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fergus wrote:A great set Dave and good to see you back in operation again! I hope that the back is fine.

Cheers Fergus. The back is still on the mend. Moving more boxes during the week didnt exactly allow it to recover but the worst is over now thankfully. I never would have thought that moving house could be such a pain in the ass(and back!).

Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto no 1
Totentanz
Nelson Freire (Piano)
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Michel Plasson - conducting

I listen to these two pieces every day, this is deeply satisfying music. Does anybody else here listen to Liszt's orchestral music?

Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus Suites Nos. 1-3
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
André Anichanov - conducting

Pleasant music but it doesn't excite me.

I am slowly making my way through this set.



Nikolay Myaskovsky
Symphony no 6 in E flat minor, Op. 23 "Revolutionary"
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov - conducting

This symphony has been described as Myaskovsky's masterpiece, well I don't know about that. It is a long - 65 minutes or so - and deeply satisfying piece of music.
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JSB – Two versions of Cantata BWV19 for the feast of St. Michael and All Angels; first up was the Gardiner version and that was followed by the Harnoncourt version....

Not able to post as often as I would like as I'm waiting on those muppets Vodafone to move my landline/broadband to the new place. 2 weeks now and still waiting.

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ricardo Chailly - conducting

This is a lovely recording of Mahler's Third Symphony. In fact I have yet to listen to a recording by Ricardo Chailly that disappoints, he is consistently good in everything he does.

DaveF wrote:

I must get that set Dave!!