Sorry to bitch, but does everything really have to be only in Rapidshare? Could we maybe try to throw in one or two mirrors as well from now on(prefferably megaupload or zshare, which allows multiple downloads at once?) This is some great stuff, but as it is, downloading takes forever.

Also, if anyone has that Joly Bragos symphony from waaay back on the first page, could you please reupload?

I just listen to these, and they were just AWESOME!

and lens, i hope u don't mind me reminding, but could u post stravinsky's firebird suite? :)

STRAVINSKY - THE FIREBIRD
(1910 Complete Ballet)


MP3-V0
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=ffqff2ku9q

This is the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stravinsky himself. I have the 1945 suite too, which has reduced forces and slightly odd staccato brass at the end, but you can't go wrong with this one. Cover image of my own design :)

The tracks that make up the 1919 suite are the following (I think):
1. Introduction
4. Dance of the Firebird
10. The Princesses' Round
18. Infernal Dance of Kashchei's Subjects
19. Lullaby (The Firebird)
22. Kashchei's Spells are Broken; His Palace Disappears, the Stone Knights Return to Life, Joy Reigns

Obviously there are some slight edits and bars of bridging material between movements in the suite, but there you go. The whole thing is a milestone in dramatic orchestral music. Can you blame Cliff Eidelman for riffing off the amazing grinding basses of the Introduction? And am I imagining it, or does Zimmer try to get away with it too in The Da Vinci Code?

Obviously there are some slight edits and bars of bridging material between movements in the suite, but there you go. The whole thing is a milestone in dramatic orchestral music. Can you blame Cliff Eidelman for riffing off the amazing grinding basses of the Introduction? And am I imagining it, or does Zimmer try to get away with it too in The Da Vinci Code?

omg! i love u! :)) i'll get back with my comments after i listen to this and get the Da Vinci Code OST (i'm such a noob. haha. i haven't gotten around to DLing it yet) and compare. :D thanks so much! :D

oh yeah, does anybody have albums/recordings of operas/lied/song cycles/etc. (of any era, I'm pretty open about that) by singers like Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Jessye Norman, and other really good performers you guys can recommend? I've looked at my classical music collection recently, and noticed I don't have much vocal works (and I'm a voice major, how pathetic), it's practically 85% orchestral... haha.

The only complete vocal works I have are:
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (unknown performers)
Handel's Hercules (conducted by Gardiner 1983)
Schubert's Winterreise (sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
...that's it, technically...

I'd really like some help to expand my collection, and knowledge of vocal work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :D

^^This is a very broad request. Does your university library not have classical cds you can borrow for your course?

I'm not massivley into solo vocal music, but if I think of anything in the coming weeks I'll post it.

^^This is a very broad request. Does your university library not have classical cds you can borrow for your course?

I'm not massivley into solo vocal music, but if I think of anything in the coming weeks I'll post it.

well, it does, but mostly just excerpts from, and we mostly have orchestral, much less vocal works, and i can't take them out of the library. I'd bring a laptop but the one I have is prehistoric... and my school requires paper work blah blah, just so i can bring it into school, which kinda discourages me. and there's no wi-fi... so not a lot of my friends bring their laptops either... so yeah. XO

hmm.. i gave it some thought. in case operas in general are too vague, if anyone has vocal works done by:
Franz Liszt
Erik Satie
Sergei Rachmaninov
Emile Paladilhe
and any classical era opera (Mozart and Rossini's a good start) :)

help's highly appreciated. :D i think I'll be able to access my school lib by next week, since classes are cancelled till the end of the week here in the Philippines.

Greetings to all
Been watching this board a couple weeks - amazing ... & the atmosphere is civilised and generous. A blessing.
May I ask around for:
Lepo Sumera : any of Mushroom Cantata; Symphonies 3 to 6; Musica profana; Cello concerto
Gloria Coates: String Quartet no 6; Symphonies nos 1, 7 & 14
Helena Tulve - Lijnen
Carl Vine: any symphonies
Kurt Atterberg - Symphony no 2 or any other
Regards to all and thanks for creating a digital spot of paradise ...

PROKOFIEV & SHOSTAKOVICH - VIOLIN CONCERTOS
Dmitry Sitkovetsky Violin
Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra


I finally got around to downloading the superb Shostakovich concertos - I then glued the third and fourth movements together into a single mp3 file so that there was no audible delay between them.

Thank you so much - I have thoroughly enjoyed being re-acquainted with these pieces, which I hadn't heard for years.

-A.

Does anybody have pointers to Shostakovich's 9th symphony in mp3 format?

Thanks,
-A.

Mozart Complete Works (Symphonies) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J8RAYHW0)

Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden
MP3 - 320Kbps

wow, thanks Mithrandir, I've just realized that my Mozart collection isnt as full as I thought it was. Downloading now, thanks for the upload

I'm planning on doing the entire collection, so more to come.

STRAVINSKY - THE FIREBIRD
(1910 Complete Ballet)


MP3-V0
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=ffqff2ku9q

This is the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stravinsky himself. I have the 1945 suite too, which has reduced forces and slightly odd staccato brass at the end, but you can't go wrong with this one. Cover image of my own design :)

The tracks that make up the 1919 suite are the following (I think):
1. Introduction
4. Dance of the Firebird
10. The Princesses' Round
18. Infernal Dance of Kashchei's Subjects
19. Lullaby (The Firebird)
22. Kashchei's Spells are Broken; His Palace Disappears, the Stone Knights Return to Life, Joy Reigns

Obviously there are some slight edits and bars of bridging material between movements in the suite, but there you go. The whole thing is a milestone in dramatic orchestral music. Can you blame Cliff Eidelman for riffing off the amazing grinding basses of the Introduction? And am I imagining it, or does Zimmer try to get away with it too in The Da Vinci Code?

I love the firebird, And if anyone ever gets a chance to get ahold of the score and watch it go by (thank you Massive University Music Library) its wonderful to watch, I still think this has some of the best Orchestration ever

Here's some Wojciech Kilar for you: his orchestral dance "Krzesany" - the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra cond. Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.554788)

http://rapidshare.com/files/288487874/krzesany.mp3

Enjoy!

-A.

Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) - Swedish Symphonist; very enigmatic but undeniably powerful. I have symphonies 7 and 11 - would people be interested in my uploading them? I don't think I've seen his name on these boards yet, but he's a major player in 20th century symphonic writing.

-A.

Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) - Swedish Symphonist;

Yes I only have these works on the DG Label (LP) like to hear a nice cd of both.

Here are the Pettersson symphonies:

Number 7: http://rapidshare.com/files/288806431/symphony_no_7.mp3
Number 11: http://rapidshare.com/files/288806432/symphony_no_11.mp3

Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra cond. Leif Segerstam, BIS CD-580:
http://www.bis.se/index.php?op=album&aID=BIS-CD-580



From rateyourmusic.com:

"The story of Allan Pettersson is almost as compelling his music. He suffered from crippling rheumatoid arthritis that left him hospitalized for extended periods of time on multiple occasions, with little time in between to devote to composition. Still, he managed to complete 16 symphonies before his death in 1980.

Symphony #7 is easily Petersson's most famous and probably his most approachable as well. It was championed by Antal Dorati in 1968 and made Pettersson an overnight sensation of sorts. The symphony consists of a 46 minute single movement and is highlighted by richly textured lush and delicate string themes, with tempos and dynamics held back.

Symphony #11 is a single movement 24 minute work. It includes some of the lush strings found in symphony #7, but here the strings struggle against the horns and woodwinds. Apparently, the material for this symphony came to Pettersson during an extended hospital stay, which may account for some of the darker colors of this work. After repeated listening, #11 makes more of a lasting impression on me than #7.

Superbly engineered by BIS and lovingly conducted by Leif Segerstam."

I'm planning on doing the entire collection, so more to come.

Awesome, thanks in advance.

Mozart Complete Works (Symphonies) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UVHQP7PO)

Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98QE321E)

Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4H43JZGC)

Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden
MP3 - 320Kbps

Thank You very much for Mozart's Complete Works...Outstanding!

Great uploads guys. Thank you very much! Pettersson is new to me, and I can never get enough Mozart :)

As requested:


CARL VINE - SYMPHONIES 1-6

http://rapidshare.com/files/157577426/Carl_Vine_Complete_Symphonies_1-6__CD_01_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/157705643/Carl_Vine_Complete_Symphonies_1-6__CD_02_.rar

CD 01
Symphony no. 1 'MicroSymphony'
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 3
Celebrate Celeberrime
CD 02
Symphony no. 4.2
Symphony no. 5 'Percussion'
Symphony no. 6 'Choral'

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir
Synergy
Stuart Challender, conductor
Edo de Waart, conductor


HELENA TULVE - LIJNEN

http://rapidshare.com/files/136299568/HlnTlv_2008_Ljnn_FLAC_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136299574/HlnTlv_2008_Ljnn_FLAC_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/136306370/HlnTlv_2008_Ljnn_FLAC_.part3.rar

Thanks to the original uploaders. Both highly recommended!

Mozart Complete Works (Symphonies) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5BR067EK)

Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden
MP3 - 320Kbps

HELENA TULVE - LIJNEN the rapidshare links don�t work :(
Please re-upload it :)

Links for Tulve replaced with FLAC. These definitely work :)

Mozart Complete Works (Symphonies) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8M2LKCTK)

Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7TRBOJAU)

Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q686NGFI)

Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ANBVZNF0)

Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3MROXHKL)

Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0GEOAQXP)

Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden
MP3 - 320Kbps

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Symphony No. 40 on disc 9 is the original version without clarinet, and No. 40 on disc 11 is the revised version with clarinet.

Mozart Complete Works (Concertos) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=81DQ6FNL)

Musica Amphion
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
Martin Boeken, baroque violin
Remy Baudet, baroque violin
Margaret Urquhart, double bass
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q0TZTXNN)

Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ER9K8KL8)

Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E16VP3JD)

Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6AS997OP)

Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5WO0F5V6)

Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Freeman
Derek Han, piano
MP3 - 320Kbps

Vaughn Williams has been a great great favorite of mine for years- His Mystical Songs I heard recently performed live in San Diego and his symphonies are great and much imitated

Thanks for Tagemitsu- I had trouble with a password for these-he's great

Mozart Overload...Awsome...Thank You!!!

edit: links updated (2010-07-22)

Thanks for all the awesome uploads, here's my humble contribution:
(pw: forgottenmelodies)

Saint-Saens Sonatas for Violin and Piano:

http://rapidshare.com/files/408368504/saint_sonatas.rar.html
The Elegy is the most beautiful violin piano duo i've ever heard, try it!

Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano (Hamelin):

http://rapidshare.com/files/408388251/alkan_symph.rar.html
I could write pages of admiration for this forgotten composer. These are real gems, although the accompanying pieces to the symphony aren't as important. Just listen to the finale of the Symphony, it's about 4 minutes long and it completely blew me away the first time i heard it.

Alkan: Les quatre ages (Hamelin):

http://rapidshare.com/files/408385772/alkan_quatre.rar.html
Better as an Alkan introduction, if only it had the Symphony. The Grande Sonate Les quatre ages displays the lifetimes of a man in his 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, from virtuuos joy to lethargic moan. The Barcarolle shows Alkan is not limited to virtuosity but can also produce simple beauty and The Festin, a usually Alkan-like dark theme with variations proves his diversity.

Also, although it might be inappropriate to post here, i've recorded another simple but beautiful piece of Alkan on Youtube, the Nocturne op. 22:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuB9V-3hFM

More gems coming up!

edit: collected uploads:

Two more gems from me! My listening recommendations are in bold, i hope you'll love them as much as i do. I never knew baroque could be that involving and Medtner's melodies are of a haunting quality i've hardly known before.

(pw forgottenmelodies)

Tous les matins du monde OST

http://rapidshare.com/files/408374712/matins.rar.html

You don't need to know the movie to appreciate the music. It's late Renaissance/early Baroque music (17th century) of the kind you probably haven't heard before, refined, diverse and even emotionally engaging, all played on the viola da gamba. Just listen to the 2-viola arrangement of le pleurs and judge for yourself.

Medtner: Forgotten Melodies (Marc-Andr� Hamelin)

http://rapidshare.com/files/293474965/medtner.rar
Hamelin is the knight of salvation for forgotten composers and here he brings Medtner's melodious, enchanting, harmonically complex works, now ironically titled, to life. I was sad to see that the first movement of the first set had such a beautiful melodic line, only at over 15 minutes too long to be realistically playable for an amateur in many ways, and i was relieved that this motive draws through this whole set, with a very playable 6th movement (that i'm learning now), the canzona, that quite closely imitates the first. The 8th movement, sort of a coda, does much of the same. Also, there are the stylistically refreshing Danzas, just listen to the Danza festiva, a very individual piece.
I just haven't quite found my love for the second set, Forgotten Melodies II, i think it's quite complex and difficult to assess and appreciate.

