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Compositions mostly from the 1950s and 1960s.
[The Barton Workshop, Mode Records, 2008]
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Compositions mostly from the 1950s and 1960s.
[The Barton Workshop, Mode Records, 2008]
Weird? - yes!
But strangely beguiling.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ebiq25fnSZM9Z9ccqGsWB
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Another gem from the ECM catalogue on Spotify - the strange, mischievous and captivating world of Kurtag...
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Something quite different but trad.
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This is something I was introduced to when I was a teenager at school and dipped into it occasionally at times since then. This rendition by Daniel Reuss with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century feels very fresh and immediate.
Really enjoyed this today, first opera of the year for me, still recovering from the Ring Cycle https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d92811091e.jpg
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This has been on my radar for some time - it's time I clicked...Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwardlon
Thanks for the Missa Solemnis reccie.
I couldn't find it to start with on Spotify, but here it is.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5q7zGboJwO3QwWIMTp9PyE
I'll have a listen this evening.
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I really enjoyed this yesterday eve ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/4KnKIzBvsnu4IiyPVGUbS5
Solo lute beautifully played and recorded.
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Am enjoying this. Thanks for the tip. Robert Barto certainly seems to be master of his art. Had a quick look at a utube vid of him playing - very delicate.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
This was a charity shop purchase last year - 50 pence I think.
Sounds good on LP
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William Zinn? :scratch:
-- OK, Grant's probably heard of him, but who else knew? ;)
A very enjoyable album.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4zf3WF5RNqw8lpfv5bV2SU
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Originally Posted by jandl100
What did you think of it? TBH kind of left me wondering If Gorecki ran out of steam many years before.
Yes, I do know what you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alanbeeb
But once past the tediously thumping 1st movement it gets a fair bit more interesting. Not sure I'd wheel it out more than once every year or two.
The best thing about the recording, though, is the conductor Andrey Boreyko - he has done some superb Shostakovich symphony recordings! No. 4 is a bit of a revelation and no. 6 is possibly the best I have heard. A bit wasted on Gorecki, really. :)
Said to be Bruckner-like, and yes I can hear that.
File under Monumental orchestral :)
https://open.spotify.com/album/5U8s1...SDSLRP1ZWGp8Xw
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The 1st symphony here is sheer melodic bliss, love it to bits!
https://open.spotify.com/album/6WeAF...Q1iA35AnX7pCTw
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JP...er=allrovi.com
Very fine performances and recordings of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky piano trios
https://open.spotify.com/album/3tzkk...QRuGCLzWQAaq6Q
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Very good this - but the 1st doesn't quite beat the classic Previn to me...
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Thanks Tony, I enjoyed that. Great sq, too.Quote:
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But I agree, no recording I have heard equals the sheer malicious ferocity of Previn's recording.
Sadly, it doesn't seem to be on Spotify.
But ... Gardner on Chandos is also very good. (As is Paul Daniel on Naxos).
https://open.spotify.com/album/1QDCv...RA-xfN9q3USgHA
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Jerry, the Previn Walton 1 is there, but for some reason doesn't show as an album, just comes up with the tracks in an odd order (but all there - most strange...)
I have the Gardner as well, very good it is. Just really enjoying this at the moment
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JP...er=allrovi.com
Damned if I can find it - can you give a link?Quote:
Originally Posted by basslover
Not used to this, but here goes - I've created a playlist and put the tracks in correct order, so hopefully....
https://open.spotify.com/user/pianot...Qhauua9PyL7l8g
Wow - fantastic, thanks for putting that together for me, Tony. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by basslover
Walton 1st symphony again -- Ashkenazy is very good, too, with a powerful and full-bodied recording. great stuff! :eek:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2pd7L...TDaw2kEMi-fGHA
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Boult also is excellent - but it's an old stereo recording and there is noticeable tape hiss when played at the volume level it deserves.
