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Old 01-11-2021, 06:40 PM
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Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of sorrowful Songs"
Zofia Kilanowicz, soprano
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, conductor
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This might be the most gripping version I have of this masterpiece.
Currently listening in stereo, but soon in multichannel!
The dynamic range of this recording is fantastic.
Great performance and great sound and also available in a weird BluRay.
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Old 01-12-2021, 03:07 AM
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Great performance and great sound and also available in a weird BluRay.

Which I looked for... in vain.
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Old 01-12-2021, 04:47 PM
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York Bowen - Symphonies Nos 1 and 2
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
Qobuz 24/96




Inspired by Tony, I listened to this album.
It is actually really nice music.


Around 1990 the British composer York Bowen was so thoroughly forgotten that libraries were deaccessioning his scores, but the energetic efforts of a York Bowen Society have succeeded in reviving his conservative but distinctive music, and here he is, championed by a major British conductor and orchestra. Bowen's work remained thoroughly defined by Romantic idioms, even into the 1950s. He was influenced by the Russian school from Glazunov to Rachmaninov, and certainly by the dean of British symphonists, Edward Elgar, but there's a lightness in his music, with elegantly transparent orchestral textures, that's bound to be appealing to those who associate the Edwardian period with deadly pomposity. There's not a bit of it in these two symphonies. The album does not put its best foot forward with the Symphony No. 1 in G major, Op. 4, a work that did not even receive its premiere until 2010. This was a student work, composed when Bowen was an 18-year-old student at the Royal Academy of Music. It is formally assured and already full of fresh ideas in orchestration, but it's exactly what you would expect from a young person with a full curriculum of Mendelssohn under his belt, and there's nothing very memorable about it. The Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 31, is a different matter. Hear the big outer movements, perfectly paced through multiple sections to big brass high points, and the luscious Allegro scherzando (track 6), confusable with a neglected piece of cute Tchaikovskiana. Conductor Andrew Davis undeniably has a feel for the British orchestral music of this era, and the BBC Symphony, from the variety of wind combinations that demand crisp execution throughout to the harp that has to stand up to the whole orchestra with a flourish at the end of the Symphony No. 2, acquits itself admirably. Recommended for fans of the English school.

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Old 01-12-2021, 05:32 PM
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Pietro Locatelli - Three Violin Concertos from L’Arte del violino
Ilya Gringolts violin & direction
Finnish Baroque Orchestra
Qobuz 24/96




A bit of truly fine baroque to wind down...

Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L'Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century. While the unusually high technical demands of the solo part are obvious to the listener from the start, the great surprise comes at the end of the first and third movements of each of the concertos.

Here Locatelli inserts Capriccios for the soloist alone of a difficulty previously unheard of, with a left hand technique making use of extensions, octaves, unprepared tenths, double and triple stopping, arpeggios and double trills. The writing also favours playing in extremely high positions: in Capriccio No. 22 (from the third movement of Concerto No. 11) rising broken thirds go as high as 17th position.

Ilya Gringolts, whose discography includes the better-known caprices by Paganini, has accepted Locatelli’s challenge, and here performs three of the L’Arte concertos. He does so with the support of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, which he conducts from his gut-stringed violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, c. 1770. © BIS Records
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Schönberg - Fried - Lehár - Korngold - Verklärte Nacht
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano
Stuart Skelton, tenor
Qobuz 24/96




What a nice new release this is!
Schönberg's masterpiece 'Verklärte Nacht', arranged for string orchestra, is a home run.

Hot on the heels of their acclaimed recording of Britten’s Peter Grimes, Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner join forces with Christine Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for this fascinating programme of early twentieth-century works. Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht needs no introduction, but far rarer is Oscar Fried’s contemporaneous setting of the same poem.

Composed in 1901 for soloists and orchestra, Fried’s version is a true setting of (as opposed to Schoenberg’s reflection on) the text by Richard Dehmel. Lehár wrote Fieber in 1915 as the closing part of his song cycle Aus eiserner Zeit – he then made the orchestral setting a year later. Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds ("Songs of Farewell") date from the early 1920s, whilst he was still in Vienna, and shortly after he had completed the opera Die tote Stadt. Setting poetry by Christina Rossetti, Edith Ronsperger, and Ernst Lothar, the cycle is a poignant reflection on the Great War. © Chandos
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Symphonie NR.5
Beethoven
Vienna Philharmonic
Carlos Kleiber Conducting
I really like this interpretation, Dynamic and forceful. Still thoughtful though.
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The Tube Only Night Music
W.A.Mozart
A Little Night Music KV 525
Divertimento KV 136
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Wojciegh Rajski
Wonderful Sonics and play!
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Ferrabosco - Dowland - Danyel - Johnsone - Robinson - Marchant - Anon - English Lute Duets
Jakob Lindberg - Paul Odette
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