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Post by Slinger on Mar 30, 2018 18:45:06 GMT
I'm waiting for this one to arrive...
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 30, 2018 19:26:37 GMT
Looks like a nice selection there - I've not heard the Beecham but it's another highly rated account ...
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Post by Slinger on Mar 31, 2018 14:11:19 GMT
I'm looking forward to it, Jules. I've already got versions by Reiner/Chicago S.O. and Maazel/Berlin Phil.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 31, 2018 14:13:49 GMT
Scheherazade last night. In between visitor disruptions. Quite a few snippets I knew.
Need to listen again a time or three
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 31, 2018 14:40:23 GMT
I'm looking forward to it, Jules. I've already got versions by Reiner/Chicago S.O. and Maazel/Berlin Phil. I've only got Haitink which is very good but I fancy another recording. Am very tempted by the 2 X 45rpm analogue reissue of Reiner, and I do have a soft spot for Ansermet in this work ...
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Post by Slinger on Mar 31, 2018 14:57:32 GMT
I don't know Ansermet at all. Something I need to remedy, do you think?
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 31, 2018 15:09:19 GMT
It's another 'classic' recording.
Definitely worth a listen, even if just for the full-throttle climaxes ...
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Post by Slinger on Mar 31, 2018 15:36:53 GMT
I'm having a listen now, Jules. "Dramatic" is the first description that comes to mind. Unfortunately, Amazon wants twenty quid for that version on CD and even though it's a "96kHz/24bit Super DIGITAL Transfer" with two versions already and a third on the way I think I'll pass.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 31, 2018 15:45:09 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 31, 2018 19:10:51 GMT
Mike - when you are done with Scheherazade, have you listened to The Planets all the way through?
Lots of good recordings. Here’s the Boston Symphony with Wiliam Steinberg. Big dynamics in this of course - your kit should love it.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 1, 2018 15:38:09 GMT
It's another 'classic' recording. Definitely worth a listen, even if just for the full-throttle climaxes ... Found that more like my classical classical. Went on too long and a bit boring
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Post by MartinT on Apr 1, 2018 17:15:21 GMT
Try 'Mars' from The Planets, Mike. It's a different sound-world from most classical.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 2, 2018 11:19:13 GMT
Mike - when you are done with Scheherazade, have you listened to The Planets all the way through? Lots of good recordings. Here’s the Boston Symphony with Wiliam Steinberg. Big dynamics in this of course - your kit should love it. Playing now. Tried many years ago. System as is doing a much better job than anything heard before The boss likes the Planets too
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 2, 2018 11:23:44 GMT
Just played and working through the Planets
BTW do you know the King Crimson album In the wake of Poseidon ? Well worth a listen from Wikipedia The longest track on the album is a chaotic instrumental piece called "The Devil’s Triangle". This was adapted from the 1969 band's live arrangement of Gustav Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" (from his The Planets suite) which can be heard on Epitaph (where it is titled merely "Mars").[2] King Crimson was forbidden by Holst's legal estate to use his piece, so "The Devil's Triangle" employs a different staccato riff than the one from "Mars". In 1971, a brief excerpt from "The Devil’s Triangle" was featured in "The Mind of Evil", the second serial of the eighth season of the BBC television series Doctor Who.[3]
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Post by MartinT on Apr 2, 2018 11:54:16 GMT
Tomita also had a run-in with the Holst family because of his Planets re-working. It was eventually resolved and his Planets is now available.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 2, 2018 13:59:02 GMT
First listen. Attention wandering and a bit boring.
Second listen and much better. So much nicked by others from this
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Post by MartinT on Apr 2, 2018 15:20:58 GMT
So much nicked by others from this As you get to know more, you hear loads of sections nicked from classical music into rock and other genres.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 2, 2018 16:41:22 GMT
Here's something a bit different for you Mike.
Vaghan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis / Sir John Barbirolli (1963)
For me, one of the most moving works of all.
Don't be fooled by the start, keep volume high!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 2, 2018 17:13:18 GMT
It's an absolutely gorgeous work, Jules.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 3, 2018 14:46:48 GMT
Stored for the future.
Thanks Jules.
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