I would have thought that many woodwind and brass orchestral players do indeed play jazz so perhaps it is something else?Seán wrote:Wonderful music, I love it. My only misgiving is that classical musicians on the first movement of the Symphonic Dances have the alto saxophone sound like a foghorn: I dislike the tone that they get from the instrument.....do they never listen to Jazz musicans, I wonder? :o
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Listening tonight to some wonderful chamber music by Schumann and Brahms. First up was a recent release on the Audite label comprising Schumann's Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet featuring the Mandelring Quartet (whose Shostakovich cycle I really must investigate) with pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay. These are wonderfully fiery performances of some of Schumann's most inspired music. Then I played Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin's spellbinding recordings of Brahms's two viola sonatas on ECM. There's a bewitching sense of intimacy about Kashkashian's playing which is supported beautifully by Levin's forceful yet never overbearing accompaniments.
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Forgive my rather turgid prose.....I was very tired when I wrote that comment. I never cease to be impressed by the gorgeous clean sound that classical musicians get from oboes, clarinets, trumpets, violins et al; yet I find it baffling why they cannot do the same when it comes to playing the saxophone. Perhaps it's a Russian thing, I don't know.fergus wrote:I would have thought that many woodwind and brass orchestral players do indeed play jazz so perhaps it is something else?Seán wrote:Wonderful music, I love it. My only misgiving is that classical musicians on the first movement of the Symphonic Dances have the alto saxophone sound like a foghorn: I dislike the tone that they get from the instrument.....do they never listen to Jazz musicans, I wonder? :o
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations (15) and Fugue for Piano in E flat major, Op. 35 "Eroica"
Sonata for Piano no 20 in G major, Op. 49 no 2
Alfred Brendel - Piano
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Mahler – 5 Ruckertlieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen....
These are absolutely beautifully sung with very sensitive accompaniment.
These are absolutely beautifully sung with very sensitive accompaniment.
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Nothing to forgive, my friend, and if the truth be known you would know a lot more about the sound of a saxaphone than I would!!Seán wrote:Forgive my rather turgid prose.....I was very tired when I wrote that comment. I never cease to be impressed by the gorgeous clean sound that classical musicians get from oboes, clarinets, trumpets, violins et al; yet I find it baffling why they cannot do the same when it comes to playing the saxophone. Perhaps it's a Russian thing, I don't know.
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A wonderful record. I got the Rückert-Lieder and LefG with Barbirolli's magnificent M5 on LP more than 30 years ago: I must dig them out as I haven't listened to them in a while!fergus wrote:Mahler – 5 Ruckertlieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen....
These are absolutely beautifully sung with very sensitive accompaniment.
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Symphony No. 1
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I adore Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux, and while in many ways Idil Biret on Naxos is still my first choice for her sheer sense of melancholy, this recording brings something different to the table.
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'tis my favourite version of the Titan.fergus wrote:
Symphony No. 1
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