Spinning Today (Classical version)

[jandl100]

Some Szell for me, too ...

CD


LP

-- something a little different - Tchaik on the synthesiser

CD

[Ronksley]

Szell Beethoven is great stuff recently got the CD box set not given the ninth a proper listen yet so may do in a bit

Now listening to RVWs first form another great box set



The State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky just rolls of the tounge that lot doesnt it
The singing itsnt too accented

[BTH K10A]

Szells ninth is very enjoyable although I still think that Furtwangler and Schurichts mono recordings are my favorite

[jandl100]

Now listening to RVWs first form another great box set



The State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky just rolls of the tounge that lot doesnt it
The singing itsnt too accented

Wow - never even heard of that set!

So -- what's it like? - performance / recording?

(I'm a BIG fan of Gennadi's Bruckner and Sibelius!)

[jandl100]

Extremely beautiful Bach transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff, played by his star pupil Idil Biret. There is a gentle luminosity here, and throughout much of the disc, which is entrancing.
Kempff's own compositions (a suite and a piano sonata) are good - the Italian suite seems very much influenced by the 20thC French manner to me! - think Ravel, Debussy in their gentler moods.
The sonata is a bit more percussive, but still tuneful.
A lovely CD for chilling out to.


Not songs at all - all instrumental music.
Accessible non-romantic, somewhat atonal 20C American - some interesting sonorities, the music has a definite fascination for me.

[BTH K10A]

Szells ninth is very enjoyable although I still think that Furtwangler and Schurichts mono recordings are my favorite

So much so that I played the Furtwangler earlier tonight

[Ronksley]

Wow - never even heard of that set!

So -- what's it like? - performance / recording?

(I'm a BIG fan of Gennadi's Bruckner and Sibelius!)

Its unlike any RVW I have heard before unfortunately the sound quality isnt the best I think they sound great all from radio braodcasts recorded 1988-9 ADD
They really are good performances deffienately sound like they must of had a reasonalbe amount of rehearsal or not the first time they have performed them Sometimes the tempos seem a bit odd but that might just be because its just different a real refreshing change from the other RVW CDs I have
I thought I might be taking a bit of a gamble buying this set but I am a big Rozhdestvensky fan and am so glad I did
There is a good review here http://www.musicweb-international.co...LCD1002170.htm
and a few on amazon

[jandl100]

Damn - I may have to invest - thanks David - I've the whole series of Bruckner that Rozh recorded for Melodiya - you'd need an industrial strength crowbar to part me from them! - oh, that Russkie brass section

Yesterday eve ...

[jandl100]

LP

-- a very fine performance and recording, somewhat spoilt by a rather intrusive bass hum.

CD

[jandl100]

DVD

-- a fine performance of Bruckner 8th symphony plus a documentary about the Croatian conductor Milan Horvat

DVD