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Tippett - Divertimento on Sellinger's Round; Little Music; The Heart's Assurance; Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Birtwistle - Angel Fighter; In Broken Images; Virelai. First piece went right over my head - a dramatic piece so needs a libretto to follow at least. Enjoyed the craggy second orchestral piece much more. And the short third is almost a neoclassical pop tune!

RVW - Symphony 9. Brought to mind whilst wandering around Stonehenge - the LP I had of this in the 70s had a striking Constable or Turner pictures of the stones on the cover.

 

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Next up for me, further evidence of the conspiracy to denude the human spirit. 

 

Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major 50’

interval

Reinbert de Leeuw
Der nächtliche Wanderer 54’
UK premiere

Peter Serkin piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen conductor

Of course we love 'Ollie' over here and he has been big at Tanglewood too (see the American composers thread). 

 

** for my interest, can you guys outside UK listen to Proms on BBC radio iplayer? **

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Dmitri Shostakovich 
– Quartet for Strings No.15 in E flat minor Op.144
– Quartet for Strings No.8 in C minor Op.110
– Quartet for Strings No.9 in E flat major Op.117
Fitzwilliam String Quartet (Decca Records), CD 14:

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Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra No.1 in D major Op.99
— John Williams (guitar) – Members of the Philadelpha Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy (Columbia / Sony Classical)

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Now playing:
Franz Joseph Haydn – Quartet for Strings in E major Op.2/2 Hob.III/8
— John Williams (guitar), Alan Loveday (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Amaryllis Fleming (cello)  
Niccolò Paganini – Trio for Violin Cello and Guitar in D Major
— John Williams (guitar), Alan Loveday (violin), Amaryllis Fleming (cello) (Columbia / Sony Classical), CD 6 

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NP anner Bylsma's Bach Solo Cello Suites (Sony) second disc (4,5,6

I'm really loving this performance a lot.  The instrument's sound reminds me of my Casals recording, lots of wood.  His Suite #1 has a rhythm to it that is more of a shifting of tempo instead of hard counts,. It sounds like he is pushing and pulling and gives ot a serpentine feel to it.  I find it exhilarating.

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3 hours ago, six string said:

NP anner Bylsma's Bach Solo Cello Suites (Sony) second disc (4,5,6

I'm really loving this performance a lot.  The instrument's sound reminds me of my Casals recording, lots of wood.  His Suite #1 has a rhythm to it that is more of a shifting of tempo instead of hard counts,. It sounds like he is pushing and pulling and gives ot a serpentine feel to it.  I find it exhilarating.

:tup:tup!!

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Howells - disc of short orch pieces

Finzi - Lo the Full Final Sacrifice
 
Handel - Concerti Grossi Op 6
 
Bach - English Suites 1, 2, 3
 
Bruckner - Symphony 1
 
Birtwistle - Gawain's Journey, The Triumph of Time, Ritual Fragment
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