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[Suffolkcoastal]

Thanks SC, as usual.
Apart from a difference in opinion re Mahler 7, I think the short intros to the works are really to the point.
One remark re the Roussel: do you think it's a symphony, or just an impressionistic tone poem shaped as such?
I don't know the Bleyle. An off-air recording?

Bws
R.

Thanks as usual to you Roehre too. Yes the Bleyle is an off-air recording. With the Roussel I personally feel it is more of the latter.

Rob, yes the Stanford really is a very fine symphony, hope you enjoy the Alfven, perhaps not masterpieces, but there are some delightful ideas in the symphonies and I find them quite enjoyable.

[Roehre]

Today:

Strauss:
Songs

Schubert:
Secular choral works, i.a.:
Nachtgesang im Walde D.913
Die Nacht D.983c
Nachtmusik D.848
Mondenschein D.875
Viel tausend Sterne prangen D.642
Nachthelle D.892

[DublinJimbo]

Strauss:
Songs

Thanks so much for the link to that Hyperion CD. Currently reduced to less than three of your pounds in their "Please, someone, buy me..." promotion, how could I not click the download button? Judging from the audio samples, Marie McLaughlin adopts a delightfully wide-eyed and innocent approach (which makes me wonder if she's ever recorded Mahler's 4th).

[austin]

Many thanks for the reminder, austin

[Brassbandmaestro]

La Madelaine et ses Organistes. Francois-Henri Houbert(organ of la Graqndes-Orgues de la Madelaine Paris)

'The Glory of Venice' The music of Giovanni & Andrea Gabrieli. The King's College Cambridge Choir, Stephen Cleobury.

Bax: orchestral Works, vol.3. November Woods; The Happy Forest; The Garden of Fand; Summer Music; Tintagel. Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson.

[JohnSkelton]

Brian Ferneyhough, Funérailles I & II: Ensemble Recherche (Naïve)
Gabriel Fauré, Piano Quartets 1 and 2: Eric Le Sage (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / François Salque ('cello) / Lise Berthaud (viola) (Alpha). Love these works - Fauré is I think much underrated, too little heard.

[Roehre]

Thanks so much for the link to that Hyperion CD. Currently reduced to less than three of your pounds in their "Please, someone, buy me..." promotion, how could I not click the download button?

I bought it last wednesday, got it delivered yesterday..... £4.00 incl. p&p, couldn't resist that one, including 6 "youth" songs one from 1870 and the others from 1878 respectively.

[EdgeleyRob]

Zemlinsky String Quartet No 1 in A, Op 4
Mendelssohn String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80

Escher Quartet. (lunchtime concert earlier this week).

Zemlinsky's quartet is new to me , CD or download recommendations welcome please.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Brian Ferneyhough, Funérailles I & II: Ensemble Recherche (Naïve)
Gabriel Fauré, Piano Quartets 1 and 2: Eric Le Sage (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / François Salque ('cello) / Lise Berthaud (viola) (Alpha). Love these works - Fauré is I think much underrated, too little heard.

Me, too: especially the g minor. I have the Hyperion Domus performances which are excellent.

Oh; and the Ferneyhough is/are good, too!

[Dave2002]

Roy Harris Symphony 3, Bernstein, NYPO

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony 1, Jard van Nes, Botstein, LPO