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[malone-m]

My favorite interpretation of this interesting piece..

 

[Andolink]

Very enjoyable new addition to my collection:

Gottfried Finger (c. 1660-1730)

 

[Karmacoma]

Recorded with a lot of taste. The piece of choice is track 3, stellar.

 

[Titurel]

Masaaki Suzuki (here at least) shows little of what Shinichi Suzuki had in such abundance - humanity. The performance is beyond historically constrained. It's sterile - a Missa Marcato. The orchestra plays all the notes (with admirable rapidly), the chorus faithfully barks the text, and the soloists, seemingly against all odds, try to make music, but to no avail. I'd rather hear a fist fight between the Madison Scouts and Santa Clara Vanguard.

 

[Robin L]

Masaaki Suzuki (here at least) shows little of what Shinichi Suzuki had in such abundance - humanity. The performance is beyond historically constrained. It's sterile - a Missa Marcato. The orchestra plays all the notes (with admirable rapidly), the chorus faithfully barks the text, and the soloists, seemingly against all odds, try to make music, but to no avail. I'd rather hear a fist fight between the Madison Scouts and Santa Clara Vanguard.

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Sounds tempting!

Many recording of the Missa almost ignore the singers, concentrating on the orchestra. If anything, this recording errs in the other direction, almost ignoring the orchestra, while highlighting the chorus and the astoundingly good quartet instead. (I heard Moser at The Bayerische Staatsoper in 1976, where she absolutely stopped the show.) Bernstein really gets it right, here. I may like this Missa even better than the 1966 von Karajan recording.

I guess if I want to hear this performance, I'll need to get the CD as the video link has nasty mono sound.

 

[Jim Taylor]

I've always been interested in the so-called "minor" composers ... some of whom have major talent. This symphony, the #2 in C-minor by Ignacy Dobrzynski, is one of my favorites.

Jim

 

[Flippo63]

$7.99 Download from Amazon

 

[Titurel]

Just started first volume of five. This is going to take a while.

 

[pinger]

Just started first volume of five. This is going to take a while.

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Love Debussy solo Piano works. Didnt know Bavouzet was starting a cycle. I have several of the discs in his Haydn cycle

 

[Titurel]

Love Debussy solo Piano works. Didnt know Bavouzet was starting a cycle. I have several of the discs in his Haydn cycle

Not only did he start a Debussy solo piano cycle, he completed it in 2012. Very well recorded and reasonably economical; $51and change on Amazon for 5 discs.

 

[French Meloman]

Last week I listened Rosenkavalier to Carlos Kleiber's live recording from 1973 released by ORFEO in SACD/CD. She is very beautiful, especially by the presence of Brigitte Fassbender as Octavian and Lucia Popp as Sophie. The videos from 1979 and 1994 are also magnificent (with a distribution in 79 that is difficult to surpass). Version 79 is perhaps the most moving of the 3. It's a shame that Schwarzkopff didn't sing the marshal with Kleiber, because she's really irresistible in Karajan's 1961 video.

 

[French Meloman]

Today I listened to Das Liebesverbot, Wagner's early opera. Live by Sawallich in 1983 in Munich. A great discovery and a great performance.

 

[Leporello]

And I just saw Parsifal in Bayreuth a couple of hours ago.

 

[Andolink]

A very enjoyable new addition to my music collection. Carlo Mannelli (1640-97) is extremely and undeservedly under-represented in the current catalogue of recorded Baroque music. I encourage anyone who loves music of this period to give it a try. It's very well performed and recorded.

 

[snakedctr]

Alexander Borodin - Symphony No. 2

 

[Rednaxela]

 

[pablolie]

Max Richter has a new one out - "In a Landscape".

 

[Andolink]

I don’t know how these 2005-07 vintage recordings of F. X Richter Symphonies escaped my attention all these years but I’m sure glad they presented themselves a couple of days ago.

These luscious examples of the infancy (or toddlerhood, more accurately) of symphonic composition should be heard by anyone with the least amount of interest in this kind of thing.

Perfomances are excellent and the sound is very good except for the mistake of opting for a church acoustic which tends to obscure some of the finer details of Set 1, the earlier recording. Set 2, recorded two years later, is fine in every respect.

 

[French Meloman]

Alexander Borodin - Symphony No. 2

It is the Ansermet recording, it seems. It is interesting and remains one of the few good versions of this work. Carlos Kleiber's radio recording with the SDR in Stuttgart in 1972 is also worth knowing. Kleiber plays the card of continuity of melody and lightness which makes his interpretation very singing. Russian versions often have very different interpretive options with much more choppy or sequential phrasing that can seem heavy.

 

[French Meloman]

I don’t know how these 2005-07 vintage recordings of F. X Richter Symphonies escaped my attention all these years but I’m sure glad they presented themselves a couple of days ago.

These luscious examples of the infancy (or toddlerhood, more accurately) of symphonic composition should be heard by anyone with the least amount of interest in this kind of thing.

Perfomances are excellent and the sound is very good except for the mistake of opting for a church acoustic which tends to obscure some of the finer details of Set 1, the earlier recording. Set 2, recorded two years later, is fine in every respect.

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I also have these cds. Indeed, it is a very well balanced and realized interpretation that is worth the pleasure of discovering.