He seems to dig out and articulate more musical detail and dynamic precision than most anyone else.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3kMSO...S-mpg4wkPmjwEA
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Hoffer's only music on Spotify - I came across it on a search for english horn concertos - good stuff, powerful and very listenable.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7lAsO...TtuRBKTQ1GCSOg
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JP...er=allrovi.com
I've always loved English horn so I spun this Hoffer disc up Jerry. Glad I did - wonderful scenic landscape. Thanks! I've faved it! :)
Seems that Hoffer mainly does compositions for films and teevee. He should do more concertos and other standard works. Hopefully he is still composing as he is now getting on (b 1934).
Thanks for the feedback, Edward.
Yes, I think all 3 concertos are surprisingly good!
Indeed. Only catching up with the others. Finished the violin and now into the piano. Walden Pond is sublime and evocative. Some lovely surprises in there. :eyebrows:
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I know, Pfitzner's prelude to act 1 of his opera Palestrina. The first track on this album.
A totally superb performance conducted by Sawallisch - I never realised he was this good!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7CUW6...SBuUsMBuBTlNVw
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Hans Zender. A superb Mahler 9. Quite possibly the best I have heard. Not for everyone, as the finale is played 'straight' rather than drenched in emotion.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7mWrf...RLO4TMtiKJ7IWw
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Picked up in a charity shop for £1 and in excellent condition. Very pleasant, and interesting to hear the Auvergne dialect.
Now where's that bottle of Matheus rosé?
Mm, this Liverpool band get better and better....
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^ I recall back in the days of the Wam classical bLog registering amazement at the world-class playing of the Liverpool Phil - I think that was regarding the Brahms symphony set under Marek Janowski.
Listening now to that Rite of Spring.
Petrenko is not quite a match for Janowski, imo, being a bit hit and miss. But he seems on good form here; very impressive and certainly great playing (and recording). :eek:
Yes I agree he doesn't always hit the mark, but this Rite has a freshness that I'm finding quite captivating. Talking of Onyx recordings, here's another that captured my attention...
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Oryx did you say? Bit of a boutique label even back in the day but I've always been a fan .. top quality pressings and a decent recording technique, usually good at capturing the acoustic, though some of the Baroque instrumental stuff hasn't worn that well (mic'd a bit close especially flutes - common at the time) and you can hear a bit of wow sometimes from the tape.
Inspired me to pull out and spin a few old favourites. In each case the instrument is as much a star as the performer.
First a very young (he's still going!) Lionel Rogg, recording some Bach organ music at his home in Geneva in 1967, on a pedal harpsichord. These were used for practice in the baroque period, when it could be difficult to corral a gang of people to push the bellows while your hammered away. Bach owned two, according to his will though there is some discussion as to exactly what they were - pedal harpsichords, or pedal clavichords. The latter are known also to have existed and both have been recreated (to varying degrees of authenticity) in modern times. (I've read it argued that some of the 'simple' organ music - the stuff all we would-be organists learned on - that we know was written for Bach's eldest son, WF - is idiomatic to the pedal harpsichord rather than organ, and pulling it out the other week and looking at it, that could be correct).
The Wittmayer instrument Rogg plays here is very 'revival' - a hefty modern 'concert' instrument most likely from the 1950s, but reminiscent of the sort of monster Wanda Landowska would have been playing in the 1930s - and likely bears little resemblance to anything Bach would have owned in the 18th century, Nevertheless he plays some really spirited (and colourful - it has all sorts of stop combinations) Buxtehude on it .. it's a really engrossing and engaging record.
