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[Mirror Image]

I could no longer resist and I'm hoping this is the last of my slip-ups but what a glorious slip-up it is!

[Brian]

New arrivals:

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I really enjoyed this recording of the Tchaikovsky concerto.

[Karl Henning]

I could no longer resist and I'm hoping this is the last of my slip-ups but what a glorious slip-up it is!

Brahms is never a slip-up!

[Mirror Image]

Brahms is never a slip-up!

Indeed!

[ritter]

Some Mozart à la française:


Yvonne Loriod's recording of the first four piano concertos (conducted by Pierre Boulez) had never been AFAIK transferred to CD, until the Classica magazine offered it a couple of months ago.

And this hard-to-find OOP recording of solo piano works with Loriod seemed like a good complement:

[Ken B]

I could no longer resist and I'm hoping this is the last of my slip-ups but what a glorious slip-up it is!

Terrific box.

[aligreto]

Some Max Bruch chamber music....

[Jo498]

Some Max Bruch chamber music....

I am probably repeating myself but this disc is one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years.

[aligreto]

I am probably repeating myself but this disc is one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years.

I saw this posted recently [possibly by yourself, I just cannot remember] but I decided that I must have it; it is now in my posession 

[PerfectWagnerite]

I got this one about two weeks ago, in the same old grey cover. I think I once read that Czechoslovakia was the only Eastern bloc country that had a CD manufacturing plant in the late 1980s. There were digital CD recordings produced also in East Germany or Hungary of course, but they had to be manufactured in Czechoslovakia.

Another great recording of this work with this orchestra is Vaclav Talich's 1950 recording in crystal clear mono sound. If anything the rhythms come out sharper and greater contrast between the fast and slow sections.

[Mirror Image]

Terrific box.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to digging into the chamber music especially. I've never heard any of it, but that's okay, this isn't a horse race. We get to what we get to whenever we can. No need to feel a need to hear everything, because, quite frankly, a person will never hear everything they truly want. There's just not enough time.

[Wanderer]

I really enjoyed this recording of the Tchaikovsky concerto.

Me, too. She's fiery, not as relentless as some others, and digs into the lyrical aspects with more care than most. The orchestral accompaniment by the Scottish orchestra is superb, the best on disc so far.

[The new erato]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to digging into the chamber music especially. I've never heard any of it,

Lucky you! I've lived with this music for 40 years, and besides being amongst the greatest music ever written, I never tire of it (as I do with much other great music).

[Jo498]

Another great recording of this work with this orchestra is Vaclav Talich's 1950 recording in crystal clear mono sound. If anything the rhythms come out sharper and greater contrast between the fast and slow sections.

I am not completely sure if it was the Dances or a symphony, but I think I had the Talich once (I still have his Ma Vlast). I am usually pretty tolerant with historic sound but on one of those mono Talich's it was sufficiently bad to distract me, so I got rid of it...

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived today: Khachaturian Piano Concerto, Kondrashin conducting, recommended by Vandermolen.




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Lucky you! I've lived with this music for 40 years, and besides being amongst the greatest music ever written, I never tire of it (as I do with much other great music).

That certainly speaks of how this music's greatness. Some composers it's easy to reach a 'burned out' stage, but with music that's truly dear to us, it's not so easy.

[Brahmsian]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to digging into the chamber music especially.

Re: Brahms' chamber music.  John, oh boy!!  You are in for a treat.  Brahms' chamber music, like Erato mentioned, is something I never tire of hearing.  One gem after another.  As an overall oeuvre, there is no composer's chamber music I prefer.

[Spineur]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to digging into the chamber music especially. I've never heard any of it, but that's okay, this isn't a horse race. We get to what we get to whenever we can. No need to feel a need to hear everything, because, quite frankly, a person will never hear everything they truly want. There's just not enough time.

Agreed !!  You are often raving about Dvorak chamber&symphonic music, but Brahms is I find on a much higher planet.  Only Schubert and maybe the big Ludwig comes close.
On a desert island, Brahms would probably be my choice.  Deep, moving, full of invention and creativity.  Really extraordinary music.  After this box, you may even revise you list of favorite composers !!!

[PerfectWagnerite]

I am not completely sure if it was the Dances or a symphony, but I think I had the Talich once (I still have his Ma Vlast). I am usually pretty tolerant with historic sound but on one of those mono Talich's it was sufficiently bad to distract me, so I got rid of it...

It is not great sound but better than 90% of the Toscananini recordings for example. If you listen just for orchestra execution and timbre you would find that it is rather unique. Another great Talich Dvorak disc is the 7th and 8th symphonies, where the pre-war Czech Philharmonic sounds even more extraordinary.

[aligreto]

Some more Biondi performances added to my collection with....