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  • soileduk
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    • Nov 2010
    • 337

    Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
    Indeed, soileduk. A nice idea for a CD 'programme', I thought. If you do purchase, please let me know how you get on with it.

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    TS: if you find a link, please post it.
    £16.05 pre-order on the South American flood plain. Still not a true bargain. Do I,don't I?.........Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh!! HELP.

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    • teamsaint
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      • Nov 2010
      • 25209

      Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
      Indeed, soileduk. A nice idea for a CD 'programme', I thought. If you do purchase, please let me know how you get on with it.

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      TS: if you find a link, please post it.
      here you go @Noggo.



      I quite fancied this, what with it being a premiere 'n all.

      Its a terrific work, a real favourite of mine. Lucky enough to see the dynamic KP perform it at the RFH recently.

      If you don't have the Britten , the Stravinsky etc this might be a great value set if its as good as you suggest, when the price eases a few quid.
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • cloughie
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        • Dec 2011
        • 22121

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post



        Any suggestions?

        'Waiter, there's a girl on my piano' was as far as I got....

        Actually the Legrand-Dessay disc from which extracts were played on yesterday's CD Review tempted me as a bit of a Legrand fan - perfect in the car when motoring through France, it struck me.


        http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/1...l-legrand.html
        'I like your idea of a piano duet, Natalie!'

        'Let's remake je t'aime!'

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        • mercia
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          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          looks like all the presenters have visited the dark red photo booth

          With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn: Symphony No 44 (Trauer).

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          • Sir Velo
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            • Oct 2012
            • 3229

            Somewhat ambiguous wording from AMcG in adverting to one of Julius Isserlis' compositions as to "the memory of Scriabin's young son who tragically drowned at the age of 11". Scriabin Snr had, of course, been dead four years before Julian's own demise.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26536

              The CD by which I've been most impressed in recent weeks, based on extracts heard on R3, is the new Edward Gardner Mendelssohn album http://www.theclassicalshop.net/deta...er=CHAN%205132

              Having heard the 3rd movement of the Italian on the 'Breakfast Chart' podcast from a few weeks ago, I was gripped by the last movement on CD Review this morning. It sounds to be a tremendous recording, aiding and abetting a wonderful performance - lovely phrasing, a real sense of shape and structure, but also virtuosic playing and detail.

              I can't quite believe it - I'm about to buy a recording of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation Symphony'...

              Anyone bought this one yet?
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Barbirollians
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                • Nov 2010
                • 11686

                Lovely singing from Sarah Connolly but three Mahler recordings to avoid this morning ! Maazel on autopilot and as for the reduced Kaplan words fail me .It sounded dreadful.

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                • HighlandDougie
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3091

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                  Anyone bought this one yet?
                  Sorry, Cal, missed this post but I've been much enjoying this CD since buying it late last month. Great recording (Birmingham Town Hall is ideal for the size of orchestra used in these works) and exhilirating playing. And, yes, even the 'Reformation' doesn't sound as po-faced and ponderous as it often does. Ed Gardner (whose Bartok disc with the Melbourne orchestra is equally fine) shows yet again that he is one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation, as well as being a thoroughly nice chap.

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                  • verismissimo
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2957

                    Gosh, how good Jurowski is in Brahms...

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                    • edashtav
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                      • Jul 2012
                      • 3670

                      Originally posted by verismissimo View Post
                      Gosh, how good Jurowski is in Brahms...
                      Agreed!

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                      • Sir Velo
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                        • Oct 2012
                        • 3229

                        Originally posted by verismissimo View Post
                        Gosh, how good Jurowski is in Brahms...
                        To be honest I was less than convinced from the extract we heard. Sure, the playing was superlative but the tempo relationship between the Scherzo and the trio was surely wrong. The trio seemed to come to a dead halt while the scherzo was breakneck thereby missing the sense of elation which this movement, in the best performances, conveys.

                        Interesting that AMcG who praises recordings which omit audience applause failed to mention that it's been left in on these recordings. Something which would seriously annoy me on repeated listens.

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                        • Sir Velo
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                          • Oct 2012
                          • 3229

                          What the hell was old McGregor on this weekend?

                          First he tells us that impromptu is French, literally for "offhand" (a translation, incidentally that only Wiki offers). Then, that Biber composed his Mystery sonatas about 1760, and finally that Wasserflut should be translated as the Flood.

                          Go figure.

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                            What the hell was old McGregor on this weekend?

                            First he tells us that impromptu is French, literally for "offhand" (a translation, incidentally that only Wiki offers). Then, that Biber composed his Mystery sonatas about 1760, and finally that Wasserflut should be translated as the Flood.

                            Go figure.
                            This is the second time you've aired this plaint, SV

                            Perhaps you've reached your anecdotage?

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                            • Thropplenoggin
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                              • Mar 2013
                              • 1587

                              Does Andrew McGregor think we all have short-term memory loss? We got three 'coming up later today...'s in the space of ten minutes: once with Martin Handley at 8.55, once before the news at 9.00, and just in case we'd forgotten, another one after the first piano piece he played at 9:05.
                              It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25209

                                Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
                                Does Andrew McGregor think we all have short-term memory loss? We got three 'coming up later today...'s in the space of ten minutes: once with Martin Handley at 8.55, once before the news at 9.00, and just in case we'd forgotten, another one after the first piano piece he played at 9:05.
                                Well remembered.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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