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[Coopmv]

Vaughan Williams Old King Cole-A Ballet for Orchestra, Hickox conducting the Northern Sinfonia of England




Sarge

I have a very long way to go before I get done with this set ...

[listener]

HANDEL-BEECHAM:  Love in Bath, The Gods Go A'Begging, excerpts from the Amaryllis Suite
Royal Philharmonic Orch.     Beecham, cond.
GRIEG: Sigurd Jorsalfar, op. 22       Funeral March (orch. Halvorsen)  The Mountain Spell /Den Bergtekene
Kåre Bjørkoy, Oslo Philharmonic Chorus, London Symphony Orch.
Per Dreier, cond.

[SonicMan46]

Just re-listening to some recent purchases this Sunday afternoon before trying to FIND storage for them! 


   

 

[Lake Swan]

Symphonie fantastique

http://open.spotify.com/album/0Bq6RRXKsc0dCeZGqr480U

[Brahmsian]

Not at all surprisingly, I'm with the Sarge here; the Five Mystical Songs are RVW at his most sublime.

Even I enjoyed them (heard them preformed live here with the WSO), and that's saying something, since I'm not a huge fan of English vocal works.

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following SACD, another recent arrival from across the pond just before Christmas for a first listen ...

[DavidA]

Beethoven Diabelli Variations / Geza Anda (1961)

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven Piano Sonata F minor op.2/1 played by Pollini




Sarge

[The new erato]

First listen:

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Very fine recorded sound. Judgment reserved on the music.

[Karl Henning]

Gurn. Damn you, spell check!

♫ To everything (Gurn, Gurn, Gurn)
There is a season (Gurn, Gurn, Gurn) . . . .

[Karl Henning]

'Tis the month!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
String Quartet № 13 in b^b minor, Op.138
The Mandelring Quartet

This is just magnificent, Sarge, possibly my top Shostakovich string quartet experience to date.

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[Gold Knight]

On Spotify:

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.1 in D Major, D 82 and Symphony No.4 in C Minor, D 417 {"Tragic"}. Both works are performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Nikolaus Harnoncourt's baton.
Bohuslav Martinu--Symphony No.5, H.310 and Symphony No.6. H.343, bith featuring the Neeme Jarvi led Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

[Lake Swan]

Renaissance choral music

http://open.spotify.com/album/5k2u4EizdFpOeQKQeD44FD

[Lake Swan]

Barton - Solti

http://open.spotify.com/album/5tIdhhugvKSPQMTejqcBdF

[TheGSMoeller]

 

Renaissance choral music

http://open.spotify.com/album/5k2u4EizdFpOeQKQeD44FD

Thanks for the links, Dave. I loves me some Spotify.

[Lake Swan]

:-
Thanks for the links, Dave. I loves me some Spotify.

Any time, amigo.

[TheGSMoeller]

Any time, amigo.

Any Ween on Spotify? 

[Lake Swan]

Any Ween on Spotify? 

Tons. I even made a play list.

[TheGSMoeller]

Tons. I even made a play list.

Sweet, never thought to look them up, I'll need to see if there's something on there I don't have.

[SonicMan46]

Well, I big surprise discovery for me - I wanted a few CDs from BRO but filled out the order w/ some 'unknowns' to justify the S/H charges - bought this one:

Hoffman, E.T.A. - Chamber Music w/ Masumi Nagasawa (period harp), Beni Araki (fortepiano), Trio Margaux, & Hoffmeister Quartet; works include the Harp Quintet, Keyboard Sonatas, & Grand Trio - Hoffman was most famous as a German Romantic writer - e.g. his life & works inspired Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman & Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet along w/ influences on many 19th century writers, such as Poe & Dickens.

BUT, composing was just one of his many talents; he was a lawyer by trade - composed & wrote at night; he was also an artist and an excellent music critic - a later day 'Renaissance Man' - unfortunately, he died in his mid-40s (alcohol abuse & syphilis) - 

This recording was revealing to me reflecting the talents that he had - this CD was picked as a 'Recording of the Month' on MusicWeb (review HERE); also, the rather thorough Wiki Article HERE might be of interest.  As stated, this recording was somewhat of a shocker for me in bringing to reality a name from the 19th century that I knew, but knew little about!  Dave