Spinning Today (Classical version)

Komitas piano music - there's a haunting beauty to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytcl2CMC3d0

New cartridge arrived yesterday, so a lot of LPs were spun. :)

The 6th from this LP.
Very powerful and emotive performance.
Takes the 'nuclear wasteland' finale rather too fast for me, but most do apart from Rozhdestvensky.
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http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
Fascinating, and very busy, works both.

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Still the best?

2 Art of Fugues on the trot yesterday eve. :eek:

Both with viol consorts - even in his own day Bach harked back to a previous era, and a viol consort has just the right sort of lucid precision accompanied by lushly vibrant tonal colours that suits the music amazingly well imo.

http://www.fretwork.co.uk/wp-content...t-of-Fugue.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0P5tFIBL8VDtQoP65dNLr7

then

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https://open.spotify.com/album/12RIlnDnWYp3cNeEMfv2cm

About two and a half hours, and not a moment too long. :)

And Schubert's Trout quintet again.
This time with fortepiano and authentic instruments.
It works well the way Schubert expected it to sound. Surprise! :D
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/59dfkRZ5TjMKRFbww7XRUv

Long, tiring day yesterday, so just needed something to kick back to and have wash over me.
Paging Maestro Grumiaux and the 12 fantasias for solo violin ! ...

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5ZasePKBFKoKDz8vnFXvmu

Wonderful performance of Mendelssohn Scottish (3rd) symphony
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/5PnrR5P5iYLmg10Y2GXzeI
Very seriously impressed by this - top conducting by de Vriend and superb playing by the orchestra.
Wonderfully light on its feet and impetuous.
They've recorded a full Beethoven cycle as well, I shall definitely be investigating that.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/2nRriBrwjOuX6Mbw1sMys7
I'd quite liked the Lilburn symphonies recording on Naxos, but this one raised the game considerably, especially for syms 1 & 2.

and then to wind down, some very interesting sonorities here ...
https://artistxite.ie/imgcache/album...862242_190.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2YudYL9aDKM4tvdoQedPeN

The 2nd concerto from this recent album. Really good performance & sound. :thumbsup:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
https://open.spotify.com/album/7tJzNnuMJF3F3xbdIjjYAm

Then the mighty 8th

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5tN8ebvUo9IW4YxqIipc0p

Shee-it :eek: what totally phenomenal pianism :stalks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w65QgjWHNDA

Fantastic performance and recording, by far my favourite of this work
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https://open.spotify.com/album/1yOv59RHBroxD9ygcvS1GR

Maybe Previn's later efforts are underrated.
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I really enjoyed this - started with the Tallis Fantasia. The relaxed style of the older-Previn really hit the spot. So I tried the 5th symphony and really enjoyed that, too. Not much in the way of sharp edges to this music, so the elder statesman approach works well. :)
The fantastic sound quality doesn't hurt, either.
https://open.spotify.com/album/27UCN5Z6u0L5fUWWkyxhXB

There's something about Bach's organ music played magisterially on a modern concert grand piano that sends shivers down my spine.
Artur Pizarro does that well.
http://redmp3.su/cover/1888152-460x4...ranz-liszt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ewYBIhms06IYhlGkKMe7J