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Topic: Symphony No.1 (1935)
Composer: Gavriil Popov. Artist: Gennady Provatorov
Commented by: Bookman (29.01.2012 13:27)


Try his more excellent Symphony No. 5 in A major `Pastorale`. op.77, 1956.

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Topic: Symphony No.1 (1935)
Composer: Gavriil Popov. Artist: Gennady Provatorov
Commented by: jordi (29.01.2012 06:38)


EXCELLENT,TANKS

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Commented by: nglmp (17.01.2012 11:44)


Dear uploader thank you for sharing this recording with us. Please, will you be so kind to correct the name of the interpreter of the role of Leonora, it is MARIA CALLAS instead of Leontyne Price! Thank you.

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Topic: Concordanza (1971)
Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina. Artist: Alexander Lazarev
Commented by: (12.01.2012 10:22)


ADD

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Commented by: (31.12.2011 02:14)


lovely

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Topic: Doll (Solo Piano)
Composer: Keiko Matsui. Artist: Keiko Matsui
Commented by: (30.12.2011 04:25)


great

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Commented by: Intermezzo (21.12.2011 14:47)


gratiaDei777 wrote:

Best interpretation of the best piano concerto ever!!!

What about Rachmaninoff`s or Richter`s?

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Topic: Ocean of Life (2010) for symphony orchestra
Composer: Alexander Shymko. Artist: Armando Rosa Parodi, la
Commented by: Bookman (19.12.2011 08:55)


How, please, do I download this?

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Commented by: (30.11.2011 23:00)


Sergey - could you upload No. 10-11-12-13 Shostakovich String Quartets by the Taneyev,if you have any of these available. Thankyou. Jono. UK

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Commented by: (30.11.2011 22:56)


Vladimir-can you upload 10,11,12,13 Shostakovich by the Taneyev Quartet? The best interpretations in my opinion. Thanks,Jono. UK.

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Topic: Hurqualia
Composer: Giacinto Scelsi. Artist: -
Commented by: (15.11.2011 14:01)


What a petty. RECORDING IS DISTORTED.

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Commented by: (06.11.2011 19:07)


great one, good job

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Commented by: (19.10.2011 01:25)


Best interpretation of the best piano concerto ever!!!

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Topic: Nagauta Symphony "Tsurukame" (1934)
Composer: Koscak Yamada. Artist: Takuo Yuasa
Commented by: Bookman (08.09.2011 14:46)


Seriously interesting after only 40 seconds, try me!

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Topic: Symphony No.11 in h-moll
Composer: Nikolay Myaskovsky. Artist: Eugeniy Svetlanov
Commented by: SteelyDanorak (04.09.2011 19:57)


A thrilling work, superbly played. Myaskovsky is currently unfashionable in the UK, for reasons I feel are essentially masochistic. Its idiom is post-romantic (at points barely `post`) but this is the 1920`s: shouldn`t he be more expressionist, like Bartok as his most grating? Yet Myaskvosky is not a sentimentalist and for all its aural delights this is authentically complex and arresting music. File under `guilty pleasure` perhaps?

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Topic: Nagauta Symphony "Tsurukame" (1934)
Composer: Koscak Yamada. Artist: Takuo Yuasa
Commented by: Bookman (04.09.2011 12:51)


Excellent work!

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Topic: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
Composer: William Walton. Artist: Grigoriy Pyatigorsky
Commented by: SteelyDanorak (27.08.2011 01:19)


This is the last and least critically regarded of Walton`s concertos. Certainly its style is nostalgic, and the parallels with Elgar`s earlier masterpiece are closer than some would say they should be. Portrait of the one-time enfant terrible as an old man, perhaps. But for me it contains some of this composer`s finest melodic writing, balanced by sumptuous scoring for the orchestral strings. While the performance here is more workmanlike than spine-tingling, the playing is accurate and recording quality excellent. A slight quibble: the upload cuts out too soon at the end, before the reverb of the final chord has completely died away.

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Topic: Piano Sonata N 1 (1946)
Composer: Pierre Boulez. Artist: Idil Biret
Commented by: SteelyDanorak (26.08.2011 00:59)


Having just posted a favourable comment about an orchestral piece of Boulez`, I have to say about this one that I just don`t get it. It may have been written to a strict formula, but the effect is the aural equivalent of Jackson Pollock - notes sprayed randomly onto the stave. My sense is that you could derive certain principles from listening to the piece - reverse engineer it, so to speak - and use them to create similar works yourself. Any competent pianist could learn, and I don`t know what criteria you would then invoke to judge the quality of the rip-off pieces as against those produced by the professionally trained composer. I`m not saying `a monkey could do this`, but I reckon you could programme a computer to churn out Boulez sonatas and no-one would realise.

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Commented by: SteelyDanorak (26.08.2011 00:39)


I was expecting to loathe this. I do not care for Boulez` austere, hyper-intellectual theorising about his composing techniques and his disdain for tonality, pulse and discernible melody. Which doesn`t seem to leave much, so I was pleasantly surprised. These pieces explore orchestral textures, dynamic variations and contrasts of movement and there`s always something to interest the ear. Boulez` scoring is still recognisably French in its sensousness, and his dissonances nothing like as harsh as other serialists are wont to inflict on the listener. I`m still some way from turning to Boulez for sheer aesthetic delight but after this he`s started to intrigue me.

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Topic: Piano Concerto No.4 (1952)
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos. Artist: Christina Ortiz
Commented by: SteelyDanorak (24.08.2011 11:09)


This exhilarating and inventive work doesn`t get even a passing mention in Wikipedia`s piece on Villa-Lobos (who apart from Bachianas Brasileiras is criminally neglected in the West). One can guess why: in the 1950`s classical composers weren`t supposed to write music this easy on the ear, and in fairness it does occasionally get a bit Rachmaninioffy. But only occasionally and we should by now be able to see that within his conservative, tonal idiom Villa-Lobos was fantastically creative, springing harmonic surprises at every turn. Time for a rehabilitation of this thrilling composer? or will he remain a guilty pleasure for those of us who can take the cold shower of avant-garde dissonance if we have to, but need a warm bath of post-romanticism now and then?

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