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Orchestral music by Australian composer Brett Dean.



Amazing soundworlds, orchestration is really wonderful!

About time you listened to an Australian composer. But seriously, my favorite Aussie composer is Sculthorpe (he's actually one of my favorite composers period). His music puts my mind somewhere else. Such mesmerizing music.

[Brian]

This has become my all time favorite disc of Schubert solo piano.

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*adds to Tuesday's to-hear list*

*with Svetlanov on ICA*

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

About time you listened to an Australian composer. But seriously, my favorite Aussie composer is Sculthorpe (he's actually one of my favorite composers period). His music puts my mind somewhere else. Such mesmerizing music.

I quite agree about Sculthorpe's music, especially the pieces in his Sun Music style.

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I quite agree about Sculthorpe's music, especially the pieces in his Sun Music style.

Yes, Sun Music I-IV are a remarkable and rather striking series of works. Have you heard Island Songs yet for saxophone and orchestra? Great stuff. Must be one of the last works he composed.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes, Sun Music I-IV are a remarkable and rather striking series of works. Have you heard Island Songs yet for saxophone and orchestra? Great stuff. Must be one of the last works he composed.

I haven't quite got around to hearing it yet, I haven't been in Sculthorpe mood lately which is a shame. Usually listening to his piano concerto would quite easily get me back in that mood, so I will have to listen to that as well sooner or later! I'm not sure how much time I will have for hearing works new to me over the next couple of weeks because I will be holidaying with my family in Japan. I'm super excited about hearing the sounds of the cities Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo at the moment! But in due time I will return to Sculthorpe.

[Todd]

From the big box.  HIP Liszt.  No thanks.

[TheGSMoeller]

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The best Rach 2nd I've heard?  Very, very possible. If the final 2 minutes of their performance doesn't give you chills then you might want to check your pulse. Plus the excitement of being live is very evident.

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The best Rach 2nd I've heard?  Very, very possible. If the final 2 minutes of their performance doesn't give you chills then you might want to check your pulse. Plus the excitement of being live is very evident.

Both arrived today, both fantastic. The type of performances that could easily catapult these powerful works to the top of my favorite listening pile.

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Excellent and glad to hear it, Greg. Hopefully, mine will show up soon. What was your previous exposure to these works?

[Mookalafalas]

I seem to have fallen in love with Irina Lankova

[bhodges]

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Sir Colin Davis / Concertgebouw) - The last few years I've been listening to versions of this with Gergiev/Kirov and Jansons/Oslo (nothing wrong with either), but forgot about this one. My loss: it's great (and excellent sound on this version, despite being recorded in 1978).

--Bruce

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Symphony no. 3. Something very new to me and I am enjoying this kind of music more and more at the moment.

No. 7 right now....and I have changed my opinion about this work. I used to consider it too twee for my liking, but now it is the perfect kind of twee for me!

[Todd]

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No. 7 right now....and I have changed my opinion about this work. I used to consider it too twee for my liking, but now it is the perfect kind of twee for me!

It's amazing how our ears expand, isn't it? There's obviously something about RVW that has driven you back to the music and this kind of thinking goes along with what I said on another thread:

I think we must be allured by the music we first hear whether this allurement continues throughout the work depends on how receptive we are to the music.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Just listened to no. 2 from this:



These are all fairly new for me as well. Enjoying this immensely!

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Just listened to no. 2 from this:



These are all fairly new for me as well. Enjoying this immensely!

That's my favorite set of Prokofiev's concertos (with Browning/Leinsdorf hot on its heels). I love the sound Fuga Libera achieves, clear as a bell and very rich. Performance-wise, I love the "modernist" approach from El Bacha/Ono, giving Prokofiev that hard edge which makes him, well...sing!

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TD: Bruckner 6, Dohnanyi/Cleveland.



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[SimonNZ]

John Kinsella's Sinfonietta "Pictures from The Odyssey" - Colman Pearce, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWfF3NMEBA

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

The Colour Symphony and Adams Zero. The symphony is still growing on me, but as symphonies go in the 20th century, this is one worth hearing. It may not be greatest symphony ever written, but I think it should be heard a little more often.

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting this magnificent piece:

Jack Gallagher
Symphony № 2, Ascendant
LSO
Falletta

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

A re-re-re-listen to these great VCs (I've time for all of them today) whilst I read the composer's autobiography published in the Guide Musical here : http://vieuxtemps.kbr.be/pdf/leGuideMusical.pdf

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