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Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by George P, May 29, 2015.

  1. Tribute

    Tribute Senior Member

    Would the written description include any mathematical theory? Use of colors? German language?

    Maybe a CD megabox set to the winner?
     
  2. John54

    John54 Senior Member

    Location:
    Burlington, ON
    No. Just the music as I heard it, as well as I could describe it, which would include some chords, general feeling, and perhaps some instrumentation.
     
  3. bruce2

    bruce2 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Connecticut, USA
    Listening to Mahler Symphony No. 5 conducted by James Levine with the Philadelphia Orchestra. 1978 on RCA. Excellent sonics and powerful performance on the old original CD release!
     
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  4. bruce2

    bruce2 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Connecticut, USA
    Is anyone familiar with this Haitink recording of Brahms and Dvorak? I like what I have heard from both composers but have never listened to the Hungarian Dances or Slavonic Dances so I ordered this CD pretty cheap to try them out. Hopefully the performances and sound quality are good as I expect they will be from the Concertgebouw Orchestra on Philips.
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  5. RiRiIII

    RiRiIII Forum Resident

    Location:
    Athens, Greece
    It an amazing set of recordings of the dances, especially the Brahms' ones. Limited release on LP.
     
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  6. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    Both sets of works were originally for piano, four hands and then orchestrated later--unless I'm much mistaken, not always by the composer himself. No time to consult resources like Wikipedia at the moment, but if I'm not much mistaken Dvorak had a hand in doing some of the Brahms ones and maybe vice versa. In all events, I'd strongly recommend hearing them in their keyboard form as well. There's no shortage of recordings out there (albeit not nearly as many as of the orchestrations), but in CD format for the Dvorak I can commend the Labeque sisters for predictably lively, spirited performances. In the Brahms, I also have the Labeques on LP (haven't played it in a long time, but dimly recall it may not have been quite up to their Dvorak) and also Brendel and Klein; by contrast, my two or three accounts on CDs are perfectly enjoyable but in no way "distinguished" enough to go far out of your way to get. Veri and Jamanis on the old PriceLes$ cheapie label is as good as any of them, I guess. I'd be astonished if the Labeques and Brendel & Klien hadn't made it onto a CD at some point. I can give a "negative" recommendation: stay away from any recording that puts "four hands" (two players, one piano) music on two pianos, four hands. You might not think so, but four hands music does not sound at all the same when so transferred.
     
  7. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
    Karel Ancerl
    Czech Philharmonic
    Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1 & 5
    Supraphon, 2005
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  8. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
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    Jean-Yves Ossonce
    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
    Massanet: Orchestral Suites
    Scenes pittoresques
    Scenes napolitaines
    Scenes de feerie
    Scenes alsaciennes

    Naxos, 1995

    excellent natural sound
     
  9. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
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    I pulled this to listen to the Stravinsky: 3 movements from Petrouchka, as I read an article by Jed Distler & Patrick Rucker in Gramophone revisiting this 1972 DGG recording.
     
  10. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
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    Listened to this on LP from the reprint :
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    Orchestral Suite No. 2 is the best here with Hans-Martin Linde on flute.
    Bach: Orchestral Suites
    Collegium Aureum
     
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  11. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    My first set of the Brandenburg Concerti was by these forces, released on the BASF label. Back in those days I had the silly idea that one should own one "best" version of any work and no more, so when I received the Smithsonian Chamber Players set as a gift, I disposed of the Collegium Aureum one. :rolleyes: :doh: Since then, I've reassembled the series on a mix of Time Life and Victrola pressings.
     
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  12. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Now playing the following CD from my Mussorgsky collection ...

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  13. ToddBD

    ToddBD Forum Resident

    What a coincidence...on the turntable now (mine is a mono dowel rod)
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  14. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

    Location:
    CT, USA
    I may have this Angel LP as well ...
     
  15. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
    Karel Ancerl
    Czech Philharmonic
    Martinu: Piano Concerto No. 3/Josef Palenicek, piano
    Martinu: Bouquet of Flowers
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  16. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    The First 70 years box
    disc 5 - Overtures
    01 - (9:15) Weber: Euryanthe, J. 291 Overture - Rudolf Kempe & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    02 - (13:13) Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op.2,overture (Allegro Di Molto) - Witold Rowicki & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    03 - (8:11) Beethoven: Overture "Coriolan", Op.62 - Joseph Keilberth & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    04 - (10:32) Schumann: Manfred, Op.115 Ouvertüre - Fritz Lehmann & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    05 - (7:27) Verdi: La Forza Del Destino Overture (Sinfonia) - Ferdinand Leitner & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    06 - (8:11) Nicolai: Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Overture - Wolfgang Sawallisch & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    07 - (9:19) Weber: Oberon, J.306 Overture - Clemens Krauss & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    08 - (9:18) Beethoven: Music to Goethe's Tragedy "Egmont" Op.84 Overture - Eugen Jochum & Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
     
  17. WHitese

    WHitese Senior Member

    Location:
    North Bergen, NJ
    I have that!!! :righton:
     
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  18. WHitese

    WHitese Senior Member

    Location:
    North Bergen, NJ
    My latest arrival....Bach..can't go wrong...And nice smooth and sonorous playing....

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  19. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    NYC
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    Just recommended this to another member and figured I would give it another spin.
     
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  20. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
    1962. I think this is Rampal's best version of the Bach Flute Sonatas. The sound is excellent. disc 5 of the first Erato Rampal box set.


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  21. dale 88

    dale 88 Errand Boy for Rhythm

    Location:
    west of sun valley
    Mussorgsky:
    Pictures at an Exhibition
    A Night on Bald Mountain

    Borodin:
    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Rimsky-Korsakov:
    Capriccio Espagnol

    Karel Ancerl
    Czech Philharmonic
    Supraphon, 2002

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  22. andolink

    andolink Forum Resident

    Location:
    Scottsdale, AZ
    Elliott Carter: Interventions, for piano and orchestra
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
    BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen

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  23. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    On Sirius XM today, I heard segments of Schubert's A Major piano sonata (no. 20) performed by one Shai Wosner (as the announcer had it; the SoundHound application on my phone identified it as being by Jeno Jando). I must say, what I heard caught my attention; while the pianist did not capture the force of the more dramatic passages in the way my benchmark Friedrich Wuhrer did, presumptive-Wosner's general sound world was right on the money. Anybody here familiar with his work more generally? I'll confess to having heard nothing else played by him, at least not knowingly.
     
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  24. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    NYC
    Haven't heard him, sorry.
     
  25. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

    Location:
    Arlington, VA
    Eisner has some interesting looking recordings. Shai Wosner, Piano - Recordings
     

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