Anyways, this brought me to upload said Sonata in Eb on a CD that also features the Mozart K311 in D and the Beethoven Op.2 No 2 in A Sonatas. The pianist is the young Rafal Blechacz, winner of the International Chopin Competition. His interpretation of the Polonaise Heroique there cought my interest (and admiration).

Rafal Blechacz: Sonatas
pw: forgottenmelodies

http://rapidshare.com/files/408378660/rafal_sonatas.rar.html

Prokofiev - Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 [Flac]

http://rapidshare.com/files/308460238/prok_comp_1.rar

Glass-wise, i have some of his solo piano stuff, mainly the Metamorphoses, from an unidentified recording:
http://rapidshare.com/files/308477945/glasssolop.rar

Marc-Andr� Hamelin in a state of Jazz

http://rapidshare.com/files/318221205/hamelinjazz.rar
pw: forgottenmelodies

A collection of Jazz compositions - no improvisations, although Kapustin might sound like it. It's an amazing feat to compose and correctly notate these pieces, and they're a unique blend of Jazz idioms in classical forms like Sonatas. Trust me, his Sonata #2 Mvmt 1 will blow you away! The Gulda compositions are a nice addition and certainly in the reach of amateurs, while the Weissenberg and Antheil are a more difficult matter, certainly less accessible.

I'm gonna be annoying again, but...



HELENA TULVE - LIJNEN



Don't spose anyone'd wanna re-up this in ANYTHING 128kbps and up in MP3?
God i HATE my download limit T__T so sorry for this, but the cover art to this album is really drawing me in, don't wanna miss out D;

Thanks

Mozart Complete Works (Concertos) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5PWVGRKM)

Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OL01OD49)

Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SEJR3WKP)

Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y7R4XDR3)

Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Freeman
Derek Han, piano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1GHBDTEY)

1-6
Hungarian State Orchestra
Janos Ferencsik
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
Dezso Ranki, piano
Andras Schiff, piano (4-6)
7-8
Dresdner Philharmonic
Kurt Masur
Annerose Schmidt, piano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4IE4EEF2)

1-3
Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam
Lev Markiz
Harmen de Boer, clarinet
4-6
Les Violons du Roy
Bernard Labadie
Marc Grauwels, flute
Giselle Herbert, harp
MP3 - 320Kbps

Thanks for all the awesome uploads, here's my humble contribution:

Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano (Hamelin):

http://rapidshare.com/files/290192215/alk_symph.rar
I could write pages of admiration for this forgotten composer. These are real gems, although the accompanying pieces to the symphony aren't as important. Just listen to the finale of the Symphony, it's about 4 minutes long and it completely blew me away the first time i heard it.

More gems coming up!

Apparently the rar file needs a password for extraction - is there any way you can make it available?

Thanks!
-A.

it's at the top of my post ;) pw: forgottenmelodies

^ oh, so it is! I should have read your post more carefully! Thanks anyway - and thanks for the uploads.

-A.

Anybody has a good version, perhaps Solti's, of Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung or Ring Cycle)?

I am searching this for a while now, can`t find it. Thanks a lot!

-Atenzor-

You can get Karajan's Ring here (http://pqpbach.opensadorselvagem.org/category/wagner/).

...and Solti's here (http://classiclibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/Wagner%20Richard).

Thanks man! :)

Mozart Complete Works (Concertos) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OYEZWVLX)

English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard
Peter-Lukas Graf, flute
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XA321EM)

Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam
Lev Markiz

1-3
Bart Schneemann, oboe
4-6
Ronald Karten, bassoon
7-9
Bart Schneemann, oboe
Harmen de Boer, clarinet
Jacob Slagter, horn
Ronald Karten, bassoon
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C2K1ULKK)

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Roy Goodman
Herman Jeurissen, horn
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 16 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RRJMZRYX)

Disc 17 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9LFTVTGI)

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Eduardo Marturet
Emmy Verhey, violin
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 18 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QMU0O28F)

1-3
Amati Chamber Orchestra
Gil Sharon
Gil Sharon, violin
Yuri Gandelsman, viola
4-6
Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Bohdan Warchal
Anna Hobling, violin
Guido Hobling, violin
MP3 - 320Kbps

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More to come next week.

OMG, you have all 170 discs of Mozart Complete Works?

It will take time to upload them. But it's SUPERB! Great work! :)

Check here (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html) for the contents of each disc.

This thread is amazing! Many thanks for all of the beautiful music!

Does anyone have music by W. Francis McBeth? He has a written really good concert band music for high school and college level. And would anyone have Masque from this guy.

Thanks!

Awesome stuff here. BUMP and a little promoting on my side: "Frederich Nietzsche: Seine Musik" from Taringa. I was gonna upload my disc but I saw somebody already had uploaded one so...http://rapidshare.com/files/149445839/seine_musik.rar.html The pass is nemirfx



Yeah not really classical (if anything is more like romanticism-neoclassical) They are pieces for voice and piano. My favorites are "Heldenklage" (Heroic Lament- Track03) and ""Bechsw�rung" (Conjuration-Track 06). The first, I am told, was written for the "Germany" society by Nietzsche in his early sixteens. The second is the musicalization of a poem by Pushkin by a late Nietzsche. Enjoy.

Wow, fascinating posts! Thank you all.

Sorcerer88 - Can't wait to listen to these. I've wanted to look into Alkan for a while now and you've given me the perfect chance. Enjoyed your vid too - entirely appropriate to the thread and a very nice, personal contribution. Lovely piece.

Another Mad Dancer - Who'd have thought Nietzsche would have such a warm melodic sense? Quite Schubertian. These pieces are much better and more charming than I expected - if not as dazzling as his writings ;)

Edit: Some of the pieces you mention don't appear to be in this volume(II). Do you have the link for the first?


Here's Nietzsche's 'Hymn to Friendship', his last composition:
http://rapidshare.com/files/291470352/Hymnus_an_die_Freundschaft.mp3


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VAGN HOLMBOE - REQUIEM FOR NIETZSCHE

http://rapidshare.com/files/291481721/Holmboe_-_Requiem_for_Nietzsche.rar

An avant-garde choral-orchestral work by Denmark's most highly regarded composer after Nielsen. There are some stunningly realised effects with the choir that remind me in places of The Omen.. but just when you think you're getting aleatoric improv whispering and so forth, the music reveals itself to be precisely controlled. Also, spot the Wagner quote in the first movement! The text is by Danish poet Thorkild Bjornvig and I wish I had it to peruse; it's said not to be a biographic account of Nietzsche's life, but an "imaginative recreation of his struggles".

Mozart Complete Works (Divertimenti) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1SZ93HSC)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Florian Heyerick
Olga Nodel, solo violine
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1EHMJU6A)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Florian Heyerick
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YS1UTBB1)

1-14
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Florian Heyerick
15-20
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
Burkhard Glaetzner
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QPDR6LG8)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Jiri Malat
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VZWJOE68)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Jiri Malat
Olgo Nodel, solo violine
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6YR4MEA8)

Camerata Bern
Thomas Furi
MP3 - 320Kbps

Wow, fascinating posts! Thank you all.


Another Mad Dancer - Who'd have thought Nietzsche would have such a warm melodic sense? Quite Schubertian. These pieces are much better and more charming than I expected - if not as dazzling as his writings ;)

Edit: Some of the pieces you mention don't appear to be in this volume(II). Do you have the link for the first?

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They are there. The disc had two releases; one in 1997 (the link corresponds to a rip from that version) which has the tracklisting you saw, and a, so to speak, "expanded" reprint in 2000 with the complete track listings(the expanded part wasn't more music, it was a small hard cover booklet; 114p in Spanish, English and German). This is the cover of the booklet which doubles as the CD case.



Pretty cool huh? It makes for a nice, classy gift. The "correct" or more up-to-date tracklisting is this:

N� Track German Title - English translation
1.- Da Geht ein bach - A river flows there
2.- Herbstlich sonnige Tage - Sunny Autumn Days
3.- Heldenklage - Heroic Lament
4.- Aus der Jugenzeit - Of youth
5.- Monodie au Deux (Lob der Barmherzigkeit) See note
6.- Beschwor�ng - Pledge
7.- Nachklang einer Silvesternacht - Echoes of a New Year's Eve
8.- Die junge Fischerin - The young fisherwoman
9.- Das fragment an Sich - The fragment Itself See note 2.
10.- Das Kind an die erloschene Kerze - The Child to a dead Candle
11.- Einleitung - Introduction
12.- Albumlatt - Album Photograph
13.- Gebet an das Leben - Prayer to life
14.- Im Mondschein auf der Puzsta - Moonlight in the Puszta
15.- Wie sich Rebenranken Schwingen - Like a swinging vine
16.- So lach doch mal - Laugh Now

Note: "Monodie au Deux (Lob der Barmherzigkeit)" was written by Nietzsche to be played at the wedding between Olga Herzen (foster daughter of Maldiwa von Meysenbug, Nietzsche's maternal friend) and French historian Gabriel Monod. It was played two hands at the wedding by Nietzsche and Wagner. Yes, THAT Wagner.
Note 2: The title is actually an untranslatable pun on English; The Fragment Itself is also(in German and Spanish) Fragment on D SUCK THAT ENGLISH!!
Last Note: The pieces with "lyrics" are actually musicallized poems by various authors. You'd be better off googling them than asking me. If you can't find them, send me a PM and I'll capture them for you. Regards.

Yes, THAT Wagner.

The close friendship and influence between Nietzsche and Wagner is something that I’m endlessly intrigued by, and I think it brings both figures into better focus. Certainly Nietzsche was a very conflicted man, and especially so in his relationship with the great composer. Wagner was the nearest thing to an ‘ubermensch’ that he ever knew - a dominating, full-blooded visionary, a composer of utmost brilliance and force; he went from idolising him to despising him, and made conscious attempts to distance himself, intellectually and emotionally. The common link was the philosophy of Schopenhauer, something they discussed constantly and Wagner bought into wholesale, but again Nietzsche came to reject. It’s one of the greatest cerebral love triangles of all time, and who would be without all the powerful works that surround it?!

Writing about his time at school as a boy, Nietzsche confesses: ‘since my ninth year, music was what attracted me most of all; in that happy state in which one does not yet know the limits of one’s gifts and thinks that all objects of love are attainable…’. I wonder if the imposing, sublime genius of Wagner cast this perspective on his own talent for composition. Apparently, the conductor Toscanini harboured ambitions of becoming a composer until he attended a performance of Tristan and Isolde, and realized he would never be able to match it!

I find it impressive that Nietzsche’s knowledge of music theory was entirely self-acquired, and I do think these miniatures have their appeal. Previous appraisals I've seen of his compositions have been rather dismissive, at best describing them as ‘inferior Schumann’. It might be difficult to deny that characterization, but I still enjoy them for what they are. Track 7 (which I think is mistagged on this set, as it claims to be for voice and piano) is my favourite; the others are very pleasant and Germanic, but this one has more passion and more rhythmic involvement; there are still moments when it doesn’t quite work, something awkward in the phrasing, but I find that adds to the effect and the pathos. It’s the longest piece and the most impressionistic.

I’ve read that Nietzsche had plans for a symphony at one point, a rather programmatic one. I wonder if he’d have been up to the job? It’s funny because these days we don’t hold musicians to such lofty standards (to the point that composing is becoming an antiquated idea in itself!), and it seems odd to think of anyone denying themselves the chance and just saying “I’m not good enough, not GREAT enough”.

Thanks for the detailed tracklist and translations! :)

STRAVINSKY - THE RITE OF SPRING
Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra

MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/277539286/Stravinsky_Rite.rar

:

Just popping in here to say thanks for this. I know I have been MIA for the last couple months but I suddenly got called into a full-time job and so that's life. But just checking this disc out now and I gotta say this is effing knocking me out. My previous "killer" Rite was Bernstein's 1958, but has got the same savagery but with modern sound. Rock.

Whoa - last month I bought tix for Rite at Lincoln Center and I just checked my ticket and it's this guy. Stoked!

Whoa - last month I bought tix for Rite at Lincoln Center and I just checked my ticket and it's this guy. Stoked!

Cool! You'll love it. Gergiev is the real deal: he has a barely visible comb-over with a life of its own and sweats profusely under the weight of his own gravitas. His recording of the Rite of Spring might be some distance from 'perfect', with balance issues and a few audible errors, but he really gets to the heart of the piece for me. It's supposed to be unkempt! I can only imagine a live performance will be even better.

Good to see you back btw. Do give us the full critique after the concert :)

I envy you!

