What a nice record this is. Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks. Danses Concertantes and the Concerto in D. played by the ECO with Colin Davis on L'Oiseau-Lyre from 1962.
Excellent recording and performance, a winner.
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What a nice record this is. Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks. Danses Concertantes and the Concerto in D. played by the ECO with Colin Davis on L'Oiseau-Lyre from 1962.
Excellent recording and performance, a winner.
Unfamiliar with Martinu's Symphonies, but like the String Quartets, so having a punt - 3rd Symphony, enjoying so far!Quote:
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This edition.
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. . and I'll have to check out the string quartets! I don't know a lot about Martinu. When I used to sing (lip-sync :lol:) with the Guildford Phil choir in the 1970s Tod Handley programmed Martinu's "Epic of Gilgamesh". To my shame I can now remember nothing about it, but it did prompt my purchase of the Symphony 3-5 set . . .Quote:
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Both from the excellent boxset ...
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The clarinet trio is particularly wonderful. :)
Also great are the performances of the piano quartets in this set.
Martinu symphonies.
This is a good set - recorded by BIS, so excellent quality, now on Brilliant so nice and cheap!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Martinu-Comp...2212970&sr=1-2
But this is music very much influenced by the interpreters - it's amazing how different recordings can sound! - so there are other approaches than Jarvi's, but he is a good in a somewhat bold and forthright kind of way, and the sonics are great.
Oh - and it's all marvellous music, btw - and the symphonies are very varied. :)
Thanks for the Martinu link, Jerry.
I bought Brilliant's Prokofiev Symphonies set a while back which were Decca recordings. Fantastic value for great quality recordings.
Edit: Brilliant Classics website has some really interesting releases - this one, of Shostakovich Choral Music, looks well worth seeking out . . .
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Also try the three Cello Sonatas and the Nocturnes, beautiful pieces. Thy can be found on Supraphon on LP and CD, the CD mite still be out there.Quote:
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Schubert - Symphonies 5 & 6 - bliss!
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Wagner - Gotterdammerung, Solti, VPO, Decca [cd]
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This is the only recording I have, primarily for the Funeral March. Can anyone suggest a more up to date, but still orgasmic, version? I must say the dynamics on the Decca recording are knockout but the perspective very flattened.
No-one? Oh well, I'm looking at the Maazel / BPO / Telarc Ring orchestral highlights as a possible purchase.