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[NLK1971]

Bruckner: Symphony No.1 in C minor (Linz version)  Concertgebouw/Haitink

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[EigenUser]

Morton Feldman's Violin and Orchestra.

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[Brahmsian]

Powerful synergies

Happy 20,001st post, Karl! 

[HIPster]

Handel With Care
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On a first listen and this is just about the release of the year for me!  Had high hopes for this one and it does not disappoint. 

Fantastic performance by the Lautten Compagney and the sound is superb.  The (new to me) digi-pack from DHM is a nice look to their packaging too.

Handel lovers should jump on this without hesitation!   

[André]

Barber Louisville Summer of 1915
Eleanor Steber Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra William Strickland cond.
First listen to this work as well as this recording.
I have the nagging feeling that I would enjoy this much more if it was not in my native tongue.  The text (by James Agee) often sounds banal and pedestrian, below the level of the musical expression.  Do German speakers have this problem with some German lieder?
Moving on now to better quality texts:  Hermit Songs, Barber as composer and pianist, Leontyne Price soprano.

I have that exact feeling when listening to french Mélodies, which often sound terrible precisely because of their text. To me Agee's prose, if quaint, does sound idiomatic considering its time. And the music is superb !

Couperin (François): 2nd and 3rd Ordres de Piéces de Clavessin. Michael Borgstede (Brilliant Classics).

Bruckner: Symphony no. 9 (with Carragan Finale). Hubert Soudant conducts the Utrecht (Netherlands) Symphony Orchestra. I will probably write a reviewette in the Bruckner Abbey. I'm re-starting my B9 listening schedule -11 more to go out of a total of 51 versions in my collection.

[TheGSMoeller]

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[Todd]

[listener]

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony l       Philadelphia Orch., / Omandy
              Festive Overture     Columbia S.O.      music from The Gadfly and other ballets
              André Kostelanetz cond.  ( and his orch.

[The new erato]

Barber Louisville Summer of 1915
Eleanor Steber Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra William Strickland cond.
First listen to this work as well as this recording.
I have the nagging feeling that I would enjoy this much more if it was not in my native tongue.  The text (by James Agee) often sounds banal and pedestrian, below the level of the musical expression.  Do German speakers have this problem with some German lieder?
Moving on now to better quality texts:  Hermit Songs, Barber as composer and pianist, Leontyne Price soprano.

Never felt that with the Barber work (I'm fluent but not native though). And this is a deliberately somewhat naive, stream-of-consciousness text that is part of the works somewhat naive charm. It's supposed to be narrated by a baby, how could it be otherwise than naive? Superb, and underrated, work, one of Barber's best.

[Que]

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[Harry]

Cannot get enough of this set, so going for it a third time.....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/galuppi-baldassare-manuscript-sonatas.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

https://www.youtube.com/v/-0j6pJ8JNOw

First listening this performance.

Odd-sounding drums even for HIP and odd but very effective cadenza in the first movement, never-heard-before short cadenza after the second movement (quite annoying this one, in fact, as it breaks the attaca), very poetic second movement, hell-of-a-romp third movement. Idiomatic to the core but I enjoyed it. 

[mc ukrneal]

Cannot get enough of this set, so going for it a third time.....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/galuppi-baldassare-manuscript-sonatas.html?spref=tw

Galuppi was something of a surprise for me. I have some discs played on piano, but what wonderful music. I have this and a few others of his cds on my wishlist (and/or at Berkshire).

[Harry]

Galuppi was something of a surprise for me. I have some discs played on piano, but what wonderful music. I have this and a few others of his cds on my wishlist (and/or at Berkshire).

Yes believe me Neal, the surprise is a element that is still baffling me. Such a fine composer, yet largely ignored.
Hope all is well with you and family?

[Harry]

Another awe inspiring set of SQ. For me the best I ever heard.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/haydn-joseph-sq-opus-64-no-245-quatuor.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Give this composer a chance too my friends, he's worth every penny you spend on him!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/ferrara-franco-1911-1985-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[amw]

never-heard-before short cadenza after the second movement (quite annoying this one, in fact, as it breaks the attaca)

That cadenza's by Beethoven (originally written for the piano arrangement Op. 61a) as is the "odd but effective" one in the first movement.

[Harry]

Another composer that is totally ignore, and undeserving in my opinion.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/garofalo-carlo-giorgio-1886-1962.html?spref=tw

[Madiel]

Not following your lead...it's pure coincidence 

Sarge

I've had quartet No.14 in the player twice in as many days without actually completing a listen to it, so any 'vibes' on the topic were hovering about this part of the world ahead of schedule.

EDIT: Listening to it now. I must say, I do find the 14th one of Shostakovich's oddest quartets. It's as if he decided to take all that dissonance out for a gently comic turn.

[Harry]

Some Gouvy yet again.....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/gouvy-louis-theodore-1819-1898.html?spref=tw