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Rogg also made another harpsichord record for Oryx, which is a bit of a contrast, this is on an original 1730 Ruckers harpsichord from the Netherlands (interestingly, Trevor Pinnock's most recent recording also uses a surviving Ruckers). The tone is rather different - more subtle, and there's no pedalboard - also there's no pyrotechnics in terms of stop swapping. It therefore requires what we see much more in modern harpsichord playing which is a greater use of timing, phrasing and ornamentation to bring light and shade to the performance. And Rogg - an organist really rather than a harpsichordist - does lift his game and is again very fun and musical though in a modern context he would lose a few marks for dodgy ornamentation! Nice combination of tracks - from Buxtehude, Muffat (a Buxtehude contemporary), George Boehm (organist at Luneburg when Bach was a pupil at the choir school) and older piece by the Dutch master Sweenlinck and German contemporary Froberger.
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A third Oryx harpsichord + organ record features James Danby playing pedal harpsichord on one side (a Feldberg - like the Wittmayer, a giant modern concert-type harpsichord, but made in Sevenoaks, Kent in the early 60s (As it happens, my little Spinet is also a Feldberg but it seems to be rather more authentic in its pattern) and organ on the other. Danby's instrument I think sounds less authentic than Rogg's and he's less adventurous with the stops, but the Trio Sonata IV from the Klavierubung (again written for WF, but by which time he was a master performer - this is seriously difficult music to play) sounds wondrous on the pedal harpsichord, and again I wonder whether it wasn't conceived, written, polished and played on that instrument initially.
I don't think any of these are available for streaming unfortunately but the some files do seem to be available on MP3 from the entire Oryx library http://www.baroquemusic.org/bmlcatalogue.html
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Very interesting, Tom, and thanks for the link to the Oryx website - wow! - a goldmine of (presumably) pre-HIP baroque recordings (which is just fine by me!).
I had quite a few Oryx LPs in my collection back in the day..
Listening atm to Bach's Partita #1 played by Derek Adlam on a Feldberg Harpsichord.
http://www.baroquemusic.org/DLower/B...Partita825.mp3
It sounds good even if it is MP3.
The label that the Stravinsky Rite is on is Onyx, though, not Oryx.
Yes I spotted that after I posted!Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Excellent and emotional performance of Shostakovich cello concerto #1 by a young British lad who won the 2016 BBC Musician of the Year.
https://open.spotify.com/album/330hk...T9mYe_Hxb3hQNQ
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Bassoon as a solo instrument, anyone?
This album of contemporary classical works well.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5sHy1...SOm1dHGiXa9cbQ
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Just .... well, kinda perfect, really.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1BLBs...SdGJ_sOVY9CaqA
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The Heino Eller School - Works by Eller, Pärt, Tüü, Sumera, Tubin and Rääts
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Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas
Finlandia Records, Warner Finland 3984-21448-2 (1998)
Picked up in a charity shop today: works by Estonian composers who were either pupils of Eller, or were pupils "once removed" and thus heavily influenced by him. Have to confess the only Estonian composer I knew of was Arvo Pärt - and I'm not especially keen on his output, despite his numerous change of musical style. So this disc has given me the opportunity to investigate some other Estonian composers of the 20th Century.
On this disc:
Heino Eller - 'Sinfonietta'
Lepo Sumera - 'Come Cercando' ("Like Searching")
Avo Pärt - 'Silouans Song'
Jaan Rääts - 'Chamber Concerto'
Erkki-Sven Tüür - 'Passion'
and
Eduard Tubin - 'Music for Strings'.
Only had a chance to play it through the once, so can't really go by first impressions and it needs further listening - but it's not offending my ears.
Gosh.
This is wonderful.
Kalliwoda.
OK, so he's no Bruckner or Beethoven.
Still hugely enjoyable, though.
Place him alongside Mendelssohn, maybe.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7zCA5...QMOF2R7YeEI_ag
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A stunning performance of Walton's 1st symphony by Louis Fremaux - almost up there with Previn/RCA!
Better than Karabits and Gardner, I think.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6oImB...Ttm96TFvua129Q
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Ooh will have to investigate that one - thanks !
I've just been alerted to this friend of Shostakovich, and quite a piece t is too..
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Powerful stuff.
Sumera symphonies - big orchestral.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glvm...SUylt9X7brPvTg
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