Gergiev is a bit hit and miss for me, but with Stravinsky, he's usually absolutely spot on. I was going to go to his Mahler symphony cycle in London, but finances didn't permit. In hindsight, I should've got a bank loan...

As far as this disc goes, it's a ravishing Rite.

AND Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy! One of my all time favourites.

Ta muchly.

Mozart Complete Works (Divertimenti) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CYXMPF0Y)

1-10
Symphonie-orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Colin Davis
11-23
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Janos Rolla
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M0WA5BWO)

Symphonie-orchester des Bayerishcen Runkfunks
Sir Colin Davis
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CEBS3FFO)

1-7
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Janos Rolla
8-15
Amati Chamber Orchestra
Gil Sharon
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=16HB513O)

Capella Istropolitana
Nicol Matt
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8IM8MBBO)

Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Jan Jansen, clarinet
Johan Steinmann, bassoon
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JI226ZXK)

Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Jan Jansen, clarinet
Johan Steinmann, bassoon
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KP9POXHO)

Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Jan Jansen, clarinet
Remco de Vries, oboe
Katty Halvarson, oboe
Johan Steinmann, bassoon
Hans Wisse, bassoon
Martin van de Merwe, horn
Jos Buurman, horn
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FHW9OOFS)

Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Jan Jansen, clarinet
Remco de Vries, oboe
Sandra Zoer, oboe
Ron Tyhuis, english horn
Irma Kort, english horn
Johan Steinmann, bassoon
Dymphna van Dooremaal, bassoon
Martin van de Merwe, horn
Jos Buurman, horn
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T2CIMD43)

Remco de Vries, oboe
Irma Kort, oboe
Johan Steinmann, bassoon
Hans Wisse, bassoon
Martin van de Merwe, horn
Jos Buurman, horn
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 16 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5KN0JQHR)

1-2
Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Laura Rijsewijk, clarinet
Jan Jansen, basset horn
Diede Brantjes, basset horn
Romke Jan Wijmenga, basset horn
3-8
Clara de Vries, soprano
Jose Scholte, alto
Bas Ramselaar, bass
Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Laura Rijsewijk, clarinet
Jan Jansen, basset horn
9-20
Martin van de Merwe, horn
Jos Buurman, horn
21-26
Ad van Zon, trumpet in C
Simon Wieringa, trumpet in C
Frank Steeghs, trumpet in C
Andre Heuvelman, piccolo trumpet
Arto Hoornweg, trumpet in D
Jacco Groenendijk, trumpet in D
Randy Max timpani
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 17 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N3JL4FPQ)

Wind Soloists of The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Alexander Schneider
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 18 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQNYE2L5)

Slovak Sinfonietta
Taras Krysa
MP3 - 320Kbps

Looking for Dreams of Andalusia and music like it

Mithrandir - Thank you! The Divertimenti are a conspicuous hole in my Mozart collection :)

Tango - From what I've heard of Gergiev's Mahler on the LSO Live discs, it wasn't all that earth-shattering, or worth a bank bust. In particular, the 7th was a massive let down, and I need an upgrade!



ALEXANDER SCRIABIN - PROMETHEUS: THE POEM OF FIRE (1910)
(Valery Gergiev, Kirov Opera Orchestra)



http://www.mediafire.com/?6fnesjoa1rde03y

An interesting fact about this piece is that it includes a part for 'clavier � lumi�res', a keyboard intrument that projected coloured beams of light corresponding to different tones in the music. It's rarely if ever performed this way now and, of course, an audio recording couldn't convey its effect. Worth considering the concept though, and it's a wonderful invitation to use your imagination!

The painter Kandinsky is said to have had a condition called Synesthesia (which Scriabin may or may not have shared), where he had the intense experience of 'seeing' colours when listening to music. A lot of his paintings derive from this association between the senses and he adored Prometheus, writing an appreciation of it in one of his aesthetic manifestos. See what you make of the fluid, ambiguous harmony (much of which is derived from Scriabin's so-called 'Mystic chord') and the rich, perfumed orchestrations. The climax is incredibly powerful, forging its way to a solid, triadic F sharp major. It never fails to take my breath away :)



Wassily Kandinsky - Composition VII (1913)

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN - PROMETHEUS: THE POEM OF FIRE (1910)

You are a fine officer and a gentleman!

I didn't know Nietzsche composed, that explains his quote "Without music, life would be a mistake", thanks for that.

Two more gems from me! My listening recommendations are in bold, i hope you'll love them as much as i do. I never knew baroque could be that involving and Medtner's melodies are of a haunting quality i've hardly known before.

(pw forgottenmelodies)

Tous les matins du monde OST

http://rapidshare.com/files/293465556/matins.rar

You don't need to know the movie to appreciate the music. It's late Renaissance/early Baroque music (17th century) of the kind you probably haven't heard before, refined, diverse and even emotionally engaging, all played on the viola da gamba. Just listen to the 2-viola arrangement of le pleurs and judge for yourself.

Medtner: Forgotten Melodies (Marc-Andr� Hamelin)

http://rapidshare.com/files/293474965/medtner.rar
Hamelin is the knight of salvation for forgotten composers and here he brings Medtner's melodious, enchanting, harmonically complex works, now ironically titled, to life. I was sad to see that the first movement of the first set had such a beautiful melodic line, only at over 15 minutes too long to be realistically playable for an amateur in many ways, and i was relieved that this motive draws through this whole set, with a very playable 6th movement (that i'm learning now), the canzona, that quite closely imitates the first. The 8th movement, sort of a coda, does much of the same. Also, there are the stylistically refreshing Danzas, just listen to the Danza festiva, a very individual piece.
I just haven't quite found my love for the second set, Forgotten Melodies II, i think it's quite complex and difficult to assess and appreciate.

So, if you want to make me happy, listen to at least one of the pieces i recommend, also of the Alkan and Saint-Saens i uploaded earlier:


(pw: forgottenmelodies)

Saint-Saens Sonatas for Violin and Piano:

http://rapidshare.com/files/289629632/saint_sonatas.rar
The Elegy is the most beautiful violin piano duo i've ever heard, try it!

Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano (Hamelin):

http://rapidshare.com/files/290192215/alk_symph.rar
I could write pages of admiration for this forgotten composer. These are real gems, although the accompanying pieces to the symphony aren't as important. Just listen to the finale of the Symphony, it's about 4 minutes long and it completely blew me away the first time i heard it.

Alkan: Les quatre ages (Hamelin):

http://rapidshare.com/files/290192217/alk_quatre.rar
Better as an Alkan introduction, if only it had the Symphony. The Grande Sonate Les quatre ages displays the lifetimes of a man in his 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, from virtuuos joy to lethargic moan. The Barcarolle shows Alkan is not limited to virtuosity but can also produce simple beauty and The Festin, a usually Alkan-like dark theme with variations proves his diversity.

Also, although it might be inappropriate to post here, i've recorded another simple but beautiful piece of Alkan on Youtube, the Nocturne op. 22:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuB9V-3hFM

Mozart Complete Works (Divertimenti) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 19 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CQ18JOUJ)

Disc 20 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B026WZI2)

Disc 21 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OP4WL4BP)

Disc 22 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F5OKPE2Q)

Disc 23 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1O668S2G)

Slovak Sinfonietta
Taras Krysa
MP3 - 320Kbps

Mithrandir,

For your Outstanding Mozart contributions...most appreciative I am!

Mozart Complete Works (Chamber Music) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZWG5OQ7I)

Brandis Quartet
Thomas Brandis, violin I
Peter Brem, violin II
Wilfried Strehle, viola
Wolfgang Boettcher, cello
1-3
Gerd Seifert, horn
4-6
Lothar Koch, oboe
7-10
Karl Leister, clarinet
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FLI0SYRI)

1-3
Klara Wurtz, piano
Henk de Graaf, clarinet
Hans Meijer, oboe
Martin van de Merwe, horn
Peter Gaasterland, bassoon
4-6
Anthony Pay, clarinet
Ian Brown, piano
Roger Chase, viola
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RB4LVOQ4)

Bart van Oort, fortepiano
Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
Jaap ter Linden, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2WRBHKPT)

Arios Trio
Igor Ozim, violin
Ilse von Alpenheim, piano
Walter Grimmer, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0K6Y8SF)

Bart van Oort, fortepiano
Tjamke Roelofs, violin
Bernadette Verhagen, viola
Jaap ter Linden, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C51254MF)

1-10
Marc Grauwels, flute
Ulka Gonriak, violin
Paul Declerck, viola
Luc Dewez, cello
11-12
Joris van der Hauwe, oboe
Dennis James, glass harmonica
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NS6K6E9D)

Marc Grauwels, flute
Guy Penson, pianoforte/harpsichord
Jan Sciffer, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0EQ4EIPE)

Remy Baudet, baroque violin
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NPY6ZIN)

Remy Baudet, baroque violin
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord/pianoforte
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZPH1BFVR)

Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6ZMRAORD)

Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JJXVGFAY)

Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4YHEEG3)

Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0D3I5DWH)

Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AMIB61T7)

Salvatore Accardo, violin
Bruno Canino, piano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 16 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KPPOZXSP)

Collegium Jaroslav Tuma
Bohuslav Matousek, violin
MP3 - 320Kbps

Sorcerer, you have piqued my interest. I will post some comments once I get to listen to these!

Mozart Complete Works (String Ensembles) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UV0S1096)

Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4CU9PU1C)

Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F8GKOI3A)

Orlando Quartet
Nobuko Imai, viola
John Harding, violin I
Heinz Oberdorfer, violin II
Ferdinand Erblich, viola
Stefan Metz, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JGCJGNQH)

Francois Fernandez, violin
Ryo Terakado, viola
Rainer Zipperling, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=31QGMU08)

1-6
Remy Baudet, violin
Marten Boeken, viola
7
Remy Baudet, violin
Staas Swierstra, violin
Rainer Zipperling, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8JMUI0TG)

Remy Baudet, violin
Staas Swierstra, viola
Rainer Zipperling, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1WJ0I3ON)

Sonare Quartet
Jacek Klimkiewicz, violin I
Laurentius Bonitz, violin II
Hideko Kobayashi, viola
Emil Klein, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YX1X7CHW)

Sonare Quartet
Ruxandra Constantinovici, violin I
Laurentius Bonitz, violin II
Marius Nichiteanu, viola
Emil Klein, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MO3D10LK)

Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VORH35NA)

Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G7LAR9JX)

Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PRVUFP9Y)

Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna
Florian Zwiauer, violin I
Helge Rosenkranz, violin II
Hartmut Pascher, viola
Vincent Stadlmair, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AJEGTR7I)

1-8
Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna
Florian Zwiauer, violin I
Helge Rosenkranz, violin II
Hartmut Pascher, viola
Vincent Stadlmair, cello
9-12
Sharon Quartet
Gil Sharon, violin I
Rodica Ciocoiu, violin II
Ron Ephrat, viola
Alexander Hulshoff, cello
MP3 - 320Kbps

Requiem for Mass by Giuseppe Verdi




http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VA85PK8P

Mozart Complete Works (Keyboard Works) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KX8UY47R)

Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RW5UVCGY)

Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V60LCV3O)

Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SH12WNWM)

Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CM97HSC5)

Klara Wurtz, piano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SLI8I9E7)

Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FVQ61JVC)

Bart van Oort, fortepiano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32I7CAZ0)

Pieter-Jan Belder, fortepiano
MP3 - 320Kbps

do you have any mandolin orchestra?

i have the complete works of bach, Dvorak, some Brams, etc

Mozart Complete Works (Keyboard Works) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NMSPS1BD)

Bernard Foccroulle, organ (1,2,3,22)
Guy Penson, clavichord (4-9,15-16)
Guy Penson, harpsichord (10-14,17-19,20)
Guy Penson, Tangentenflugel (19,21)
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P6RGZSI4)

1-4,8-11
Luc Devos, pianoforte
5-7
Guy Penson, harpsichord
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RBNOTHDE)

1-7
Luc Devos, pianoforte
8-9
Bernard Foccroulle, organ
10
Dennis James, glass harmonica
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UMKKERDO)

Bart van Oort, fortepiano (primo)
Ursula Dutschler, fortepiano (secundo)
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C0QOWBA0)

Ursula Dutschler, fortepiano (primo)
Bart van Oort, fortepiano (secundo)
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CP46L5I6)

1-3,5
Ursula Dutschler, fortepiano (primo)
Bart van Oort, fortepiano (secundo)
4,6-8
Bart van Oort, fortepiano (primo)
Ursula Dutschler, fortepiano (secundo)
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IAFBSS66)

Martin Haselbock, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps

I know somewhere in this Topic there was a recording of Berlioz Symphonie Fantasique , I am leaving to go on a trip this weekend and managed to get ahold of the score, and i would like to Have a recording that is decent (the one i have Isn't good), so i could do some score study.

