Spinning Today (Classical version)

Visiting friend gone, back to some serious listening :) ...

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-- Jando's playing is magical.

I fancied listening to Bruckner's 3rd symphony so did a Tidal search. Not sure why I chose this one as it is obscure in the extreme (maybe that was the reason!).

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Superb. What a surprise. And the sound quality is equally good. The 6th is excellent as well. A great find, I shall be exploring Venzago's Bruckner cycle.

double post :scratch:

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-- good stuff. I do like to give Bloch's music an occasional outing.

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No, not the whole lot :nono: - just 1-5. On TIDAL the set runs for an amazing 36 hours! :eek:
Lovely lively performances in great sound.

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- surprisingly wonderful music, tuneful and well crafted, that grows on me more each time I hear it.

And once again ....

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I really like this. Although Venzago's Bruckner gets thrashed in reviews! :lol:
OK - he does do little tempo tweakeroos which seem to irritate some folk. And he is light and vigorous, which goes against the heavy portentous massiveness of the Bruckner tradition. But I find it a bracing alternative to Karajan and Jochum etc. I'm happy to have both approaches available. :)

Some quite challenging but approachable modern classical music ...

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... as well as being a true audiophile tour de force in terms of sound quality. :thumbsup:

Ah, the Martinu symphonies. Bloody good!

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Ah, Bruno Walter - a wonderful conductor. His stereo Bruckner 9th with the Columbia SO is one of the best ever recorded, imo.

Yesterday ....

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All good stuff! :thumbsup:

Rather nice so far...

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Sometimes I think this is just about the finest thing Domingo has done on record. Remarkable, although I wouldn't give up the Kollo/Solti one. (I probably should have a recording of the Dresden version just to experience the original.)

Lossless download from Passionato (when they were still on the go).

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Rather nice so far...

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Very nice. I love Deccas of that vintage - on vinyl or digital.

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-- beautiful playing. Too beautiful. Lacks any sense of drama or incisiveness. Good for chilling out to.

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- excellent version of one of my fave violin concertos, the Khachaturian. :thumbsup:

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-- an excellent sampler of Glass's extraordinary music. Great for Glass newbies and old hands alike. :)

And listened to Haydn's greatest keyboard work (the Andante Con Variazione) from this set.
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Superb.
On TIDAL at http://listen.tidal.com/album/5298821

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I'm not a big Britten fan, but the violin concerto is fairly wonderful, especially the 1st movement.

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--- but I can't make head nor tail of the Cello Symphony, it just seems to meander aimlessly on and on (and on and on ...). But I know that other folk like it.

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--- ah, perfection. The Gran Partita is wonderful, and this is a very fine recording of it. A nice way to end the evening to help the digestion of a Chicken Pathia, Sag Aloo and Peshwari Nan. :)

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- symphony for orchestra, big band and electric guitar. Tuur is a rock band member as well as modern classical composer.
Hmm. I must confess I gave up after a while.
I like a lot of Tuur's music, though.
This had preceded it ....

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- yeah, more my sort of thing.

And the perfect way to wind down ....

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I just love this music. :)

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Croatian woman composer - big, no holds barred, late romantic symphony. 47 minutes long! - all of it enjoyable.
Wiki article about her here

I listened thru it twice - really good. I've some chamber music by our Dora waiting on my TIDAL albums list. :)

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-- a fascinating album by an almost completely unknown English composer. If you know your Schubert piano sonatas you will definitely recognise the sound world!
I've had this album on CD for quite a while and always return to it with pleasure.

Brahms' fourth symphony - Klemperer and the Philharmonia. In training for tomorrow night at Middlesbrough Town Hall, where it is being played by the Dresden Philharmonic. They're doing Finlandia and the Elgar cello concerto as well.

Wow - sounds like a great concert - enjoy!

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A Stanley Bate day, mainly ...

