Contemporary Spanish composer Lorenzo Palomo.
3 concertos, in effect; violin, clarinet and double bass.
And very pleasant and interesting listening they make.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4t8eO...RoOrRENsZl8G8w
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Contemporary Spanish composer Lorenzo Palomo.
3 concertos, in effect; violin, clarinet and double bass.
And very pleasant and interesting listening they make.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4t8eO...RoOrRENsZl8G8w
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If you enjoy Rachmaninov's lush romanticism, then wrap your lug-holes around Andre Mathieu's 4th piano concerto.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4abn3...SeKEcYEAaOUPXg
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The Brahms symphony cycle by Janowski and the Royal Liverpool Phil has come in for a bit of a critical pasting, but I think that he nails the tempi and after that everything just falls into place.
And the sound is extraordinarily good, imo.
I loves it.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2RIRD...Sdq7uu-_By2RGw
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Quite exceptional (and individualistic) playing from Deyanova in this selection of Schubert piano sonatas.
Daringly slow (Richter-like speed) in the 1st mvt of D.894.
I guess this will be a Marmite-thing; I don't like Marmite but I do like this!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3WiND...QY2r25QuYkZcrg
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Jacques Loussier - 'Toccata Play Bach'
Is this classical or is it Jazz? Probably both and neither. And probably looked down upon by aficionados in both camps. So just to annoy both parties, I'll post this in the Jazz section as well.
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Don’t know about annoying people ... I’m a fan but it’s more jazz than classical to me. I have pretty much all the stuff that Louissier and his band released in the 60s. I think the above repackaging though I know he did get back years later and re-record the old stuff with younger musicians. I also have a Debussy CD of his, I think from the 90s, that unfortunately isn’t nearly as successful as his Bach arrangements c
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It's jazz to my humble ears.
Urgh, that left a nasty taste.
Here's how Bach on the piano can be played without ruining it imo.
https://open.spotify.com/album/43DBY...S5SGUAEIT84Sjw
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Some more charity shop vinyl finds:
Beethoven – ‘The Early String Quartets, Op. 18, 1 – 6’
Végh Quartet
(3 LPs) Telefunken (TELDEC) 6.35042 (1974)
Prokofiev – ‘Concerto in D flat Major for Piano and Orchestra. Op.10’ and ‘Symphony No.7’
Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Prague Symphony Orchestra, cond. Karel Ancěrl
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. N. P Ansernov (Symphony No.7)
Supraphon SUA 10264
Dvorak – ‘String Quartet F-dur Op.96 (“American”)’ and ’String Quartet As-dur Op.,105’
Prague String Quartet
Supraphon (DGG, Austria) 104 815
“Music of Great Bygone Ages” Volume 1: La Provence
Music from some composers of the 17th and 18th century: André Campa; Guillaume Poitevin; Pierre Gaultier de Marseille and Étienne-Joseph Floquet.
Ensemble Instrumental de Provence, dir. Clément Zaffini
Musique Royale (DGG, Austria) 199 015
Beethoven – ‘Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major, Op.106 “Hammerklavier”’
Alfred Brendel
Decca Turnabout TV 34112DS (Vol.2) (1970)
Beethoven – ‘Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31, No2 “Tempest”’ and ’Piano Sonata No.21 in C major, Op.53 “Waldstein”’
Alfred Brendel, piano
Decca Turnabout TV 34115DS (Vol.5) (1970)
Mozart – ‘Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, K467’ and [B]’Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat major, K595
English Chamber Orchestra, dir Daniel Barenboim (piano)
EMI ASD 2465 (1969)
Mozart – ‘Symphonies No.39 in E-flat, K543 and No.40 in G minor, K550
The English Chamber Orchestra, cond. Daniel Barenboim
EMI ASD 2424 (1968)
Sibelius – ‘Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43’
Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Serge Koussevitzky
RCA GL85232 (DMM remastering of a 1950 recording) (1985)
Telemann –‘Four Concertos for trumpet and Strings’
Orchestre de Chambre pro Arte de Munich, dir. Kurt Redel.
RCA Erato STU 70067
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Those Vegh recordings are my favourite of the Beethoven quartets though I have them on French pressings (Valois) - the Op18s are great but the middle set of the three is my favourite esp Op 74 and 95.
Recorded in London in the early 70s I believe, listen in the slow passages for buses going past the studio!
If you got the Vegh for cheap you might be surprised at what they go for on Discogs.
The Provence recording is totally my kind of thing as well - great score