And anyone have a recording of messiah from Handel

I know somewhere in this Topic there was a recording of Berlioz Symphonie Fantasique...

Here you are:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1277225&postcount=469


And anyone have a recording of messiah from Handel

You study music and you don't have The Messiah?! :shock::shock::shock: FOR SHAME!!!!!

Seriously though, if you like classical music at all it's a no-brainer for the collection :)


HANDEL - THE MESSAIH
(Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players)



MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/296396284/Messiah1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/296408653/Messiah2.rar

------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks Doublehex for posting Verdi's Requiem. My recording has been unattended for a long time (I'm really not the biggest fan of Verdi in general). I should really give it another listen.

Mozart Complete Works (Sacred Works) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QYE76X8H)

Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Robert Morvaj, tenor
Thomas Pfeiffer, bass
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LKZO50IU)

1-9
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Annemarie Kremer, soprano
10-14
Teatro Armonico Stuttgart
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QDDDLZGC)

1-9
Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano
10-14
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Annemarie Kremer, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RRX5YHEA)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Annemarie Kremer, soprano (1-6)
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano (7-12)
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H6BEHARP)

1-4
Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano
5-7
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Annemarie Kremer, soprano
8
Teatro Armonico Stuttgart
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
9
Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0TA2L3R)

1-6,9,21-22
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Nicol Matt
3
Marietta Fischesser, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
7-8,10,20
Teatro Armonico Stuttgart
Nicol Matt
8
Anja Tilch, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Daniel Schreiber, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
20
Daniel Schreibner, tenor solo
Manfred Bittner, bass solo
11-19
Nicol Matt, organ
Anja Tilch, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Daniel Schreibner, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HKRZW7CX)

1,8-11
Suddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Annemarie Kremer, soprano
2-5,12-14
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
6-7,15
Teatro Armonico Stuttgart
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Anja Tilch, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NOISWKO8)

Camerata Wurzburg
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Valentina Farcas, soprano I
Annemarie Kremer, soprano II
Daniel Sans, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A1A79R8J)

1-7
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Marietta Fischesser, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
8-13
Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VWTKFMQA)

Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
1-6
Anja Bittner, soprano
Gabriele Wunderer, alto
Robert Morvaj, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
7-12
Marietta Fischesser, soprano
Babara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7L7MM5PS)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
1-12
Petra Labitzke, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Daniel Sans, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
13-19
Marietta Fischesser, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
MP3 - 320Kbps

Thanks Doublehex for posting Verdi's Requiem. My recording has been unattended for a long time (I'm really not the biggest fan of Verdi in general). I should really give it another listen.

The Requiem is the only thing I have from Verdi. It was all for the Dies Irae.

I know Lens Epic Fail on my part, but...erm I Kinda skipped that Era of music and jumped stright into Mahler, So Thank you for that recording..

Mozart Complete Works (Sacred Works) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ALMJPDMP)

Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
1-6
Petra Labitzke, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Daniel Sans, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
7-18
Anja Bittner, soprano
Gabriele Wunderer, alto
Robert Morvaj, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E7521V7X)

1-10
Camerata Wurzburg
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
11-16
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Petra Labitzke, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Daniel Sans, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3F9CBAFW)

1-21
Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Anja Bittner, soprano
Barbara Werner, alto
Gerhard Nennemann, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
22-27
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Anja Bittner, soprano
Gabriele Wunderer, alto
Robert Morvaj, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ON3T4P50)

1-18
Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Anja Bittner, soprano
Annemarie Kremer, soprano (solo arias)
Barbara Werner, alto
Benoit Haller, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
19-24
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
Anja Bittner, soprano
Gabriele Wunderer, alto
Robert Morvaj, tenor
Manfred Bittner, bass
Jens Wollenschlager, organ
25
Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 16 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=74ILGUQ8)

Disc 17 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QJOG6H8V)

Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto
Coro del Centro di Musica Antica di Padova
Peter Maag
Ernesto Palacio, Ozia
Gloria Banditelli, Guiditta
Lynda Russell, Amital
Petteri Salomaa, Achior
Caterina Trogu Rohrich, Cabri
Sabina Macculi, Carmi
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 18 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZB9AJY2T)

Disc 19 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2XCCHAEI)

Berliner Domakapelle
Roland Bader
Arleen Auger, Weltgeist
Krisztina Laki, Gerechtigkeit
Sylvia Geszty, Barmherzigkeit
Werner Hollweg, Christgeit
Claus H. Ahnsjo, Christ
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 20 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=82RNPIJW)

Wiener Akadamie
Chorus Viennensis
Martin Haselbock
Christoph Pregardien, tenor (solo 5,8,9)
Helmut Wildhaber, tenor (solo 6,7,11)
Gottfried Hornik, bass
Peter Schneyder, bass
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 21 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T0142N10)

1-5
Wiener Akademie
Concentus Vocalis
Martin Haselbock
Edith Wiens, soprano
Thomas Hampson, bass
6-15
Choir & Orchestra Collegium Musicum of the University of Tubingen
Wilfried Fischer
Gertraud Landwehr-Hermann, soprano I
Susanne Johns, soprano II
Hermann Fischer, tenor
MP3 - 320Kbps

Here is a link for Pachelbel's Canon in D that I found.

http://rs502.rapidshare.com/files/261964588/02_-__Pachelbel_-_Canon_in_D.mp3

Tous les matins du monde OST

http://rapidshare.com/files/293465556/matins.rar

You don't need to know the movie to appreciate the music. It's late Renaissance/early Baroque music (17th century) of the kind you probably haven't heard before, refined, diverse and even emotionally engaging, all played on the viola da gamba. Just listen to the 2-viola arrangement of le pleurs and judge for yourself.

This disc is absolutely gorgeous. Many thanks! I'm gonna have to see the movie now :)

*searches youtube in vain*

Edit: Aussieguy are you still looking for Shostakovich 9?


http://rapidshare.com/files/275815590/ShHaiS59_503.rar

Mithrandir – I’ve been enjoying the Sinfonia concertante from this set and also some of the symphonies. Very engaging performances so far. When I tried Symphony No. 39 I was thrown off a little by the lower pitch of the period instruments (it’s E flat major, but not as we know it!). Thoroughly enjoyable.

Here’s one of my favoutire Mozart piano concertos, in what I feel is an immaculate performance. It’s the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Richard Goode at the piano.


MOZART - PIANO CONCERTO NO. 25
(Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Richard Goode piano)

http://rowanduk.googlepages.com/MozartGoode25.bmp

MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/295535731/Mozart_-_Piano_Concerto_25__Goode_.rar

Goode has Mozart's wit and delicacy down pat and the orchestra play with peerless precision. What I love about the first movement is the joyous, open-hearted chordal statement at the opening and the nonchalant rhythmic interjections (1:35) – for some reason I find them beyond funky. :) The slow movement isn’t a wallow and keeps the light tripping character established in the Allegro maestoso. Listen to the meltingly beautiful, Schubertian passage at 3:40 in the third movement too. Gorgeous.


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Notice:

Following on from Sorcerer's excellent personal recommendations, I'd like to invite anyone who reads this thread to post some of their favourite works in performances they admire, and perhaps say a few words about them. And it needn't be the most esoteric thing either. I'm sure we all have a few gems to share :)

Mozart Complete Works (Songs) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NHWU6QD1)

Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TT32ONJ5)

European Sinfonietta
Ed Spanjaard
Francine van der Heyden, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3LD60LH0)

European Sinfonietta
Ed Spanjaard
Miranda van Karlingen, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NB5OY5U6)

European Chamber Orchestra
Wilhelm Keitel
Marcel Reijans, tenor
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UIIEA92S)

European Chamber Orchestra
Wilhelm Keitel
Ezio Maria Tisi, bass
3-4
Caroline Vitale, mezzo soprano
Marcel Reijans, tenor
Christian Tchelebiev, bass (3)
10-11
Annemarie Kremer, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HZYV083H)

Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hartmut Haenchen
Christiane Oelze, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6ESRDL2W)

Staatskapelle Dresden
Otmar Suitner
Sylvia Geszty, soprano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BABX6I49)

Bas Ramselaar, bass/baritone
Bart van Oort, fortepiano
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DM653B5H)

Claron McFadden, soprano
Bart van Oort, fortepiano
MP3 - 320Kbps

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Next week - Opera

Mithrandir � I�ve been enjoying the Sinfonia concertante from this set and also some of the symphonies. Very engaging performances so far. When I tried Symphony No. 39 I was thrown off a little by the lower pitch of the period instruments (it�s E flat major, but not as we know it!). Thoroughly enjoyable.

Excellent, that's good to hear. I haven't had a chance to listen to most of the performances yet.

Handel: Water Music - Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EANK0XUV

Enjoy!

Thanks for this dspani :)

Grunthor,
You are most welcome...Handel is one of my favorite composers...especially his Water Music.

Lens Of Truth,
Many thanks for the outstanding version of Handel's Messiah...replaced the one I had. Also, MOZART - PIANO CONCERTO NO. 25 (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Richard Goode piano) is fantastic!

Does anybody have the Handel Harpsichord Suites (played on the harpsichord, NOT on a piano), in MP3 format?

Thanks,
-A.

do you have the Brahms Hungarian scores?? i really want to listen to those...

BRAHMS - HUNGARIAN DANCES
(Istv�n Bog�r, Budapest Symphony Orchestra)



MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/298136455/Brahms_-_Hungarian_Dances.rar

Handel coming up later tonight :)

thank you so much man

do you also have the Strauss Jr collection and the Mozart collection with Symphony 7

Mozart Complete Works (Opera) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8M7JI54F)

Disc 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PL9DJUAO)

Apollo et Hyacinthus KV 38
Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Max Pommer
John Dickie - Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger - Melia
Arno Raunig - Hyacinthus
Ralf Popken - Apollo
Axel Kohler - Zephyrus
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EW3KYNI9)

Bastien und Bastienne KV 50
Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig
Max Pommer
Dagmar Schellenberger - Bastienne
Ralph Eschrig - Bastien
Rene Pape - Colas
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6KMNX4YW)

Disc 5 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q02WUX03)

Disc 6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BKAJD79E)

La Finta Semplice KV 51
Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg
Leopold Hager
Helen Donath - Rosina
Robert Holl - Don Cassandro
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson - Don Polidoro
Teresa Berganza - Giacinta
Jutta-Renate Ihloff - Ninetta
Thomas Moser - Fracasso
Robert Lloyd - Simone
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PSHZPTSM)

Disc 8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2D0T37TJ)

Disc 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2DQVHWC)

Mitridate, re di Ponto KV 87
Musica Ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz
Marcel Reijans - Mitridate
Francine van der Heyden - Aspasia
Marijje van Stralen - Sifare
Johannette Zomer - Ismene
Cecile van de Sant - Farnace
Young-Hee Kim - Arbate
Alexei Grigorev - Marzio
Erwin Wieringa, solo horn
Michael Borgstede, harpsichord
Franc Polman, concert master
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 10 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5NYRECK6)

Disc 11 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H9TYL8S0)

Disc 12 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RN0ONRO0)

Ascanio in Alba KV 111
Musica Ad Rhenum
Vocaal Ensemble Cocu
Jed Wentz
Maaike Beekman - Ascanio
Claudia Patacca - Venere
Nicola Wemyss - Silvia
Tom Allen - Aceste
Claron McFadden - Fauno
MP3 - 320Kbps

Does anybody have the Handel Harpsichord Suites (played on the harpsichord, NOT on a piano), in MP3 format?
I'm still trying to locate the disc with suites 1-5. I also have another set and if I come across that first I'll post that one (really, my room's THAT messy). In the meantime, here are two of my favourite movements from the suite in G minor.


Handel Harpsichord Sampler
(Alan Cuckson)
http://rapidshare.com/files/298566507/Handel_Harpsichord_Sample.rar
MP3-V0 / 12MB

First, a short Allegro with a very plucky (yet somehow caressing) registration that I can't get enough of. And second, what I consider to be one of Handel's "greatest hits" ;), a stunning, muscular passacaglia. The progression itself is so catchy that it brings a big smile to my face to hear it journeying through variations and doing exactly what's expected of it. There's one particular variation that gives me goosebumps it's just so searching and acute in feeling.


