Originally posted by mathias broucek
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Streamable on Deezer, so in the queue for later.
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And from Presto:
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Qobuz Mahler 6 KP here.....
....but I'm staying with my beloved Nielsen and Simpson and....more Zelenka! I adore Zelenka...Comment
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A very large number of new releases on Qubuz today. Just made the mistake of turning up the volume at the almost inaudible start of Simpson’s 5th Symphony (LSO Davis) . Never thought a symphony opening would need a health warning before...,..sensational performance though.Comment
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Releases from the last week or two that I've liked:
Robert de Visée - Pièces pour théorbe et guitare (Xavier Díaz-Latorre). Absolutely superb. Maybe the theorbo pieces aren't quite on the level of Hopkinson Smith's recording for Astrée, but they're close, and the guitar material was a revelation for me. As a result I listened through Rafael Andia's complete recording of de Visée's guitar music on HM, which is also beautiful but the baroque guitar in Díaz-Latorre's hands is a unique and magical thing.
"Forqueray Unchained" (André Lislevand, viola da gamba), not just Forqueray but a few of his contemporaries too, a beautifully assembled programme, very nicely played.
Weber - Piano Concertos (Brautigam), which I've been enthusing about elsewhere
Gunnar Geisse - Triptych. Precipitous improvisatory electronic music using thousands of sampled instrumental sounds, not a million miles from some of my own doings.
... and the ones lined up for listening soon:
Marais - Troisième Livre de Pièces de viole (François Joubert-Caillet). The first and second books were so good this has to be too.
Simpson - Symphonies 5 & 6, I feel a duty to listen to these, not sure what the outcome will be.
Berlioz - Lélio (Gielen). A work I don't know with a conductor I greatly admire.Comment
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Richard - don’t be tempted to turn the vol up at the start of Simpson 5 - though maybe you know the score...Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostComment
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I bought the CD on release. More detailed comments here....Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
I still regard it as his greatest achievement.....don't forget the Composers' Subforum (which fhg established), much interesting comment and insight within....
Contemporary reviews of the 5th and 6th (and other Simpson) Premieres are quoted extensively in MacAuley's Simpson Biography; too long to quote here, but those of the 5th were especially positive - the world was beginning to listen....but (as Simpson said himself) the 6th suffered from very brief rehearsal time, and was received with more bafflement.
Suffice to say the earlier works (up to the marvellous, life-affirming No.4) encountered at least as much initial hostility as Beethoven or Bruckner ever did....so the 5th helped his cause, rather as the 7th for Bruckner.
The 1962 3rd received much insulting and condescending dismissal, which only changed some 10 years later when Horenstein took it up with the LSO; and Ed Greenfield (always very open to New Music) reviewed it live, then in Gramophone, with (finally!) deserved acclaim. The NMC CD is a true classic.
It was my "entry point" in to Simpson, eagerly borrowing the LP with its stunning cover photo of Earth-from-Space (very fresh & exciting then)... the impact of my first hearing was life-changing...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 02-04-21, 16:19.Comment
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I guess it must have popped up on CD before being released on stream as the refs on the other thread are three weeks old. Sensational recording as well - amazing dynamic range for what must have been an analogue recording.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostI bought the CD on release. More detailed comments here....
....don't forget the Composers' Subforum (which fhg established), much interesting comment and insight within....Comment
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Yes, from (I guess) the original BBC tapes.Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
I came into serious listening around 1973-4, and the stereo SQ from RAH or RFH was already very good. I usually found it hard to match off LP, at least as far as I could afford to attempt it then (Audiophiles are born, not made...and frequently discontented.).Comment
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Now here's a really interesting programme...heard some excerpts from it on France Musique this morning and it sounds great. Love the Irish folk melodies arranged by Giordani and JC Bach!
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Three new releases which I've streamed from Qobuz in the last couple of days, and much enjoyed. 1. Beethoven 9th Symphony (with 7 & 8, not yet heard), finishing off Thomas Adès's cycle with the Britten Sinfonia. Very much to my tastes: lean, period-influenced performance, with smallish orchestra and choir (absolutely not lacking in power, though) and good, light, clean solo voices (Jennifer France Ed Lyon & Matthew Rose all excellent).
2. Stravinsky Sacre, Orchestre de Paris/Heras-Casado. I agree with Katherine Cooper's review on Presto Classical: beautifully played, with lots of detail: not as brutal as many, but again not underpowered.
3. Mahler 6, BPO/Petrenko. In the big BPO Mahler set, but available (at least digitally) separately. Fabulous playing; the Andante (played second) moves along at a proper Andante, and the Finale is also, to my tastes, without any self-indulgent lingering. In terms of recording and playing, this is as good as anything I've heard (and my score contains notes from 14 other versions).Comment
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Have you been listening outside my window after auditioning the Beethoven?Originally posted by ostuni View PostComment
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Ah yes, I remember that you'd been (?trying) listening to the Sacre. M6 too?!Comment
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But of course. I was hoping to find others from the set but no luck there. I'm not sure I want to buy the CD/Blu-ray boxed set, especially without a performing version of all five movements of the, or Das Lied von der Erde.Comment
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Absolutely loving the new Currentzis/MusicaEterna Beethoven 7
Talk about a familiar loved piece coming up fresh as paint / heard with new ears / &c &c (add clichés).
All the cross-rhythms, inner parts, pulse and energy that I hear in my mind’s ear but never quite in performances. All without undue haste.
A winner imvvho"...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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Less self regardingthan his Fifth I’ll warrant you but I much preferred the Manze that came out at the same time.Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View PostComment
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