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[Stanfordian]

Maybe they think it's "groovy":

Hiya Bryn,

One can get arrested for that sort of photo these days.

[Pulcinella]

Very impressed with Nicola Benedetti's Shostakovich (Violin concerto number 1), this morning's record of the week on CD review. My partner and I had heard her play it a while back in Oxford, when she must have still been 'learning' it, as she played it with the music to hand.
But can I really justify another version when we already have Oistrakh/NYPO/Mitropoulos, Vengerov/LSO/Rostropovich, Sitkovetsky/BBCSO/Andrew Davis, and Mordkovitch/SNO/Järvi on the shelves? For once, my partner is saying yes!

[pastoralguy]

Very impressed with Nicola Benedetti's Shostakovich (Violin concerto number 1), this morning's record of the week on CD review. My partner and I had heard her play it a while back in Oxford, when she must have still been 'learning' it, as she played it with the music to hand.
But can I really justify another version when we already have Oistrakh/NYPO/Mitropoulos, Vengerov/LSO/Rostropovich, Sitkovetsky/BBCSO/Andrew Davis, and Mordkovitch/SNO/Järvi on the shelves? For once, my partner is saying yes!

Go for it! The Glauzunov concerto is superb. (And there are some nice pictures too...)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very impressed with Nicola Benedetti's Shostakovich (Violin concerto number 1), this morning's record of the week on CD review.

So was I - she's become quite a formidable violinist, hasn't she? Not that long ago, I would never have thought her capable of such powerful playing.

[Pulcinella]

Go for it! The Glauzunov concerto is superb. (And there are some nice pictures too...)

I have done!

[pastoralguy]

I have done!

[Stanfordian]

Very impressed with Nicola Benedetti's Shostakovich (Violin concerto number 1), this morning's record of the week on CD review. My partner and I had heard her play it a while back in Oxford, when she must have still been 'learning' it, as she played it with the music to hand.
But can I really justify another version when we already have Oistrakh/NYPO/Mitropoulos, Vengerov/LSO/Rostropovich, Sitkovetsky/BBCSO/Andrew Davis, and Mordkovitch/SNO/Järvi on the shelves? For once, my partner is saying yes!

Hiya Pulcinella,

I'm mightily impressed by her playing too. Benedetti is sometimes the brunt of criticism that I've never understood. Nevertheless I still prefer the wonderful account of Shostakovich 1 played by Arabella Steinbacher and the Bavarian RSO under Andris Nelsons on Orfeo.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm rather tempted by the Decca 41 CD box set - Handel: The Great Oratorios


La Resurrezione
Emma Kirkby, Patrizia Kwella, Carolyn Watkinson, Ian Partridge, David Thomas, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Acis and Galatea
Norma Burrowes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Martyn Hill, Willard White, Paul Elliot, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Esther
Patrizia Kwella, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ian Partridge, David Thomas, Emma Kirkby, Paul Elliott, Andrew King, Drew Minter, The Academy of Ancient Music, Westminster Cathedral Boys’ Choir, Christopher Hogwood

Athalia
Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, Aled Jones, James Bowman, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Mathan), David Thomas, The Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of New College Oxford, Christopher Hogwood

Alexander’s Feast
Donna Brown, Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Saul
Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Lynne Dawson, Donna Brown, Philip Slane, Neil Mackie, Simon Oberst, Philip Salmon, Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Israel in Egypt
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Messiah
Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Howard Crook, John Tomlinson, The English Concert Choir & The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock[B[/B]Samson
Thomas Randle, Lynda Russell, Catherine Wyn Rogers, Lynne Dawson, Matthew Vine, Michael George, Jonathan Best, The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers

Semele
Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Michael Chance, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

Hercules
Gidon Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter, Richard Croft, Lynne Dawson, David Daniels, Marcos Pujol, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

Belshazzar
Arleen Augér, Julia Gooding, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Nicolas Robertson, Nigel Short, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, Richard Wistreich, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert Choir, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Judas Maccabaeus
Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, Paul Esswood, English Chamber Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras

Solomon
Andreas Scholl, Inger Dam-Jensen, Alison Hagley, Susan Bickley, Susan Gritton, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

Theodora
Susan Gritton, Susan Bickley, Robin Blaze, Paul Agnew, Neal Davies, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

Jephtha
Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

[Pulcinella]

Hiya Pulcinella,

I'm mightily impressed by her playing too. Benedetti is sometimes the brunt of criticism that I've never understood. Nevertheless I still prefer the wonderful account of Shostakovich 1 played by Arabella Steinbacher and the Bavarian RSO under Andris Nelsons on Orfeo.

Thanks for this, but there really is no room for another! Would like to hear it sometime, though.

[jayne lee wilson]

They made it! Haven't heard it yet, the great von Bahr seems very
excited...

http://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis/sibelius-symphonies-3-6-and-7.html

[pastoralguy]

They made it! Haven't heard it yet, the great von Bahr seems very
excited...




http://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis...3-6-and-7.html

This is on my wish list...

[Bryn]

They made it! Haven't heard it yet, the great von Bahr seems very
excited...

http://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis...3-6-and-7.html

Just downloaded.

[mathias broucek]

They made it! Haven't heard it yet, the great von Bahr seems very
excited...




http://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis...3-6-and-7.html

Have become a bit hi res obsessed lately. Even the Kempff Beethoven sonatas sound great

Have you tried the earlier installments? Seems to be hi res for the price of 16 bit on all issues but I have so much Sibelius already.....

[HighlandDougie]

Have become a bit hi res obsessed lately. Even the Kempff Beethoven sonatas sound great

Have you tried the earlier installments? Seems to be hi res for the price of 16 bit on all issues but I have so much Sibelius already.....

While I wouldn't dare to presume to speak for Jayne, I've had the two earlier releases as Hi-Res downloads since they were released. I was a bit disappointed at the time with the 2nd/5th coupling but have greatly enjoyed it when I've gone back to it. In my very unhumble view, the 4th is a marvellous performance, building on OV's earlier (and rightly praised) Lahti recording. The dynamic range of the recording is exceptionally wide (just audible pianissimi at times) and OV's use of silences has excited some controversy. But it works for me every time. The 1st is as good a performance as you are likely to hear. At the lo-res price, well worth a punt, especially the 1st and 4th.

[silvestrione]

von Bahr? Is the ordinary reader of these threads supposed to get that reference?