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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostMaybe starting with a lull before the storm work such RVW Tallis Fantasia!
Following on from a kind of Wagner inspired epics, from yesterday, Mahler’s Das Klagende Liec, today I’m playing this:-
Sibelius - Kullervo
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis.
This is his 2003 recording.Last edited by BBMmk2; 27-07-19, 12:39.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Really not sure. Think it must be a Prom, although the thought appals me. Someone who can't sing caterwauling something which I'd probably describe as New Age (if I classed it as anything other than self-indulgent garbage).
Yes, it's a Prom (Battersea Arts Centre.) I despair.Last edited by peterthekeys; 27-07-19, 16:40.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
....well, it's the Leipzig Gewandhaus playing at their virtuosic, open-textured best. No emotional excess at all; just the music, in Mahler’s remarkably subtle, insightful arrangement played with terrific power, accuracy and verve.
So as long as you can take Schumann with a certain degree of sonic intensity, you can’t lose.
Thank you - I do like your style... in fact, I have decided to 'go for' this set as a supplement to my Schumann symphony sets. Schumann with extra sonic intensity sounds good to me!
As for Mahler's Beethoven - well, I don't think that is for me. But nevertheless, the notion is intrigueing for the - how can I say - followers of such curiosities!
I'd better take cover!
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Schubert. Symphonies 5 & 8
Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam conducted by Leonard Bernstein. DG. 1989.
This is a lovely recording of these wonderful scores. Bernstein got the reputation of getting very slow in his last recordings for the Yellow Label but there's nothing stodgy or indulgent about this recording.
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Franz Schmidt: Notre Dame, Gwyneth Jones, James King, Kurt Moll etc/Berlin RSO/Christof Perick
All the principal singers in this 1989 recording were past their prime, and it would be good to hear a recording with singers a little less "strained" than here (and with a better conductor) - some hope! An intriguing work with many superb passages, for all its flaws, I'm very grateful to have this recording. Something of an "abrupt" ending - it sounds like an Act Two ending in a 3-Act opera!
Haydn: Symphony #35; L'Estro Armonico/Derek Solomons.
Lovely "tang" to the instrumental flavours in this recording ; and - glory be! - every repeat marvellously observed.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Brahms. Piano Works. Op.118, Op.119, Op.79 & Op.117
Francçois Chaplin, piano.
A disc that received a very good review in the most recent Gramophone. I'm not sure it quite replaces my beloved Kovecevich on Philips but it's pretty impressive.
(Charlie Chaplin 'borrowed' themes from the Op.118 No.5 'Romanze' in F for the conclusion of the 1942 re-issue of his film 'The Gold Rush').Last edited by pastoralguy; 27-07-19, 21:58.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostSchubert. Symphonies 5 & 8
Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam conducted by Leonard Bernstein. DG. 1989.
This is a lovely recording of these wonderful scores. Bernstein got the reputation of getting very slow in his last recordings for the Yellow Label but there's nothing stodgy or indulgent about this recording.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostIsn’t Schubert 5 the sunniest of all symphonies - I always play it on my birthday!
Happy Days.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostA lovely work! I can remember hearing it for the first time circa 1978 when it was played on a late nite BBC 2 Scotland programme by the BBCSSO under, iirc, Christopher Seaman. The following week was the 'Unfinished' Symphony!
Happy Days.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostYes, one of the disadvantages of ageing is that thrill of hearing something for the first time and being pleasantly wowed are fewer!
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostGod knows, Cloughie, I try! But I don't find myself moved by the 'unknown' music I experience. It's incredible that, as a teenager, I was experiencing masterpieces unknown to me on a daily basis!
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