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^ I agree - excellent works.
I have one of the concertos on the Centaur label
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Last night the glories of Bruckner's 4th symphony echoed through the Forest of Dean ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/1sGwxW6m4CB7Tbcff5gzeK
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Bruckner's fourth was performed at the very first orchestral concert I went to, when I was about 14 (1975 or so) at the Aberdeen Music Halls. The SNO (as it then was) used to play Aberdeen on a Thursday, Edinburgh on a Friday, and Glasgow on a Saturday. As well as piano and organ, at the time I was a French Horn player (I did my Scottish O Grade on the horn, not piano). I was utterly awestruck by the brass section in the Bruckner. Kurt Sanderling conducting.Quote:
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Also on the programme was the Mendelssohn violin concerto though I can't remember who the soloist was.
Golly.
Tom is a closet Bruckner fan. :eek:
Whodathunkit?
I thought you detested the overblown grandiosity of romantic large orchestral?
It has its place Jerry but at heart I'm a renaissance/baroque/classical chamber music and vocal junkie. There's not a huge amount after 1850 that floats my boat though an exception would be a good Bruckner or Mahler symphony.Quote:
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Given your interests in music, Tom, you should be contributing more to this section of the forum! ;)
Marco.
Awesomely powerful and minimalistically beautiful contemporary classical music by Lepo Sumera
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glvmah8iVNMRFmkt8n29T
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Bream playing Giuliani and Malcolm Arnold ... the Giuliani is lovely. Malcolm Arnold less so. I recall his Clarinet Concerto clearing out a prom concert in Glasgow once - good night for the bar that must have been. They came back after the interval.
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I quite a few of Ucida's Mozart recordings on vinyl, this is my favourite - been giving them a spin this afternoon. Looking rather fetching it has to be said too.
edit - surprised
https://open.spotify.com/album/0XswfbZKP24hr6zF8OtNPs
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Currently listening to this, which is soothing for a Sunday morning, but somewhat grandiose in parts:
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Marco.
Right now this, which I'm enjoying immensely:
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:)
Marco.
Ooo - a new recording of Shosty 5th. And rather a good one!
From the Classics Today review ...
"Manfred Honeck makes the Shostakovich Fifth sound freshly-composed–quite an accomplishment for this certified warhorse. His scrupulous attention to Shostakovich’s meticulous dynamic markings and instrumental balances–the harp emerging perfectly from the orchestral texture in the first movement, the audible piano at the climax of the adagio, and the brass beautifully sonorous and penetrating throughout"
https://open.spotify.com/album/4JHeGESKOlQt2gBAXtcTND
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