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-- an obscure but excellent CD!
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-- interesting interpretation of Schubert 9 to hear once, but curiously unminvolving and it's now on my <for sale> pile!
[QUOTE=jandl100;626309]Ah - Deyanova - she recorded a most interesting set of Schubert piano sonatas for Nimbus - clearly (to my ear) emulating the legendary recordings of Sviatoslav Richter - they almost worked! Certainly worth a listen.
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Lookong for Ma Sicong I found this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuxfp1Tk3U but can't find the CDs or how to download a file (flac or WAV, not MP3!). Can anyone help?
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--- I must confess to a huge sense of ennui with the Mendelssohn concerto, I just can't be bothered with it anymore! - but the Tchaikovsky is magnificent here!
The 2nd concerto from this CD - wonderful
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Been really enjoying this Moazrt
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A live recording from 1994 wonderfull stuff indeed
Going to sit back in a bit and give it a good listen again
Also been enjoying
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Thanks for the recomendation Jerry I am a big fan of 1p plus postage CDs
Really lovelly sound he gets from the paino
Me too - also 1p plus postage!Quote:
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Thanks Jerry
[PS The artwork proof readers should be shot: on the rear sleeve the artist is (twice) written as OHN LILL (sic)!]
Yay - good that you folks enjoy it, too. :)
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-- played the 2nd, again.
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-- played the 2nd concerto
Playing this CD on headphones as I type ...
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Seriously impressed!
-- big scale, dynamic, tuneful, romantic -- what's not to like?
Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme
The Sir Thomas Beecham, Victoria de los Angeles version from the 1950's
2 CDs on EMI Classics.
My wife's choice, but I have to agree that this is a great version. The sleeve notes say that Beecham actually met Puccini and did not really like him. He seems to like the music well enough.
On another note, Puccini's old car still exists, and we saw it finish the London to Brighton run a couple of years back, though it did have to get a push over the finish line. I don't remember seeing it on last years run! Maybe it was there, but the weather was so wet last year that we had to take regular refreshment breaks in a bar to get dry :-)
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Lovely stuff great cello and clarinet
This Tchaikovksy 5 with Rozhdestvensky conductuing the LSO is brilliant
So good I bought a second copy to use demo disc to compare Cd players
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Ah - Les Musiciens - a fabulously talented group - have you heard their Schubert piano trios, David? My favourite versions - sublime!!
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The 2nd concerto from this CD - again!
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Argerich in the D minopr concerto (#20) is astonishing - although it has to be said that she plays it more like Beethoven than Mozart!
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Excellent well-crafted music, I also have a CD of Marx's violin sonatas :thumbsup:
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George Frederick Handel
Coronation Anthems
Choir of Westminster Abbey, and the English Consort lead by Trevor Pinnock recorded in 1981
on Archiv 2534005
Sounding great on vinyl - I really must play more vinyl!!
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Stunning melodic and powerful music, top class recording. :thumbsup:
Played this morning
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Beethoven again for this evenings fare
RTR for Szells 8 & 9 as vinyl has eluded me so far and 9 will probably continue to do so at this sort of price :stalks: http://www.popsike.com/SAX-251213-su...571275712.html
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but 5 is one I have found on vinyl :)
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Some Szell for me, too ...
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-- something a little different - Tchaik on the synthesiser :eyebrows:
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Szell Beethoven is great stuff recently got the CD box set not given the ninth a proper listen yet so may do in a bit
Now listening to RVWs first form another great box set
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The State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky just rolls of the tounge that lot doesnt it
The singing itsnt too accented
Szells ninth is very enjoyable although I still think that Furtwangler and Schurichts mono recordings are my favorite
Wow - never even heard of that set! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronksley
So -- what's it like? :scratch: - performance / recording?
(I'm a BIG fan of Gennadi's Bruckner and Sibelius!)
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Extremely beautiful Bach transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff, played by his star pupil Idil Biret. There is a gentle luminosity here, and throughout much of the disc, which is entrancing.
Kempff's own compositions (a suite and a piano sonata) are good - the Italian suite seems very much influenced by the 20thC French manner to me! - think Ravel, Debussy in their gentler moods.
The sonata is a bit more percussive, but still tuneful.
A lovely CD for chilling out to.
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Not songs at all - all instrumental music.
Accessible non-romantic, somewhat atonal 20C American - some interesting sonorities, the music has a definite fascination for me.
So much so that I played the Furtwangler earlier tonight :)Quote:
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Its unlike any RVW I have heard before unfortunately the sound quality isnt the best I think they sound great all from radio braodcasts recorded 1988-9 ADDQuote:
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They really are good performances deffienately sound like they must of had a reasonalbe amount of rehearsal or not the first time they have performed them Sometimes the tempos seem a bit odd but that might just be because its just different a real refreshing change from the other RVW CDs I have
I thought I might be taking a bit of a gamble buying this set but I am a big Rozhdestvensky fan and am so glad I did
There is a good review here http://www.musicweb-international.co...LCD1002170.htm
and a few on amazon
Damn - I may have to invest - thanks David - I've the whole series of Bruckner that Rozh recorded for Melodiya - you'd need an industrial strength crowbar to part me from them! - oh, that Russkie brass section :drool: :lol:
Yesterday eve ...
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-- a very fine performance and recording, somewhat spoilt by a rather intrusive bass hum.
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-- a fine performance of Bruckner 8th symphony plus a documentary about the Croatian conductor Milan Horvat
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Ooo, yum :drool: I'm jealous as hell of that cello sonata LP. :eek:
Picked these up today
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I already have the Brahms box set as well as having individual copies of the sonatas but couldn't resist a bargain, however this recording of the Brandenburgs is new to me. :)
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Played the Khach VC twice this eve.
Possibly my favourite violin concerto, although neither here is my 1st choice both are good. :)
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+1 for me, too. :)Quote:
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Joint 1st choice for me is Igor Oistrakh / Eugene Goossens (cond) / Philharmonia on a mono CfP LP!
Oh wow, yes! - I have that LP.
Backhaus was a stunning Brahms and Beethoven pianist - leonine power, but with poetic finesse! :eek:
I'm jealous of the Mozart - I've never seen those LPs. :drool:
Thanks for that - I have LPs of Haebler in JC Bach sonatas and concertos. :thumbsup:
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Last night, a Rosner eve ...
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Followed by a pre-slumber solo lute recital ...
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--- ahh, exquisite. :)
Been listening to this wonderfull CD of Bach
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and a few Mahler songs
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Love Fassbaenders voice
and a bit of light relief
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Quality... If you ever decide to sell your classical vinyl collection, give me first dibs! ;)
Marco.
I think he is following a spider on the ceiling!Quote:
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No problem, but the values of a lot of the early classical records seem to have reached such crazy levels in recent years that you may have to sell all your hifi to afford it. :eek:Quote:
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Fortunately there are still bargains to be found. Take the two L'Arlesienne suites above. Cluytens conducting the PCO on the full price SAX label now sells for silly money whereas Wallberg conducting the Philharmonia (IMHO the best orchestra of the late 50's to mid sixties) released in the UK of the bargain label series (only full price in Italy AFAIK) can be found for a few pounds. Both are excellent recordings by the way.
The Guardian did a good obit on Wallberg and his MSND they mention can still be found for a few pounds
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