Many thanks for the outstanding version of Handel's Messiah...replaced the one I had. Also, MOZART - PIANO CONCERTO NO. 25 (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Richard Goode piano) is fantastic!
Likewise, thank you for the Water Music with Mackerras. It sounds so opulent with a modern orchestra! Here's my favourite little sequence (on period instruments):


Water Music Sampler
(Trevor Pinnock, The English Consort)
http://rapidshare.com/files/298585389/Water_Music_Pinnock_Sample.rar
MP3-V0 / 11MB

Mozart Complete Works (Opera) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 13 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y0Z6VUE4)

Disc 14 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJREBI0T)

Il Sogno di Scipione KV 126
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz
Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss
Claron McFadden - Fortuna
Claudia Patacca - Costanza
Francois Soons - Scipione
Terence Mierau - Publio
Marcel Reijans - Emilio
Francine van der Heyden - La Licenza
Michael Borgstede, harpsichord
Franc Polman, concert master
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 15 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K66SW5KS)

Disc 16 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KZ9QA305)

Disc 17 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UMOMBZ8A)

Lucio Silla KV 135
Orchestre et Choeurs du Theatre Royal de la Monnaie
Sylvain Cambreling
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson - Lucio Silla
Lella Cuberli - Giunia
Ann Murray - Cecilio
Britt-Marie Aruhn - Cinna
Christine Barbaux - Celia
Ad van Baasbank - Aufidio
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 18 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OZVC8OLL)

Disc 19 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6RUGEZ8X)

Disc 20 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G78X2S56)

La Finta Giardiniera KV 196
Orchestre du Theatre Royal de la Monnaie
Sylvain Cambreling
Ugo Benelli - Il Podesta
Joanna Kozlowska - Sandrina
Marek Torzewski - Belfiore
Malvina Major - Arminda
Lani Poulson - Ramiro
Elzbieta Szmytka - Serpetta
Russel Smythe - Nardo
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 21 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GPA1Z0U0)

Disc 22 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MXWQ5IK4)

Il re Pastore KV 208
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz
Johannette Zomer - Aminta
Francine van der Heyden - Elisa
Marcel Reijans - Agenore
Alexei Grigorev - Alessandro
Claudia Patacca - Tamiri
Michael Borgstede, harpsichord
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 23 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7ZPVBFP)

Disc 24 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O7L5N8TC)

Zaide KV 344
Radio Kamerorkest
Ton Koopman
Sandrine Piau - Zaide
Max Ciolek - Gomatz
Klaus Mertens - Allazim, Osmin
Paul Agnew - Sultan Soliman
Gregor Frenkel Frank - Narrator
MP3 - 320Kbps

do you have the Strauss Jr collection because i really want 2 hear it. and which one of the Mozart cds has symphony 7

Mozart Symphony 7 (KV 45) is on this disc (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J8RAYHW0).

thanks man

Mozart Complete Works (Opera) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 25 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6YYJWNGX)

Thamos, Konig in Agypten KV 345
1-7
Wurttembergischer Kammerchor und Orchester
Jorg Faerber
Charlotte Lehmann, soprano
Rose Scheible, alto
Oly Pfaff, tenor
Bruce Abel, bass
8-20
Slovak Sinfonietta
Taras Krysa
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 26 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=93BWI1XG)

Disc 27 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BM5YRFUL)

Disc 28 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LBHRF2GN)

Idomeneo KV 366
Staatskapelle Dresden
Chor des Leipziger Rundfunks
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Nicolai Gedda - Idomeneo
Adolf Dallapozza - Idamante
Anneliese Rothenberger - Ilia
Edda Moser - Elettra
Peter Schreier - Arbace
Eberhard Buchner - Gran Sacerdote
Theo Adam - La Voce
Gunther Leib - Sacerdote
Adele Stolte, Ingeborg Springer - Two Cretan girls
Eberhard Buchner, Gunther Leib - Due Troiani
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 29 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HDHUUGQA)

Disc 30 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KOVW133U)

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail KV 384
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Choir of the Landestheater Linz
Martin Sieghart
Ernst Dunshirn, chorus master
Ingrid Habermann, soprano
Piotr Bezcala, tenor
Donna Ellen, soprano
Oliver Ringelhahn, tenor
Franz Kalchmair, bass
Harald Pfeiffer, speaker
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 31 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I8GR8J8D)

Der Schauspieldirektor KV 486
Kammerorchester Berlin
Helmut Koch
Sylvia Geszty - Madame Herz
Rosemarie Ronisch - Mademoiselle Silberklang
Peter Schreier - Monsieur Vogelsang
Hermann Christian Polster - Buff
speaking roles
Heinz Suhr - Frank
Werner Ehrlicher - Eiler
Helmut Muller-Lankow - Buff
Otto Mellies - Herz
Annakathrin Burger - Madam Pfeil
Annemone Haase - Madam Krone
Jutta Hoffmann - Madame Vogelsang
Renate Rennhack - Madame Herz
Monika Lennartz - Mademoiselle Silberklang
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 32 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RAZTZMT1)

Disc 33 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KEUUH4K1)

Disc 34 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y8TCLSID)

Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492
Le Petite Bande
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Sigiswald Kuijken
Huub Claessens - Il Conte
Patrizia Biccire - La Contessa
Werner van Mechelen - Figaro
Christiane Oelze - Susanna
Monika Groop - Cherubino
Beatrice Cramoix - Marcellina
Harry van der Kamp - Bartolo
Yves Saelens - Basilio
Philip Defrancq - Don Curzio
Jean-Guy Devienne - Antonio
Marie Kuijken - Barbarina
MP3 - 320Kbps

I'm still trying to locate the disc with suites 1-5. I also have another set and if I come across that first I'll post that one (really, my room's THAT messy). In the meantime, here are two of my favourite movements from the suite in G minor.


Handel Harpsichord Sampler
(Alan Cuckson)
http://rapidshare.com/files/298566507/Handel_Harpsichord_Sample.rar
MP3-V0 / 12MB

First, a short Allegro with a very plucky (yet somehow caressing) registration that I can't get enough of. And second, what I consider to be one of Handel's "greatest hits" ;), a stunning, muscular passacaglia. The progression itself is so catchy that it brings a big smile to my face to hear it journeying through variations and doing exactly what's expected of it. There's one particular variation that gives me goosebumps it's just so searching and acute in feeling.

A stunning piece indeed! This reminds me of his Sonata 52 in Eb, the first piece i really loved from Haydn. Yes, shame on me, but i'm a bit opposed by the conservative elements in Haydn and especially Mozart like dozenfold repititions of tonika-dominant or very simple cadenzas, which put me off a bit in the Piano Concerto 25. But i'm not an expert in composition so i must miss much of their genius. Still there are many Mozart pieces i love, like the Sonata for Two Pianos. There is an amazing recording of the first movement on Youtube, and not only for the excellent interpretation, but also for the experimental video editing. It is done by the AndersonRoe piano duo, who are experts at lively two-piano and four-hand arrangements. I can't recommend their channel highly enough!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1rZXzjP-I

Anyways, this brought me to upload said Sonata in Eb on a CD that also features the Mozart K311 in D and the Beethoven Op.2 No 2 in A Sonatas. The pianist is the young Rafal Blechacz, winner of the International Chopin Competition. His interpretation of the Polonaise Heroique there cought my interest (and admiration).

Rafal Blechacz: Sonatas
pw: forgottenmelodies

http://rapidshare.com/files/299219947/rafal_sonatas.rar

By the way, Sirus, have you listened to any of the Medtner or Alkan yet? I've put a recording of the Canzona Serenata on Youtube, but i can't compete with Hamelin - yet ;) although i don't completely agree with his interpretation. In any case, i'm still in awe of the Forgotten Melodies I, especially the Danza Festiva:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3o-jC5YhW0

First off I must say that Tours Les Matins Du Monde is quite relaxing and I like it a lot when I am in the mood for it. I just happened to get a chance to listen to both of these today finally. Same with the Medtner, nice but a bit too slow for my general tastes. Perhaps over time I will grow to enjoy them :D

I'm still trying to locate the disc with suites 1-5.

Good luck! That'd be wonderful if you found it through your (seemingly) unlimited grasp! :D

HANDEL - HARPSICHORD SUITES
(Paul Nicholson)



MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/299317354/Handel_-_Harpsichord_Suites_1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/299337250/Handel_-_Harpsichord_Suites_2.rar

Overall this is my preferred recording, though I do think Cuckston has something extra in the two pieces posted earlier. Paul Nicholson plays on a much richer, more mellow-toned instrument that's easier to listen to for sustained periods. His performance style is a little 'neater', but also more varied, and has a great feel for the dance character of the music. The six fugues that close the set are described in the liner notes rather obliquely (but aptly) as "splendid examples of eighteenth century rational craftsmanship which never fail to recognise that experience may sometimes be perilous".


Yes, shame on me, but i'm a bit opposed by the conservative elements in Haydn and especially Mozart like dozenfold repititions of tonika-dominant or very simple cadenzas, which put me off a bit in the Piano Concerto 25. But i'm not an expert in composition so i must miss much of their genius.

I actually can't get enough of the tonic/dominant grandstanding that goes on in Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. It's a part of the pomp of Classicism, but also can sound joyous and elemental. I perfectly understand when people say they don't like Mozart because he's too 'safe'. Personally, I love everything about the Classical style - its openness, its elegance, its structure, its contrast and emphasis. After all (I'm paraphrasing Charles Rosen here a bit) it may the only time in history that a truly popular style has achieved such a degree of mastery, of craftsmanship, expressive variety and complexity. The formulaic elements are deceptive and serve to conceal the complexity. Humour is also essential to the big three, especially Haydn, and again, the perfect proportions of the music are able to encompass a level of eccentricity that I think no other composer matched. The first movement of Haydn's Symphony No.97 in C totally takes the piss out of the tonic-dominant clich� - it's a parody of itself, but it's also brilliant, life-affirming, energetic.

The humorous side of Beethoven is particularly overlooked I feel; the ABSURD never-ending coda of the 5th's finale; the whole of the 8th, sublimely tongue-in-cheek (almost, in a very intentional way, camp); the crazy syncopations in the Leonore Overture (and pretty much everywhere else).. I could go on.

The other thing about Beethoven is that he expanded Classicism, or rather fulfilled its potential, for ultimately embodying struggle. The sense of struggle is all the more acute for the fact that it exists within an arch-Classical style. Hence why Beethoven is regarded as the archetypal creator-artist, alongside the likes of Michelangelo.

Anyway, I’m rambling..


Still there are many Mozart pieces i love, like the Sonata for Two Pianos. There is an amazing recording of the first movement on Youtube, and not only for the excellent interpretation, but also for the experimental video editing. It is done by the AndersonRoe piano duo, who are experts at lively two-piano and four-hand arrangements. I can't recommend their channel highly enough!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1rZXzjP-I

I caught the Proms performance of this on tv a few weeks ago. I think I like this one even better!

Thanks for the sonatas disc!

Same with the Medtner, nice but a bit too slow for my general tastes. You must have listened to the first piece, the sonata, which is indeed quite long and a bit slow. I'm sure you'd think differently of the No 3 Danza Festiva!

Looking forward to try the Harpsichord Suites.

HANDEL - HARPSICHORD SUITES
(Paul Nicholson)

Thank you!

Mozart Complete Works (Opera) (http://www.mozart-complete-works.com/mozart_titlelist.html)

Disc 35 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8SS17KLF)

Disc 36 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQQ3WC6L)

Disc 37 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9QQPO1BN)

Don Giovanni KV 527
La Petite Bande
Collegium Compostellanum
Sigiswald Kuijken
Werner van Mechelen - Don Giovanni
Huub Claessens - Leporello
Elena Vink - Donna Anna
Markus Schafer - Don Ottavio
Nancy Argenta - Zerlina
Nancy de Vries - Masetto
Christina Hogman - Donna Elvira
Harry van der Kamp - Il Commendatore
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 38 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BLGHQYMG)

Disc 39 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=79D381XQ)

Disc 40 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HB0TIFCF)

Cosi fan tutte KV 588
La Petite Bande Orchestra & Chorus
Sigiswald Kuijken
Soile Isokoski - Fiordiligi
Monica Groop - Dorabella
Nancy Argenta - Despina
Markus Schafer - Ferrando
Per Vollestad - Guglielmo
Huub Claessens - Don Alfonso
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 41 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B3E6HHAK)

Disc 42 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BR0JJ1DJ)

Die Zauberflote KV 620
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Charles Mackerras
Barbara Hendricks - Pamina
Jerry Hadley - Tamino
Thomas Allen - Papageno
Robert Lloyd - Sarastro
June Anderson - Queen of the Night
Ulrike Steinsky - Papagena
Gottfried Hornik - Sprecher, Zweiter Priester
Peter Svensson - Erster Priester
Helmut Wildhaber - Monostatos
MP3 - 320Kbps


Disc 43 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XKED2DQC)

Disc 44 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=COQGOMPU)

La Clemenza di Tito KV 621
Musica ad Rhenum
Vocal Ensemble Cocu
Jed Wentz
Andre Post - Tito Vespasiano
Claudia Patacca - Vitellia
Francine van der Heyden - Servilia
Cecile van de Sant - Sesto
Nicola Wemyss - Annio
Marc Pantus - Publio
Eric Hoeprich, basset horn, basset clarinet
Michael Borgstede, harpsichord
Franc Polman, concert master
MP3 - 320Kbps

GROF� - GRAND CANYON SUITE



MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/301568774/Grand_Canyon_Suite.rar

I said I'd post this ages ago and then forgot. So here it is. Beautiful, sumptuously orchestrated (Grof� was also responsible for the orchestral arrangements of Rhapsody in Blue that we're all familiar with), descriptive and teeming with melodies inspired by folk music, dance and jazz and, ocassionally, American Indian motifs. My favourite might be the Niagara Falls Suite, which has some incredibly powerful, almost surreal passages, but also plenty of lyricism. Each one feels like a journey in itself. Enjoy!

