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Post by jandl100 on Jun 21, 2017 9:43:33 GMT
or try this Spotify link which has the 9th symphony as well. The 7th and 9th might be great performances, too - I haven't tried them yet.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 21, 2017 11:51:54 GMT
This one arrived this morning...
Sir Hamilton Harty - An Irish Symphony / With The Wild Geese / In Ireland - on Naxos
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 21, 2017 13:26:02 GMT
"Glorious John" Barbirolli in Dvorak's joyful and beautiful and exciting 8th symphony. Glorious indeed! Yes the 8th is quite something ... Listening to the 7th now, certainly no lack of tension to the start!
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2017 17:28:01 GMT
It sounded wonderful playing it earlier.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 21, 2017 17:36:19 GMT
Another one that arrived today...
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2017 19:47:19 GMT
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13
This Haitink is mesmerising and he absolutely nails the movement 'Fears'.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 21, 2017 21:05:25 GMT
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Massively powerful performance by Karajan and the BPO. However, it's a 1970s DG recording so dismally shit. Shame.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 22, 2017 4:58:07 GMT
Brahms - Ein Deutsches RequiemMassively powerful performance by Karajan and the BPO. However, it's a 1970s DG recording so dismally shit. Shame. Wow - a powerful performance indeed! I'm a bit more relaxed about the 1970's EMI ( ) recording. OK, with the smoothed over fine detail and the rather murky ambience it's like being up in the mid-balcony seats rather than my preferred mid stalls, but it's a valid perspective and I think it quite suits the majestic sweep of the performance.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 22, 2017 5:10:44 GMT
Oops - I could have sworn I saw the DG label when I put the disc in! Ok, a poor EMI recording is a little more surprising. It's not the ambience so much as the breaking up and homogenising of the choir when at full pelt that made me wince.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 22, 2017 5:26:46 GMT
It probably sounds better on Spotify. To my bafflement, a lot of older/poorer recordings seem to!
Some older CBS / RCA screechers, for example, come up surprisingly well on Spotify! Bernstein's CBS recordings with the NYPO, Previn's Vaughan Williams symphony cycle on RCA and many others have been brought to remarkably listenable standard on Spotify. Or so it seems to me.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 22, 2017 6:51:32 GMT
It may well be access to decent masters for encoding. The EMI CD, for instance, looks like a cheap reissue and who knows whether they took care over it? Spotify may well have accessed something better for the Ogg-Vorbis encoding.
This is worth researching a little. I'll see if I can find out what Spotify do and put it into that thread.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 22, 2017 7:03:28 GMT
Have you listened to that EMI HvK recording on Spot to compare, to see if you think there are differences between Spotify and your CD? -- I haven't got that CD to compare.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 22, 2017 7:27:54 GMT
I'll do that later on, Jerry.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 23, 2017 11:46:16 GMT
Philip Glass 8th symphony. #Great stuff.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 23, 2017 12:22:56 GMT
DRD seems to like conducting Glass's music. Thanks, I'll take a listen later on.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 23, 2017 12:37:42 GMT
The Glass 8th is completely superb!
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 23, 2017 13:48:01 GMT
I agree!
This Mahler 6 is mighty fine, too.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 24, 2017 6:46:51 GMT
Stumbled across this on Spotify - a rather excellent performance of Pictures at an Exhibition for wind ensemble.
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 28, 2017 21:05:08 GMT
It's Paul's fault. Try this Martin!
....double glazing?
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Post by MartinT on Jun 29, 2017 5:46:14 GMT
OMG, I'll need to prepare my padded room. Stand by...
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