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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by MickyD View Post
The Staier disc is marvellous, yes. There is also a 2 CD set from Eloquence with Jorg Demus doing the same thing with other composers in the Diabelli on period pianos. Taken from an old Archiv set on LP, well worth hearing.
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Albert Roussel – Chamber Music
Le Marchand de Sable qui Passe, Musique de scène, Op. 13
Impromptu for harp, Op. 21
Sérénade for flute, string trio & harp, Op. 30
Duo for bassoon and contrabass
Divertissement for wind quintet & piano, Op. 6
Trio for flute, viola & cello, Op. 40
Prague Wind Quartet,
Czech Nonet,
Ivan Klansky (piano)
Recorded 1995 Domovina Studio, Prague
Praga da camera, CD
A really superb album of French music!
One of the finest chamber music discs I have.
The 'Le Marchand de Sable qui Passe'- 'Musique de scène' is simply glorious.
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Heh, heh. The Demus was my introduction to this work as played on an instrument of Beethoven's time. I got my first copy in an HMV sale, back in the 1970s. I was totally bowled over by it. Unfortunately the LPs were badly warped in a house fire in the mid-1980s. The Beethoven, but not the selection of variations by other contributing composers, somehow turned up on a third party label CD some years ago but I only ever managed to get an mp3 of that, and was not particularly impressed with what I heard of the transfer to the digital domain. I was thus cock-a-hoop when the Australian Eloquence wing of Universal released the whole set on a pair of CDs. One of the many attractions of the Demus is that he used two different instruments for the non-Beethoven variations, thus giving the opportunity to hear something of the different timbres, etc. offered by instrument makers of the time. Another recording worth hearing is that by Gary Cooper, playing a Walter instrument (Channel Classics SACD).
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Originally posted by Joseph K View PostListening for the first time to this recording, enjoying it greatly, probably my favourite Pierrot Lunaire, but would have to check with the other three? recordings I have...
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Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
... and listening now to Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte it sounds pretty great - I must have listened to this piece before but do not recall having the same enthusiasm for it as I do now.
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I've always loved Schoenberg's Ode to napoleon. I remember especially a performance as part of the London Sinfonietta's Schoenberg and Gerhard series with Gerald English throwing himself into the part and John Constable giving the piano a terrific work-over.
My last music wasn't quite so thrilling: Rachamninov's second concerto with Aleis Weissenberg, the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan. Oh dear, I don't think I'll listen to this again. Very slow in the first two movements, indeed the pianist and conductor seemed to be sleep-walking in the slow movement. And the recording balances the pianist's left hand so prominently one feels oneself sitting inside the piano, with all the arpegggio figurations grotesquely dominating. What could they have been thinking of?
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I wonder how many amateur pianists still play them for pleasure, as of course most of them were intended; I imagine they must be very rewarding.
More old favourites for me today: Tchaikovsky's Fourth with Karajan and the BPO in the Philharmonie mid-70s, the fifth of his six (sic!) recordings of the work. I never tire of this work, whose fame and familiarity obscure its originality.
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Mackerras conducts Schubert & Mozart at Frauenkirche, Dresden
Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E flat major, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, D950
Mozart
Vesperae solennes de confessore, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K339
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Oliver Ringelhahn (tenor), Christa Mayer (alto),
Timothy Robinson (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass)
Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden
Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded live 2008, Frauenkirche, Dresden
Carus, CD
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Listening to some random bbc music magazine cd i found in one of my cd carry cases, shumann. Could have looked up the afternoon concert but fancied a cd. Noticed lots of classical lps in the charity shop i volunteer in, one young lady donated lots of records and books, said her father had died two years ago and they just clearing out now, sobering to think one day my most treasued possessions will probably end up in a charity shop. We all just hoarding stuff as we go through life.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI wonder how many amateur pianists still play them for pleasure, as of course most of them were intended; I imagine they must be very rewarding.
More old favourites for me today: Tchaikovsky's Fourth with Karajan and the BPO in the Philharmonie mid-70s, the fifth of his six (sic!) recordings of the work. I never tire of this work, whose fame and familiarity obscure its originality.
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