Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #49)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by George P, Aug 7, 2013.

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  1. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Fresno, California
    70's. Really, really weird version.

    This is the 60's version on CD:

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  2. coopmv

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

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    CT, USA
    Looks like this should be it. A very inexpensive CD ...

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  3. coopmv

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

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    CT, USA
    Now playing CD5 from the following set for a first listen ...

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  4. coopmv

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

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    CT, USA
    It is pretty quiet at CMC today ...
     
  5. coopmv

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

    Location:
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    I just checked my LP collection and I have the 1965 recording on LP but it has a very different LP cover.
     
  6. coopmv

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

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    CT, USA
    Now playing the following SACD, which arrived from MDT a week ago for a first listen.

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    This is early music that both Jim and I enjoy ...
     
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  7. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    Make that three. My copy arrived last week. I have ordered two more Stile Antico titles, which will bring my total to 7. I wish I had a surround set-up; I bet they'd sound fantastic.
     
  8. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    Had a very peculiar experience last night. After my daughter's ballet lesson, I took her across the street to a frozen yoghurt store for some, well, frozen yoghurt. Just by the door sat a guy clutching a handful of LPs upright in his lap; the top of the stack, and hence the only one with cover art visible, was something or other on L'Oiseau Lyre with the Academy of Ancient Music under Hogwood (at least, as best I could tell from what I could see around his arm, but I've been collecting such things long enough that I can recognize them). Thinking to make friendly chatter with a fellow classical record enthusiast, I turned to him and said, "So, an admirer of Christopher Hogwood?" He just looked at me for a moment, then glanced down at the records, then said, "Oh, uh, yeah" in a flat monotone. And kept a total blank face and body language crying out "I don't want to talk to you or anyone else."

    He didn't appear to be with anyone else, and now that I think about it I don't think he was having any yoghurt. By the time I got my kid through the line, he'd left. Odd.
     
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  9. coopmv

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

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    CT, USA
    Now playing the following SACD, another recording from across the pond for a first listen ...

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  10. coopmv

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

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    I have most of Hogwood's recordings either on LP, open-reels or on CD already. I have not bought any LP's in over twenty years and doubt I will go back to that medium. On the other hand, music download is still not for me.
     
  11. coopmv

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

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    The first track by William Cornysh, Woefully arrayed, is excellent ...
     
  12. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    How is the contemporary piece?
     
  13. coopmv

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

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    The entire recording is quite good. I suspect I have some of the works in the many Tallis Scholars' recordings I already have. Track 7 Woefully Arrayed, for chorus (after William Cornysh) was composed by John McCabe, a contemporary English composer. I thought the track blends in quite well.
     
  14. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    I have my days like that . . . as my friends and family will tell you.
     
  15. WHitese

    WHitese Senior Member

    Location:
    North Bergen, NJ
    Now that my CDP died at my hands, I am starting to reactivate my Vinyl mode.

    Boy, this is one great sounding LP...The dynamic range that a well recorded and played Lute can have is great.


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  16. coopmv

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

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    Now playing CD5 - Etudes from the following set for a first listen ...

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  17. Dr. Pepper

    Dr. Pepper What, me worry?

    What would you wonderful folks suggest to a novice to the classical world.

    I own.

    Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring and Rodeo

    Disney's - Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 - I love Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

    Holst - The Planets

    Handel - Wasser Musik

    Paul McCartney - Liverpool Ontario, Standing Stone, Working Classical, Ecce Cor Meum, and Oceans Kingdom

    ... Or am I just beyond hope?
     
  18. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    NYC
    Mozart's last three symphonies, Walter or Szell
    Beethoven's 6th symphony - Walter
    Beethoven Sonatas - Moravec, Supraphon

    OR if you got some dough:

    The Walter Edition Box
    Radu Lupu - solo piano recordings
     
  19. TeacFan

    TeacFan Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    Arcadia, Ca.
  20. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

    Location:
    Fresno, California
    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams. There's lots of good performances. I'm partial to Eugene Ormandy/Philidelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski/Royal Philharmonic and Neville Marriner/Academy of Saint Martins in the Fields.


     
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  21. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

    Location:
    NYC
    All good suggestions so far.

    I'll throw in several more:

    Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
    Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
    Dvorak - New World Symphony
    Mendelssohn - Italian Symphony (even better if paired with the Overture and Incidental Music to "Midsummer Night's Dream")

    also - my pitch for this thread

    http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/intro-to-classical-music.273777/
     
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  22. coopmv

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

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    Now playing SACD1 from the following twofer, another recent arrival from across the pond for a first listen ...

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  23. NorthNY Mark

    NorthNY Mark Forum Resident

    Location:
    Canton, NY, USA
    If you're willing/able to invest around $100, I would recommend one of the bargain box sets of selections from specific classical labels that have been released over the past couple of years. I believe the Decca Sound, the Philips Original Jacket Collection, and the RCA Living Stereo boxes are still in print or available for not much more than $100. You get 50 or 55 discs of each company's most successful or acclaimed albums, spanning a wide variety of composers, performers, and classical genres, and most seem to have been selected for their spectacular sonics as well. The Living Stereo (and Mercury Living Presence) are limited to material from the mid-'50s through the mid-'60s, whereas the Decca and Philips sets include recordings made all the way up to the present. From having about the same number of classical CDs as you, the Decca Sound box started me on my classical journey around two years ago, and now I'm hooked.
     
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  24. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    Nashville,TN
    a classical recording on Liberty.now i really have seen everything.
     
  25. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    recorded in mono,3/56,Columbia 30th St. Studio,NYC.Walter was 23 when Strauss died.
     
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