Album of the Evening

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Via Tidal.  

 

Perle sounds like a well-adjusted American Berg, though I find his writing for orchestra more attractive than Berg's.  Very vivid recording.  Search term: "perle orchestral"

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18 minutes ago, Norton said:

 

Thanks for the recommendation.  My impression hitherto has been that Sibelius's music is cool and  cerebral rather than the romantic and tuneful that I favour; this may simply be down to my ignorance and limited exposure to his music.

 

The Violin Concerto is the place to start, I think.

 

Symphonies 1 & 2 are fully in the tuneful Romantic symphony tradition.  It's with No. 3 that he becomes more enigmatic, though I'd never say outwardly cerebral.  I'd skip to 5 and 6 and then come back to 4, 7 and 3.

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1 hour ago, austinpop said:

 

Wow - my path would be totally different! I found 1 and 7 took me the longest to fall in love with. I think my order was 2, 5, 3, 6, 4. Go figure.

 

This was just a suggested route for someone wary of his more enigmatic side.  5 was my first love.  The Karajan/EMI recordings and then Bernstein/Sony.  Recently, 6 has become a favorite (Sanderling.  Love the whole Sanderling set.)

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Via Tidal.  From the Bernstein Remastered. One. More. Time. Set, but it does sound like it was recorded yesterday.

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6 hours ago, pkane2001 said:

 

Thanks, I’ll check this out. Any Chopin interpretations by Moravec that you particularly like?

 

The Preludes on Connoisseur Society: 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Ivan-Moravec-Plays-Chopin-Barcarolle/dp/B000003LJB

 

I don't know if there is a more reasonable way to obtain this.  This is a different recording from the one he made for Supraphon.  Confusing things is that Supraphon reissued some of the Connoisseur Society recordings, like the Ballades and Nocturnes.  The Ballades are on Tidal:

 

https://tidal.com/album/24936809

 

And here are his Vox recordings on Tidal:

 

https://tidal.com/album/84251818

 

Also, looking on Amazon, I see that Connoisseur Society had some interesting cover art for his Nocturnes:

 

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This would be extraordinary music from any composer, let alone a teenager.  

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https://tidal.com/album/81917201

 

Mathis de Maler Symphony.  Mellow, but not slack.  Beautifully recorded.

 

Paavo is starting to look like Adrian Boult.

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13 hours ago, rando said:

Timely collusion of the Bernstein century and titular ascension of H.R.H The Prince Of Wales has been an ongoing source of amusement for me.  Sony's digital remastering a large section of his catalog for these CD's was generally quite good as well.  

 

     

 

I always found the pairing of Bernstein with this complete non-entity to be insulting.

 

The Bernstein Century remasters tended to be a little better.  I love the vibrancy of his Eroica with the NYP.

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, rodrigaj said:

Occasionally @Musicophile suggest a Haydn album.

 

But I do wonder why Haydn is disliked by so many astute music lovers.

 

Where are you encountering many people who dislike Haydn? I'd like to avoid the joint.

 

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There is a local music blog here in SE Wisconsin and one person comments repeatedly about Haydn's ineptitude - otherwise his comments are generally insightful.  

 

First I've heard anything about Haydn's supposed ineptness.

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I wonder how much the indifferent Dorati recordings of the symphonies are to blame.

 

I'd start anyone with Bernstein's Paris set.

 

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8110931--haydn-symphonies-nos-82-87-the-paris-symphonies

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5 hours ago, rando said:

Thank you for reminding me to track down the incomplete Derek Solomons/L' Estro Armonico/Tryggvi Tryggvason Haydn set. 

Archivmusic issued some of these on CDR:

 

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=60544&name_role1=3&bcorder=3&name_id=5170&name_role=1

 

 

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2 hours ago, austinpop said:

I love Haydn’s Late symphonies, say 88 onwards. I admit I haven’t explored much below that.

