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W.A. Mozart - Le Testament Symphonique- Symphonies 39,40 & 41
Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall Qobuz 24/88.2 Good to hear these old warhorses from time to time. These are good interpretations, not the best I've heard but very enjoyable. Sound is decent. By the middle of 1788, at the age of 32, Mozart had reached the height of his creative maturity, dominated by the last three symphonies, absolute masterpieces that he composed in a very short period of time – barely one and a half months. This extraordinary “symphonic massif” consisting of three peaks – Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, completed on 26th June, Symphony No 40 in G minor, completed on 25th July and Symphony No. 41 in C major, the “Jupiter”, dated 10th August – is unquestionably the composer’s “Symphonic Testament”.
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Ludivico Giustini: 12 Sonatas Op. 1
Paola Zentilin, piano Brilliant Classics (2020), via Qobuz Well played and very pleasant music for a Sunday morning. IMG_0778.jpg
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OMG this thread is huge.
Loved this, had never (knowingly) heard Josef Rheinberger E.Power Biggs Rheinberger: Two Concertos for Organ & Orchestra, The Columbia Symphony Maurice Peress, Conductor (Columbia Masterworks LP, 1973) |
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It is! One of my favourite threads on the web. Cost me a lot of money before I went to streaming. Welcome!
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I've been playing this set again in the practice. It remains a very fine box, with terrific performances. The sound is even good on a modest system.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos 4 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Antonio Pappano Qobuz 24/96 First listen to this new album. The works are not very familiar to me, so I'll need more sessions to fully grasp this music. Sir Antonio Pappano leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a pair of symphonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams that span the build-up and aftermath of the Second World War. Throughout the Fourth Symphony Vaughan Williams channels tension and power through the music in amongst moments of light and clarity. It evokes a sense of hardship and persistence, perhaps suggesting the ever-present threat of war in the 1930s. Written in 1947, the composer's Sixth Symphony also seems to reflect the hardships and devastation wrought by World War II. Melancholic in some movements, ferocious in others. © LSO Live
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Listening again. Thanks to Ed, I got to know Glass better than I did before. I'm thankful! This is simply a marvellous album.
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Revisiting this album. Nor only intriguing, it's also beautiful.
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This was playing into the practice today:
Antonio Vivaldi - Teatro alla moda - Violin Concertos Gli Incogniti Amandine Beyer Qobuz 24/88.2 If you read the notes below, you'll realise it wasn't the best choice. 1720: in his famous pamphlet entitled ‘Fashionable Theatre’, the composer Marcello ironized the excesses of the new Venetian opera. This landmark pamphlet was published anonymously as Benedetto Marcello, under the fictional editorship of ‘Aldaviva Licante’ - undoubtedly an anagram of A. Vivaldi – ridiculing the operatic world of the time. It took on singers puffed up with pride, uneducated librettists, composers seeking dramatic effects, in short, everything that the musical world then thought about as original, unusual, new, experimental, shocking, weird, baroque, and, in a word, Italian! Vivaldi was one of Marcello’s favourite targets, continually lampooning the Red Priest and his virtuoso violin escapades. It is precisely these escapades that the violinist Amandine Beyer and the Gli Incogniti ensemble have chosen for their rich repertoire: detuned violin concertos (in the manner of Scordatura), violin ‘in tromba’, that is to say violin in a tone that betrays a scraped sound, not to mention more singular works in which Vivaldi leaves the soloist a freedom that gives real heart to the joy of improvisation. This is what really marks out Amandine Beyer, who performs in accordance with the habits of the composer, giving a clear, historical picture of her treatment of the ornaments. So, for the almost implausible Circus Maximus track, it is as if you were actually there, attending the Carnival of the year 1720! © SM/Qobuz
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