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Yesterday over dinner - Marc-Andre Hamelin's newest CD "In a state of jazz" - excellent, jolly stuff!  |
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Now playing Mahler 3(Tonhalle O,et al/Zinman. Prety good quality sound here, Ive always felt. To me they seem to have the composer in their blood.
Rachmaninov Symphony no 2(LSO/Previn). Classic recording.
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« Reply #2687 on: 17:42:44, 14-04-2008 » |
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 Still loving this box that I bought and reported on a few weeks ago. Now spinning is Kata Kabanova (deep apologies but I'm on a PC and can't remember all the codes for the diacriticals). Is anything more beautiful, more pathos-filled, and more inherently Janacekian than the opening seconds of the overture? |
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« Reply #2688 on: 18:53:33, 14-04-2008 » |
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Evan, that box is creeping up my list at rather a rapid rate! I think, if pushed in the solar plexus very hard with an uncomfortable object, I'd put Katya top of my LJ opera list - although having said that there are still a couple I haven't heard at all.  |
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« Reply #2689 on: 19:07:29, 14-04-2008 » |
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Which, martle?
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« Reply #2690 on: 19:15:08, 14-04-2008 » |
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Makropoulos and House of the Dead*, Ron. One two big reasons for going for that box... *except for a sizeable chunk of the Boulez production that R3 broadcast. |
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« Reply #2691 on: 19:19:16, 14-04-2008 » |
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Ah yes, the Boulez, martle. AFAICR, you actually already have a copy of that, just in a format which is unavailable to you right now.... However....
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« Reply #2692 on: 19:23:12, 14-04-2008 » |
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Actually Ron, as it happens it *doesn't* feature in the generous and embarrassingly large pile of DVDs from a certain northerly archive!  But not to worry! |
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« Reply #2693 on: 19:31:19, 14-04-2008 » |
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notherly? There, my off-board prediction is coming to fruition, martle.... Well, my tardiness on another matter might offer a solution
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« Reply #2694 on: 19:34:18, 14-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #2695 on: 19:36:55, 14-04-2008 » |
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looks as though thats a set that I will have to purchase. Everything Mackerras does is always worth having, in my view.
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« Reply #2696 on: 20:16:07, 14-04-2008 » |
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I am glad to proselytize for this set, whose existence I didn't know of until I saw it in a shop. It's marvellous and an incredible bargain; librettos, as usual, are the only thing lost in the shuffle.
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« Reply #2697 on: 20:40:59, 14-04-2008 » |
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Now spinning here (LP): "5 Uhr Tee im Kaiserhof"
Hans Schepior und seinem Tanz-EnsembleI didn't know that the Concert Hall label was also into light music! Lovely arrangements of Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss, Das Gibt's nur Einmal, Ein Guter Freund, Charmaine and, oh dear: Ramona.  |
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« Reply #2698 on: 20:42:48, 14-04-2008 » |
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Yesterday over dinner - Marc-Andre Hamelin's newest CD "In a state of jazz" - excellent, jolly stuff! Some more impressions of individual pieces, Jonathan? A couple of the featured composers are unknown to me. |
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« Reply #2699 on: 20:57:46, 14-04-2008 » |
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librettos, as usual, are the only thing lost in the shuffle
Oh. That set had been sitting near the top of my list too, but I think you've just knocked it down a couple of notches. |
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