 

I recommend the Dennis Russell Davies complete set for that.   Unfortunately, it seems to be out of print.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Haydn-Complete-Symphonies-Franz/dp/B001NBS5N

 

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My absolute favorite work by Haydn is Die Schöpfung (The Creation). Any nonsense about boring and inept are swept away by the grandeur and beauty of this piece.

 

 

 

Folks on the Good Music Guide forms raved about this recording of The Creation (in English) by Musica Saeculorum:

 

 

Tidal messed up the track ordering,

 

https://tidal.com/album/25810809

 

so I created playlists for the the 3 parts:

 

https://tidal.com/playlist/c69905a5-ac0f-40c2-8dfa-a6abe837e46a

https://tidal.com/playlist/c8e61795-c4a2-4fa0-8013-eb1e965d9d86

https://tidal.com/playlist/49891cd8-691b-40fd-87e4-8e097f93fea7

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, austinpop said:

 

Found it.

 

Have to say - despite the fact my German is nonexistent - I don't really like this piece in English. 

 

James North, in his Fanfare review of this recording, says the work was written with the German libretto in mind and recommends Boston Baroque on Linn.

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And I was listening to Bruckner most of the day 

 

2 different Böhm recordings of the Bruckner 8th back to back.  How's that for obsessive?  The second recording is with the WDR Köln.

 

 

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https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN 10949

 

I've been waiting eagerly for this new recording of Ginastera's explosive Piano Concerto No. 1 and downloaded the 24/96 files earlier today.  Huge dynamic range!  It's nice to hear the huge climaxes without the breakup on my old RCA Lp

 

 

 

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30 minutes ago, elcorso said:

 

Love Ginastera works and specially this one, thanks for the link !

 

Had problems under Mac / Sierra downloading it with the Chandos-Manager. Then I had to download track by track.

 

Roch

 

I'm glad I resisted upgrading, then.

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One of my favorite releases from last year:

 

https://tidal.com/album/74468772

 

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On 5/4/2018 at 10:26 PM, Snowmonkey said:

I heard a track from this on NPR which I loved ("Smaller Than My Mother"). Tidal doesn't have it, so I purchased the whole album on Bandcamp. Anyway it just grows on me with each listening. Very nice sound quality too. It has recently become available for streaming on Qobuz.

 

Seems to be on Tidal now.  There's even a "Deluxe" version.  The artist page for Overcoats:

 

https://tidal.com/artist/6740510

 

 

 

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https://tidal.com/album/85788041

The "original" instrument timbres are beguiling and the sonics are gorgeous.

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On 5/22/2018 at 9:20 AM, Musicophile said:

A brand new release from Harmonia Mundi:

 

 

Streaming from Qobuz. 

 

I listened to the A minor and found that I preferred the earlier Harmonia Mundi recording with Peter Bruns, but Bruns doesn't seem to have recorded the others. 

 

 

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Lovely disc of Saint-Saëns rarities.

 

https://tidal.com/album/83436770

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8 hours ago, Musicophile said:

It's so nice finally having access to Chandos' catalogue via streaming.

 

Now if only Hyperion would follow.

 

For today:

 

 

Streaming from Qobuz.

 

It's on Spotify and Deezer, but I can't find it on Tidal,  where all the Chandos albums seem to be more than 5 years old.

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4 hours ago, Daverz said:

 

It's on Spotify and Deezer, but I can't find it on Tidal,  where all the Chandos albums seem to be more than 5 years old.

 

I should clarify that I don't have the "Hi-Fi" lossless Deezer service, so I don't know if recent Chandos CDs are available for lossless streaming there.

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Freaky!  I was just listening to a reissue Lp of Cool Struttin'.

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 - Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Sladkovsky

 

Via Tidal. 

 

https://tidal.com/album/79647419

 

Very impressed with this orchestra, particularly the silky strings.  The 96/24 downloads for the whole set aren't too expensive, but I wish they were broken down into individually.

 

http://www.hdtracks.com/shostakovich-complete-symphonies