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No home should be without this box:  ...especially since you can get it for around 10-15 squid from the Brazilians (and I see a used one for £7.50). 5CDs of pure magic. Only problem is it then becomes hard to enjoy anyone else's Haydn recordings. Did for me, anyway. He's also done the Londoners. They're also great. There are also CDs of the last six symphonies on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi by the same fellas (and fellaesses) which are, naturally, of similar quality, but slightly better sound, I recall. Also worth hunting down. |
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John Rutter: BANG! - an opera for young people a recording in which features a wee sproglet called eru  |
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John Rutter: BANG! - an opera for young people a recording in which features a wee sproglet called eru heh heh heh |
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« Reply #1608 on: 22:07:19, 03-10-2007 » |
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He's also done the Londoners. They're also great.
There are also CDs of the last six symphonies on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi by the same fellas (and fellaesses) which are, naturally, of similar quality, but slightly better sound, I recall. Also worth hunting down. Since the aforementioned Londoners comprise the last twelve symphonies then yes, there certainly are CDs of the last six  99 and 101 are particularly fine recordings (of magnificent pieces); for that matter the 'Military' interjections in the eponymous symphony are damn near spine-chilling for me. There's also 98 with its rather WTF piano solo just near the end. Frankly if you find that any one of the Kuijken Haydn symphony recordings does it for you then you may as well grab them all. |
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« Reply #1609 on: 00:05:09, 04-10-2007 » |
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Pärt: Passio
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« Reply #1610 on: 10:52:53, 04-10-2007 » |
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 Can you tell I'm on the 'Hungary' chapter of my thesis?  This is a much more interesting Durkó disc than the other one. Mostly earlier pieces, when Durkó was working in short, lumpy sections. Altamira in particular I keep coming back to. |
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« Reply #1611 on: 10:54:28, 04-10-2007 » |
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short, lumpy sections Ah. Breakfast. I'm hungary too. Think I might pop to the shop for a couple of naan breads. |
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« Reply #1612 on: 11:18:17, 04-10-2007 » |
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Zsolt Durkó: A Bit Like A Naan Bread.
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« Reply #1613 on: 11:47:34, 04-10-2007 » |
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« Reply #1614 on: 11:59:46, 04-10-2007 » |
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List'ning, though not too closely Oh indeed no. That would never do! New York Variations I to wake up want in the never-sleeping city
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« Reply #1615 on: 12:31:10, 04-10-2007 » |
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I dislike intensely the music of John Corigliano, and yet I found the piece "From Fifths to Thirds" that is free on the website for this disc to be worth looking at more closely, if only to see exactly how he gets from fifths to thirds. It sounds like a soundtrack to a very entertaining Disney short film, but the harmonic "technique" has something. T_i_N your anarcho-crypticalism is a musing. |
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« Reply #1616 on: 19:41:39, 04-10-2007 » |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1617 on: 20:53:37, 04-10-2007 » |
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Scriabin : Le Poeme de l'extase; Piano concerto; Prometheus, Poem of Fire. Vladimir Ashkenazy, London PO, Maazel. Decca. Very sumptuus recording. classic one to Maazel conducting the London PO to!!
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Scriabin : Le Poeme de l'extase; Piano concerto; Prometheus, Poem of Fire. Vladimir Ashkenazy, London PO, Maazel. Decca. Very sumptuus recording. classic one to Maazel conducting the London PO to!!
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« Reply #1619 on: 13:43:13, 05-10-2007 » |
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Yes, I love that recording by Ashkers...great piece too the Scriabin pno concerto...
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