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-- 2 fine piano concertos

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-- 2 fine symphonies

Bate is an excellent composer, well worth investigating. Quite well known in his day (he died aged 47 in 1959) but forgotten after his death, his music now being revived by Dutton. :thumbsup:

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-- a bit of a surprise this. A series of delightfully tuneful and varied concertante pieces by the famed opera composer.
I've owned this CD for 15 years or so - it gets played 1 or 2 times a year, regular! :)

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Rimsky Korsakov : Sheherazade : Gianandrea Noseda : Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino

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The 3rd symphony is almost magnificent, I just wish he had returned to the wonderful fanfare-like theme of the 1st movement to round off the finale. That would have been breathtaking! - Ah well, still a very fine work.

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-- very listenable and pleasant.

This was great fun ........ great tunes and very much tongue-in-cheek ....

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Yesterday ...

On IEM headphones with a portable minidisc player in my pocket while digging to set up a new area of lawn, recordings of live performances recorded off the radio years ago of ...
- Barber cello concerto
- Kabalevsky violin concerto
- Korngold violin concerto.
All good. :thumbsup:

Then in front of the Maggie panels ....

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and some chamber music by the same guy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8qYco8VRaE

I have no idea why Rontgen isn't better known :scratch: - his music is superb!

Another morning's gardening and had another music sesh with these ...
- Barber cello concerto
- Kabalevsky violin concerto
- Korngold violin concerto.
Still good! The Korngold grows in my affections - the slow movement is totally yummy. :)

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Listened to this twice yesterday eve. Italian, contemporary with Respighi.
I've had this CD a while - and I find it difficult to get to grips with.
Pleasantish orchestral, but once over it's forgotten.
Meh. I think I wasted over 2 hours of my life on it yesterday.

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Beethoven - Salvatore Accardo : Concerto per Violino e Orchestra in RE Magg. Op.61
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Lovely music here.

Regards

Stephen

^^ Coo - that looks yummy, Stephen! :)

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^^ Coo - that looks yummy, Stephen! :)

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After hearing it wish I went to the live London concert where it was recorded.

Regards

Stephen

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-- superb prformances (and recording) which take full advantage of the authentic instrument approach.
Great fortepiano sound (so very different from a modern concert grand) and just love those thwacky tympani thwacks. :D

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I like the 2 string quartets but not the song cycle that they surround on this album.

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Brahms - Symphony No.4; Vienna Philharmonic / Carlos Kleiber in surround sound on blu-ray audio (and sounding very fine indeed).

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Lovely music here.

Regards

Stephen

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2 sessions produced of this concert both D2D direct to disc

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Another step on the road towards assembling the best performances of Bach Organ Works...not sure these are it just yet, but they'll do for a while. :eyebrows:

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Something of an old favourite. Still astounding.

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Ah, that's a very interesting project.

What's your fave recording(s) for the Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582?

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Ah, that's a very interesting project.

What's your fave recording(s) for the Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582?

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The only one I own is by Karl Richter, so I would have to say that's my favorite. However, I have a Lionel Rogg cd on the way where he performs that piece, and I like his playing quite a lot, so who knows? Could be Rogg, could be Richter. I'm in the very early stages of this project, and so far my favorite organists for Bach are Richter, Rogg, Kevin Bowyer, and Marie-Claire Alain (not necessarily in order of preference).

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I heard one movement from Batiz's Sheherazade on a sampler CD and was impressed. Even more impressed by all of it! Mackerras on Telarc had previously been my fave, and it is a bit better recorded than the Naxos, but I suspect the Batiz trumps it as a performance.

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- played the piano trio #1 and really enjoyed it - probably the best Rubbra I have heard - much more to my tastes than Rubbra's orchestral works. I like the string quartets, too.

I fancied some Handel cantatas, so started with this
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-- and gave up after about 10 minutes. Kozena's vocal technique is pretty incompetent. :scratch:

So moved on to this ...

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-- ahh, that's more like it. :thumbsup:

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A selection from this set. Wonderful playing.
Houstoun is probably my favourite current pianist. His Liszt and Shostakovich is also superb.

