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[Dilettanteque]

Takacs Quartet - Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14

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Andris Nelsons, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

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Daniel Muller-Schott, Yakov Kreizberg, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 and 2

Roon threw it at me...it sensed the vibe.

[hired goon]

 

André Isoir - Bach: The Art Of Fugue -- a CD wot I got yesterday for $0.50, played on a church organ to get all ecclesiasticamal on a Sunday soir.

 

--Geoff

[dwbasement]

Starker and Sebok

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Brett Dean, 1998, Ballet in three acts for solo cello and tape, Pieter Wispelwey / Brett Dean / Simon Hunt / Michael Askill / Stefan de Leval Jezierski / Members of the Nederlands Kamerkoor / RIAS Kammerchor (Berlin) / Brett Dean cond. Channel Crossings CCS 12898.

 

Brett Dean grew up in BNE, fabulous Australian composer, musician & conductor!

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by jazzdog@groovemasters

[dwbasement]

4 hours ago, jazzdog@groovemasters said:

Brett Dean, 1998, Ballet in three acts for solo cello and tape, Pieter Wispelwey / Brett Dean / Simon Hunt / Michael Askill / Stefan de Leval Jezierski / Members of the Nederlands Kamerkoor / RIAS Kammerchor (Berlin) / Brett Dean cond. Channel Crossings CCS 12898.

 

Brett Dean grew up in BNE, fabulous Australian composer, musician & conductor!

 

And one of the great cellists -  Wispelway.

Edited March 28, 2022 by dwbasement

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Paolo Giacometti, Pieter Wispelwey,  C. Franck & J. Brahms - – Sonatas. 

Channel Classics – CCS 18698.  CD, Netherlands, 2002.

No argument from me Dennis!

 

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Toshio Hosokawa, Arditti Quartet – Landscape I, II, V/Fragments II/Vertical Time Study III.  Montaigne – MO 782078.  Arditti Quartet Edition – 30 CD, Album, Stereo France 1996.

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Gidon Kremer - Weinberg: Sonatas For Violin Solo

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Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough - Brahms: Cello Sonatas

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

 Elizabeth Blumenstock • John Butt,  Bach – Violin Sonatas Volume 1.  Harmonia Mundi France  HCX 3957084, Classical Express, Production USACD, Album, Reissue US 2002.

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras,  Ludwig van Beethoven,– Complete Works for Violoncello & Piano.  Harmonia Mundi – HMC 902183.84, CD, Austria, 2014.

 

[lemarquis]

Mendelssohn_Violin Concerto & Lalo_Symphonie Espagnole - Grumiaux, Haitink & RCO  [2021 Esoteric]

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Rostropovich, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff,  C.P.E. Bach*, Vivaldi*, Tartini*– Cello Concertos.  Teldec – 9031-77311-2 CD, 1993, Europe.

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by jazzdog@groovemasters

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Mikhail Glinka - Complete Piano Music Vol.2

 

[MusicOne]

A video showing the conducting technique of the legendary virtuoso conductor, Herbert von Karajan.

He was known as the Karajan express, as this performance amply demonstrates. Karajan's Nazi past, kept him out of America until the early 1970s when he was finally allowed entry to the USA.

I'm guessing this performance dates from the early 1970s...not sure about that. No one conducts like this, nowadays, but Karajan was a law unto himself. The video quality is somewhat lacking but it is quite a treat to see/hear a performance like this.

 

Note the all male membership of the Berlin Philharmonic....you would never see such a thing today.

 

A truly masterful performance, delivered with such panache and intensity by the Berlin Philharmonic....at the time probably the world's greatest symphony orchestra....well maybe the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra) might have given it some competition.

 

Turn up the volume, sit back and enjoy....sorry about those damned adds.

 

P.S. Just looking at this performance again, I'm almost certain that you wouldn't see/hear anything like this today....the precision and sheer coherence of the Berlin Philharmonic is breathtaking....alas, those days have gone forever.

 

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by MusicOne

[MusicOne]

Another Karajan video.

 

More on Herbert von Karajan's, Nazi past. He always claimed that he joined the party, solely to advance his career. This claim is accepted by many, but his Nazi past is still regarded as a grave error of judgement on his part.

 

Karajan joined the Nazi Party in 1933, so he was onboard almost from the beginning of the Nazi dominance of German politics. Whether he was aware (at that time) of Nazi 'excesses' in WW 2...the Holocaust, etc, is uncertain.

 

Here he is again, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic playing the final movement of Beethoven's 3rd Symphony...the Eroica. This performance is from 1982, so Karajan was 74 years of age, but still on top of his game. Note again the all male Berlin Philharmonic....not sure if this was Karajan's influence or just the policy of the BPO, back then. Is it possible that males are just better at it...not sure....very non'PC these days.

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by MusicOne

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Mitsuko Uchida - Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

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Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Field Mass, Symphony 4

Edited April 13, 2022 by Dilettanteque

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Bach: Easter Oratorio

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Uri Caine & The Arditti String Quartet - Twelve Caprices.

 

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The Dunedin Consort, John Butt - Bach: Mass In B Minor

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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monterverdi Choir - Bach: St John Passion (2022)

Interestingly, on DG.

 

[jazzdog@groovemasters]

Lynne Dawson, Catherine Denley, David James, Maldwyn Davies, Michael George, The Sixteen Choir And Orchestra, Harry Christophers, Cond.  Handel – Messiah.