What are you listening to?

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Seán wrote:
DonKC wrote:Some lesser performed and recorded Hindemith

Concerto for Orchestra 1925 his first major orchestral work
Sinfonietta in E 1949 a Louisville Symphony commission
Pittsburgh Symphony 1958 a commission from the city of Pittsburgh and his last titled symphony

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I haven't listened to Hindemith in a long time, I must blow the diust off my EMI CDs. I only have the one 3 CD set with Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in his orchestral works
The Blomstedt/SFO is a great set of recordings including a most fine Mathis der Mahler This CPO disc makes a good companion since as I mentioned, these works are not as frequently recorded.
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Earlier....


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Some Chamber Music....


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DonKC wrote:Some lesser performed and recorded Hindemith

Concerto for Orchestra 1925 his first major orchestral work
Sinfonietta in E 1949 a Louisville Symphony commission
Pittsburgh Symphony 1958 a commission from the city of Pittsburgh and his last titled symphony

Melbourne SO Werner Andreas Albert

CPO


I played this one not so long ago Don....


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....Hindemith himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic playing Mathis Der Maler.
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Just to add to the current Dvorak conversation I listened to this one very recently....


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It is not a very common work but I really like its somewhat wistful and quirky slow movement.
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fergus wrote:
DonKC wrote:Some lesser performed and recorded Hindemith

Concerto for Orchestra 1925 his first major orchestral work
Sinfonietta in E 1949 a Louisville Symphony commission
Pittsburgh Symphony 1958 a commission from the city of Pittsburgh and his last titled symphony

Melbourne SO Werner Andreas Albert

CPO


I played this one not so long ago Don....


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....Hindemith himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic playing Mathis Der Maler.
Those performances are on CD too, Hindemith was not a bad conductor.

Giving the Blomstedt/San Francisco discs that Seán mentioned a whirl.
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fergus wrote:Just to add to the current Dvorak conversation I listened to this one very recently....


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It is not a very common work but I really like its somewhat wistful and quirky slow movement.
I have always been surprised by how infrequently performed and recorded, his PC appears to be. Of course I'm no expert, but I have always found this disk to be rather pleasureable:

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Chopin: Etudes op10/ op.25
Maurizio Pollini (DG) ...


...what a fabulous performance of these works! This is Pollini in his element....
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Earlier....


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A brace of Vaughan Williams....


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It is interesting to hear the strong influence of Holst (Neptune) in the Sinfonia Antartica as it is something that we discussed recently in the "Planets" thread.
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