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    #62
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Puccini- La Rondine
    Gheorghiu/ Alagna
    LSO/ Pappano

    A glorious recording of a wonderful opera. Lovely way to spend a saturday evening.


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    #63
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Mahler Symphony No.1
    The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Bernard Haitink

    Going to try to get through the complete Mahler Symphonies in order this week. 'tis a while since I sat down and listened to them properly.


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    #64
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Today is going to be a difficult day- mentally, emotionally and physically. I am steeling myself for an experience that I know I will mull over time and again in the coming months. So I am listening to a piece that I always listen to when things get difficult- the Liebestod from Wagners' Tristan Und Isolde. An absolutely sublime piece of music.

    Anyway, I have listened to two recordings of it this morning in an effort to steel myself for today:

    1952/ Bayreuth/ Von Karajan- Martha Modl as Isolde
    and
    1975/ Bayreuth/ Kleiber- Catarina Ligendza as Isolde

    Truly sublime music. If this doesn't get me through today, nothing will.


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    #65
    simu
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    Beethoven's piano concertos 1-5, with Murray Perahia on piano, conducted by Bernard Haitink.


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    #66
    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    beethoven's 9th symphony; an old favorite.

    2nd movemnt on repeat :rolleyes:


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    #67
    John
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    John Cage's Sonatas for Prepared Piano. An acquired taste but a firm favourite of mine.


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    #68
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Tchaikovskys' 6th Symphony, performed as part of the BBC proms. being broadcast on BBC2 TV.

    Gidon Kremer was the solo violin in a performance of the Shostakovich First violin concerto earlier.

    Glorious stuff.


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    #69
    fractal
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭fractal


    Furtwangler/I can't remember the orchestra, but it's the big famous 1950s recording of Tristan und Isolde. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau is in it, I think. 4 discs on Naxos and about €20 cheaper than most other recordings, tee hee! Can't seem to work past disc 2 though, sheer sensory overload.


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    #70
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    fractal wrote:
    Furtwangler/I can't remember the orchestra, but it's the big famous 1950s recording of Tristan und Isolde. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau is in it, I think. 4 discs on Naxos and about €20 cheaper than most other recordings, tee hee! Can't seem to work past disc 2 though, sheer sensory overload.

    I have a copy of the one I think you're talking about:
    Rhoderick Davies, baritone / Edgar Evans, tenor / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone / Kirsten Flagstad, soprano / Josef Greindl, bass / Rudolf Schock, tenor / Ludwig Suthaus, tenor / Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
    Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor
    Recorded: 10-21 and 23 June 1952
    Mark Obert-Thorn, producer and audio restoration engineer

    Truly glorious recording. The other good label that you get great value historical Opera recordings on is Opera D'Oro- they seem to be making their way over to Europe, but they're all over the US. Got a couple of nice Tristans on this label as well.


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    #71
    rom1
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    "Transcriptions pour choeur d'oeuvres de Bach, Berg, Chopin, Ravel..." by Accentus

    Amazon Link


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    #72
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Mozart/ La Clemenza di Tito
    Bartoli/ Heilmann/ Jones/ Montague/ Cachemaille/ Bonney

    The Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus/ Hogwood

    Glorious stuff.


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    #73
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    Shostakovich Jazz Suite No. 2 (Suite for Promenade Orchestra)

    from "Shostakovich- The Jazz Album" Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Riccardo Chailly (Decca)

    Great undemanding Sunday night listening.


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    #74
    Zonko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭Zonko


    Beethovens Seventh Symphony.


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    #75
    Fusion251
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Fusion251


    Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto - 1

    Vivance
    Andante
    Allegro Vivance


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