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^^ Okko Kamu is conducting a Sibelius programme (surprise, surprise!!) at Cadogan Hall

Karelia Suite
Violin Concerto (Soloist: Elina Vahala)
Symphony No.5

Perhaps the most predicatble Sibelius programme possible, but I am looking forward to it

bombasticDarren wrote:^^ Okko Kamu is conducting a Sibelius programme (surprise, surprise!!) at Cadogan Hall

Karelia Suite
Violin Concerto (Soloist: Elina Vahala)
Symphony No.5

Perhaps the most predicatble Sibelius programme possible, but I am looking forward to it

Lovely, I hope you enjoy it, let us know how you get on.

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto (Wolfgang Meyer/Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus musicus Wien, Teldec)

Erik Satie 6 Gnossiennes Aldo Ciccolini EMI Classics



Matt

ravel30 wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote:Bax - November Woods (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Naxos)

Nice! This is the only cd that I have of Bax's music and I enjoy it. I always wondered about his other symphonies. Some people suggested me to try his 6th.

Matt.

Hey Matt. I think Bax's symphonies are all of a very high quality, but I gather the 6th is viewed as his greatest piece. Don't forget the tone poems; they are splendid too. I hope you have the chance to try some more Bax...

Walton - Belshazzar's Feast (David Wilson-Johnson/Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, EMI)

Cd 4 of this wonderful boxset. I know next to nothing when it comes to religious music and I purchased that box set 2 years ago. Lots to discover and rediscover in there.







CD 4:
Ecole de Notre Dame Virgo flagellatur, Mors Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier /
Campanis cum cymbalis, Wordles blisse have good day, Valde mane diluculo, Ovet mundus laetabundus The Hilliard Ensemble /
DUFAY Ave Regina coelorum Orlando Consort /
DUNSTABLE Salve scema sanctitatis, Salve salus servulorum, Cantat celi agmina Orlando Consort /
PLUMMER Anna Mater Matris Christi The Hillard Ensemble /
JOSQUIN DESPREZ Salve Regina La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe /
JANEQUIN Congrati suntEnsemble Clement Janequin /
BYRD Peccantem me quotidie Deller Consort, Mark Deller /
GESAULDO Tribulationem et dolorem, Ecce quomodo moritur justus Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe /
HASSLER Ad Dominum Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe


Performer:
Andreas Scholl, Agnès Mellon, Kenneth Weiss, Dorothea Röschmann, Werner Güra,
Klaus Häger, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Barbara Schlick,
Nathan Berg, Peter Kooy, David Thomas, Guillemette Laurens,
William Kendall, Vincent Darras, Howard Crook, Gerard O'Byrne,
Antonio Abete, Bernarda Fink, Graciela Oddone, Richard Croft,
René Jacobs, Melanie Diener, Annette Markert, Matthias Goerne,
James Taylor, Jerry Hadley, Sigurd Brauns, Tobias Lehmann,
Rosa Mannion, Birgit Remmert, Cornelius Hauptmann, Alessandro Moccia,
Sibylla Rubens, Ian Bostridge, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Christiane Oelze,
Gerald Finley, Richard Pinel, Peter Harvey, Magid El-Bushra,
Mark Chaundy, Martin Ford, Sebastian Hennig, Bruce Fowler,
Krassimira Stoyanova, Petra Lang, Daniel Borowski, Iris Oja,
Mati Turi, Stephanie Moller, Vladimir Miller, Toomas Tohert,
Uku Joller, Risto Joost, Tiit Kogermann, Allan Vurma,
Kaia Galina Urb, Aarne Talvik, Juta Roopalu-Malk, Vilve Hepner,
Külli Erimäe, Henri Ledroit, Ulrich Studer


Conductor:
Alfred Deller, William Christie, Konrad Junghänel, Chiara Banchini, Paul Hillier,
Paul van Nevel, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Dominique Visse,
Kent Nagano, Bill Grayston Ives, Marcus Creed

Orchestra/Ensemble:
Deller Consort, Les Arts Florissants, Cantus Cölln, Ensemble 415,
Orlando Consort, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Huelgas Ensemble,
Les Pages de la Chapelle, Ensemble Organum, Royal Chapel European Vocal,
Hilliard Ensemble, Concerto Vocale, Stile Antico,
La Chapelle Royale Paris, Clément Janequin Ensemble, Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus,
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin, Ghent Collegium Vocale, Les Sacqueboutiers du Toulouse,
La Chapelle Royale Chorus Paris, Champs-Élysées Orchestra, Berlin Cathedral Chorus,
Berlin Radio Chorus, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Pacific Mozart Ensemble,
Collegium Vocale, Musique Oblique, English Sinfonia,
Magdalen College Choir Oxford, Berlin RIAS Chamber Orchestra

My Vlast by Bedrich Smetana Antoni Wit/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Naxos



You know the feeling you get when you listen to a cd that you haven't listen to in years and then after a few minutes you realize how great that piece is? Well that is what I felt after listening to that cd. Love everything that I have ever heard from Smetana.

Matt.

Le tombeau de Couperin played by Alexandre Tharaud



And Ma mere l'oie for 4 hands piano



A lot of the orchestral pieces by Ravel were first composed for piano. Ravel is one of the greatest orchestrator that there was but I more often than enough prefer the piano version to the orchestral version. The two pieces that I listened tonight are better on the piano in my opinion.

Matt.

ravel30 wrote:My Vlast by Bedrich Smetana Antoni Wit/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Naxos

You know the feeling you get when you listen to a cd that you haven't listen to in years and then after a few minutes you realize how great that piece is? Well that is what I felt after listening to that cd. Love everything that I have ever heard from Smetana.

Matt.

Matt, I hope that you have copies of the Kubelik/CPO (1989) recording on Supraphon and the Talich/CPO (1954) recording on Naxos, both recordings are essential listening for anyone who loves Má Vlast.
Kuchar has a very good 3 CD set of Smetana's Orchestral works, it is available on Brilliant Classics, it's very cheap too.