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Nice sprightly, lively playing. :thumbsup: These pieces are often played a bit ponderously, but not with these guys.

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-- Wowee! :D

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- a 100 minute piece, Schoenberg in lushly romantic mood, and I thoroughly enjoyed the first 30 minutes. But that's enough for me - 20 minutes or so the after vocalists came in I went back to repeat the gorgeous 7 minute purely orchestral opening section (before the vocals come in) and then moved on to ...

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-- a lovely album for viola and piano of music by Enescu and Milhaud. The Milhaud pieces especially are beautiful.

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Rangell has a bit of a reputation of coming from the left field as far as interpretation is concerned, but I really enjoyed his Art of Fugue. :thumbsup: He has recorded quite a bit of Bach; Goldbergs, the 6 Partitas etc. They are on my Tidal playlist. :)

So went on to this ....

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-- oh dear. This didn't work at all for me. It's all kind of loose and slack. :scratch: I listened to the 1st sonata and then gave up.

... and then cleansed my palate with this ...

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Ah, lovely.

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- I'm not keen on Rangell's Beethoven, but his Bach is excellent, and so is this Haydn.

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- magical.

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- rousing stuff!

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Stravinsky - Rite of Spring: Boston Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas

Reissue in surround of 1972 DG recording.

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Rangell has a bit of a reputation of coming from the left field as far as interpretation is concerned, but I really enjoyed his Art of Fugue. :thumbsup: He has recorded quite a bit of Bach; Goldbergs, the 6 Partitas etc. They are on my Tidal playlist. :)

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It's always great to hear about new interpretations of Bach; I'll be putting this on my Tidal playlist.

I'm currently listening to:

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This set has my favorite Toccata & Fugue in D Minor BWV 565; IMO one of the most over-recorded pieces of music, but I still like it. I would love to hear Walcha do something more sedate (like the Trio Sonata no. 1), and perhaps there is something like that on this set, but I haven't run into it yet. Though a few of the pieces do tend that way; perhaps Walcha is just not a sedate player.

^^ I've Walcha's complete Bach set on my TIDAL playlist, I dip in now and then, it's really fine!

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-- hmm, I'm not sure I like it that much, but it certainly held my attention. I'll be coming back for more of Mr Tcherepnin.

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-- cor, lummy -- YUMMY !! :D

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Just the dab for sitting down at night with a glass of wine and the warm glow of valves
...Niiiice

^^ jazzcrap :spew:

It takes all sorts don't it. :D I hate jazz with a passion!

But enjoy it if you like it! :cheers:

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Actually, just realised I posted in the Classical Section... doh!

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^^ jazzcrap :spew:

It takes all sorts don't it. :D I hate jazz with a passion!

But enjoy it if you like it! :cheers:

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-- perfect music, perfectly played

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-- some premiere recordings here. Amazing. The serenade and cello concertino are lovely!

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-- an astonishing recording of an astonishing performance.
Definitely a Desert Island Disc for me.

Well, this is an interesting curiosity.
And I had better watch my back at Scalford16 cos Gromit may well be after me with a hatchet for what I am about to say ....

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Arrangements of Mozart solo piano and chamber music by well known composers (eg Grieg) and some anonymous.
It contains a transcription of the Clarinet Quintet with a 2nd viola taking the place of the clarinet.
YUM !! - wonderous though the pukka clarinet quintet is, I prefer it as a viola quintet. :)

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-- WOW !!!
This is amazing.
I seem to be in to transcriptions. :)

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-- stunning performances of the quintets. :thumbsup:

And the first couple of movements from the 1st quartet from this set ...

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Hey, this is quite good. I've been wary of the Bartok quartets previously.

Super-audio Sunday in surround:
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- not even heard of this recording before. I do like Rilling's Bach, a bit on the slow and old-fashioned side, but heartfelt.
This Brahms is just the same.

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- some violinistic gymnastics - just listen to the finale of the Paganini concerto for the fun of it. :)

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-- good fiddler, our Nige.