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  • Pulcinella
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    • Feb 2014
    • 12646

    Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
    Igor Stravinsky. Symphony in Eb. Op.1

    The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

    I’ve never heard this work before. It’s obviously very early and there’s nothing to really identify it as ‘Stravinsky’. Worth hearing.
    Much more like Rimsky.
    But I'm amazed! You've never picked up a Stravinsky set that includes it dirt cheap in one of your charity shop trawls?
    There's a Chandos Gibson/RSNO recording (amongst a few, admittedly not many, others).

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    • Stanfordian
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      • Dec 2010
      • 9542

      ‘Silence & Music’ - Part Songs
      From Stanford, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Grainger, MacMillan, Dove, Britten, Warlock

      Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh
      Recorded 2016 Charterhouse School, Surrey
      Signum, CD

      Howells
      Fantasy String Quartet
      String Quartet (No. 3) ‘In Gloucestershire’
      Delius
      String Quartet
      Britten Quartet
      Recorded 1995 Brandon Hill, Bristol
      EMI Classics, CD

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      • pastoralguy
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8332

        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

        Much more like Rimsky.
        But I'm amazed! You've never picked up a Stravinsky set that includes it dirt cheap in one of your charity shop trawls?
        There's a Chandos Gibson/RSNO recording (amongst a few, admittedly not many, others).
        Actually, this was a charity shop trawl! ( £4 for two discs in Oxfam). I do have the SNO Gibson set but didn’t realise it was included. I certainly have no memory of having heard it. I must dig it out.

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        • Pulcinella
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          • Feb 2014
          • 12646

          Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post

          Actually, this was a charity shop trawl! ( £4 for two discs in Oxfam). I do have the SNO Gibson set but didn’t realise it was included. I certainly have no memory of having heard it. I must dig it out.

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          • LMcD
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            • Sep 2017
            • 10407

            Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
            Igor Stravinsky. Symphony in Eb. Op.1

            The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

            I’ve never heard this work before. It’s obviously very early and there’s nothing to really identify it as ‘Stravinsky’. Worth hearing.
            Also available on Chandos CHAN 9236 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Neeme Järvi, coupled with the Violin Concerto (Lydia Mordkovtich).

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            • Pulcinella
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              • Feb 2014
              • 12646

              Originally posted by LMcD View Post

              Also available on Chandos CHAN 9236 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Neeme Järvi, coupled with the Violin Concerto (Lydia Mordkovtich).
              Not too sure that's available as a single CD any more (though it might be a charity shop find) but it also features in this rather inconsistent but interesting box (some recordings taken from rehearsals not concerts; I happen not to rate the violin concerto performance, which might be one such):

              The Essential Stravinsky. Chandos: CHAN6654(5). Buy download online. Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Geoffrey Tozer (piano), Boris Berman (piano) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi

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              • oliver sudden
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                • Feb 2024
                • 1256

                Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                Not too sure that's available as a single CD any more (though it might be a charity shop find) but it also features in this rather inconsistent but interesting box (some recordings taken from rehearsals not concerts; I happen not to rate the violin concerto performance, which might be one such):

                https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...ial-stravinsky
                There are a few copies on discogs including a couple in the UK:

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                • Pulcinella
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                  • Feb 2014
                  • 12646

                  Originally posted by oliver sudden View Post

                  There are a few copies on discogs including a couple in the UK:
                  ....
                  I remember having this LP, with its early portrait cover (reproduced in the big Sony box):

                  Stravinsky: Symphony in E flat, Op. 1. Sony: G010003472732W. Buy download online. Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
                  Last edited by Pulcinella; 03-12-25, 08:07. Reason: Cross posted with smittins, I see!

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                  • smittims
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                    • Aug 2022
                    • 6103

                    I've always loved the Stravinsky Symphony in E flat since I discovered it on an imported LP of the composer's own recording , with a curious green portratit of him on the cover . I do find a few 'Stravinskyan' touches init, such as the very beginning of the scherzo, and later there's a folksy tune a little like the middle of Kaschei's Dance in the Firebird. There's also a very high note for the first bassoon inthe third moveemnt , which Robert Crat tells us was added aftre the composition of the Rite of Spring.

                    I've just been enjoying a 1950 concert conducted by Furtwangler and including Hindemith's Concerto for Orchestra which would have been a pretty new work for them to tackle then; there are a few uncertainties . latre Hindemith recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon, and they seemed to have got their fingers around it by that time (or maybe they found his beat clearer than Furtwangler's. )

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                    • Stanfordian
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 9542

                      J.S. Bach – Advent Cantatas BWV 36, 61 & 62
                      Cantata - Schwingt Freudig Euch Empor, BWV 36
                      Cantata - Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
                      Cantata - Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
                      Soloists: Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Sarah Connolly (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass)
                      Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe
                      Recorded November 1996
                      Harmonia Mundi, CD

                      Sir Charles V. Stanford
                      Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25
                      String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 85
                      RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
                      with Piers Lane, piano (Op. 25) & Garth Knox, viola (Op. 85)

                      Recorded 2004 Henry Wood Hall, London
                      Hyperion, CD

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                      • richardfinegold
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                        • Sep 2012
                        • 8394

                        I’ve been listening to the Symphonies of Joly Braga-Santos, conducted by Alberto Cassio with a variety of orchestras by Naxos/Marco Polo over about a decade starting in the mid nineties.
                        The earlier symphonies, essentially 1-4 are quite colorful. JB-S would have thrived in Hollywood, but these works also remind me of Tubin, particularly his Symphonies 3-5. Besides vivid orchestration the composer is excellent and building climaxes. There are some occasional spells of autopilot but they are brief.
                        His later symphonies such more modernistic, yet accessible.
                        JB-S really ought to be better known.

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                        • cloughie
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                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22641

                          Dmitri Mitropoulos recordings - Petrouchka - NYPO, and La Mer - CologneRSO. very good for their vintage .

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                          • pastoralguy
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8332

                            Mendelssohn. Overtures including Fingal’s Cave, Ruy Blas & Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

                            The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gabriel Chmura. DG 1977.

                            Gramophone gives it a mixed review saying that the programme improves as it goes along with more confident performances emerging. It all sounds pretty splendid to me with vintage playing from, possibly, my favourite orchestra.

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                            • pastoralguy
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8332

                              A pair of CDs that have been delayed a couple of times as well as being quite expensive…

                              Tchaikovsky. Symphony No.4 in f minor. Prokofiev. Extracts from Romeo and Juliet.

                              Sir Georg Solti conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1984. (10/02/84).

                              Absolutely blistering playing and conducting! Well worth the price and wait.

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                              • Petrushka
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 13089

                                Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                                A pair of CDs that have been delayed a couple of times as well as being quite expensive…

                                Tchaikovsky. Symphony No.4 in f minor. Prokofiev. Extracts from Romeo and Juliet.

                                Sir Georg Solti conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1984. (10/02/84).

                                Absolutely blistering playing and conducting! Well worth the price and wait.
                                Thanks for the reminder. I'd spotted this on Presto and forgotten it. Now ordered. I saw Solti perform the Tchaikovsky 4 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in London almost exactly a year after this recording.
                                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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