I've recently discovered a little clip of Mendelssohn's "Variations Serieuses in D minor, Op.54" and I'm intrigued by it. Does anyone have the whole Variations serieuses in their collection? (lossless would be nice <_<)

do you have a struass jr collection. i may ask this alot of times, but i really want 2 listen 2 it.

Hey guys,

Im looking for some phillp glass stuff (The Canyon Expesially, as well as some of his symphonies) and Some John Adams Stuff (Dr.Atomic, Phrygian Gates, Sionmsky's Earbox and Lollapalooza)

If anyone is interested, I've got a couple works by big classical composers written for wind band...

Originally for Band:

Hindemith Symphony in Bb
Holst 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Suite for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs

Transcriptions:

Shostakovich (2nd?) Piano Concerto
Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor
The Pines of Rome

They aren't perfect performances, but they are worth a listen (more so for the original works for band that we don't get to hear very often from the big orchestral hitters)

do you have a struass jr collection. i may ask this alot of times, but i really want 2 listen 2 it.
I have Carlos Kleiber's New Year Concert which features most of the Strauss family stuff, but I seem to remember lending it to a friend. Until I get it back I can give you the one's I've mp3-ised on my computer (the best ones ;)).



Hindemith Symphony in Bb
Holst 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Suite for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs
These would be very nice! Especially the Vaughan Williams :)

hello mozart operas. :D thanks a lot mithrandir! you're a life saver! i've been looking for some of these works for future reference. <3

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 1989
(Selections)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber



MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/304522929/Strauss_Kleiber_Highlights.rar

1. Johann Strauss Jr. - Acceleration Waltz
2. Josef Strauss - The Dragonfly
3. Johann Strauss Jr. - Voices of Spring
4. Johann Strauss Jr. - The Blue Danube
5. Johann Strauss Sr. - Radetzky March

A bitesize bit Strauss(s) in excellent performances recorded live. I'll upload the rest in time if you're after more.

thanks for the Strauss Jr soundtrack. can you please upload more. im looking for the tales in Vienna Woods, my favorite from his.

Double Post sorry

If anyone is interested, I've got a couple works by big classical composers written for wind band...

Originally for Band:

Hindemith Symphony in Bb
Holst 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Suite for Military Band
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs

Transcriptions:

Shostakovich (2nd?) Piano Concerto
Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor
The Pines of Rome

They aren't perfect performances, but they are worth a listen (more so for the original works for band that we don't get to hear very often from the big orchestral hitters)


Can you upload Symphony in B-flat My version is a Bit Meh


Oh and on a sidenote i recently got a purchase of Vaughn Williams Bass Tuba Concerto For Orchestra so if anyone wants it let me know

Can you upload Symphony in B-flat My version is a Bit Meh

Hopefully mine isn't more "meh" than yours. Both recordings, imperfect as they may be, are by the University of Utah Wind Ensemble





Hindemith Symphony in Bb (for wind band) (http://rapidshare.com/files/304760103/HindemithBbSymphony.rar)




Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite for Military Band
(http://rapidshare.com/files/304541842/VWSuiteforMilitaryBand.rar)

Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs (http://rapidshare.com/files/304762070/Vaughan_Williams_Sea_Songs.rar)

Lens I finally got a chance to listen to Grand Canyon Suite and it is simply wonderful! Thanks so much for this marvelous piece of music!

I would like to request Dvorak's Romantic Pieces, Op. 75

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl9dO1CleW8

I can't seem to be able to find it >w<

Thanks.

Just the first movement will do =D

Mein G�tt! What an astounding, surreal vision this E-Oasis appears to be! Oh what one might stumble upon while looking for the obscure classical fix one's soul craves!

I hope I may be able to join in here. I have a modest collection of interesting works of classical [and lots of obscure rock music that is borderline-classical]. My tastes tend to veer opposite to popular tastes [example: I love Sch�nberg, dislike most Tchaikovsky]. I also happen to have access to the wonderful classical library of USC.

Anyway, before some requests, I must say an emphatic thank you to Lens of Truth for Holmboe's Requiem for Nietzsche, which I have been searching for, for a while now and which is how I found this magical thread, so thank you exceedingly much!

Requests:

Henry Cowell - Symphony #11
Hindemith - Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano [really, really hoping to find this]
Hindemith - [any concertos; violin; horn; piano; organ; concert band]
Lucas Foss - Baroque Variations
Faure - Piano Quintet #2
Corigliano - Ghosts of Versailles
Busoni - Violin Concerto
Busoni - Clarinet Concerto
Franciax - Clarinet Concerto
DallaPiccola - Ulisse
Wuorinen - Percussion Symphony
Rorem - Poems of Love and the Rain
Alison Cameron: Gibbous Moon; A Blank Sheet of Metal
Xenakis - Oresteia
Stravinsky - Threni


Nearly anything by Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio [especially the operas], David Maslanka, Sophia Gubaidulina, Talivaldis Kenins, or Ivan Tcherpnin would be amazing as well.

I do apologize if this is "too much", I'm not expecting all of it, but better to ask then never know right? =)

As I said, I have at least a decent collection of music from all periods, and will try to fulfill any requests if possible. I think I have a lot of stuff that people wouldn't think to ask for, but may enjoy very much though, so I'll open with some of the things I have on mediafire already:

Maderna: Satyricon:
http://tinyurl.com/y8gkdyp

Ad�s: Powder Her Face:
http://tinyurl.com/yfhnlw7
http://tinyurl.com/y9khj99

Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise:
http://tinyurl.com/Saint-Francois-d-A

Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto:
http://tinyurl.com/Lutoslawski-Piano-Concerto

Xenakis: Kraanerg:
http://tinyurl.com/Kraanerg

Sch�nberg: Moses und Aaron:
tinyurl.com/moses-und-Aaron-CD1
http://tinyurl.com/Moses-und-Aaron-2

Tredici: An Alice Symphony:
http://tinyurl.com/Alice-Symphony

Great contributions there Schnittke! Enough to keep me going for some time :) I keep hearing great things about Moses and Aaron and also Ad�s' Powder Her Face. Thanks.

As far as your requests go, I'll keep an eye peeled, but I'm really only beginning to get into modern/avant-garde music. Threni is something I'm after myself.

Does anyone have anything from Phillip Glass and John Adams

Vaughan Williams - Job:

Bartok - The Wooden Prince:

Borodin - Prince Igor:


I saw this reposted by arthhier (originally posted by streichorchester) back in June, but the link was dead.

Were these three part of that set in their entirety or just in part? If they were only there in part, does anyone have a full version of these beauties? You would make me very happy. I love Vaughan Williams, and I played part of Job once and LOVED it, but never got a recording. I've only ever had a "Selections from Prince Igor" , and I've never heard the Wooden Prince, but I adore Bartok.

Coming up. Job is an incredible work, right up there with the best of his symphonies. I have Wooden Prince as well, but only 'highlights' of Igor - I'll post anyway for those who didn't catch Streich's compilation.

Does anyone have anything from Phillip Glass and John Adams

Would you like just anything?

I have Glass complete string quartets [the last three as the best things he ever wrote in my opinion], some piano music of his [with Cage], his Orion Suite from the Olympics, Music With Changing Parts, his documentary music, and The Witches of Venice [a very fun, and interesting play of sorts].

By Adams I have Gnarly Buttons with John's Book of Alleged Dances, Nixon in China, and Harmonliehre.

Here is a link to an already uploaded Harmonleihre [same as mine]:
http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/John_Adams_Harmonielehre.html

There's a lot of Adams and Glass on that site [Avaxhome.ws] btw.

For example, this page has most of Glass' works I think:

http://avaxhome.ws/music/Philip_Glass_Witches_Venice.html

I highly recommend the String Quartets.

Let me know if you can't find anything I have. =)

Any chance of re-upping these in lossless? The Melomaniacos links have gone through their 10 downloads already.

Before John Williams there was...



...one of the last great symphonists. Though not as long as Mahler's or Shostakovich's, Hanson's seven symphonies are each spectacularly thematic, powerful, beautiful, and an orchestrator's dream. If you love film music, especially the film music of John Williams, you will most certainly like this guy's work. Start off with Symphonies 1 and 2, you won't regret it. Look for the awesome parts for timpani and piccolo, as well as the stunning brass fanfares and chorales. For those familiar with Hanson's work, it is no secret that this guy was one of Williams's biggest inspirations.

Disc 1 - http://rapidshare.com/files/244271872/hanson1.rar
Symphony No. 1 "Nordic"
Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitsky
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" (final movement remind you of anything?)

Disc 2 - http://rapidshare.com/files/244314962/hanson2.rar
Symphony No. 3
Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth
Symphony No. 6 (the final movement of this one is to be played at max volume)

Disc 3 - http://rapidshare.com/files/244362261/hanson3.rar
Symphony No. 4 "Requiem"
Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings
Lament for Beowulf
Pastorale for Oboe, Harp and Strings
Suite from Merry Mount (Hanson's opera)

Disc 4 - http://rapidshare.com/files/244341687/hanson4.rar
Mosaics
Piano Concerto in G major
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 7 "Sea Symphony" (for orchestra and chorus)

I ripped and compressed these mp3s myself on my girlfriend's mac so let me know if there are any sound artifacts or other errors and I'll redo them.

Great contributions there Schnittke! Enough to keep me going for some time :) I keep hearing great things about Moses and Aaron and also Ad�s' Powder Her Face. Thanks.

As far as your requests go, I'll keep an eye peeled, but I'm really only beginning to get into modern/avant-garde music. Threni is something I'm after myself.

Glad I could post something interesting =)

Moses und Aaron is probably one of the greatest operas of all times. I still remember my first listen -- absolutely spine tingling.

Powder Her Face is also one of the best works of the last twenty years. The content is also tastefully spicy in ways that many operas are not [probably because the language is somewhat modern, so it is just more directly apparent to us modern listeners].

If you are intereasted in modern stuff, let me know what or who you are interested in. For starters, I have plenty of Sch�nberg, Webern, and Berg, and also a good bit of Boulez. I also have Varese's works, which are an excellent starting point for music concrete.

Another guy to look out for is Mauricio Kagel. I have some of his stuff, which is pretty "light", but quite interesting [he took over Darmstadt after Stockhausen left], but it's not easy to come by it seems.

Lastly, have you heard of Scelsi? He is a very interesting composer, very unique, apparently not following any specific tradition, who has recently come to light, and who I find absolutely wonderful. His piano work, just for starters, is unlike anything else I've ever heard.

RE Threni: worst comes to worst, perhaps someone will give it me for Christmas ;)

Look forward to future explorations =)

Does anyone have anything from Phillip Glass and John Adams

I have Itaipu/The Canyon:
http://www.philipglass.com/music/recordings/itaipu.php

And a few movie/documentary scores, of which I recommend the qatsi trilogy, Mishima, Kundun, the Hours and Dracula (a musical score for the original film with Bela Lugosi).

BORODIN - PRINCE IGOR
Completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov
(Selections)
George Solti, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus



http://uploadmirrors.com/download/KCHXV97U/Borodin - Prince Igor.rar

1. Overture - 10:50
2. Galitzsky's aria (Act II) - 3:52
3. Konchak's aria (Act III) - 7:07
4. Polovtsian Dances - 13:44

------------------------------------------------------

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - JOB: A MASQUE FOR DANCING
David Lloyd_Jones, English Northern Philharmonia



http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0AHLFD2B/RVW - Job.rar

------------------------------------------------------

BARTOK - THE WOODEN PRINCE
(Suite)
Neeme J�rvi, Philharmonia Orchestra



http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1VQKMMVG/Bartok - Wooden Prince.rar

------------------------------------------------------

All are mp3 LAME -V0.

