craigl59
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| Classical Music for Aficionados twoleftears:As regards diverting attention, I have a similar concern with bluray music performances. Have the Holst Planets by philharmonic orchestra/Salonen that is an over-the-top recording (signum vision). Huge number of mics and cameras and th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Speaking of colors and composers here's a Swedish composer who was also active as a watercolor painter:Hugo Alfven: Symphonies 1-5, Swedish Rhapsodies, Royal Stockholm Phil/Jarvi.Have had this for a week or so and was not immediately impressed. Th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados twoleftears:Your description of the Scriabin has me interested. Could you expand on the relationship between colors and musical content? Were there cases where it made sense? Or did it appears artificial or contrived? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert:Congrats on the Bach; they are major works with tremendous variety -- unfortunately I OD’d on them some time ago and have not been a listener since.Just got the Buchberger recording of all the Haydn String Quartets -- 23 discs. They are p... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert:Those sub-$2 finds are always the best! Will be exploring Scriabin much more in the future. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Monteverdi: Madrigals of War and Love, Book 8. Two 2017 releases by Delitiae Musicae/Longhini and Le Nuove Musiche/Koetsveld.Remember those Telefunken days of the 70s? Discovering period performances, L'Orfeo, and the Vespers? And, especially, the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Superb description, LeftEars. Pontinen has the right feeling for this gesture but the overall rhythm in the BIS recording is ever so slightly muddy at this critical entry. Am going to order the Ashkenazy.It's an exceptional formal design as the mo... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Newbee:Have some of Fisher's Mahler recordings and find them powerful with system-testing crescendos. Will check out the VC.Speaking of CD covers, just found an interesting recording of Franck and Szymanowski Violin Sonatas and Chee-Yun is on the ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Newbee, forgot to add that a recent used bin acquisition of the complete Dvorak Symphonic Poems by the Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi has become a regular listen for me and was surprised at how attractive these lesser-known works are. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Have always enjoyed the Dvorak Slavonic Dances live and noted there was a certain quality to the strings that could be termed "Slavic Rumble." Recently got the Channel Classics album by Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fisher and found it was the first... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Newbee, you must be psychic. Ordered the exact Bax volume you mention a week and a half ago and it will arrive tomorrow.Am having some fun in my mind comparing Stanford and Stenhammar. They are rough contemporaries, developed in similar fashions a... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados No correction needed to your analysis; I agree with it completely after spending some time with the symphonies. Need to get the harp concerto.What I notice in particular with his melodic style is that he likes to share the line between several orc... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados newbeeOwe you a thanks for the Stanford recco you made above. My set came in last week and have been listening for a couple of days. Stanford is very strong in compositional technique and if you can accept his tendency to borrow and use popular Ir... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados And the "Dives" award goes to...Scriabin: Piano Concerto in f-sharp minor, II: Andante. It will keep you coming back for more.The outer movements are also superb and the end to the concerto is notable.Am listening to the BIS release, Stockholm Phi... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados And the Reiner is still available in CD and SACD format on Amazon -- appears to be an iconic recording. |