Yes - I certainly will Martin! My dislike for operatic divas (of either sex!) doesn't stop me listening to music which has, er, "other" qualities.Originally Posted by MartinT
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Yes - I certainly will Martin! My dislike for operatic divas (of either sex!) doesn't stop me listening to music which has, er, "other" qualities.
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Bartok - String Quartet No5.Takacs Quartet.
Will be listening to this live at lunchtime at the Wigmore played by the Escher Quartet,looking forward to it.
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You do like your music challenging, don't you, Roy!
Of late chez-Jerry ...
Beethoven Violin concerto, Schneiderhan DG. A vintage stereo classic. Played on a DG Ferric Oxide C100 cassetteand sounding damn fine and hugely better than the CD mastering I used to own. That CD had the solo violin waaaay off to the left (most of the time, it kind of wandered around a bit
). The cassette mastering has Schneiderhan just left of centre. Perfick! And what a lovely performance!
The other side of the cassette has LvB's Emperor piano concerto with Eschenbach. I'll play that later.
Brahms Piano Concerto #2 - Pollini / Abbado / VPO DG LP. Fine stuff. Pollini can really tinkle those ivories. Strong support from Abbado, too. An excellent recording.
Bax tone poems Tintagel, Christmas Eve. Bryden Thomson, Chandos CD. .... and what super sq! Magisterial!
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Well that was great fun,in the first movement of the Bartok the first violinist got a nose bleed and had to leave the stage for about six or seven minutes.He returned with a roll of tissue in his nostril,as the second movement proceeded it got redder and redder,between movements he changed it and again in the next break,this time the tissue was about six inches long.
Felt really sorry for them and they made a grand job of each separate section but did lose the overall arch of the piece,shame they are a young band.
Can't wait to see how Radio 3 handle the recording on Saturday.
Playing George Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children now,just got it in Oxfam on the way home,99 pence superb recording on Nonesuch.
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Went to my favourite little classical music/book shop today in Shrewsbury and bought the following CDs:
Brahms Symphony No1 - with The Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and The Monteverdi Choir. Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Milhaud. Music for Two Pianists - With pianists Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro.
And on (minty) vinyl:
Ravel Bolero Rapsodie Espagnole, Le Tombeau De Couperin, Menuet Antique, Alborada Del Gracioso - With the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. Conducted by Andre Cluytens, on EMI from 1982.
Off to spin them now!
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You won't be disappointed Marco!Went to my favourite little classical music/book shop today in Shrewsbury and bought the following CDs:
Brahms Symphony No1 - with The Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and The Monteverdi Choir. Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Milhaud. Music for Two Pianists - With pianists Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro.
And on (minty) vinyl:
Ravel Bolero Rapsodie Espagnole, Le Tombeau De Couperin, Menuet Antique, Alborada Del Gracioso - With the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. Conducted by Andre Cluytens.
Off to spin them now!
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Or by Cluytens' Ravel.
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Has anyone listened to the HiQ cut of Previn's version of Holst's the Planet Suite. I got this the other day and can honestly say I'm bowled over.
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Yesterdays choons ...
Schubert piano sonata D.960 - Clifford Curzon Decca Jubilee CrO2 cassette. I didn't think I liked Curzon, but I really enjoyed this. He messes around with tempos a bit - sometimes speeding up a bit for the exciting bits, and that rather spoiled things - Schubert knew what he was doing, trust him, Cliff!
John Foulds - Dynamic Triptych for piano & orch. Warner CD. Well, this is different. Early-ish 20thC Brit piano concerto. Vaguely pre-Prokofiev, but kind of romantically so. Well worth investigating.
Hoddinott - Pasaggio, Heaventree of Stars (violin & orch), Doubles (oboe, strings & harpsichord) and Star Children. Nimbus CD. A bit off the beaten path, and all the better for it! Vaguely challenging, but it wouldn't cause Roy (royzak) to sweat!
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Interesting, Jerry. I have a Lyrita disc of this (paired with the RVW Concerto) from Howard Shelley and Vernon Handley. Didn't know there was another recording - who are the performers?
John Foulds - Dynamic Triptych for piano & orch. Warner CD. Well, this is different. Early-ish 20thC Brit piano concerto. Vaguely pre-Prokofiev, but kind of romantically so. Well worth investigating.
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