I'm afraid my listening was all too soon interrupted by Billy Conolly, followed by The League of Gentleman on BBC TWO. I will try again, later. However, what I heard, intriqued. As improvised music goes, a world apart from either AMM or MEV.
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Handel.Pinnock
Complete Orchestral Recordings
CD 3
Concerto Grosso, Op.3.
CD 4
Concerto Grosso HWV318
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 Nos.1-4
The English Concert
Trevor PinnockLast edited by BBMmk2; 11-01-20, 11:50.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Anna Netrebko – ‘Russian Album’
Opera arias from Glinka, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre / Valery Gergiev
Recorded 2005/06 Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Deutsche Grammophon
Scriabin
Complete Preludes
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Recorded 2017, Henry Wood Hall, London
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Not knocking the Nagano CDs at all but do try the Metzmacher DVD:Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
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1615 Gabrieli in Venice
His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornetts
Choir of KCC
Sir Stephen Cleobury
Handel.Pinnock
Complete Orchestral Recordings
CD 5
Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Nos.5-8.
English Concert
Trevor PinnockDon’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Debussy, Preludes, Bk 1 Claudio Arrau. This is magical. I have had these recordings for years but one of the joys of enhanced equipment is being able to appreciate nuances in familiar recordings. Arrau has so many shading in dynamics and coloring in his tone that I feel I am learning the music afresh.Comment
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Vaughan-Williams. Tallis Fantasia. Partita for Double String Orchestra. Greensleeves Fantasia. In the Fen Country & and The Lark Descending.
London Festival Orchestra conducted by Ross Pople. Richard Friedman, violin.
An ASV cd I found in a charity shop for 20p!Comment
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Sounds a nice collection of pieces, pasto - a pity that Mr Friedman had the part upside down on his Music Stand.
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Krenek: Symphony #4; NDR Radiophilharmonie/Alun Francis
I've had the boxed set of the complete Symphonies for a couple of months now - just getting to know the individual works better by repeated playings. This is a really good piece (from 1947) - well worth the repeated hearings (and an astonishing similarity at the opening of the Scherzo, to, of all people, those of William Alwyn!!!) The Concerto Grosso from 20 years earlier with which the work is coupled is also very engaging - with a slow movement that has a depth of "feeling"/"sentiment" I hadn't previously associated with the composer's other work from this period. Great disc.
PS - this recording of the Symphony is (I should have guessed) YouTubable:
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Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No.2
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Why Krenek's work is not more widely performed is one of life's ongoing mysteries. The first three of his five symphonies were written in what seems to be the white heat of creative activity over the space of a couple of years with the last of them completed by the time he reached the age of 22. The second is a massive work of almost Mahlerian proportions. All five and quite a few more of his works are available on YouTube.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostSounds a nice collection of pieces, pasto - a pity that Mr Friedman had the part upside down on his Music Stand.
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Krenek: Symphony #4; NDR Radiophilharmonie/Alun Francis
I've had the boxed set of the complete Symphonies for a couple of months now - just getting to know the individual works better by repeated playings. This is a really good piece (from 1947) - well worth the repeated hearings (and an astonishing similarity at the opening of the Scherzo, to, of all people, those of William Alwyn!!!) The Concerto Grosso from 20 years earlier with which the work is coupled is also very engaging - with a slow movement that has a depth of "feeling"/"sentiment" I hadn't previously associated with the composer's other work from this period. Great disc.
PS - this recording of the Symphony is (I should have guessed) YouTubable:
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That's interesting to know - I've listened through all the symphonies once and the only one I felt like returning to was no.2 (which I already knew). I have the feeling with Krenek that he latched on to pretty much of the interesting developments that took place during his lifetime, but didn't have the spark to initiate anything, or to stick with anything for long enough to make it his own... or are those things too much to ask?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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