Yay - a new Pavlova symphony album from Naxos.
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I do like her soundworld, quite distinctively interesting if you don't mind laidback and melancholy.
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Yay - a new Pavlova symphony album from Naxos.
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I do like her soundworld, quite distinctively interesting if you don't mind laidback and melancholy.
Luigi Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
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- I like this series of bargain-priced CDs.
Russian provincial orchestras, and none the worse for that.
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Malcolm Arnold - concertos for clarinet, harmonica and guitar.
-- the first two are good, the geetar concerto I can manage without hearing again, I think.
The idea of an harmonica concerto sounds a bit strange, but this is powerful stuff!
All listened to on headphones via portable minidisc player while sloshing on wood preservative to one end of my wood-clad dwelling. :)
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- Starker & Schneiderhan & Fricsay - quite possibly the most powerful version of the Brahms Double Concerto I have ever heard.
You're late this morning Jerry . Did you sleep in ? :)
Eek :eek: I've got a follower :D
more than 1;)
More laidback bitter-sweetness from the ex-Russkie lady
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Perfect for chilling out to. :)
:)Yes , I know very little about classical music , however I've bought a couple of your recommendations . :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
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-- includes a good, strong piano sonata
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--- oooo, yum, classical sax, love it! :)
Hmm - I don't usually got for Bliss's music, but this is very good ....
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I shall have to investigate more.
A brilliant wallow in The Pathetique. Mravinsky and the Leningrad Phil - recorded in Wembley Town Hall about 1960, I believe? Recording can teach modern engineers a thing or two.http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/im...00/4779382.jpg
Quite a lot of Pleyel playing this evening :)
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Currently listening to ....
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Modern, mostly tonal, very enjoyable.
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-- enjoyable, upbeat, a bit annoyingly insistent at times! Generally good.
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-- from Bach to Shostakovich - quite superb!
A Shosty 7 day :)
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As so often with the 7th, it sounds de-Shostied to me. Too romanticised, some of the bite is removed. There's no heartstopping terror in the implacable advance of the Nazi war machine, just pretty la-de-da in that part of the 1st mvt for the most part. Mantovani and his 101 Syrupy Strings.
-- as above, some folks really rate this recording, though, so YMMV, as ever. :D
Bernstein does much better ...
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-- like Nanut, spine tinglingly, hair raisingly awesome at the climax of the ostinato passage, but too slow at other times for me, though.
Jansons surprised me how well he did it ...
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There are so many 7ths these days! ... but of those I have heard, despite 2nd rate orchestra and somewhat edgy sound, the Nanut remains the performance of choice for me. I can feel the dread and the terror of being trapped in a city in the path of the 3rd Reich's war machine.
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& then, in a somewhat lighter vein ...
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-- the V-L preludes are my favourite guitar music. A very beautiful hommage to Bach.
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-- I just love his string quartets, too.
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-- Mozart Requiem --- for string quartet !
Actually, it's rather good. :)
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-- superbly played and excellent sq.
But as with his Sibelius recordings, for me Vanska manages to extract the essence of the composer from the performance. It all sounds pointless and uninvolving to me, an academic exercise not a musical one.
Give me Bohm, Karajan, Wand, Tintner etc, anytime. They've got the Bruckner mojo in spades. :)
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-- violin sonatas opp 12,1-3
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My boot sale purchases are now flat after a few hours in the sun between glass. So the first on the TT was Karajan and the Berlin Phil and Beethoven's 5th.
I like Karajan. There are times when some of the subtleties seem to vanish into the mix a bit but he, never the less, seems to find the heart and soul of the music. I love his versions of Ravel and Shostakovic jazz inspired pieces and of course, the Blue Danube (2001 has etched his version into my brain - what's left of it) So I sat and listened the the 5th. I reckon he got the closest yet but it still failed to hold my attention enough to stop me reading my book at the same time. If it was Bach, Vivaldi, Handel or Jazz, I couldn't do anything else but listen.
I guess I have to just admit that classical or romantic music just doesn't do it for me. I find no direction or purpose to the music and it becomes wall paper. There are a few exceptions to every rule but Beethoven just evades me as does Mozart which is a blow as the other LP I got this morning was the Requiem. I'll see if that fares any better tomorrow. I bought them both as, if anyone was going to convert me, I thought it might be Karajan.
The stall that I got the LPs from also had some Vivaldi on DG but the guitarist was Yepes so my interest was immediately extinguished. How a professional can make the guitar sound so boring I just don't know.
If you don't like it, Gordon, don't listen to it.;)
I literally loathe most kinds of jazz - my solution? - I listen to music I do like. Sorted. :)
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This was rather a nice end to a hot Sunday afternoon ....
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-- very 'modern' classical - i.e. a bit dissonant and a bit weird - but still quite tuneful and certainly interesting.
Hmm - I'll be investigating some more Kalevi Aho, I think. :)
Indeed. However, I do occasionally try again to see if I have been missing something and if perhaps, age has mellowed me a bit.Quote:
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Apparently not.:eyebrows:
I think we are both too old to mellow, Gordon - hard as teak, us. :D
Yesterday ....
A Musical Offering from this set
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Then a short search for a suitable recording of Bach keyboard partitas ...
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-- hmm, no, too disjointed and the sq is a bit murky.
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-- beautifiul playing, but too smooth.
Ahhh - this set hit the spot --
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Iannis Xenakis:
Pléďades
by Les Percussions de Strasbourg on Harmonia Mundi (2011) CD
something of a 'Marmite' recording, but I like it!
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-- I've not come across this organist before.
This is great Bach playing, imo - pacing is just right, no silly phrasing distortions, delicate as well as wonderfully magisterial when required.
I've listened to several volumes in the cycle now and they are all good.
Great sq, too.
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-- Fratres, Tabula Rasa, 3rd symphony
:thumbsup:
oh wow - totally utterly yummy - 20th Century Choral Masterpieces on DG ...
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Also good ...
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I seem to be in choral mood. :)
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-- the Penderecki string trio is a major find for me. Wowzer. And what a way to open a string trio of all things! Cataclysmic. :eek:
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- wonderful - a golden oldie, they don't make 'em like this any more, sadly.
for some reason I fancied some solo oboe this evening ...
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Some light and tuneful oboe sonatas :)
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 ...
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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:
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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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The Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg, sublime.
A very relaxing morning, with polyphony...
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Wow, I just love this recording. Latter day Goldberg Variations is how I think of them. :)
#2 from ...
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Beautifully phrased and lush - but a bit drawn out and slow in places.
and then 2 and 3 ...
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- superb! Tauter but no less emotional than Haitink.
and some of #2 from ...
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Furtwangler.
Cor, he didn't half yank it around. :scratch: Sounds very contrived to me.
Meh ... onwards! ...
and then 2 from ...
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I enjoyed this even though I felt I shouldn't. :)
Taut, a bit fast, a tad lacking in emotional depth, excitingly braying brass.
Naughty but nice. :D
Dipped into a couple of recent digital recordings of Schubert's Death and The Maiden Quartet (including the Pavel Haas) but reverted to the 1971 John Boyden recording of the Gabrielis on CFP vinyl. Masterly, with a narrow - and hence realistic - soundstage. Wonderful!
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-- superb music!
Shame about the cover art. :scratch:
Picked this up, on vinyl, at the Cranage Hall show:
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Just about to spin it. Should be nice for an early Sunday morning listen :)
Marco.
Chamber music (violin sonatas, piano quintet) composed by Wilhelm Furtwangler - much better known as a conductor!
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-- it really is very good!
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-- loved this. :)