What are you listening two?

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Wonderful music greatly enhanced by the vocalists and instrumentalists all of whom give superb performances.
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fergus wrote:Image


Wonderful music greatly enhanced by the vocalists and instrumentalists all of whom give superb performances.


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13 CDs and 1 DVD [a complete Mahler 4]. I have heard so far the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and a Rachmaninov 2nd. Indecently gorgeous playing.


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Jose Echenique wrote:Image

13 CDs and 1 DVD [a complete Mahler 4]. I have heard so far the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and a Rachmaninov 2nd. Indecently gorgeous playing.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 & 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti conducting.


A Typical rousing and a rather splendid performance of Beethoven's first two symphonies by the CSO under the direction of Georg Solti, the First is particularly good.
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Chopin: Polonaises / Pollini....


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fergus wrote:Chopin: Polonaises / Pollini....


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They are splendid performances.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet

Amadeus Quartet with Christoph Eschenbach piano
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Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila / Barenboim....


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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Solti....


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A somewhat dark and forlorn, even foreboding interpretation but an excellent one nonetheless.
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