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Franz Schubert
Trout Piano Quintet
Jenö Jandó & Kodály Quartet

No day would be complete without a daily diet of trout served up by Jandó and the Kodály, it is lovely music-making.

Seán wrote:

fergus wrote:Symphony No. 9....



This has long been a favourite version of this work and it stands comparison with any other.

Will I? I wonder.

Why would you not....it is an excellent cycle with stand out performances from the Brass and Timpani sections in particular and with strong performances throughout!!

Seán wrote:

Hmmmmm...........

There are some performances in music that are dear to your heart and this is one of those for me.

fergus wrote:

There are some performances in music that are dear to your heart and this is one of those for me.

agreed wholeheartedly... I really don't understand the strength of feeling shown by this piece's detractors... for me, it's one of the finest Religious Choral Works of its era, and this is a particularly fine performance. Having eventually had the courage to sell the Karajan version (too laboured and mushy) on ebay, I will be looking for a replacement to complement this one in due course, but it will be another with smaller forces I think... any suggestions?

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:

There are some performances in music that are dear to your heart and this is one of those for me.

agreed wholeheartedly... I really don't understand the strength of feeling shown by this piece's detractors... for me, it's one of the finest Religious Choral Works of its era, and this is a particularly fine performance. Having eventually had the courage to sell the Karajan version (too laboured and mushy) on ebay, I will be looking for a replacement to complement this one in due course, but it will be another with smaller forces I think... any suggestions?

For what it's worth, Chalkie loves Herr SSRattle's recording, now there's a surprise.

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:

There are some performances in music that are dear to your heart and this is one of those for me.

agreed wholeheartedly... I really don't understand the strength of feeling shown by this piece's detractors... for me, it's one of the finest Religious Choral Works of its era, and this is a particularly fine performance. Having eventually had the courage to sell the Karajan version (too laboured and mushy) on ebay, I will be looking for a replacement to complement this one in due course, but it will be another with smaller forces I think... any suggestions?

For me, this one just edges out the Gardiner one.

DaveF wrote: For me, this one just edges out the Gardiner one.

Dave, that looks to be a very intriguing recommendation... it's been added to my Amazon WL; thanks!

Seán wrote:For what it's worth, Chalkie loves Herr SSRattle's recording, now there's a surprise.

I think you summed that sentence up early on, Sean... ;-)