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  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147

    #91
    Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
    Vissarion Shebalin

    String Quartets Nos 5 and 6

    Krasni Quartet.

    Apparently DSCH had portraits of just 3 composers in his study.Mahler,Mussorgsky and Shebalin.
    Marvelous stuff,a little reminiscent of Myaskovsky and at times Prokofiev to my ears.
    No 5 won a Stalin prize,not sure if that's a good thing.
    Another completely new one on me. Interesting anecdote about DSCH.

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    • Beef Oven!
      Ex-member
      • Sep 2013
      • 18147

      #92
      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Reimann's Lear (recorded by DG, not EMI, Roehre) is still available - not exactly cheap, unless you don't mind downloads:



      ... or samples available (of both the DG recording and a performance given by the Staatsoper Hamburg):

      Aribert Reimanns Vertonung des Shakespeare-Stücks zählt zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Angeregt dazu wurde der Komponist durch ...


      Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


      DF-D kept asking Britten to write a Lear for him - like an Anna Karenina for Visnnest ... Vishnetskay ... Mrs Rostropovich; never to be, alas.

      But young Aribert didn't do a bad job at all!

      His Medea ain't bad, either:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHGGygEt1A
      Going by the Amazon reviews etc of Lear, I'll be putting on my definite to buy list, but will wait to see if the price goes easy.

      Thanks for the heads up, ferney

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        #93
        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
        Going by the Amazon reviews etc of Lear, I'll be putting on my definite to buy list, but will wait to see if the price goes easy.

        Thanks for the heads up, ferney
        The lossless download is €20.79 from QOBUZ, but no downloadable booklet notes.
        Last edited by Bryn; 11-06-15, 12:13. Reason: Predictive e text error, etc.

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        • Beef Oven!
          Ex-member
          • Sep 2013
          • 18147

          #94
          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          The lossless download is 20.79 Euros from Qobuz, but no downloadability booklet notes.
          Thanks Bryn, but I'm being strict with myself. Would need to be a CD with booklet and max £20.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #95
            Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
            Got into this one yet?



            The title piece (composed 2009) is a large, brilliantly dramatic & inventive piano concerto, over 30' long, with the second movement sounding like a snaking, explosive passacaglia on a piano theme of 40 notes!

            When I first saw it listed on Qobuz, I was drawn by the titling "Blank Reflecting Black"... any curious cat wants to know about that, right?
            Pretty avant-garde in feel and sound, yet there's a flow, a musical current to both large movements that really keeps you gripped...
            Highly recommended to the adventurous....
            The slightly cautious adventurous might wish to sample the works on this CD via youTube:

            Provided to YouTube by IDOLReflecting Black, pour piano et orchestre: Tableau l · Pascal Rophé · Orchestre de la Suisse Romande · David LivelyBlank: Reflecti...


            Provided to YouTube by IDOLReflecting Black, pour piano et orchestre: Tableau ll · Pascal Rophé · Orchestre de la Suisse Romande · David LivelyBlank: Reflect...


            Provided to YouTube by IDOLEbbe (n) , pour grand orchestre · Pascal Rophé · Orchestre de la Suisse RomandeBlank: Reflecting Black℗ AeonReleased on: 2015-02-2...


            Provided to YouTube by IDOLExodes, pour grand orchestre · Pascal Rophé · Orchestre de la Suisse RomandeBlank: Reflecting Black℗ AeonReleased on: 2015-02-24Co...


            (the second link above goes straight to the second "tableau"(/movement) described in jayne's post.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              #96
              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
              Thanks Bryn, but I'm being strict with myself. Would need to be a CD with booklet and max £20.
              If you must have the ready-made CDs, it might be worth waiting and hoping for the recording to be re-issued with the 81'28" of Part 1 being squeezed onto the first CD, rather than split over two discs as is currently the case. Of course, with the download option, the 81'28" (more like 81'17" after editing the fade out and in again) can be fitted onto a single nominal 80 minute CD-R using Nero Burning Rom and a compatible burner.
              Last edited by Bryn; 11-06-15, 14:26. Reason: Update.

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              • MarkG
                Full Member
                • Apr 2011
                • 119

                #97
                Possibly one of this year's less well known composer anniversaries...

                Last edited by MarkG; 13-06-15, 13:09. Reason: Corrected video link

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                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  #98
                  Robinson Crusoe Suite - Robert Mellin C1964


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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    #99
                    Originally posted by MarkG View Post
                    Possibly one of this year's less well known composer anniversaries...
                    This is a superb piece, MarkG - somewhere between the two Schus (that's double N, suffy ). I've encountered Volkmann's name (I think!) in books on Early German Romanticism, but I've never heard a note by him until now. If his other work is as good as this, then a real master has been seriously neglected. Many thanks for the Post
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Jonathan
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 944

                      Ferney, there's a very good 2CD set on CPO of works by Volkmann here https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/...e/hnum/6019596 - it's well worth a listen! This is also a very good disc: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/...5/hnum/5824830
                      Happy listening...
                      Best regards,
                      Jonathan

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Many thanks to you, too, Jonathan - yet another reason to be grateful to CPO.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Suffolkcoastal
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3290

                          Volkmann is completely overlooked and a fine composer, I've heard about 7 or 8 of his works and none of them could be called weak in any way. Much like Kalliwoda, a near contemporary, much of whose music I've heard is of really high quality and in same cases IMO much finer than better known works of the time.

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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25190

                            The Volkmann Quartet linked above really is a find.
                            One of the joys of the modern so called age is to find a piece like that to hear, and a score to follow at the click of a mouse.

                            thanks to MarkG and others for flagging this up.
                            Last edited by teamsaint; 18-06-15, 21:39.
                            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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                            • EdgeleyRob
                              Guest
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12180

                              Moritz Moszkowski

                              via you tube

                              Piano Concerto Op 3

                              Goes on a bit,surely too long at best part of a hour,not in a hurry to hear this again.

                              Etudes Op 72 & 92

                              Marvelous,exhilarating.

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                              • Beef Oven!
                                Ex-member
                                • Sep 2013
                                • 18147

                                Guy Reibel - Suite Pour Edgar Poe







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