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Saint Saens' symphonies aren't only about the famous 3rd.
These are good, too, as is the piano/orchestra work 'Africa'
https://open.spotify.com/album/6UpRI2kW034KV1IoXp6BuT
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Strongly recommended by Fanfare magazine, and I can hear why.
Personally I find these works a bit over-rich and cloying. OK for me limited to one per listening session, I tend to rebel when a 2nd one starts!
Beautiful purity of line by these performers, and scrumptious sq.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2arBD5PN1JKUv8jGWRtaEC
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This was in heavy rotation yesterday - I can't stop playing it!
(Do things rotate on Spotify?)
Webern. Me. Jeez, what are things coming to?
https://open.spotify.com/album/73iUeuE1qaVtguL0kLVtEr
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Arvo Part's 3rd symphony.
Written after the years-long sabbatical from composing when he gave up on the standard European avant-garde approach (thankfully) and started on his tintinnabula style of simpler (or simplistic, depending on your viewpoint
The 3rd shows hints of that style, but it does not dominate by any means.
It just provides a far more melodic and approachable work as far as I am concerned. In fact I think it is an excellent piece.
On this BIS recording you get to hear his earlier, avantgarde style, as well as the post-sabbatical 3rd symphony.
See what you think!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3XGq3d7BTy1ZbMs0Vzc5wc
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Mozart's perfect 25th symphony damn near perfectly performed by Josef Krips. Great sq, too. Recorded in the 1960s, I think. Shows the modern 'authentic instrument' brigade how it should be done in terms of nuanced delicacy and rhythmic lightness of touch.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7wvF78MxzsQvKriafXBPNd
Telemann's set of solo flute fantasias (about an hour long) are, for me, much more approachable when transcribed for oboe.
Excellent music, endlessly fascinating.
The Britten solo oboe suite is one of my favourite works by the composer.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6yuopZwabMbSb38ROWl5rZ
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Another great find.
The YOA Orchestra of the Americas, conducted Carlos Miguel Prieto. Musicians aged 18-30. They are superb in this Shostakovich 6th symphony!
It's a live recording, in the best and worst senses. Fantastic electricity and sense of excitement and involvement. Great sq, but the audience cough and shuffle their way through the performance quite audibly at times.
I can hardly wait to hear more recordings by these musicians, but I have to listen to this Shosty 6 just one more time.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0dJv7MbK7QjeV6zGfpoiIS
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