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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
I am utterly overjoyed to have just discovered on youtube the Maggini's wonderful recording (with score!) of what has probably become my favourite British string quartet - Frank Bridge's Fourth. It - composition and performance - sums up all that is best in the composer's more advanced post-1924 style, and more - the thematic/melodic writing outshines earlier works in its robust confidence; the first and especially second movements come his closest anywhere to Schoenberg, and yet the triumphantly uplifting eventual return to a clearer tonal definition in the third has fully integrated all that the composer had achieved in expansion of means and methods, and, unlike some erstwhile modernists who have forsaken the regions beyond easy cadential closure, feels truly earned.
Disk 1 of the Haydn 2032 Vol. 1 - 10 Symphonies box, comprising symphonies 39, 49 and 1, as well as Gluck's Don Juan ballet, performed by Il Giardino Armonico under Antonini.
Selection of Overtures, Waltzes, Polkas and Marches
Wiener Philharmoniker
Clemens Krauss
These are taken from the recent 'Complete Decca Recordings of Clemens Krauss' box but are also available on an Eloquence two disc set. Recorded in the early 1950s this is the real Strauss VPO sound, here set down with a generous clutch of repeats. Wonderful music and superbly done.
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
I am utterly overjoyed to have just discovered on youtube the Maggini's wonderful recording (with score!) of what has probably become my favourite British string quartet - Frank Bridge's Fourth. It - composition and performance - sums up all that is best in the composer's more advanced post-1924 style, and more - the thematic/melodic writing outshines earlier works in its robust confidence; the first and especially second movements come his closest anywhere to Schoenberg, and yet the triumphantly uplifting eventual return to a clearer tonal definition in the third has fully integrated all that the composer had achieved in expansion of means and methods, and, unlike some erstwhile modernists who have forsaken the regions beyond easy cadential closure, feels truly earned.
Uchida, Diabelli Variations - it’s quite a distinctive performance.
Sorry to say that, as with many others of her recordings, the term "mannered" came to mind, for me. There is no great doubt about her technique, however, and her Debussy Etudes are very special, in the positive sense.
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