[Dmitriyevich]

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Highlights)

 

[Manxfeeder]

Ernst Pepping: Deutsche Messe (1938)

That is from 1938? It sounds like a choral work written closer to our time.

 

[SanAntone]

 

[sAmUiLc]

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Christianne Stotijn / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding
live.. on CD-R

Of the several performances I heard (to be honest, I don't listen to Mahler's songs much) this is the only one in the last song the sound world miraculously and magically transforms into a children's world. Surely thanks to Daniel Harding. Ms. Stotijn's voice is very crowded. For that reason I was avoiding her most of the time but in these songs she is superb and dramatic.

 

[sAmUiLc]

Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
Goldner String Quartet
live.. on CD-R

 

[Eramire156]

CD 72 from the Stern box set

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no.1 in D minor
Piano Trio no.2 in C minor

Eugene Istomin
Isaac Stern
Leonard Rose

 

[neoshredder]

Brahms Symphonies 3 and 4.

 

[sAmUiLc]

Mahler: Symphony #10 (Deryck Cooke)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Rotterdam PO
live @ Concertgebouw 4/23/2016
on CD-R

This is a very good performance. I've found Nézet-Séguin M9 and M10, both live with Rotterdam PO, superb. I am yet to find another performance from him I'd consider superb, though.

 

[Floeddie]

Brahms Symphony # 4
Robin Ticciati and Scottish Chamber Orchestra (2017)

 

[ericshreiber1005]

Lighting, storms brewing..

Wagner: Die Valkyrie. Cond. Leinsdorf. W/ Traubel, Melchior, Schorr, Kipnis, Varnay. Met Opera Orchestra and Chorus. 6th December 1941. Naxos.

 

[sAmUiLc]

Nielsen

 

[HenryPenfold]

Stanisław Skrowaczewski: Concerto Nicolò (Concerto for the Piano Left Hand and Orchestra), Concerto for Orchestra
Gary Graffman
Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Stan was a outstanding composer, in addition to being a truly great conductor. This disc is a new arrival to me, and I am immediately quite taken with it. Aside from the imaginative and superbly crafted music and totally idiomatic performances, the recording quality is absolutely sensational! It is audiophile-demonstration class.

The Concerto Nicolò, premiered in 2003, takes as its germinal motif a five-note sequence borrowed from the famous Paganini 24th Caprice. Yes, that one: the commissioner of the work happened to be a Paganini scholar, so there it is. The sequence is frequently recognizable, but I must say Skrowaczewski makes imaginative use of it, and the work is brilliantly orchestrated with a highly compelling dramatic arch. That it includes no indulgent misuses of the Dies irae tune, and no flagrantly sappy, farcically "emotional" glurge at its center, this piece easily becomes my favorite-ever work involving the Paganini Caprice and a piano.

Skrowaczewski's Concerto for Orchestra from 1999 is absolutely the orchestral tour de force one would expect. Stan's musical language is supremely engaging, clear and direct with zero pretense that the musical developments of the 20th century never happened, or, worse, were some kind of mistake. And again his command of the orchestra is top shelf, with a powerful imagination at work in every detail.

I am pleased to enthusiastically recommend this album. Anyone who is a fan of contemporary Polish composers such as Panufnik, Lutosławski, Penderecki, etc. will find this music very appealing.

Agreed on every count!

Around 2015, friends were urging me to get to Stan's London concerts, but I couldn't be bothered - I'd never heard of him. Soon I picked up his Bruckner 6 and was knocked sideways! I realised that he was a very special musician. And then before I had a chance to get along to a concert, he passed away in early 2017.

I ended up buying every recording available, including his own compositions, which I will say are excellent. The concerto for orchestra is a particular favourite. As you say, a real orchestral tour de force!

An outstanding CD......

 

[Knorf]

Anton Webern: Passacaglia, Op. 1; Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6; Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10; Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

This is music of extraordinary expressive power, and these recordings are nearly definitive in their recommendability.

 

[13hm13]

Beethoven* – Wilhelm Kempff · Berlin Philharmonic* · Ferdinand Leitner – Piano Concerto No. 3

 

[Monsalvat]

For now, Brahms and his mentor.

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Carlo Maria Giulini: Wiener Philharmoniker (1991)

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Herbert von Karajan: Berliner Philharmoniker (1971)

 

[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

Last Strauss opera, decided to break with Solti for this one

 

[sAmUiLc]

 

[Bachtoven 1]

 

[OCEANE]

From every single appreciation perspective, religion, music arrangement, performance and particularly recording quality....., I place this album as classic in my collection and listen to it sincerely.

 

[Merl]

All quiet here so time for something more relaxing. I know it's far from the best part set of Mozart string quartets but it's enthusiastically played and I only paid £2 for a 3CD set. Surprisingly well recorded though.