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The 1st symphony.
An easy blend of classical and blues/jazz from one of the first African-American composers.
Wonderful stuff.
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Nice, the clavichord has a very distinctive, plangent sound.
I like this, too ...
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Bejeebers - this is high quality organ music! :eek:
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and a couple from this series ...
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I can't believe I sat and listened to well over 2 hours of organ music on the trot last night.
But this is good stuff! - JSB, watch yer back! :lol:
An afternoon Emperor, while I do some proofreading.
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This was a surprise ... and a nice one ...
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Quite probably the best Bax symphony I have heard (not much of a challenge, I hear you say ;)), and not even one of the better known numbered ones.
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Piano trios 1 & 2. Really good! I shall be playing the rest of this set.
Lawd help me, but I'm becoming a Bernstein fanboy. :doh:
What with the cataclysmically wonderful Mahler 3 (NYPO) a week or so back, and now listening to this Brahms 1 ...
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And what have they done to the sound? :scratch:
- it sounds fairly good now, I'm sure it used to be thin and kinda scrawny? :scratch:
Some of my favorite musicians on this one; Jacob Heringman (lute), Susanna Pell (viola da gamba), Catherine King (mezzo).
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Played the lot just now - 1 thru 5 :thumbsup: Love it.
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A magnificent performance, excellent stereo sound for the 1958 recording date, a bit of tape hiss.
I couldn't resist going straight on to this ...
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Interesting.
I marginally prefer Bernstein's vocal soloists, the ladies are a bit shrill on the high notes in the Fricsay.
A bit more pep in the 2nd mvt from Bernstein.
But Fricsay marginally preferred for the overall grandeur of the occasion and a more naturally flowing Adagio.
The mvt timings are remarkably similar.
Good to have both, though. :)
Less tape hiss than the Fricsay.
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A nicely varied programme - a Boccherini concert, really. :thumbsup: