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I stopped listening a long time ago...

Robert

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Caiman uses the name name Tower and operates under that name...you can go online at www.tower.com and purchase all you want....

Robert

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My recommendation here is also for the Emersons, who also do a bang-up job with their Shostakovich cycle. Yes they are good, but I like Borodin Qt. Shostakovich a bit better Robert Yes, but have you heard the Shostakovich Quartet yet? Their Olympia series on individual CDs was reissued as a complet...

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Corlyss

He is fabulous...IE: Messiaen Vingt Regards......

Robert

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Great CD that, Henry Slofstra is still trying to enjoy it... :wink: Trying? He doesn't like it? Is this your favourite version of the Sinfonia? It was one of the first discs I recommended to him, I don't remember the others but they were much more mainstream, he keeps trying, maybe he likes it by n...

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Sean Tough question - the good thing is, you can't go far wrong as most recordings out there are decent - it is very much a question of how you like your Bartok ( a bit like how you prefer your steak cooked!) There are amazing variations in sound "texture" rather than "quality" ; my thoughts are as...

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maestrob wrote:My recommendation here is also for the Emersons, who also do a bang-up job with their Shostakovich cycle.

Yes they are good, but I like Borodin Qt. Shostakovich a bit better

Robert

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I would like to get a really good recording of Bartok's six string quartets so I'm wondering what recordings are you prepared to recommend? Are you familiar with the Rubin Quartet's recordings? I ask this question because it's available in Tower in Dublin, it is on the Brilliant Classics label. Sea...

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Sylph wrote:I hate jazz. Detest with a passion.

Thems mighty strong words partner....Your missing some great music.....Can you tell me what you are basing your hatred on...

Robert

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[quote="Ken"] Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Cantata Profana Pierre Boulez/Chicago Symphony Orchestra DGG Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis, Suite '1922' Boris Berezovsky Warner Schumann: The Symphonies, etc. John Eliot Gardiner/Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique Arkiv[/quote Ken, I have a few Wooden Prince ...

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karlhenning wrote:Yesterday, Jared, I revisited:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony № 6
London Phil
Haitink

Cheers,
~Karl

Karl,
I have never heard this version. How does it compare to Previn's LSO recording?

Robert

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Jared wrote:Vaughan Williams:

Symphony No 5
Three Portraits From 'The Elizabeth of England'
Concerto For Bass Tuba & Orch in F minor

Andre Previn
London Symphony Orch

I have many recordings of the fifth. This one is my favorite...

Robert

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A Bartok day.

Contrasts
Out Of Doors
Sonata for solo violin
Stanley Drucker
Robert Mann
Leonid Hambro
Bartok 1916

Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Robert Mann
Leonid Hambro
Bartok 1922

Mikrokosmos Suite
Tibor Serly
Dance Suite
Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Franco Autori
Bartok 1301

Robert

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Funny last night I watched once again, Miracle Worker. I could not help but think why don't we see movies like this anymore....Those performances by Bancroft and Duke put them in the better actress category....Seriously, when was the last time you saw a performance by two actresses that good?

Robert

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John F wrote:Ingmar Bergman: Now About All These Women

I thought I had seen all of Bergmans films (some many times) but this one escaped me...I guess I am fortunate....I consider myself a big fan...What year did this come out What actors did he use..

Robert

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smitty1931 wrote:I dare anyone not to tear up at the final scene of RANDOM HARVEST with Colman and Garson at their finest!

another winner

Robert

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Febnyc wrote:Hands down - The Miracle Worker.

Definitely agree with this, watched it again last night......What acting, I am always in amazement when I watch this....along with Philadelphia, these two films get me every time.

Robert

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Thank you for this thorough review and high recommendation

Robert

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Morton Feldman
Piano and Orchestra
Cello and Orchestra
Coptic Light
New World S.O.
Michael Tilson Thomas
ARGO
(thank you for the reminder Karl)

Humphrey Searle
Symphonies 2 3 & 5
BBC Scottish S.O.
Alun Francis
CPO

Benjamin Frankel
Complete String Quartets (1-5)
Nomos Quartet
CPO

Robert

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Brendan wrote:He's American - we ain't naturally that silly!

I always thought he was from Australia. Maybe it was the Mad Max films that made me think that.....I did not know him but was introduced to him in Hong Kong in 1987. Seemed a bit odd to me....

Robert

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karlhenning wrote:Feldman
Coptic Light

Cheers,
~Karl

Karl,
Is this the Tilson Thomas disc?....I love this entire disc.....

Robert

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I like Oppens for his piano works on Cedille Symphonia, Clarinet Conc DG Bridge records has put out seven volumes of Carters works that are marvelous.... They also have the complete music for Piano Charles Rosen.....Its good but I like Oppens better. String Quartets you have Julliard on Sony and Ard...

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Hopefully he will go back to Australia for his honeymoon...It would be great if he decided to stay there....possibly open a chabad......

Robert

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Tonight I took out one of my old Mingus LPs and gave it it a spin on the turntable, Lord but it's great, great, great, great, great. The group includes former Ellington alumni, Eddie Preston, Richard Williams & Rolf Ericson (trumpets), Britt Woodman & Quentin Jackson (trombones). There were two sep...

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Tonight I took out one of my old Mingus LPs and gave it it a spin on the turntable, Lord but it's great, great, great, great, great. The group includes former Ellington alumni, Eddie Preston, Richard Williams & Rolf Ericson (trumpets), Britt Woodman & Quentin Jackson (trombones). There were two sep...

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Neil has fallen into one of the oldest traps in the business, viewing the music through the plots of the operas or the story lines of the other works. As anyone who's listened to Dvořák's late tone poems should know, the grittiness of a story line does not necessarily translate into gritty music! (...

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Between Shostakovich's powerful and very emotional 8th Symphony and his majestic and brilliant 10th Symphony, S composed a very light hearted, witty and brilliant Haydnesque 9th Symphony in 1945. The Soviet's were expecting something as awe inspiring as Prokofiev's titanic 5th Symphony as a tribute...

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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Dutilleux, Bartok, Stravinsky
Violin Concertos

Rautavaara
Angel of Light
Leif Segerstam

Debussy
La Mer, Nocturnes, Premiere Rhapsodie, Jeux
Pierre Boulez
Cleveland Orch.

John Surman
Private City

Robert

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Maskedman = Robert

Glad to be back......

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Pierre Boulez
REPONS
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez

Harrison Birtwistle
THE TRIUMPH OF TIME
GAWAIN'S JOURNEY
Philharmonia Orchestra
Elgar Howarth

Anton Webern
WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET
STRING TRIO op. 20
Emerson String Quartet

Robert

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Man on Fire was much more credible and better made on the same premise. A pre-pubescent girl not the cause of her own problems is infinitely more appealling than a spoiled brat teenager who lied to her parents about what she was going to do on her summer vacation, sets out ambiguously to get laid b...

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Interestng, Robert ; what text(s)? Cheers, ~Karl Karl The text was written by the composer.... THE CYCLE I The dark sea is a tide of flowering waters, and in its vasty depth we view eternity. Look where the start hurls from its flaming rest And eyeless worlds are suppliant yet. They act not from ra...

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Roger Sessions String Quartet 2 Kohon Quartet VOX 5090 AMERICAN STRING QUARTETS 1900-1950 Sessions is easily my favorite on this disc. Very chromatic work....BTW Peter Mennins Quartet 2 is also on this set...whic also includes Schuman, Hanson, Thomson, Gershwin, Ives, Piston, Copland. Nothing comes...

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Sorry to disagree, Karlhenning, so perhaps best to agree to disagree. I won't comment of RVW's and Sibelius' early symphonies here because I know people like them. I have yet to find anything engaging about them. What you find or fail to find engaging is one thing, and cannot be argued. But you wer...

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Come on, folks. Here's one of the great symphonists of the 20th century! Your enthusiasm is noted, but . . . at the least , it seems a highly unorthodox view to rank him as a symphonist on a level of greatness recognized in Sibelius , Vaughan Williams , Prokofiev , Roussel , Dutilleux , Milhaud and...

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She's in residence at UC Davis where she performs several times a year. Sometimes she sits in with the Alexander Quartet when they play piano quintets--next year, for instance, they're doing the Brahms quintet. Yippee! Sunday next (10 days from now) she's performing solo at the Mondavi in the first...

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I had heard some piano music by Lara Downes. She sounded terrific. Anyone familiar with her? No, I don't know the name. Can you be specific about what kind of repertoire she plays or mention the CD label name and number? Lance I was listening to a Benny Golson disc. The last song was a solo by Lara...

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I'm currently streaming Nielson symphony No. 1. If anyone can recommend the best recordings of Nielson's compelte symphonies that is easily available, I'd love the advice. I cannot rec one particular conductor. I can give you a few to consider in no particular order....I own them all....and then so...

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living_stradivarius wrote:I think the first or last name starts with a B, but am not sure. She's relatively famous, but older than Mutter and Sallerno-Sonnenberg.

I can only think of two

Guila Bustabo

Iona Brown

Robert

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I had heard some piano music by Lara Downes. She sounded terrific. Anyone familiar with her?

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Now that I have finished listerning to Nielsen, RVW For me I needed to get back to something a little more serious... so......

BOULEZ

PLI SELON PLI

LIVRE POUR CORDES

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

STRINGS OF THE NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

SONY

AAAHHHHH THAT FEELS GOOD......

ROBERT

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karlhenning wrote:Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
London Phil
Haitink

Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, Opus 17
from the Big Munch/BSO Box, the 1961 recording

Karl
Now you also reminded me about RVW. I will have to take our his London symphony for an airing......

Robert

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Last night Art Pepper meets the rhythm section. Red Garland Paul Chambers Philly Joe classic art..... BENNY GOLSON ONE DAY FOREVER A MUST HAVE...Golson in my opinion one the most underrated writers in jazz. plus a great player..A major contributor to this genre. ..If your not familiar with him, he h...

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NIELSEN

SYMPHONY NO. 2-5

BURGLUND

RCA

I haven't listened to Nielsen in some time. I forgot how much I enjoy his work...I think I will listen to the other symphonies today....

Robert

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LIGETI

STRING QUARTETS AND DUETS

ARDITTI STRING QUARTET

SONY

My morning wake-up call.....

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http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/sovrev/eshpai/rdcd11051.jpg Andrei Eshpai Symphony no. 4 "Symphony-Ballet" (1980-81) Fedoseyev, USSR Radio and TV Large Symphony Orchestra. Symphony no. 5 (1987) Fedoseyev, USSR Symphony Orchestra. Fascinating composer whose recordings can be found on Albany Records. Is ...

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I hate to see a person unhappy...I would be more than pleased to help you by taking this set off your hands...I happen to like him. Robert if you don't have it already look at the Orfeo live CD of Rafael Kubelik and Wolfgang Schneidermann performing the Piano Concerto, Concerto Funebre and Symphoni...

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Welcome to our future.....

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I hate to see a person unhappy...I would be more than pleased to help you by taking this set off your hands...I happen to like him. Robert Caiman has it on for $129.72! Only one in North America. Thank you very much. I am aware of this, thats why I was more than willing to take it off your hands. B...

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SCRIABIN

PIANO CONCERTO

Ugorski/Boulez

DG

I find myself vacillating between this version and the Ashkenazy/Maazel... At the moment I am favoring the Ugorski version...

Robert

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