midst of a  major craft beer revolution here.....

[North Star]

That Mackerras & SCO Mozart is a marvelous album, Brian


One of the best chamber music discs I've heard:
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[Antoine Marchand]

Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (Paris, 1741)
Rémy Baudet, Baroque violin
Rainer Zipperling, viola da gamba
Pieter-Jan Belder, hpschd

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I really wanted this set when I purchased it some time ago, but I was a bit disappointed. I am a big fan of Belder's recordings as harpsichordist, but I am not so happy with his work as director of chamber music. For instance, this time I think the performances are lacking of some "charm" and court feeling, essential to this music.

P.S.: btw, this lovely (an quite cheap) disc is, IMHO, the best disc of Pièces de clavecin en concerts available in the market:

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[Gurn Blanston]

My old friend Anton Steck crankin' out some Vivaldi:

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These are some rarely/never heard concertos that revel in virtuosity. Steck handles them like nothing to it.



PS - Haven't got a clue what that piece of wood is doing on her head...

[mahler10th]

My old friend Anton Steck crankin' out some Vivaldi:
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These are some rarely/never heard concertos that revel in virtuosity. Steck handles them like nothing to it.

PS - Haven't got a clue what that piece of wood is doing on her head...

Those Vivaldi releases are great, I love the Bassoon concertos with Azzolini...but...who in the name of God thought up and implemented the covers for those releases?  Honestly, I would kick whoever came up with them right in the nuts because no matter how good the recordings are, and they are good, the covers are so completely unrelated and pretentious as to have stopped me buying any more than the two I have.

Meanwhile I have put this on with its stupid £v({ing cover too...but the vituosity in the music is astounding.



Yes, and I will follow that with my only other recording from the series...

[Robert]

ROSLAVETS

Chamber Symphony
In the hours of the new moon

BBC Scottish S.O.
ILAN VOLKOV

[Sergeant Rock]

And what of the First and Third? Horns being so important to 3.i ...

I have both but haven't listened to them yet. Tomorrow I'll tackle one or the other. In Hurwitz's review of the First he does mention the Pittsburgh horns favorably.

Sarge

[DavidRoss]

[Sergeant Rock]

(footnote) anyone that could have a photo of such fabulous looking beer mugs must love german beer.  I know you have been living there quite a long time.

Yes, love German beer (although I drink more wine than beer). The type of mug in the picture is the Bavarian Maßkrug, or Maß. It is the standard glass in beer gardens and, of course, at the Oktoberfest. Holds an entire liter

We are in the midst of a  major craft beer revolution here.....

Where is "here"?

Sarge

[Robert]

Yes, love German beer (although I drink more wine than beer). The type of mug in the picture is the Bavarian Maßkrug, or Maß. It is the standard glass in beer gardens and, of course, at the Oktoberfest. Holds an entire liter

Where is "here"?

Sarge

Sorry Sarge I live in Southern Calif.  This craft thing has taken off here for the past 6 years. Its basically spreading all over the states.   Tons of small breweries have sprung up over the past 5 years.  The big boys are taking it on the chin big time.  Bud Coors Miller are sinking into the sunset. The biggest crafts types  being India Pale ales and Double India pale ales. plus  Stouts, Porters, Ambers, Barleywines, Sours....Beer Bars are springing up all over esp in Calif. New York, Wash state, Oregon Delaware.  We have 6 major breweries in San Diego alone.....same in New York, Chicago, D.C.  Washington state, Oregon,

[kishnevi]

Those Vivaldi releases are great, I love the Bassoon concertos with Azzolini...but...who in the name of God thought up and implemented the covers for those releases?  Honestly, I would kick whoever came up with them right in the nuts because no matter how good the recordings are, and they are good, the covers are so completely unrelated and pretentious as to have stopped me buying any more than the two I have.

John, you're cheating yourself.  I call this series the "Benetton Edition" because of the covers, but the performances on each one are all great, and most of the Most Famous Pieces That Everyone Records are avoided, so it's a lot of Vivaldi you may not find any other place.  So I just laugh at the covers and listen to the music.  I only have two of the operas in the series (so far--I ought to get moving on ordering the rest) but I have everything else (that I know of) in this series--30 items in all--and, as I said, I think all the performances are great....

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