What are you listening two?

fergus
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Beethoven: Missa Solmenis....


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I really enjoyed this performance!
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My favourite Myaskovsky symphony:

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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Symphony No. 8

Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov conducting.
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fergus wrote:
Seán wrote:And now this gets the blood flowing, the foot tapping and the spirits rising: it is music written by GOD and performed by angels:

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat BWV 243

La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe conducting.


Perfection!
You really do like the Bach Magnificat Seán!
I fell in love with it the first time I listened to it, it is an extraordinary work. I am inclined to get a wee bit carried away when I comment on it too I suppose. =D
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky conducting.

This is a powerful and beautiful performance of Shostakovich's monumental work, it is BRILLIANT!
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Seán wrote: I fell in love with it the first time I listened to it, it is an extraordinary work. I am inclined to get a wee bit carried away when I comment on it too I suppose. =D
Enthusiasm is always allowed!!
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Mahler 7, Abbado....


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....no more need be said.......other than on vinyl!!
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fergus wrote:Mahler 7, Abbado....


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....no more need be said.......other than on vinyl!!
Bloody marvellous, isn't it?
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fergus wrote:Beethoven: Missa Solmenis....


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I really enjoyed this performance!

Some 40 years ago when you talked about the Missa Solemnis the options were mainly Klemperer and Karajan in DG, but this gorgeous performance hold it´s own. The vocal quartet is excellent and the choral work more than acceptable, but most important, Jochum brings great dignity and pathos to his interpretation. Now it´s almost forgotten, but fortunately it was briefly available on CD and I managed to get a copy.
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Seán wrote:
fergus wrote: Image
Bloody marvellous, isn't it?
I could not have been more eloquent had I tried!!!
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Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote: Image
Some 40 years ago when you talked about the Missa Solemnis the options were mainly Klemperer and Karajan in DG, but this gorgeous performance hold it´s own. The vocal quartet is excellent and the choral work more than acceptable, but most important, Jochum brings great dignity and pathos to his interpretation. Now it´s almost forgotten, but fortunately it was briefly available on CD and I managed to get a copy.
That is exactly it Pepe! I did not know of this interpretation until this recent purchase but I did not hesitate once I discovered it. I have Jochum conducting a lot of Bruckner [which I particularly like] and Jochum's version of Bruckner's Masses are particularly impressive so the Missa Solemnis was a safe bet I reckoned. It turned out to be a little more thankfully.
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