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[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn String Quartet D minor op.76/2 "Fifths" Jerusalem Quartet




Sarge

[chasmaniac]

Haydn String Quartet D minor op.76/2 "Fifths" Jerusalem Quartet




Sarge

Don't know that recording, but The Fifths is one of my all time favourite anythings by anybody.

[Sergeant Rock]

Don't know that recording, but The Fifths is one of my all time favourite anythings by anybody.

This is my favorite single Haydn quartet CD. There's been much debate recently about period vs modern instruments and the "spirit of Haydn." These performances end the debate as far as I'm concerned.

Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Another old acquaintance, which I took out of my collection, to play again, after a discussion with a fellow music lover in Australia. When I looked in this box to see when I played this last I saw to my horror that it was August 2007. So long overdue! Time slips through my fingers like water.
I talk about the complete Symphonies by Ferdinand Ries, seen as a Beethoven clone by many, though not by me. Certainly due to the connection Ries had with Beethoven, there are stylistic similarities, but apart from that Ries is his very own man/composer!
I also love the the Zurcher Kamerorchester! It is a very small ensemble, and yet giving such dramatic readings, with so much detail and such apt dynamics, that it has me jumping in my listening seat. Sound is really excellent, a fine stage balance, with not too much dept, that would defeat the object of such a small ensemble. The tempi's are well judged, swift and tight. Its also well rehearsed. A excellent release.

Symphony No. 1 opus 23, in D major.
Symphony No. 2, opus 80, in C minor.
Recorded in 1999.

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[mc ukrneal]

Another old acquaintance, which I took out of my collection, to play again, after a discussion with a fellow music lover in Australia. When I looked in this box to see when I played this last I saw to my horror that it was August 2007. So long overdue! Time slips through my fingers like water.
I talk about the complete Symphonies by Ferdinand Ries, seen as a Beethoven clone by many, though not by me. Certainly due to the connection Ries had with Beethoven, there are stylistic similarities, but apart from that Ries is his very own man/composer!
I also love the the Zurcher Kamerorchester! It is a very small ensemble, and yet giving such dramatic readings, with so much detail and such apt dynamics, that it has me jumping in my listening seat. Sound is really excellent, a fine stage balance, with not too much dept, that would defeat the object of such a small ensemble. The tempi's are well judged, swift and tight. Its also well rehearsed. A excellent release.

Symphony No. 1 opus 23, in D major.
Symphony No. 2, opus 80, in C minor.
Recorded in 1999.

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Two good ones in a row! I was just listening to one of the Ries piano concertos last night...

[The new erato]

This is my favorite single Haydn quartet CD. There's been much debate recently about period vs modern instruments and the "spirit of Haydn." These performances end the debate as far as I'm concerned.

Sarge

And that's period. !

[SonicMan46]

Buxtehude, Dietrich - Complete Organ Works w/ Harald Vogel - just arrived, so listening to the first couple of discs this morning - a little pricier that some of the other current offerings but seems to be a forum top choice, so decided to splurge - 7 discs in a box w/ 2 booklets, one on the specifics of the many organs used to make these recordings and also a 153+ page booklet (in 3 languages) concerning the compositions and more about the instruments -

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Buxtehude, Dietrich - Complete Organ Works w/ Harald Vogel - just arrived, so listening to the first couple of discs this morning - a little pricier that some of the other current offerings but seems to be a forum top choice, so decided to splurge - 7 discs in a box w/ 2 booklets, one on the specifics of the many organs used to make these recordings and also a 153+ page booklet (in 3 languages) concerning the compositions and more about the instruments -

A excellent acquirement, still my top choice!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I bought this box for under a tenner, and it is the best bargain I had so far in 2011. I doubt very much that something will top this. Ten CD'S excellently recorded, top performances, and composers you do not normally have on the tip of your tongue. what more is there to wish, a bargain is a bargain. Hard for me to imagine people let this pass by. Anyway its my third run through of this release, and today its the second CD, filled with two gorgeous Symphonies, well written both of them, in very good sound. There is not a boring moment in any of them, and even after 3 hearings I crave for more, and that is saying something. Just buy it, before its gone, and you have to pay top dollars on Amazon for it.

Sir Frederic Cowen, Symphony No. 6 in E major. "The Idyllic".

Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Symphony in A minor.

Aarhus SO, Douglas Bostock.
Recorded in 2005.

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[Antoine Marchand]

Arrived three days ago:



Easily a new favorite, quite better than Pandolfo himself playing these works some years ago with Rinaldo Alessandrini. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Arrived three days ago:



Easily a new favorite, quite better than Pandolfo himself playing these works some years ago with Rinaldo Alessandrini. 

That looks tasty, if you have some listening notes, I would love to hear them.

[Brahmsian]

That looks tasty, if you have some listening notes, I would love to hear them.

Indeed, the alcohol or tea?.....looks very tasty! 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Indeed, the alcohol or tea?.....looks very tasty! 

I go for the alcohol Ray!

[TheGSMoeller]

[listener]

a fine, Russian program, cardio-by-listening:
BORODIN   Symphony 2  in b
BALAKIREV  Islamey (Liapounov orchestration instead of the Casella)
SHOSTAKOVICH   Ballet Suite 1    op. 84
KHACHATURIAN   Gayne - suite 3
Vancouver Symphony O.   /Bramwell Tovey
GLIÈRE    The Red Poppy - complete
St. Petersburg State Symphony O.   / André Anichanov

[Brahmsian]

Just came in today from UPS, and got a chance to listen to this great disc, another fine recording by Petrenko/RLPO:

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*Can't really complain about these performances at all.  However, if anything, I have a slight preference for Barshai/WDR for the 12th.

[Lethevich]

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Great stuff. Give him a try - fantastical shades of Weber, Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Liszt abound. This one is a different performance, but it seems good too:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tMN8k4sR8NQ

[Conor71]

Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50 [Disc 13]

Listening includes the "Dream" and "Frog" Quartets - not that familar with any of these works but its good music!

[Lethevich]

Though it went totally against his personality, I still cannot help but wish that Celi recorded the original version of the 3rd as well - he could probably find a way to make it tie together beautifully if this performance is any evidence of his belief in the work (at least in its final form). Really super!

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[Mn Dave]

This is only on mp3 at Amazon. I'm listening on Spotify.