Spinning Today (Classical version)

This afternoon:

Choral music by Arnold Bax - BBC Northern Singers (Hyperion LP)

I see Hyperion can do CD(R?) transfers of this on request.

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Calling Jerry - where are you, dude? We're missing your daily updates on what you've been listening to, and you've been very quiet on the forum lately... Hope you haven't fallen out with us!

Marco.

Hi Marco :)

No, not fallen out with AOS at all, just going thru one of my occasional periods where I can't be arsed with the forums, even AOS! I seem to be coming out of it now though.

Last night listened to a 59 minute (!) violin sonata by Joseph Marx on a Pavane CD. Cor, lovely post-romantic stuff. Lovely tunes, nicely put together, entrancing stuff. I also have a cpo CD of Marx' piano quartet music, also excellent.
I've just ordered a CD of his 2 piano concertos as well.

I do like exploring off the beaten path. :)

Nice one, Jerry. We always enjoy your contributions :)

Next up for me on CD is, Britten - Peter Grimes. Double CD on Decca. Sounds sublime! :eek:

Marco.

I was in a serene mood today:

Vivaldi - Gloria, Preston, Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, AAM [cd]

http://www.freecodesource.com/album-...(BVW-243a).jpg

Faure & Durufle Requiems, Shaw, Atlanta SO & Chorus [cd]

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Poulenc, Stabat Mater, Lagrange, Baudo, Orchestre National de Lyon [cd]

http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/p/poulenc_05.jpg

Bach, Goldberg Variations, Perahia [sacd]

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Beethoven - Symphony No.9, Op. 125

Wilhelm Furtwängler cond. Wiener Philharmoniker with the Wiener Singakademie.

Not quite the painfully-slow reading you expect from Furtwängler, though the first and third movements are about a third longer than most other readings.

Not my favourite version: I'm still looking for the definitive one - until then my favourites are Abbado with the above Vienna Philharmonic and the version by John Eliot Gardiner with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

Mmm, I've got to say I think the Eugen Jochum of 1979 with the LSO&C on EMI is my favourite 9th.

Dvorak Symphony No. 8
The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
George Szell, cond.

Anyone know anything about these Turnabout/Vox pressings? For $1 I figured I would chance it.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/z...a/IMG_0231.jpg

Prokofiev Scythian Suite / Suite from "The Love for Three Oranges" / Symphony No. 5
London Symphony Orchestra / Minneapolis Symphony
Antal Dorati, cond.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/z...a/IMG_0232.jpg

Last night:

Beethoven: String quartets Op 59 1 & 2 - Classic CBS recordings from 1960 by the Budapest Qt.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...500_AA300_.jpg

Wonderful performances in somewhat forward but nicely vivid sound. :)