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[Andolink]

I had been almost 2 weeks without my Thor mono blocks but once again there is music in my listening room - -

Arnold Bax: Violin Sonata No. 3 (1927)
Laurence Jackson, violin
Ashley Wass, piano

Franz Xaver Richter (1709-89) & Johann Stamitz (1717-57): Early String Symphonies
New Duch Academy - - Simon Murhpy

 

[VMAT4]

I've been listening to this musician/composer frequently over the last two days.

 

[Andolink]

Herman Koppel: Symphony No. 7 (1960/61)
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra - Moshe Atzmon

 

[MarcT]

This is just incredible, streaming on Amazon Music HD(24/192). The initial crescendo is spine tingling!

 

[Andolink]

Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for cello and piano
Laura Buruiana, cello
Matei Varga, piano

 

[dBiz]

Bach : Ouvertures BWV 1066-1069​

Jordi Savall • Le Concert Des Nations​

 

[bkdc]

Finally available on recording. The spine-tingling Waldstein played by the greatest living pianist in her young prestissimo phase. Just stunning final movement.

 

[highender]

 

[bkdc]

 

[Andolink]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87
Trio Wanderer

 

[Andolink]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
Leopold String Trio
Marc-André Hamelin, piano

 

[Andolink]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Till Fellner, piano
Belcea Quartet

“But for me, the high point of this two-disc set is the intense and beautifully integrated account of the Piano Quintet. Here we have a true partnership of equals, with Tell Fellner fitting into the Belcea’s distinctive performing ethic like a hand into a glove, neither dominating nor being subservient, but a true and instinctive chamber partner. This is very vividly displayed in the opening of the slow movement where the piano seems to be such an integral part of the texture that the tendency we sometimes experience in this music for it to sound like a piano concerto with reduced orchestra seems to belong to an altogether different world. Here is a deeply rewarding performance.”


Marc Rochester /–musicweb-international.com

 

[bkdc]

Someone is on a Brahm's kick.

But for some reason, I tend to play the Piano duo arrangement more?

 

[stringham]

Another recording from Naive's Vivaldi series.

Dixit Dominus (Salmo 109), RV 594: X. Sicut erat in principio

Concerto Italiano - song - 2003

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[bkdc]

Still on Brahms I guess

 

[bkdc]

Very lovely recital. I believe it's the best selling among the Naxos Laurate series along with Kyuhee Park (known as fiend of the tremolo)

 

[bkdc]

My parents had been insisting that I see Yunchan Lim’s Cliburn final Rach 3 for months. I finally viewed it on line. OMG I can’t wait to buy it on CD. The hyperbole and raves are justified. The greatest ever? Maybe. You can tell the conductor Marin Alsop is having a good time and convinced that he is the winner as is the audience approving with a roaring standing ovation It’s one of those OMG what did I just witness? moments

 

[bevok]

Going on a bit of a Also Sprach Zarathustra bender after listening to it a few times testing bass recently off the “Time Warp” album, and hearing an interesting live recording off the forthcoming “Santa Conducts Strauss” album (with conductor grunts I think).

This is a good read: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/featur...ustra-a-complete-guide-to-the-best-recordings

Picked out the New York Philharmonic / Guiseppe Sinopoli to begin.

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30; Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 by New York Philharmonic & Giuseppe Sinopoli

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[MarcT]

Oh, this is wonderful! Lovely Dvorak. I stumbled on this from Amazon Music autoplay.

 

[bevok]

Enjoying the new Atmos mix of Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert's 1982 recording of the Brandenburg Concertos (released on Bach's birthday yesterday according to DG). Not much difference to me from the stereo on headphones (haven't had a chance to try on surround system) but a good excuse to revisit one of my favourite works.