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Now enjoying CD 2 of this box set.

 

Ensemble Organum. Recorded 1991.
Listening to some monodies from the 12th century.
Discs like this are a form of time travel!

 

For Lance Reddick.

 

I am still slowly going through this box. 1952 recordings in mono. Great sounding CD.

 

Now enjoying this SHM SACD.

 

What a great disc. I don't have the SACD though.

 

I am listening to a major $.99 each find of NM London Bluebacks. Listening to Wagner/Das Rheingold & Die Walkure, excerpts. John Culshaw & The Decca Tree at it's best. An epiphany! The Knoxville honey hole amazed today. WOW!

 

Mozart’s four horn concertos are ear candy. He created so much music that plants itself in my brain.

Thank gawd for Mozart. His 27 pianos concertos.

If one gets bored with popular music, turn to Classical. Any of it. Long pieces of music. It will refresh you.

Lest I forget my favorite Mozart piece ever. The Clarinet Concerto, K622. Sabine is great but plays it a little too fast.

 

Just now finished the new “Turandot” with Kaufman, Radvanovsky, Speyres, Pappano in 96/24 via Qobuz. Jaw dropped, must compare to Mehta/Pavarotti/Sutherland and Leinsdorf on RCA.

 

You want to go all out? Beethoven Symphony #3. Buy a CD or LP if you need to. Really get into it.

 

Just discovered his 9th. I've heard many 9ths and this one stands out. Clear sound, apparently small orchestra, great separation among instruments, savage percussion, odd moments that feel almost structureless (and very modern), detail I've never heard before. I like it because it's different but it's really odd.

 

Casella - first and last major orchestral works on:

Alfredo Casella
Symphony No. 1
Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timpani and Percussion
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Francesco La Vecchia
Naxos, 2010

 

Just enjoyed this disc of concerti from the early eighteenth century.

Vivaldi/LeClair/Locatelli
Violin Concertos
Theotime Langlois De Swarte
Les Ombres
Harmonia Mundi, 2022

 

Thanks. Interesting collab with dancer, François Alu (though I'd also love to see the rest of the ensemble in a live performance) -

 

Now listening to this classic.

 

Now enjoying this performance of Schubert's Unfinished symphony.

 

Not my fave but a great one nonetheless.

 

I haven't compared them side by side, but I also have Sinopoli (DG) and Harnoncourt (Teldec.) I can say that the sound on the Wand is absolutely lovely, though, likely better than the other two I have.

 

This is my favorite Unfinished.

 

Yes! I have that one in another incarnation. Just fixed my post above.

Speaking of favorites, noe enjoying my favorite Adagio for Strings:

 

That is a great one. I have that on the Americans Bernstein box set.

 

This morning -CD from the Decca Sound mono box. Coupled with Prokofiev’s Lt Kije and Love for Three Oranges suites from anothe Decca Lp .1955.

 

Telemann
Complete Wind Concertos
La Stagione Frankfurt
Camerata Koln
Michael Schneider
8 CDs
CPO, 2015
Sometimes these groups can make old man Telemann dance.
La Stagione Frankfurt is a smaller group than Camerata Koln, but many of the players are in both groups.
The set has the original covers. Here are a few of the covers.

 

CD this morning. Glazunov Symphony 7, The Spring and Karelian Legend. 1989, 1990 recordings. Svetlanov conducting The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. The tone poems are a rare treat!