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fergus wrote:


Delving further into this set and very much liking what I am hearing!

I'm delighted! I think it is a marvellous set and is beautifully recorded too.

Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève conducting.

Seán wrote:

Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève conducting.

I remember buying that on your recommendation Seán and liking it but I have not listened to it in a long time so I must revisit it soon.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, op. 5
Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, op. 69
Pierre Fouriner - Cello
Jean Fonda - Piano

fergus wrote:

Seán wrote:
Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève conducting.

I remember buying that on your recommendation Seán and liking it but I have not listened to it in a long time so I must revisit it soon.

I do enjoy Roussel's music and his Third Symphony is my favourite.

From the same era as Roussel (and Martinu and Honegger) is this disc of interesting and well played/recorded works by the Italian Alfredo Casella. Casella was once highly regarded as pianist, composer and conductor. He was a one time Boston Pops Conductor and his 3rd Symphony a Chicago Symphony commission. However, his Fascist connections have clouded his reputation.

The Concerto for Orchestra 1937 (written for Mengelburg and the Concertgebow) is a well constructed, colorful and powerful work. Deserves to be heard more often. The Suite from his 1928 opera "La Donna Serpente" is subtitled "Symphonic Fragments" and are indeed a bit fragmented and diverse. But oh great fun!

I have not heard the piano orchestra tone poem A notte alta (In Deepest Night) on the disc, it is for later!

Great music off the beaten path. Some is available on YouTube if you do not want to commit to a disc.

Casella: Concerto For Orchestra, A Notte Alta, La Donna Serpente Symphonic Fragments
Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10712

I have heard of Casella but not his music unfortunately.

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Sextet in D Op. 110
Dalia Ouzil - Piano, Gil Sharon - Violin, Ron Ephrat - Viola, Liisa Tamminen - Viola,
Alexander Hülshoff - Cello & Jean Sassen - Double Bass
This is gorgeous music.

DonKC wrote:From the same era as Roussel (and Martinu and Honegger) is this disc of interesting and well played/recorded works by the Italian Alfredo Casella. Casella was once highly regarded as pianist, composer and conductor. He was a one time Boston Pops Conductor and his 3rd Symphony a Chicago Symphony commission. However, his Fascist connections have clouded his reputation.

The Concerto for Orchestra 1937 (written for Mengelburg and the Concertgebow) is a well constructed, colorful and powerful work. Deserves to be heard more often. The Suite from his 1928 opera "La Donna Serpente" is subtitled "Symphonic Fragments" and are indeed a bit fragmented and diverse. But oh great fun!

I have not heard the piano orchestra tone poem A notte alta (In Deepest Night) on the disc, it is for later!

Great music off the beaten path. Some is available on YouTube if you do not want to commit to a disc.

Casella: Concerto For Orchestra, A Notte Alta, La Donna Serpente Symphonic Fragments
Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10712

Sounds interesting Don.