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Mahler 3, Moscow Phil / Kondrashin. Less isn't always more. Sometimes more is more.  Sung in Russian? If so, I may have had the old MK LPs of it. Terrible pressing, with horrendous distortion. Damn it Ollie, you've got me ordering another one (Symphonies 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9, if I read the description correctly). |
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« Reply #1066 on: 19:41:17, 27-08-2007 » |
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Sorry Bryn! But that's one I've been plugging for a while...  The box has the Russian and German versions of the vocal parts in the 3rd and 4th symphonies; the German versions were recorded later, 14 years later in the case of the 3rd symphony. They've been pretty well restored, they're still rough but not too horribly so. He was recording the 3rd in 1961 - that's before all that many in the West got into the Mahler business, although obviously Adler was rather earlier again... And the brass for example are as you would expect them. |
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« Reply #1067 on: 22:19:17, 27-08-2007 » |
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"Currently spinning Marc André's Un-Fini"
Started listening to him a couple of months ago - I like him.
Also liking several things by Wolfram Schurig, specially "Hoquetus" for violin and ensemble.
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« Reply #1068 on: 23:01:27, 27-08-2007 » |
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Sorry Bryn! But that's one I've been plugging for a while...
Ollie, I am begining to wonder for the supplier I am ordering from, via Amazon Marketplace, is actually offering the real thing? The price being asked, fir "new" is £23.36 including p&p! Most places seem to be selling it for over £60. I will just have to wait and see. |
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« Reply #1069 on: 23:12:40, 27-08-2007 » |
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I strongly suspect it is, Bryn. This particular dealer, along with another dealing in 'direct offers'  , always seem to undercut even US marketplace outfits by a considerable amount. 'Direct offers' tend to have speedier delivery (usually the next day, two days at most). Anyway, I've submitted my order too...I wonder if Ollie's on commission?!  Did you enjoy Onegin on Sky? May well try and record it tomorrow... |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #1070 on: 23:25:31, 27-08-2007 » |
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I wonder if Ollie's on commission?! Actually what Ollie's wondering is if he sells more CDs here or from his published reviews... (...pretty likely the latter come to think of it, just that he never hears about it.) Messiaen Quatuor again: Deinzer, Gawriloff, Palm, Kontarsky. |
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« Reply #1071 on: 23:35:01, 27-08-2007 » |
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Messiaen Quatuor again: Deinzer, Gawriloff, Palm, Kontarsky.
By far the better performance on that double CD set, as far as I'm concerned, Ollie. (I take it is from the EMI double CD issue, with SR directing the other work, that your listening is taken this evening? |
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« Reply #1072 on: 23:41:26, 27-08-2007 » |
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It is indeed. But credit where it's due, I got a lot out of the SR TS in its day.
For me the glory of the whole box is Palm and Kontarsky's Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus. 10'48", if you please. What a glorious arch.
Oo, it's just starting. Excuse me just for an eternity, will you?
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« Reply #1073 on: 07:35:55, 28-08-2007 » |
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bruckner 9 - simon rattle/bpo.
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« Reply #1074 on: 10:46:27, 28-08-2007 » |
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bruckner 9 - simon rattle/bpo.
Start your day as you mean it to go on, eh? Haydn symphonies 31, 59, 73. CMW/Harnoncourt with in the Hoonsignal some industrial-strength hooning. |
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« Reply #1075 on: 10:11:53, 29-08-2007 » |
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Fauré and Messager: Souvenirs de Bayreuth, freshly off R3. Cheeky stuff.
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« Reply #1076 on: 10:24:54, 29-08-2007 » |
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Haydn here too: Symphony No 87 - OAE and Kuijken - on the train into work this morning. I'd forgotten how lovely the adagio is ...
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« Reply #1077 on: 10:28:31, 29-08-2007 » |
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Haydn symphonies 31, 59, 73. CMW/Harnoncourt with in the Hoonsignal some industrial-strength hooning.
My absolute favourite Haydn recording, that, Ollie:  Currently spinning, having just arrived in a huge packet from the postman, who must hate me:  See Bryn, told you they were quick!! But so many Mahler 3s in such a short space of time...my goodness. Woo - Russian brass!! Fantastic!  |
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« Reply #1078 on: 16:42:11, 29-08-2007 » |
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Having another listen to Ravel's own recording (well, piano roll) of the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales - amazing stuff, but so different from how one tends to hear it played today. A very strict pulse indeed (not a single holding back at a harmonic/textural shift or the like, except where marked), though at the same time lots of freedom within that pulse. In the second piece in particular, he hardly plays a single left hand note together with the right hand one, and spreads lots of chords. Nothing precious or twee about the recording whatsoever, gives the music both a sense of added monumentality but also of melancholy. Anyone else know it?
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« Reply #1079 on: 16:46:41, 29-08-2007 » |
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Ian, in your version, does it play the last chord of Valse II twice? That was probably a punching error.
I'm amazed by that performance, it's beautiful.
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