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Post by jandl100 on May 9, 2015 6:05:21 GMT
LP  --- glorious performances of Sibelius 6th & 7th symphonies by Rozhdestvensky |
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Post by jandl100 on May 12, 2015 5:14:07 GMT
CD  Several from this set -- great performances recorded in a very reverberant acoustic space! LP :format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5818301-1403535376-1491.jpeg.jpg) Fantastic performance of the Appassionata - I can imagine Beethoven playing it just like this - full of leonine power. |
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Post by jandl100 on May 13, 2015 5:50:49 GMT
CD  -- I play this disc every couple of years or so, and enjoy it a lot. CD  The Glazunov VC is a bore from beginning to end as far as I am concerned, the music not the interpretation. According to the CD booklet notes, Stokowski was quite taken with the young Rumanian violinist, Silvia Marcovici ....   The Tchaik 5 is good, Stokie does fool around with it a bit, but a bold and exciting performance is to be heard, in Decca's explicit sounding Phase 4 recording. |
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Post by MartinT on May 13, 2015 6:24:05 GMT
CD -- I play this disc every couple of years or so, and enjoy it a lot. I like the Guilmant organ symphonies quite a lot. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 6:22:52 GMT
Mendelssohn - Piano Sonata |
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Post by jandl100 on May 14, 2015 6:45:02 GMT
CD  -- gorgeous music. Beautiful recording. No, not comparable with the Bach solo violin works, but what is? Great to just wallow in the soaring lines! CD  -- the Req continues to grow on me - a very fine piece. |
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Post by jandl100 on May 15, 2015 7:08:42 GMT
CDs   --- try as I might, I just can't get on with these well thought of symphonies. Soon to be on eBay !  Ahh, this is more congenial .... CD  |
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Post by MartinT on May 15, 2015 8:01:10 GMT
-- the Req continues to grow on me - a very fine piece. I have that version and it's a gorgeous piece. |
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Post by John on May 16, 2015 17:07:41 GMT
Jocelyn Pook Flood
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Post by jandl100 on May 17, 2015 6:33:36 GMT
Jocelyn Pook - yes! excellent stuff. ____ LP  -- bold and strong, nice recording. Especially good in the Jupiter, shame George didn't give us repeats in the finale, though. LP :format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1225642-1424091895-3937.jpeg.jpg) -- wonderful. One of the best discs Marriner ever gave us, I think. CD  -- pah, Rattle rattling along in his usual unidiomatic manner. There's zero feeling of Brucknerian mystery, the phrasing is four-square and unimaginative. The completed finale is interesting, but would be so much better with a conductor who did have a clue. CD  -- ah, now we are cooking with charcoal! A little rushed on occasion, HvK accelerates overmuch into a climax sometimes, but glorious nonetheless. You only have to listen to the haunting pianissimo opening of the piece to instantly know that Herbie did have a clue! |
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Post by jandl100 on May 18, 2015 6:04:32 GMT
 -- great performances by Lill. He even inspires Loughran to some decent conducting!  -- lovely stuff!  -- superdooper music! But so little known - what a shame! |
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Post by jandl100 on May 19, 2015 8:57:38 GMT
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Post by MartinT on May 19, 2015 10:13:26 GMT
You really don't like Rattle much, do you Jerry?  Have you heard Jochum's Bruckner 9? He has a clue! |
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Post by jandl100 on May 19, 2015 16:59:44 GMT
Rattle? Pah. Clueless wonder. Jochum Bruckner 9 - magnificent!! That guy certainly had a clue. I just don't understand why The Rattler is so highly rated by some folks .... including the Berlin Phil!  |
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Post by jandl100 on May 20, 2015 6:18:31 GMT
 -- new music to me, but I suspect the piano sonata is a masterwork. More listening is def looked forward to!  Wow - I don't think they make pianists like Gilels any more.   - ah, sublime. |
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Post by Pinch on May 20, 2015 10:15:58 GMT
^The Bridge sounds interesting - investigating... On now:  Also have volumes 2-4 queued - some of favourite Beethoven here. |
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Post by jandl100 on May 22, 2015 6:54:14 GMT
A fantastic world of discovery has opened up for me - now streaming hi-rez on TIDAL  ....
-- at last, real competition for the classic Sveshnikov recording from the 1960s, and in great sound!! -- OK so they can't match the low B flat of the older Russian basses, still fabulous.
-- Schubert's Arpeggione sonata.
-- kinda cute, isn't she.
And a selection from ...
-- superb.
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Post by jandl100 on May 23, 2015 5:03:35 GMT
 -- got a bit over half way thru the 1st mvt - about as much passion and excitement as a shopping trip to Tescos.  -- WOWZER !! - that's more like it. Stupendous sq, too.  -- exotically oriental and at times very moving indeed. Not as good as Sokolov, but he is astonishingly inward in this music.  -- marvellous playing by Pollini - listened to opp 101, 7 and 53.  -- Reger is not usually my cuppa char, but I do like some of the smaller scale chamber music |
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Post by jandl100 on May 25, 2015 6:37:32 GMT
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Post by MartinT on May 25, 2015 16:40:52 GMT
Reminds me, I must play the Argerich/Rabinovich Mozart Piano Concertos 10, 19, 20 that's just arrived on Japanese Teldec.
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