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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI have a gorgeous recording with Catherine Deneuve reciting the poetry.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostYes, that's probably the best of the more recent recordings. Sonehow, DG overlooked it when compiling their supposed complete Debussy boxed set. I was rather taken aback when Radio 3 listed it on TtN as the Trois chansons de Bilitis. The situation wa made even stranger by the poems having been translated into Finnish. There is also an interesting compilation of related works by Debussy on a Brilliant Classics release. It has the rarely performed, let alone recorded, original version of Syrinx, (with recitation) on it.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostYes, that's probably the best of the more recent recordings. Somehow, DG overlooked it when compiling their supposed complete Debussy boxed set. I was rather taken aback when Radio 3 listed the work on TtN as the Trois chansons de Bilitis. The situation wa made even stranger by the poems having been translated into Finnish. There is also an interesting compilation of related works by Debussy on a Brilliant Classics release. It has the rarely performed, let alone recorded, original version of Syrinx, (with recitation) on it.
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Stravinsky: Symphony in three movements
Four versions that I hadn't heard before, all streamed (Deezer/Sonos):
San Francisco/MTT
Rotterdam Phil/Conlon
Bamberg Phil/Metzmacher
American SO/Botstein
A pretty clear winner here, I thought: MTT in a very impressive live performance, well captured.
Very much looking forward to BaL on 28 May 2022!
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Rachmaninov. Piano Concerto No.3.
Dimitris Sgouros, piano. Yuri Simonov conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. An original EMI cd from 1984 with ‘INDEX’ points!
The Gramophone critic was a bit sniffy but it sounds absolutely fantastic to me! Amazing that the soloist was only 14 when he recorded it.
DSCH. Symphonies 15 & 9
Kirill Kondrashin conducting The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Melodiya label.Last edited by pastoralguy; 07-05-22, 16:39.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostRachmaninov. Piano Concerto No.3.
Dimitris Sgouros, piano. Yuri Simonov conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. An original EMI cd from 1984 with ‘INDEX’ points!
The Gramophone critic was a bit sniffy but it sounds absolutely fantastic to me! Amazing that the soloist was only 14 when he recorded it.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostRachmaninov. Piano Concerto No.3.
Dimitris Sgouros, piano. Yuri Simonov conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. An original EMI cd from 1984 with ‘INDEX’ points!
The Gramophone critic was a bit sniffy but it sounds absolutely fantastic to me! Amazing that the soloist was only 14 when he recorded it."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostDisk 2 of this.
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Originally posted by RichardB View PostI've been returning recently to some of those recordings. I found Kyania difficult to get through when it first came out but listened to it spellbound the other day. Of course, things like Synaphai, Metastaseis, Jonchaies, Shaar and Antikhthon, to name only these, are modern classics.
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I was listening to the Kempe Strauss set with Dresden yesterday. The day before I had been listening to the early digital Karajan Heldenleben, which is ok as a performance but the sonics on the Karajan are just awful, even though it must have been recorded a good decade after the Kempe. There is no soundstage on the DG at all (I have a tubed pre amp, and kept wondering if I had blown a valve). The Kempe give the illusion that there is an actual Orchestra in your room, with low strings and brass laying a foundation and the timpani being placed properly behind the rest of the Orchestra. Only the Alpine Symphony disappoints sonically, but that is a difficult piece to do justice to in 2 channel audio.
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