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Jared wrote: well, this has been my VERY FIRST EVER listen to the music of Scriabin

I'm always bleating on about Scriabin's Piano Concerto:



I really love it.

I don't have a lot of Scriabin's music; only a few solo piano pieces. One to explore further it seems!

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Incidentally I saw recent enough photos of Maestro Abbado and he looked in very bad health. One does hope that he does not suffer unduly with his illness!

just a little worse for wear after all those birthday celebrations Sean laid on for him... he'll be fine! ;-)

well, this has been my VERY FIRST EVER listen to the music of Scriabin, and I actually found it to be more accessible than I'd imagined:

The Poem of Ecstacy
Symph No.2
BBC Phil/ Vassily Sinaisky

SHOCKED and STUNNED. I do like his ecstatic poem! Jared, if you are in the market for performances of Scriabin's music then you need look no further than Muti's cycle with the PO:

oh, and Simon's CD too of course.

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Incidentally I saw recent enough photos of Maestro Abbado and he looked in very bad health. One does hope that he does not suffer unduly with his illness!

just a little worse for wear after all those birthday celebrations Sean laid on for him... he'll be fine! ;-)

About ten years ago (I think) our beloved Claudio was diagnosed with and had surgical treatment for stomach cancer, he does look frail.

Seán wrote:SHOCKED and STUNNED. I do like his ecstatic poem! Jared, if you are in the market for performances of Scriabin's music then you need look no further than Muti's cycle with the PO: oh, and Simon's CD too of course.

I know, I know... but as you're all aware it's been only 5 years and 2 months of classical listening, so there will still be small unexplored pockets everywhere, which I haven't gotten around to, especially given my (fairly) catholic tastes in repertoire....

those recommendations do look interesting, gents... so thanks once again!

Seán wrote: About ten years ago (I think) our beloved Claudio was diagnosed with and had surgical treatment for stomach cancer, he does look frail.

Yes I was aware of his unfortunate encounter with stomach cancer and I think frail is a very apt description of him at the moment. Hopefully all is indeed well.

This evening, two works by Mahler....


On CD, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen from this set....






....and this version of M1 on vinyl....

I LOVE Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings.

Seán wrote:I LOVE Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings.

AS do I Seán. Given the relationship between the two men I think that we are getting the nearest interpretations to Mahler's intentions for his music as is possible without it being conducted by Mahler himself; there is real provenance there and that always makes it very interesting for me personally.

Bruno Walter tried to persuade Alma to destroy the sketches and even the adagio of Mahler's 10th, which lucky for us she did not do!

But he is forgiven for his masterful recordings of his friend. The Das Lied with Mildred Miller and Ernst Haefliger is not to be missed.