Sorry I missed this post. You are now talking my sort of language - proper musik:)Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
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Sorry I missed this post. You are now talking my sort of language - proper musik:)Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
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-- quartets 1-5.
Early Mozart - but delightful light listening. :)
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Yum, especially the Kancheli.
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Interesting. I've not heard Szell's cycle before. Precision playing by the Clevelanders. Interpretively cool, definitely not for Bernstein fans who prefer their Brahms on the lush and romantic side! I enjoyed both symphonies. Decent recording.
I've just listened to this ...
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Superb!
I'll have to try 8 & 10 again, I wasn't impressed with Petrenko there a year or so back.
Nielsen - 'Symphonies 1 & 2'
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Royal Danish Orchestra, cond. Paavo Bergland.
RCA 74321 20291 2 (1994)
Not at all familiar with Nielsen (apart from his 5th), so when I saw this in a charity shop for 99p, it was a no-brainer purchase. Will need a couple more listens, but so far I have found it largely 'average': it didn't do much for me. :(
Nielsen.
Hmm. I keep trying, but most of his music doesn't do much for me.
Penderecki is a strange composer for me.
Much of his music can be just random noise as far as I am concerned, but now and then I come across a really great piece.
A few days ago I stumbled on his String Trio and was bowled over.
Today it's his piano concerto.
Listened to this one 3 times on the trot ...
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/de...?itok=Ie_bGDzH
then another time with this one ...
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Which is an even better performance and recording.
Hey, even the flute concerto is good! :)
I too have difficulties with Penderecki. Like you, I find most of it seems to be a lot of discordant noise. But I'll check out his concertos. Thanks for the 'heads up' Jerry.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
I love piano music and in my opinion Grieg's Concerto is one of the best.
I never get sick of hearing the opening strident bars.
Listening to it on my CD player, through my amp [both in my signature] and recording it onto a TDK tape for my mother.
For the recording I am using the Akai Gixmio.
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As recommended on the Wigwam forum for the Oration work.
Listening now - more interesting than Isserlis with Hickox, but probably still comes under the heading of self-indulgent pompous meandering aimless twaddle as far as I am concerned. :hmm:
It's just a style of music that irritates the hell out of me.
--- 10 minutes in now --- enough!! :spew:
-- back to some Cherubini string quartets that the Oration so rudely interrupted, :thumbsup:
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Listening to this lovely mixed disc a good old BBC music mag one
Picked up in a charity shop for 50p last weekend
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Earlier listening some good Mozart and wonderful Schubert
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