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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostVaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded on February 17 1944 and presumably receiving its first recording?
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostMight this be the Dutton Laboratories recording CDAX 8011 'Vaughan Williams Gramophone Premieres' that also features RVW conducting his 4th? Extract from the liner notes: 'The recording was made under British Council auspices and was only the second recording by the Barbirolli Halle'. I was lucky enough to purchase this recently in a charity shop for the princely sum of 25 p per symphony!
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostMore likely the 'Warner' CD from the Barbirolli big box.
There is a similar situation with the Warner re-masterings in the Karl Böhm Icon box where the bacon frying noise makes for intolerable listening. Other issues on Dutton and Profil of the same recordings are much better."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Michael Spyres - ‘Espoir’
French & Italian Opera Arias from Rossini, Donizetti, Halévy, Verdi, Auber, Berlioz
Michael Spyres (tenor)
Hallé / Carlo Rizzi
with guest Joyce El-Khoury (soprano)
Recorded 2017, The Stoller Hall, Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester
Opera Rara
Poulenc - 'Chamber Music'
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon
Sonata for flute and piano
Sonata for bassoon and piano
Pascal Roge (piano), Patrick Gallois (flute), Maurice Bourgue (oboe),
Michel Portal (clarinet), Amaury Wallez (bassoon) & Andre Cazalet (horn)
Recorded 1988 Salle Wagram, Paris
Decca
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostIndeed it was. Sadly, the amount of surface noise is hard to take in the re-masterings of the 78s in this set. My experience of Dutton CDs is a lot more positive and I'd have preferred it if they'd been done their way.
There is a similar situation with the Warner re-masterings in the Karl Böhm Icon box where the bacon frying noise makes for intolerable listening. Other issues on Dutton and Profil of the same recordings are much better.
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Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Arranged by Ravel and also C.Howard for string orchestra - and played by a virtual orchestra.
https://musescore.com/howard-c/pictu...-an-exhibition.
Quite interesting to see what is possible, and this seems rather detailed.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI have the recording in a Barbirolli budget box on Documents 224043. Not listened to it lately but I'll do so later and report back on surface noise!
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Score following - Days 134-137
Glazunov:
Suite for String Quartet op35
String Quintet in A major op39
Violin Concerto in A minor op82
Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Strings in E flat Major op109
The Seasons op67
Symphony No 3 in D major op33
Symphony No 4 in E flat major op48
Symphony No 5 in B flat major op55
Symphony No 6 in C minor op58
Symphony No 7 in F major op77
Symphony No 8 in E flat major op83
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Originally posted by Alison View PostHave been doing some ‘lucky dips’ into my Chicago Solti box.
Strauss: Also Sprach, Till, Don Juan
Bruckner: Symphonies 9 and 6 (a tendentious reading said RO)
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
All good listening without challenging established favourites.
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostJames Dillon - String Quartet no. 6
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostI thought, six??? he has been busy with these quartets; and then I remembered there are actually three more. What is it that keeps him coming back to that medium, I wonder. I had a listen to this one, and it seemed to me like some kind of stream of consciousness where each idea is examined briefly then put aside in favour of another one, and there isn't much in the way of perceptible longer-range structural thinking. Which reminded me of Kagel's 3rd quartet (and indeed a great deal of Kagel's work), but then I think that in Kagel's case the changes of direction are often like strange surreal confrontations, whereas in the JD piece they seem somehow arbitrary. On the other hand I don't have a strong attraction to the string quartet as such. It's not so often that a newly heard string quartet really appeals to me. Anyway thanks for the reminder, it was an interesting listen.
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