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[Moonfish]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

An enchanting disk! The Witch of Atlas is mesmerizing!

[Mirror Image]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

An enchanting disk! The Witch of Atlas is mesmerizing!

It certainly is a great recording, Peter. Even though The Sea Reivers is such a short work, it's one of most riveting orchestral miniatures I've heard, especially towards the end with that horn part which signals an orchestral frenzy until finally subsiding. Absolutely glorious!

[North Star]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

Joining in on this. 

[Mirror Image]

Continuing on with Saraste's Sibelius:



Finishing Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52. Fantastic performance.

[Moonfish]

It certainly is a great recording, Peter. Even though The Sea Reivers is such a short work, it's one of most riveting orchestral miniatures I've heard, especially towards the end with that horn part which signals an orchestral frenzy until finally subsiding. Absolutely glorious!

You're definitely right about the horn. It is otherworldly in its steady pulse that just keeps going and going at the end of The Sea Reivers. Hypnotizing!

Joining in on this. 

Yay!   

[Mandryka]

Back to a Golden Oldie, the Baumont disc that won me over!

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Q

Enjoyable music. I have the recordings by Brigitte Haudebourg, including my own transfer of Bk 2. I've never heard Baumont but I may check it out today.

[Camphy]

Symphonies 88 & 89

[Camphy]

[North Star]

Sibelius
Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 58
Erik T. Tawastjerna
https://www.youtube.com/v/8NeldBBGD-s

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

"I have written out my soul in the concerto, Sym II & the Ode & you know it...in these three works I have shewn myself."

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[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn String Quartet E flat op.2/3 played by the Kodaly Quartet




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.




Sarge

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.



Sarge

Cover of your Nielsen Pan and Syrinx recalled a woman we met at the Renaissance Faire here several weeks ago, standing in front of us at one show.  "If my horns are in your way, I can move," she kindly suggested!

[Mandryka]

Serge Schoonbrodt and Ensemble Carmina Sacra perform music by Du Caurroy and Titelouze, but i'm really focused on the latter. Schoonbrodt plays in his charactaristicly passionate way, and I find that completely winning. He  doesn't have the same sense of spiritual weight and depth as Bates on the same organ, but he does have more vigour. But what makes this a really special performance is the singing, or rather the responsiveness of the organ to the chant alterné. It reminds me of Albritzer's recording of Couperin's Parish mass with Ensemble Organum: you feel as though your're there, listneing to a service, by people who are really making musical poetry happen. All reservations are thus confounded.

Parenthetically I'll mention that the link between Du Caurroy and Titelouze seems a bit forced musically to me, just listening to the CD, I don't know if they knew or knew of each other. They probably did since they were both northeners.

Any ideas why there's a picture of a shadoof on the cover?

[ritter]

Last night, in the wake of the Fidelio perofmance I saw on Sunday in the Teatro Real (in which conductor Hartmut Haenchen insterted the last two movements of the Fifth symphony between the first and second tableaux of Act II--instead of the Leonore III overture, as is often done):

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and Beethoven's Fifth symphony (Boston Symphony) from this set:

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[Camphy]

Symphony #4

[Mirror Image]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.




Sarge

Such a great recording, Sarge. I'll join you in Nielsen's birthday celebration soon.

[North Star]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.




Sarge

Listening to this as well.

[Madiel]

Any thoughts on your initial listen(s)?

[Ken B]

Somebody has to resist the Sibelius flood ...

Simeon ten Holt
Solo Devil's Dance II
Jeroen van Veen, piano

First listen to this music.