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  • gurnemanz
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7382

    Re Rachmaninov Box Set. Though it looks quite interesting and cheap, I got the Brilliant Classics set a few years ago which is also pretty good and two complete boxes would surely be gluttony.
    Last edited by gurnemanz; 21-11-14, 22:38. Reason: bad link

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Damned silly having that DoG recording as CD of the week. Is not the whole thing available on the iPlayer offering of yesterday's Ao3. It is that performance upon which the Chandos SACD issue is based, is it not?

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      • Cockney Sparrow
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        • Jan 2014
        • 2284

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        .................11.40 Disc of the Week: Gerontius (downside: Ms. Connolly Hope he concentrates on the tenor, and ignores the Sea Pictures filler )
        As one who made it to the performance, I hope you know what you are wishing for. The experience of the Gerontius was to transform the role into a Wagnerian setting.
        (Something of a shock to the system - well, my system. Like expecting a performance from John Gielgud, but finding his last minute replacement is Russell Crowe......).
        However, its a good opportunity to check the studio recording. (There were recording sessions in Croydon, prior to the Barbican performance).
        Last edited by Cockney Sparrow; 22-11-14, 00:14. Reason: Re Studio Recording

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26524

          Originally posted by Alison View Post
          Enjoy Mr Caliban! Shame it isn't Harriet Smith reviewing the Rachmaninov to complete your pleasure ....
          Oh yes
          "...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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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26524

            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
            Damned silly having that DoG recording as CD of the week. Is not the whole thing available on the iPlayer offering of yesterday's Ao3. It is that performance upon which the Chandos SACD issue is based, is it not?
            Oh yes it looks to be.... Well, damned silly or an interesting opportunity to compare the live performance with the studio as Cockney Sparrow suggests. Or was the Chandos issue compiled from the Croydon performances? In which case - yes, it's the same thing ...

            And I've just noticed that there are two Discs of the Week, bits of DoG being followed by bits of the MusicAeterna/Teodor Currentzis Cosí fan Tutte. In which case it might be doubly-silly if they're cramming in the same DoG as was broadcast in toto yesterday... because the Currentzis Nozze di Figaro was such a revelation that I'd rather hear more of that.

            And an hour of cosy chat with Harriet Smith

            You lot have put me right off the whole thing

            "...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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            • Cockney Sparrow
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              • Jan 2014
              • 2284

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              [COLOR="#0000FF"]........ Or was the Chandos issue compiled from the Croydon performances? In which case - yes, it's the same thing ... ....................
              At the risk of labouring the point,the booklet available on the link below(last page,small type)states it was recorded in Croydon on dates preceding the Barbican performance. There were no performances at the Fairfield Hall. So CD review will offer the chance of comparison to the performance which was re-broadcast on Thursday.

              Chandos Records is one of the world's premiere classical record companies, focusing on superb quality musical recordings.

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26524

                Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View Post
                At the risk of labouring the point,the booklet available on the link below(last page,small type)states it was recorded in Croydon on dates preceding the Barbican performance. There were no performances at the Fairfield Hall. So CD review will offer the chance of comparison to the performance which was re-broadcast on Thursday.

                http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...r=CHAN%205140M
                Got it! No labouring - just helpful elucidation, thanks CS!
                "...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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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26524

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  And an hour of cosy chat with Harriet Smith

                  You lot have put me right off the whole thing

                  I misunderstood (it was late!) ... not Harriet Smith, but Sarah Walker! That's alright, looking forward to hearing Sarah released from the shackles of the weekday morning format.

                  Let's have a butcher's at her critical faculties !
                  "...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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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524

                    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                    Damned silly having that DoG recording as CD of the week. Is not the whole thing available on the iPlayer offering of yesterday's Ao3. It is that performance upon which the Chandos SACD issue is based, is it not?
                    Haha - did you hear the explanation / mea culpa , Bryn?



                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Hope he ... ignores the Sea Pictures filler
                    And... no.
                    "...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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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      I misunderstood (it was late!) ... not Harriet Smith, but Sarah Walker! That's alright, looking forward to hearing Sarah released from the shackles of the weekday morning format.

                      Let's have a butcher's at her critical faculties !
                      It was Sarah's reinforcement of John Tilbury's advocacy for Rachmaninov's music that got me listening to it again a few years ago. Many thanks to both for re-opening my ears to his muse.

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                      • Cockney Sparrow
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2014
                        • 2284

                        Just re-read your post Caliban - yes Aft on 3 was the Chandos recording. So worth a listen -Stuart Skelton sounded more mellifluous this morning than in the Barbican performance.
                        Last edited by Cockney Sparrow; 22-11-14, 12:16. Reason: Crossed posts

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26524

                          I really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!

                          Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review.
                          "...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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                          • silvestrione
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 1703

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            I really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!

                            Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review.
                            Followed your lead here, Caliban, and downloaded the 'Hammerklavier', and marvelled at it, especially the endless imaginative detail in the first movement.
                            Also downloaded the Haydn Sonata E Flat they excerpted, from Rozhukhin, a pianist I'd not heard of. He plays Haydn on the piano with the naturalness and spontaneity that Colin Davies brings to the symphonies....lovely.

                            I agree with you about Vignoles.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
                              endless imaginative detail in the first movement.
                              "...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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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25196

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                I really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!

                                Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review.
                                Available in the Naxos library.



                                also, this looks interesting.....
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