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Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...
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Axel, since you seem to like some Brahms, try late Reiner (1962, as I recall) with the Royal Symphany Orchestra, on LP, if possible. This will at least present the 4th Symphony as well integrated musically, and with luck you may come to feel as I do...
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Nowdays I am in one of those waves and until I re-listen ton of Brahms during this wave I do not stop. Interesting that the craving for Brahms is kind of wavy, another few weeks I might not hear Brahms at all and it does not bother me. But not durin...
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I told somewhere that sometime I dived into Brahms mode and listed only Brahms. So, it was this week. For the whole week the weather in Boston was wonderful and I spent all week to working outside, building an extension to deck. All time Amy’s Bose r...
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=55240598512858992...
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Have you heard Kent Negano's version?...
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I find Tomsic to be stellar (that word again!). Often I've played it to people to demonstrate how the thing should go. Unfortunately the orchestra is not up to it, them or the conductor, hard to tell.I've heard Tomsic twice in Boston and so far as I'...
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RCA LSC-2581, 1962Here is a worthy performance and a nice stereo recording of a wonderful peice of music.Very rich orchestral sound is so appropriate for this music. Reiner, Van Cliburn and CSO at their respective bests.Mature playing on everyo...
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I've not heard Cliburn's recording - I will look out for it.I think my favorite is by Gyorgy Sandor. The playing of the Baden Baden orchestra under Rolf Reinhardt is frankly 3rd rate, but Sandor is simply fantastic - there's a fluid inevitabilit...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] The Barbirolli / VPO Brahms 4 is waaaay too slow for me though - I just cannot get into the music when it's played that way. I do like some "slow" classics though - I love the way Celibidace slows a lot of music do...
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OK! - I will listen to the Barbi/Brahms 4 some more![quote user="Romy the Cat"]
JANDL100 wrote:
By the way - have you had a chance to listen yet to the Shostakovich Piano Quintet played by the Trio di Torino that I sent.&nbs...
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Angel 35014 (old-ish; mono)I still don't "get" this piece, but here is a great reason to listen to it.Grit you teeth through the first few bars and the orchestra settles in. Then there's great playing and terrific direction of a...
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A couple hours ago WGBH in their “BSO on Record” program span a recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto B-flat that was made in Boston in November 95:
http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?program_id=3368365&episode_id=3981909&airing_id=3845593...
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This music is so lovely, I don't know where to begin. It is sung here by the Robert Shaw Chorale/RS conducting; Saramae Endich, soprano; Seth McCoy, tenor; Claude Frank and Lillian Kallir, pianists.I find the themes and the harmonies ...
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Brahms: “Double” Concerto
(d) Zino Francescatti, Violin; Pierre Fournier, Cello; Columbia Symphony Orchestra
November 20, 1959; American Legion Hall
• LP: Columbia ML 5493; Stereo: Columbia MS 6158
• CD: CBS/...
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Royal Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Chesky CR6, 1988(originally recorded in London's Walthamstow Town Hall, October, 1962).This is an excellent dub and transfer of a lovely (stereo) recording done just before Fritz Reiner passed on.&nb...
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Cellist Natalia Gutman and the Boston Philharmonic: Prokofiev and Brahms at their Best
by Elizabeth Perten
Under the baton of Benjamin Zander, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra presented two masterpieces: Prokofiev’s Symphony-Conce...
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It was on March 1930. Clemens Krauss lead Vienna Philharmonic. After Walter, Bernstein (with Vienna only),Toscanini, Barbirolli, Cantelli, Levine, Furtwangler and Got only knows who esle I finally “got” the Brahms Third! What a Sound Krauss thrown!Th...
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Here is an interesting recording that I played today. Live Performances from December 1943 by Adrian Aeschbacher with Furtwangler and Berlin. The sound of the LYS label is beyond expectation, as usually. The performance is different: the same Furtwan...
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Can anyone help me understand why I find this music so utterly 'directionless'?It is a digital recording from 1981 by DG (Stereo 2532 003)I experience this Brahms recording in particular, as 'going nowhere' , directionless, as if put together by some...
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Axel, is this reaction of your ONLY about Carlos Kleiber’s version with Wiener Philharmoniker or is it your reaction to entire Brahms? If it is entire Brahms then be advised that there are people who do not “get” Brahms, there was a lot of said a...
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for me, in answer to your first question.His violin-concerto, I have with Rainer, and various piano concertos do not give this notion of going nowhere. It is the 1st movement of the 4th symphony with C. Kleiber (I can’t listen past it, I get so a...
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Nowdays I am in one of those waves and until I re-listen ton of Brahms during this wave I do not stop. Interesting that the craving for Brahms is kind of wavy, another few weeks I might not hear Brahms at all and it does not bother me. But not durin...
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In my search for my own sound of Schubert 9 (BTW I did found what I was looking for) I was listening the Mengleberg’s play from 30. The record I have in a part of a 4 records album dedicated to 80 anniversary of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. I did n...
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I have a box set of Günter Wand conducts his North German Radio SO with 4 Brahms symphonies. It is celebrated recording from beginning of 80s. I like it but it always sound to me like play critical mass of Brahms without any finesse-Brahms. My versio...
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BSO played last night all Brahms program with Second Concerto: http://classical-scene.com/2011/10/22/9457/If someone would like I might upload a fragment....
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Last night we attended a stellar performance of Brahms 4th at Jordan Hall in Boston. It was preceded by Brahms 1st piano concerto which I found lackluster and uninspiring. I was prepared for a dull second half of the evening. This Brahms 4th wi...
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Decca Gold label LP, DL 9401; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Jorg Demus, piano; recorded in Germany by Deutsche GrammophonThis is young Brahms, very much under the spell of Goethe, Herder and German Idealism. The theme for the song cycle is str...
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I told somewhere that sometime I dived into Brahms mode and listed only Brahms. So, it was this week. For the whole week the weather in Boston was wonderful and I spent all week to working outside, building an extension to deck. All time Amy’s Bose r...
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