I didn't notice this post for some reason earlier today, but I just about wet myself with excitement when I saw these. Thanks!!! Thanks also for posting conductors and orchestras.

Oh man, I'm listening to Job, and I just looove this piece. I didn't even know how long it was. When I played it, we only played the first two movements. Thanks!!!

No, sorry. I don't have any of Britten's Operas, not even Peter Grimes (in its entirety, that is.) I'm more an orchestral/ballet/oratorio person with very specific operatic tastes:

Prokofiev - Love for Three Oranges
Shostakoivch - Lady Macbeth of Mstensk
Vaughan Williams - The Pilgrim's Progress
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
Poulenc - Les Dialogues des Carmelites

I have some others, but those are my favourites.

I noticed you said you had this...I have heard bits and pieces of Love for Three Oranges but never the whole thing and I haven't seen you post it yet. Is there any way you could upload it, please?

I am looking for:
Pictures at an Exhibition
Both the original piano version and Revel's orchestra arrangement

and Enigma Variations

I am also a big fan of Eric Whitacre's works and if you guys have any of his stuff I'd love to have that too- espically October and Ghost Train.

I wouldn't mind having a copy of Russian Christmas Music either- I play the english horn which is a featured instrument in the piece.

Also- could this please be reuploaded, the link is dead:


Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach! - Donald Fraser [1996]


Credits to elphie

Playlist:

1. Whistle While You Work / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Beethoven)
2. Give a Little Whistle / Pinnochio (Haydn)
3. A Whole New World / Alladin (Chopin)
4. Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) / So Dear to My Heart (Faure)
5. Just Around the Riverbend / Pocahontas (Vaughan Williams)
6. Chim Chim Cher-Ee / Mary Poppins (Pachelbel)
7. The Siamese Cat Song / Lady and the Tramp (Falla)
8. Some Day My Prince Will Come / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Berlioz)
9. Circle of Life / Lion King (Gregorian Chant)
10. So This Is Love / Cinderella (Debussy)
11. Kiss the Girl / The Little Mermaid (Sibelius)
12. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo / Cinderella (Bach)
13. You've Got a Friend in Me / Toy Story (Bernstein)
14. Bella Notte / Lady and the Tramp (Satie)
15. The Ballad of Davy Crockett (Copland)

Both pictures at an exhibition and works of Eric whitacre have been posted in this thread. A search should find them pretty easily. I don't think I've seen the piano version of pictures or enigma variations, though. Good luck.

*edit*. Actually, I'm not sure if the Eric whitacre is in this thread or the orchestral action thread. Ghost train is great. October is cool, too.

Found Pictures (orch.) and Enigma, now just to find the rest of the masterpieces!

Lastly, have you heard of Scelsi? He is a very interesting composer, very unique, apparently not following any specific tradition, who has recently come to light, and who I find absolutely wonderful. His piano work, just for starters, is unlike anything else I've ever heard.
It's funny you should mention Scelsi - he's been top of my 'must get to know more' list since I heard his fourth string quartet - a piercingly serious piece, horrific even, but beautiful beyond words. You get the sense of a true artist, a visionary, pushing you toward a strange place and expanding your awareness, not just manipulating sounds cleverly and showing off.

I'm extremely curious about his piano works - hardly know what to expect!

I posted this in the orchestral action thread and arthierr suggested i post it here as well!



Maslanka, David



http://rapidshare.com/files/306237346/Maslanka__Garden_of_Dreams.rar


A Child's Garden of Dreams
I. There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell

II. A drunken woman falls into the water and comes out renewed and sober

III. A horde of small animals frightens the dreamer. The animals increase to a tremendous size, and one of them devours the little girl.

IV. A drop of water is seen as it appears when looked at through a microscope. The girl sees that the drop is full of tree branches. This portrays the origin of the world.

V. An ascent into heaven, where pagan dances are being celebrated; and a descent into hell, where angels are doing good deeds.



Maslanka took the idea for this work from Jung's Man and His Symbols, in particular some of a girl patient's dreams which seemed to prefigure her death.

This one is from the Dallas Wind Ensemble with around V0 VBR ( I didn't know amazon did VBR, but I was listening to this and sure enough, the bitrate was jumping around all over the place)

Same story here.


This is a piece for Wind Band by David Maslanka. I don't know if any of you are familiar with his work, but I figured some of you might enjoy this one. The performance was done last year by the University of Utah, so forgive any errors, but focus on the music (For example, the horn and euphonium line after the tempo change in the first movement loses a few of the attacks on the A and just holds, instead of how the euphonium later plays it in solo form in the same movement) I've included a picture of the composer for those who want album art for ipods and whatnot, as this is not an official release.

There are three movements, each very interesting. The piece is about 50 minutes in length, and I find each minute completely captivating. The piece could be described as haunting, pensive, mournful, maybe even tormented, but definitely joyful in the third movement.

At any rate, I hope you enjoy David Maslanka's Symphony no. 8.



http://rapidshare.com/files/303064244/Maslanka_Symphony_No._8.rar

Would you like just anything?

I have Glass complete string quartets [the last three as the best things he ever wrote in my opinion], some piano music of his [with Cage], his Orion Suite from the Olympics, Music With Changing Parts, his documentary music, and The Witches of Venice [a very fun, and interesting play of sorts].

By Adams I have Gnarly Buttons with John's Book of Alleged Dances, Nixon in China, and Harmonliehre.

Here is a link to an already uploaded Harmonleihre [same as mine]:
http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/John_Adams_Harmonielehre.html

There's a lot of Adams and Glass on that site [Avaxhome.ws] btw.


For example, this page has most of Glass' works I think:

http://avaxhome.ws/music/Philip_Glass_Witches_Venice.html

I highly recommend the String Quartets.

Let me know if you can't find anything I have. =)

Thank you VERY VERY much for giving me that site, That has had pretty much everything i wanted to get from Phillp Glass So thank you very much
But can you upload all the Philip Glass stuff you have as well as the John Adams, If you don't mind.


I have A fairly new Maslanka Band Piece Called Give Us this day (which i played pretty recently Beautiful piece of music), If anyone wants it let me know

I have A fairly new Maslanka Band Piece Called Give Us this day (which i played pretty recently Beautiful piece of music), If anyone wants it let me know

Ooh, I'd love to hear it.

(No album art Available)



GIVE US THIS DAY (for wind band) - DAVID MASLANKA


http://www.sendspace.com/file/hnjz1w

Oh, awesome!! I'm excited for this one, thanks!

*edit* you have different album art in the mp3's than on your post. Was is southern illinois or illinois state?

Oh, awesome!! I'm excited for this one, thanks!

*edit* you have different album art in the mp3's than on your post. Was is southern illinois or illinois state?

Okay use the album art On the MP3's Not the one I posted here.

Okay use the album art On the MP3's Not the one I posted here.

Ok thanks. I haven't listened to it yet, but thanks for the upload!

*edit* sorry. Looking back at this page, it just looks like I threw up all over it. I'll hold back...

I noticed you said you had this...I have heard bits and pieces of Love for Three Oranges but never the whole thing and I haven't seen you post it yet. Is there any way you could upload it, please?
I can at least provide the piano transcriptions:

Prokofiev - Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 [Flac]

http://rapidshare.com/files/308460238/prok_comp_1.rar


pw: forgottenmelodies (as always)

Of course the original orchestra arrangement would be interesting..
and on a whole, this CD probably isn't the best Prokofiev collection. Some of the Romeo & Juliet transcriptions might be appealing, but i.e. the famous Montagues and Capulets just doesn't seem convincing on the piano as it lacks the texture, sense of menace and richness of the orchestration.

Glass-wise, i have some of his solo piano stuff, mainly the Metamorphoses, from an unidentified recording:
http://rapidshare.com/files/308477945/glasssolop.rar

To me on casual listening his music seems minimalistic, Tiersen-like, although he distances himself from that description, labeling it "music with repetitive structures" (see wikipedia). I'm not sure how to assess it, to see beyond the simple repetitions, so i'm curious, what do you see in it?

Anybody have Don Giovanni (http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Giovanni-Orgonasova-Pr%C3%A9gardien-DArcangelo/dp/B0000057EV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258493277&sr=8-1), Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000057E6/ref=s9_simz_gw_s0_p15_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0H7KJZN9ZEKSZETX9VW0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846) or Die Zauberflote (http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Zauberfl%C3%B6te-Peeters-Soloists-Gardiner/dp/B0000057FN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258493762&sr=1-1) conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

I can at least provide the piano transcriptions:
Prokofiev - Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 [Flac]
http://rapidshare.com/files/308460238/prok_comp_1.rar

pw: forgottenmelodies (as always)



Thanks for that! I grabbed it, and if anyone has the original orchestral work, I'd love it as well.
P.S. Your avatar is hilarious.

Jakob, I believe i the Orchestral work as well as his Scythian Dances (Sp) Give me a couple of days and see if i can dig it out of libary and ill upload it again

The Scythian Suite is great, but it has already been posted on this thread and i'm not sure which performance it is. If it's a different performance i'd love to hear it, as I really like the scythian suite. As for the love of three oranges, I'm very excited for it. Take your time!

Thanks also to streich for the October Revolution cantata and Ivan the Terrible. I'm always glad to hear more Prokofiev.



P.S. Speaking of Prokofiev, I don't know which performances have been posted here but I have(and am willing to upload if anyone wants them):


All symphonies with Seiji Ozawa and the Berlin Philharmonic

Fifth Symphony
1) Leningrad (Mariss Jansons)
2) Cleveland (George Szell).

Romeo and Juliet
1) San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
2) Cleveland (Loren Maazel)

Lieutenant Kije and the scythian suite-Chicago Symphony with Claudio Abbado
(actually I have Alexander Nevsky on that same album with the LSO. I'm not sure if they were both conducted by Abbado or just one).

Piano Concertos 1-5 performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy and the London Symphony Orchestra (not sure of the conductor on that one)

Is there any recording with this piece from Romeo and Juliet Ballet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9akyHz_wc

Yeah, that's "Montagues and Capulets" or "Dance of the Knights" depending on which version you're working with. That should be in every version of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet that you find as it's probably the most popular composition of the entire ballet. You can find it in this thread:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1266584&postcount=441

anyone have a copy of Nelson's Aladdin suite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PPPI7sL2k

GROF� - GRAND CANYON SUITE

MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/301568774/Grand_Canyon_Suite.rar

I said I'd post this ages ago and then forgot. So here it is. Beautiful, sumptuously orchestrated (Grof� was also responsible for the orchestral arrangements of Rhapsody in Blue that we're all familiar with), descriptive and teeming with melodies inspired by folk music, dance and jazz and, ocassionally, American Indian motifs. My favourite might be the Niagara Falls Suite, which has some incredibly powerful, almost surreal passages, but also plenty of lyricism. Each one feels like a journey in itself. Enjoy!

Hey Lens! Thanks for this, Holy crap you are right on about the Niagara suite. I love the car horns in the last movement - this is a nice discovery, probably my fav Grofe now, beating out Grand canyon. Also it's the first Stromberg non-film recording I've heard, I didn't know he did straight repertoire as well.

Well, I've got a day off here so if anyone is interested I can try and up a collection of Shostakovich string qrtts by the Fitzwilliam Qrtt. I see it's also available at PirBay, but I'll up it here if there's interest. I can recommend about half of the 6 CDs, some movements are exciting as hell and some are just depressing and disturbing...

Yeah, that's "Montagues and Capulets" or "Dance of the Knights" depending on which version you're working with. That should be in every version of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet that you find as it's probably the most popular composition of the entire ballet. You can find it in this thread:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1266584&postcount=441

Ooh, thank you for the help.

anyone have a copy of Nelson's Aladdin suite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PPPI7sL2k
I believe this was in one of the Nielsens that was posted. I'll see if I can find it and let you know which one.
EDIT: I believe there was one piece of Aladdin in the classical action pack posted by Lens a while ago so perhaps he has the full recording.

Well, I've got a day off here so if anyone is interested I can try and up a collection of Shostakovich string qrtts by the Fitzwilliam Qrtt. I see it's also available at PirBay, but I'll up it here if there's interest. I can recommend about half of the 6 CDs, some movements are exciting as hell and some are just depressing and disturbing...

Lol, that's shostakovich for you. I've also got a collection of all of them by the Emerson String Quartet. I've never heard the recording by that ensemble, maybe we should swap!

Here's the Love for Three Oranges by Prokofiev sung in English that I downloaded from emusic. It's the only version I have so it'll have to do. Conducted by Richard Hickox.

http://rapidshare.com/files/310295414/oranges.rar

Here's the Love for Three Oranges by Prokofiev sung in English that I downloaded from emusic. It's the only version I have so it'll have to do.

