Spinning Today (Classical version)

Imagine a combination of a fair old sampling of the atmospheric richness and emotional power of Sibelius and the approachability and tunefulness of Grieg.
Well, here it is :)

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Mostly, Kuula recordings are of unaccompanied choir. Nice, but ....
This recording is of very powerful pure orchestral music and some lovely songs with orchestra.
Good old TIDAL ! :thumbsup:

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Lovely!

And then this set again ...

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I like these symphonies more each time, and I liked them well enough to start with. :)

Listening this morning ...

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- love it!

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-- hmm. Gave up after the 1st mvt of the 1st concerto. Not a sound world I enjoy.

Ah, this is much better! ...
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Gorgeous. :thumbsup:

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- excellent violin concerto by Dvarionas.

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Good set of solo piano pieces and even the song cycle didn't have me reaching for the stop icon. :)

Played #2 from this recent set ...

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Barenboim as ancient pianist, whodathunkit? :eek:
Live recording, too.
Yes, there are one or two fluffs, but the poetry of the playing is sublime. :thumbsup:

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Ciaramella Ensemble - Dances On Movable Ground - 45rpm vinyl

It's an eclectic day...from Hank Mobley on Blue Note to this...

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Some of yesterday's musical fare ...

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Glorious music, one of my favourite composers.

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And again - yummy! :)

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Alfred Schnittke's Third String Quartet


powerful stuff!!

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Vinyl

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Vinyl.

This one belong here in the classical thread? I suppose this version does, with these performers. For me, all questions of idiom and suitability melt away when Kiri sings the first lines of Tonight. And if you want another view, you play one of the other versions.

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-- some of my favourite music, usually heard on solo piano or harpsichord, but here (uniquely?) played on the organ, but it works well.

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-- some quiet music by Kamran Ince! Lovely.

And an astonishing performance of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto on YouTube --
-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AapjpeqmviM

On CD

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pieces de clavecin en concerts
with Christophe Rousset on harpsichord, Ryo Terakadi on violin, and Kaori Uemura on viola da gamba.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901418

Just marvelous!

I'm going to see the Brook Street Band at St John's Smith Square on Sunday, they will be playing some Rameau, that's what prompted digging out the above cd.

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Vinyl

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-- gosh, why isn't the concerto much better known? It's a humdinger. :) The other pieces are good, too.

and

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-- lovely!

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Dipping in for the second concerto, and probably the Paganini Rhapsody, 24/96 blu-ray

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Time to give the rear speakers a wee work-out.

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Amazing recording and a great piece!

Yay, Shostakovich :thumbsup: :yay:

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Last night was (largely) Khachaturian night.
His ballet music is justly famed, but his symphonies and concertos are great, too ...

His 3rd symphony on this release was surprisingly (to me) good, with an impressive part for organ :eek:

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then ...

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and ...

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This was the 1st time I'd heard the cello concerto, wonderful piece. :)

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Probably my most enjoyable Pleyel find so far ...
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Although this was good, too ...
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After an enjoyable listen to Abbado a few weeks ago, I fancied another listen to Beethoven's 9th.
Had a brief go with Menuhin, then Jochum ... :nono: didn't fit the bill.
Then tried this ....

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Yes! The 1st mvt is hewn from granite - magnificent.
The adagio seems like a transcription from a slow mvt of a late string quartet. Awesome.
I have to confess I didn't bother with the finale - that just seems trite to me these days. :o

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Found a brand new copy of this (long deleted) recording in London, and I do love me some Jessye Norman. So, that'll be my fourth Salome in the collection.

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After an enjoyable listen to Abbado a few weeks ago, I fancied another listen to Beethoven's 9th.
Had a brief go with Menuhin, then Jochum ... :nono: didn't fit the bill.
Then tried this ....

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Yes! The 1st mvt is hewn from granite - magnificent.
The adagio seems like a transcription from a slow mvt of a late string quartet. Awesome.
I have to confess I didn't bother with the finale - that just seems trite to me these days. :o

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Love this one. I have to say I enjoy the finale, and a persuasive quartet like this one helps. I like the Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt from the 60s as well with the famous Sutherland-Horne-King-Talvela lineup.

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on vinyl, charity shop find a couple of months ago I had forgotten about

Coo, this is lovely.

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Perhaps the best transcription of the Goldbergs I have heard. :thumbsup:

Some choral:
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Arvo Pärt - I Am The True Vine: Theatre Of Voices, The Pro Arte Singers directed by Paul Hillier ( FLAC 16/44.1)

Easing into Saturday morning.

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- not sure about the VC, but the 2nd symphony is impressive.

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-- Brahms clarinet and piano quintets.
Extremely wonderful. :)

Yester-eve, 2 masterful British symphonies ...

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Mr Arnell's more approachable, Master Bate's somewhat harder work, but worth it.

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Cum, sorry, come again? :D

Marco.

:LOL:

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Gradually getting into these symphonies. It's taking a while mind ... i.e. decades, off and on. Mainly off. But a good generic-orchestral listen.


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Ahhh, perfect music. Like Haydn, but a bit different.

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Sir Michael Tippet - A Child Of Our Time, City Of Birmingham S C & O (FLAC RedBook, 1992)

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Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphonie No7, Karl Böhm & Wiener Philharmoniker (LP, Deutsche Grammophon 1972)

Enjoy sax?
Then try this :)
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Which led me on to this ...
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Accessible, tuneful, enjoyable. :thumbsup:

Carmen with Marilyn Horne, conducted by Leonard Bernstein - the 'surround' remaster on Pentatone SACD. Very promising so far - nice atmosphere and some use of the rear channels. More than I'm used to but seems sensitively done.

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This is marvelous music ...

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... even the horn sonata, and I am not usually a fan of french horn music.

I fancied a listen to some early Beethoven piano sonatas but couldn't decide on the pianist, so I tried a few samples ....

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To my surprise, it was the Jando I stayed with.
He has a lightness of touch and a carefree sense of impetuous power that makes the music the fun I think it should be, and that seems to elude the others to a greater or lesser extent.
Whodathunkit? Not me.

Yesterday ..

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-- not bad performances, but not wonderful.

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I'd forgotten how good Wand's Brahms is :doh: - listened to the whole symphony cycle :thumbsup:

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Hey, this guy's good if you like Baroque music ....

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Hey, this guy's good if you like Baroque music ....

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Thanks Jerry - never heard of him, I'll see what I can find. I'm planning on hitting some record stores in London this afternoon if I get time.

This is f@#%ing fantastic.
I just read that he won a Pulitzer for the piano concerto...

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More Jando ...

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Listened to Pictures. A very percussive interpretation, quite striking in its way. Shame there wasn't a bit more weight to the piano sound.

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-- ah, lovely. One of my favourite recordings.

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-- ah, lovely. One of my favourite recordings.

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Mine as well. Her recording of "Music of The Italian Renaissance" is also quite nice.

To keep in the thread, this is what I'm listening to:

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This is one of those "gifts that keeps on giving"...Karl Richter playing Bach.

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Richter-Bach - magnificent! :thumbsup:

We've had a friend staying the last week so not much listening done. Some background niceness, and a few more serious tunes ....

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