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Aleg wrote:

Just to let you 'baroquies' and 'classicos' get to know some great 20c music too :-))

and the romantics too:


Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 5
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conducting.

Aleg wrote:

Just to let you 'baroquies' and 'classicos' get to know some great 20c music too :-))

LOL!!!

Some of us are Die Hards!!!

Schubert: the Symphonies played by The Hanover Band / Goodman....





I cannot remember the last time that I listened to this cycle. I like it but I am sure that others would not. It is a cycle that has a very different feel to it due to the orchestral textures and sonorities on display; the emphasis is very much on the brass section. This to my mind lends a certain weight to the performances and places a different emphasis on the interpretations. I think that the difference works and gives a somewhat different perspective on some of these symphonies, particularly the earlier ones.

Today is the fourth Sunday before Christmas and therefore the First Sunday of Advent. This heralds the beginning of the Liturgical year and for me personally the beginning of another listening cycle of the relevant JS Bach Cantata for each occasion. I am giving the venerable Gardiner the day off today and am listening to Herreweghe’s version of BWV 36, 61 and 62 being the relevant works for the day that is in it....

fergus wrote:Today is the fourth Sunday before Christmas and therefore the First Sunday of Advent. This heralds the beginning of the Liturgical year and for me personally the beginning of another listening cycle of the relevant JS Bach Cantata for each occasion. I am giving the venerable Gardiner the day off today and am listening to Herreweghe’s version of BWV 36, 61 and 62 being the relevant works for the day that is in it....

Lovely Fergus, thanks for that, I must listen to Herreweghe’s version of BWV 36, 61 & 62; BWV 62, 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (Now come, Savior of the heathens) is probably my favourite Bach cantata.

I really love the Advent chorale tunes, and Nun Komm... is very well represented in lots of famous settings. Fantastic stuff.

Tim Thurston started a new Cantata cycle himself on Gloria with Wachet Auf, but I didn't catch the performers. Marvellous music in any case, and I was thinking of you, Fergus.

Diapason wrote:I really love the Advent chorale tunes, and Nun Komm... is very well represented in lots of famous settings. Fantastic stuff.

Tim Thurston started a new Cantata cycle himself on Gloria with Wachet Auf, but I didn't catch the performers. Marvellous music in any case, and I was thinking of you, Fergus.

I have two students in the house writing assignments and preparing for exams so I have to keep it quiet, I can only listen to music in my listening room rather than throughout the house, so Tim was way down low this morning.

Diapason wrote:I really love the Advent chorale tunes, and Nun Komm... is very well represented in lots of famous settings. Fantastic stuff.

Tim Thurston started a new Cantata cycle himself on Gloria with Wachet Auf, but I didn't catch the performers. Marvellous music in any case, and I was thinking of you, Fergus.

An ideal time to really start delving into that wonderful box set that you purchased recently which I suspect is probably languishing on a shelf somewhere in the man cave!

Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano....

On vinyl, two Haydn Masses....