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John F wrote: If your radio station plays music you personally don't think much of, that gives you a break to go do something else.

Unfortunately, that's what she just did.

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A sure sign that they are preparing a giga Ormandy box, so that they can sell most of his recordings multiple times over.

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Pollock is not about chaos. It's poetry of the very subtlest kind.

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http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9663230/sennheisers-new-orpheus-headphones-will-cost-you-55000 If you're tired of those Apple EarPods, I have a treat for you. Sennheiser is attempting to make the world's best headphones. Again. Back in 1991, Sennheiser created the Orpheus HE90, which became widel...

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If there is a country in Central Europe that should not have devolved from liberal democracy after the fall of Communism, it is Hungary. I would add the Czech Republic to that statement, but yes, indeed. What's happened in Hungary is disheartening. But also they have a quite different history and p...

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Faure. More or less all of it. And Debussy's late sonatas, as already mentioned

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Hasn't this been available for at least 5 or 6 years?

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You mean dulcinea isn't female?

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Good news that Decca is to take on a project of this nature. This suggests that they are willing to expand their repertoire somewhat and not just record the same old warhorses. I shall definitely buy it--the only question is whether I file it under Ibert or under Honegger? I would probably go for H...

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So Ravel only has one piano concerto? News to me.

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It's a good set as well. I've enjoyed it plenty.

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The reissued 6 CD box is 17 Euros (deduct VAT) on amazon france:

http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00KQZQJQS/ref= ... W3T6HRYXLQ

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No Nielsen either as far as I can see, though he is a pivotal figure in the transition from romanticism to modernism.

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Shostakovich's most notorious piece of propaganda music is "Song of the Forests," a cantata celebrating the reforestation of the steppes under Stalin and composed in 1949, shortly after Shostakovich (and others) had been publicly accused of "formalism" and their music dropped from performance. Unde...

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There's a 63 CD Fritz Reiner box announced for september on the jpc.de website.

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The Graffman set: 1.CD Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie;Prokofieff: Klaviersonaten Nr. 2 & 3 2.CD Prokofieff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3;Symphonie Nr. 1 “Klassische” 3.CD Schumann: Klaviersonate g-moll op. 22;Symphonische Etüden 4.CD Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 5.CD Chopin: Balladen Nr. 1-4;Andante spianato &...

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Sanderlings Brahms cycle actually is seriously good, and undeservedly overlooked.

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Quite a lot of these discs have, since the last time it was available, been released in various performer-focused smaller Sony budget boxes; like Reiner's Strauss, Munch etc, and I guess much of it will appear in future releases. Since I've bought a few of those already I guess I'll pass.

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But best artist of the year? The great Italian soprano Roberta Invernizzi whose brilliant Vivaldi arias cd in Glossa won golden reviews and lost best recital of the year, no wonder, to a British countertenor who is far from the best around (no match for American Lawrence Zazzo, French Philippe Jaro...

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A wellknown method in hifi circles.

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The best chamber music - by far - written between Brahms and Debussy. And some of the best and most probing piano music of the same period, though it doesn't yield its secrets easily to the casual observer. A sublime master.

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Suk/Panenka is my prime recommendation. But there are so many good sets....

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jbuck919 wrote:
absinthe wrote:John Constable?

He wasn't at all bad at art either when he was younger.
He was also Samuel Coleridge's tailor.

I must say that that is the most multitalented policeman I've ever encountered.

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It might perhaps be better to wait for this?

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Probably I'm an anomaly here, as I mostly listen to opera up to Mozart (listening to Gluck's Ezio now) with a particular love for early Venetian opera (Cavalli, Monteverdi et al); at the other end my opera interest picks up with some of Richard Strauss' stuff, early Hindemith and so on....

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I may buy this (I have a sweet tooth), even though it comes as a disappointment that John B Steane wrote the notes for his disc prior to his passing. How much more interesting they would have been if they had been written after...........

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^^ happy listening, Lance! it's been around 5 degrees here, with a pale blue sky... certainly milder than it was last year. That said, the hostel has been booked out by a family group who are celebrating a surprise 50th birthday. enjoy your time of peace... 8) :D After 50 years, how surprised shoul...

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Marimba. I also like to sit in the front rows of the Avery Fisher Hall.

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You should add the reissue of her Chopin Songbook, also on Eloquence, to your post. A marvellous disc (some reasonably straight, strophic songs, but also some very interesting ones, all gloriously sung).

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Probably the Rutter rut.

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Read more here:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2011/10/bb ... sical.html

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It's a great disc, and I've had it for a year.

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I think Bryn Terfel may have been the last ugly artist to make it large commercially.

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What few Meyerbeer songs I've heard, eg from von Otter, have always struck me as very fine. Looking forward to this, thanks for the advance warning.

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I ordered it (and got a confirmation) from amazon.co.uk while it was mispriced at 15 £.

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It's very beautiful, but also very stern. Like Parsifal without the laughs.

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John F wrote: As for antisemitism, I understand that the protest wasn't against Jews but against the policies of the state of Israel. Whatever some may think, this is a real and crucial distinction.

Just what I was going to post when I saw your words.

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I bought the DG Liszt box as well as the Universal complete Verdi (from amazon.it) within the last two days, so I demand some recognition for this.

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No, too much standard repertoire. The Handley/Mackerras boxes seems more interesting.

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Contents: CD 1 Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55 'Eroica' [1] I Allegro con brio [2] II Marcia funèbre: Adagio assai [3] III Scherzo: Allegro vivace [4] IV Finale: Allegro molto Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Recorded: 30 October 1955, Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA Beethoven: Symphony No.8 in ...

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I heard him do the exactly same program in Bergen in May, and it was an absolutely outstanding recital, one of the best I've been to.

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And no German, Austrian, Dutch or US orchestras in the Orchestral section. One French, one Norwegian, one Czech and 3 UK orchestras. Of course the US orchestras don't record much, but still.....

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Lance; you are in luck. For release in September: THE LISZT LEGACY Claudio Arrau – First release CD 1 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op. 106 “Hammerklavier” | op. 13 “Pathétique” CD 2 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight” | op. 57 “Appassionata” | op. 81a “Les Adieux” Chopin: Fantaisie op. 49 ...

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What; no remote? Considering all the stuff you do not like, you must be very fit indeed!

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jbuck919 wrote:
RebLem wrote:
karlhenning wrote:
Lance wrote:Well, I'm not crazy about I am happy to give Menotti equal billing with Gershwin, if anyone thinks that will help.

He's that great? I wasn't aware of that. Must explore - urgently!

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The BBC DVD with Jacobs conducting and Keenlyside is wonderful, the untraditional (though eminently believable) choreography is mesmerizing.

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I find these rankings that the G has started to do particularly asinine and indicative of the continuing decline of this once interesting magazine.

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A pity for it's Norwegian founder the composer and painter Alf Hurum. There's a fine Simax disc with his symphony and string quartet.

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Bloch is hard to get a handle on, active in an ever changing multitude of styles. Barnstorming late-romantic, expressionist, Jewish nationalist, neoclassicist; take your pick.

His first string quartet is one of the glories of that particular genre.

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I bought around 500 classical CDs last year, and didn't even consider any of these as relevant purchases. Enough said I think.

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