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[Mirror Image]

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An enchanting recording from start to finish. Listening to Tabula Rasa.

[AndyD.]

Haydn Symphony #97 C major Szell conducting the Cleveland

Sarge

Heyyy, good idea.

[Robert]

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An enchanting recording from start to finish. Listening to Tabula Rasa.

My first Part disc.   Must be over 25 years ago.......Still sounds great...

[Mirror Image]

My first Part disc.   Must be over 25 years ago.......Still sounds great...

Absolutely, Robert. One inspired moment after another.

[Todd]

How do you like these recordings, Todd? I have seen this set before, but I don't know nothing at all about Pludermacher.

Hit and miss.  I listened to disc 4, D894 and D664.  D894 is somewhat ragged and lean, with an at times unappealing staccato.  D664 is more lyrical and appealing.  The rest of the cycle is much the same, going back and forth between styles.  His LvB shares similar traits, but then he delivers an excellent Diabellis.  His Debussy is decidedly played on a piano with hammers, if you will.  He's at his formidable best in Ravel – there are some real gems in there, Miroirs and Le tombeau de Couperin chief among them.

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Listening to The Wood-Nymph. A great, early work.

[Sadko]

A new box landed today:

Bernstein conducts Bernstein (New York Philharmonic)

CD 1

Candide Overture
Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
Symphonic Suite from 'On the Waterfront'
Fancy Free Ballet
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

[DavidRoss]

My first Part disc.   Must be over 25 years ago.......Still sounds great...

One of my favorite discs, period!

[Que]

Q

[TheGSMoeller]

Berlioz seems to be a hot topic in certain threads today, I will add these to my listening pile for today, a nice varied assortment from his output.

[listener]

Domenico SCARLATTI:   Stabat Mater
Allessandro SCARLATTI:  O Magnum Mysteriun,  Domine, Refugiam Factus es Nobis
Schütz Choir of London        Roger Norrington, cond.    (lp)
SCHUMANN:  Symphonies  1 & 4, 
Overture, Scherzo & Finale
Staatskapelle Dresden     Wolfgang Sawallisch cond. (cd)

[mc ukrneal]

Listening now to Ein Deutches Requiem by Brahms on Mezzo TV, Jansons conducting the Concertgebouw. Just started...

[Sadko]

Bernstein conducts Bernstein (New York Philharmonic)

CD 5

Trouble in Tahiti
Facsimile

[Conor71]

Brahms: Concerto For Violin & Cello In A Minor, Op. 102, "Double"


Just finished listening to Beethoven's Triple Concerto and now listning to Brahms Double Concerto - after this Disc I will play Bernsteins recording of Fidelio.

[North Star]

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Colin Davis & RCO
[asin]B000E6EH1S[/asin]

[Todd]

[Gold Knight]

Johannes Brahms--Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.73 and Symphony No.4 in E Minor, Op.98. Both works are performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.

[North Star]

JS Bach
Organ works (various)
Foccroulle
[asin]B002JIBCRQ[/asin]

[Wakefield]

Hit and miss.  I listened to disc 4, D894 and D664.  D894 is somewhat ragged and lean, with an at times unappealing staccato.  D664 is more lyrical and appealing.  The rest of the cycle is much the same, going back and forth between styles.  His LvB shares similar traits, but then he delivers an excellent Diabellis.  His Debussy is decidedly played on a piano with hammers, if you will.  He's at his formidable best in Ravel – there are some real gems in there, Miroirs and Le tombeau de Couperin chief among them.

Thanks, very informative as usual.

"Ragged and lean" doesn't sound very Schubertian, indeed. I really dislike lean interpretations in Schubert, which are sometimes a consequence of an inadequate use of the pedal (and Schubert calls for a real master of the pedal).

I have taken note of that Ravel.

[madaboutmahler]

A new box landed today:

Bernstein conducts Bernstein (New York Philharmonic)

CD 1

Candide Overture
Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
Symphonic Suite from 'On the Waterfront'
Fancy Free Ballet
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

I still have my eye on that box, the first disc is really excellent!

Thread duty: Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto  0:)