Thanks! I'll stop asking about that one...

It's funny you should mention Scelsi - he's been top of my 'must get to know more' list since I heard his fourth string quartet - a piercingly serious piece, horrific even, but beautiful beyond words. You get the sense of a true artist, a visionary, pushing you toward a strange place and expanding your awareness, not just manipulating sounds cleverly and showing off.

I'm extremely curious about his piano works - hardly know what to expect!

Sorry this is delayed, but here is a link to a .txt with links for his complete string quartets:

http://sharebee.com/8f2c9166

Here are the links to some of his best piano works:
Quattro Illustrazioni (Four Illustrations on the Metamorphosis of Vishnu), Suite #8 & Cinque Incantesimi:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MB7AWJV7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8VCFLLEY

Suites #9 and #10:

http://tinyurl.com/sclesi-9-10

also essential:
Quattro Pezzi for orchestra [and Anahit, but QP is his most essential work, as it is centered around a single note + microtonal derivations, it is unbelievable, and unprecedented]:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RTBZPFWF



Does anyone have more Maslanka? SPecifically his Wind Quintets, Symphonies #4 and/or #5, Oboe Sonata, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion, or Mass?

I would love, love, love, love to hear more from him =)

I have Symphony No. 4. It actually is on the same CD as the earlier Child's Garden of Dreams I posted a bit ago. "In Memoriam" was also on the disc and I will include that as well. I'm uploading it now. On a side note, he quotes his mass quite heavily in the 8th symphony I uploaded earlier in this thread if you haven't heard that. Also, as a temporary fix for the sax quartets, I remember seeing a pretty decent recording of them on youtube, although I know you'll most likely want something more tangible. Good luck finding the rest of it!



David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4 & "In Memoriam"



Maslanka Symphony No. 4 (http://rapidshare.com/files/310467270/Maslanka_Symphony_No._4.rar) (VBR somewhere near V0)

This is a total shot in the dark but, does anyone have the compete Freeman Etudes by John Cage?

They're almost impossible to come by, but I would be extremely grateful to have them.

Jakob,

Thank you for the Maslanka Symphony =) i'd really been wanting that disk actually, thank you very much =)

You're very welcome!!

Schnittke - thanks for the Scelsi. I believe the string quartets linked in that text file are the ones I've sampled already. There's a very particular recording of No. 4 that blows the one here out of the water - it's the difference between it sounding like an interesting piece and one that's overwhelmingly powerful. Being based around one note, like the Quattro Pezzi, the subtle variations and convictions of the performance are vital. I'm going to buy it myself and will post in the future :)

Edit: Just trying to unpack the Illustrazioni. Do you have the password?

Lol, that's shostakovich for you. I've also got a collection of all of them by the Emerson String Quartet. I've never heard the recording by that ensemble, maybe we should swap!

I have the Emerson, that's a very good set too. I A-B'ed some of the faster mvmts and I kinda like the Fitz qrtt better - on the other hand I've read some reviews saying the Fitz is "stodgy" compared to the Emerson. I'll try to up the Fitz sometime soon, but since you already have the Emerson I'll try to fulfill the other request I can do first.

This is a total shot in the dark but, does anyone have the compete Freeman Etudes by John Cage?

They're almost impossible to come by, but I would be extremely grateful to have them.

Hi Schnittke, welcome to the board. You may be interested in my old thread about Stockhausen, too Thread 67993

Thanks for your contributions, frankly I have been on a big Beethoven jag so all of the 20th C stuff has been back-burnered lately. However since you requested it I will up the Freeman Etudes today (the Negyesy recording). I haven't heard that in a good 15 years so it will be interesting to revisit that one....check back in a few hours :)

John Cage: Freeman Etudes


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OADGXN5W

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=99ZS4U0B



OK this is pretty hardcore avant-garde "point-music". Personally I'm a bigger fan of the slash-and-burn Cage of Variations II and Cartridge music but this is pretty confrontational stuff from a different angle -enjoy

http://www.rosewhitemusic.com/cage/texts/freeman.html

Schnittke - thanks for the Scelsi. I believe the string quartets linked in that text file are the ones I've sampled already. There's a very particular recording of No. 4 that blows the one here out of the water - it's the difference between it sounding like an interesting piece and one that's overwhelmingly powerful. Being based around one note, like the Quattro Pezzi, the subtle variations and convictions of the performance are vital. I'm going to buy it myself and will post in the future :)

Edit: Just trying to unpack the Illustrazioni. Do you have the password?

Sorry about that, the password is: www.AvaxHome.ru

Who plays that great recording of the 4th String Quartet? I would be very interested to hear it. =)

You should check out this piece as well [rapidshare links on site]:

http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/Giacinto_Scelsi_Kya_Ensemble_Contrechamps_Jurg_Wyt tenbach_hatART_117_basa005_Weiss_Schmidt.html

I just saw it. Kya is one of the best clarinet works I've ever heard.

I have the Emerson, that's a very good set too. I A-B'ed some of the faster mvmts and I kinda like the Fitz qrtt better - on the other hand I've read some reviews saying the Fitz is "stodgy" compared to the Emerson. I'll try to up the Fitz sometime soon, but since you already have the Emerson I'll try to fulfill the other request I can do first.

I would be interested in the FitzW's performance, as I have heard that it is much "warmer" then the Emerson performance [which I have].

I think someone asked for Britten's Peter Grimes, and I recently found a fantastic blog post with it [and many of his other great operas] while looking for it myself, so people may be interested in it:

http://ladiscotecaclasica.blogspot.com/search/label/Britten%20Benjamin

Glass Cage [piano works of Glass and Cage by Bruce Brubaker]:

http://tinyurl.com/ydwkbr4

Glass: Complete String Quartets by Kronos Quartet

http://tinyurl.com/ygfnt3l

Glass: Music With Changing Parts

http://tinyurl.com/yet4bzv

Glass: The Witches of Venice

http://tinyurl.com/ycssbo4

"OK this is pretty hardcore avant-garde "point-music". Personally I'm a bigger fan of the slash-and-burn Cage of Variations II and Cartridge music but this is pretty confrontational stuff from a different angle -enjoy"

Thank you very much for the Freeman Etudes. Tomorrow I plan to check out the score at my music library and follow along. My friend and I listened to the whole book today, and found it riveting. =)

One day I hope to hear the Arditti performance as well...although I am not sure how different a performance would be?

Cage really had a lot of different avenues. It's amazing that so many people disregard him musically...perhaps he was more interesting philosophically, but he still made fascinating music.

Really appreciative of these...and sorry for the late thank you, I thought I had posted one earlier.

The 20th Century really is very worth checking out...my own path has been generally backwards from the 20th century to past periods, but I still hardly know enough about it.

And I know nothing about the 21st Century...anyone know of any great composers of the 21st Century?

The 20th Century really is very worth checking out...my own path has been generally backwards from the 20th century to past periods, but I still hardly know enough about it.

And I know nothing about the 21st Century...anyone know of any great composers of the 21st Century?

I highly recommend the EMI 20th Century Masterpieces - 100 Years of Classical music 16 cd set. Pretty sure that's on avax. It's pretty short on the avant-garde people tho. No Cage, Stockhausen, Berio, Kagel, Nono, not even Xenakis! But for "repertoire" people in the 20th C it's very good.

Personally, I still stand by Bernard Herrmann as the greatest 20th C composer. I'll put Vertigo, Psycho or Fahrenheit 451 up against anything by Stravinsky, Shostakovich or Prokofiev. Debussy gives Benny a good run, tho, since to me Prelude..Faun exploded so many elements of traditional harmony/form in music (IMHO of course!). I love and respect Igor and the rest but their styles evolved from classical/nationalistic traditions, whereas Herrmann's concepts come from a much more unique place...possibly Venus or Alpha Centauri...the only problem is that because of the practical nature of film music the themes are not allowed to develop in the way concert music can. There's a Herrmann thread on here somewhere...:)

"I highly recommend the EMI 20th Century Masterpieces - 100 Years of Classical music 16 cd set. Pretty sure that's on avax. It's pretty short on the avant-garde people tho. No Cage, Stockhausen, Berio, Kagel, Nono, not even Xenakis! But for "repertoire" people in the 20th C it's very good."

Thanks for the suggestion, but that appears to be a highly biased and poor collection, even if it does capture a few good pieces. I already have the sum of the works included anyway [and far, far more works of even greater magnitude].

As for Hermann...guess I'll have to give it a try...hard to imagine anyone being on the level of Sch�nberg, Mahler, Shosty, etc..guys I rank with Beethoven very easily.

I should mention, I don't buy into the use of the term "avant-garde". If it exists, then Beethoven is surely among it's most radical members, and, of course, Wagner, and Debussy. It's hard to tell what avant-garde even really means though.

"avant-garde" actually describes the most recent musical developments, innovations and experiments, it doesn't refer to quality and Beethoven certainly doesn't belong to it (anymore). See Wikipedia.

anyone know of any great composers of the 21st Century?
Do you know anything by Unsuk Chin? She's a disarmingly modest character, but one of the most formidable contemporary composers I've encountered. What I love about her music (and what was sadly missing from her recent Cello Concerto) is the fantasy - the incredible, glittering colours almost tell a story.

As previously posted:


UNSUK CHIN - VIOLIN CONCERTO
BBC Philharmonic conducted by James MacMillan
Hae-Sun Kung, Violin

MP3-V0
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1266770&postcount=445

Also a piece that keeps growing in my estimation every time I hear it:


GEORGE BENJAMIN - SUDDEN TIME
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer

MP3-V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/310946804/George_Benjamin_-_Sudden_Time.mp3

Ok, so this was premiered in the 90s (and begun in the 80s), but Benjamin is very much a contemporary voice. As the title suggests, the piece explores the idea of time and time perception - how it can seem rapid, suspended, distorted, and even completely upended. It begins with a prelude of sorts in which you'll hear pulse-like figures overlapping (like ticking clocks). At 4:20ish the main body of the work begins to take shape; the simple main idea, a few short intervals in the horns, rises out of a long held dead chord, surrounded by a curling mist of violin harmonics. All the subsequent music is developed from that motif. Listen for example to the gorgeous passage for harp and cor anglais at 6:13 which grows ever more complex. The different lines of the music overlap and coalesce in a very fluid manner, and the colouristic combinations are often surprising. The orchestral palette includes 4 alto flutes, 2 recorders, a muted piano and a several mini-tablas that accompany the violin solo at the end.

In the words of the composer:

The title is a quotation from a Wallace Stevens poem, A Martial Cadenza, 'It was like sudden time in a world without time'. Some of the concepts behind this piece can be illustrated by a dream I once had in which the sound of a thunderclap seemed to stretch to at least a minute's duration before suddenly circulating, as if in a spiral, through my head. I then woke, and realised that I was in fact experiencing merely the first second of a real thunderclap. I had perceived it in dreamtime, in between and in real time.

Although this is but analogy, a sense of elasticity, of things stretching, warping and coming back together, is something that I have tried to capture in this piece.

Personally, I still stand by Bernard Herrmann as the greatest 20th C composer. I'll put Vertigo, Psycho or Fahrenheit 451 up against anything by Stravinsky, Shostakovich or Prokofiev. Debussy gives Benny a good run, tho, since to me Prelude..Faun exploded so many elements of traditional harmony/form in music (IMHO of course!). I love and respect Igor and the rest but their styles evolved from classical/nationalistic traditions, whereas Herrmann's concepts come from a much more unique place...possibly Venus or Alpha Centauri...the only problem is that because of the practical nature of film music the themes are not allowed to develop in the way concert music can. There's a Herrmann thread on here somewhere...
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=68018&

Herrmann is something special. I don’t think I could place him above Stravinsky or Debussy, but he’s definitely in the short list of true Greats. Unfortunately, most people I know who take classical music seriously think film scores are the lowest of the low, and it’ll be a while yet before it’s taken seriously as an artform (Zimmer and chums aren’t doing us any favours!). Thank goodness though for film as a medium and the chance it has afforded so many fantastic composers to both experiment and write bold, predominantly tonal music. Where would orchestral music in the later half of the 20thC be without Herrmann, Goldsmith, North, Rozsa etc? Where would I be?? I shudder to think.

Other composers of last century that I adore – Bartok, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Messian, Ligeti...


I should mention, I don't buy into the use of the term "avant-garde". If it exists, then Beethoven is surely among it's most radical members, and, of course, Wagner, and Debussy. It's hard to tell what avant-garde even really means though.
‘Avant-garde’ is one of those sticky terms that’s become almost meaningless in current usage. I don’t think it can really escape it’s 19th century ‘revolutionary’ connotation, and as such seems a little absurd to use in a contemporary context. The avant-garde in all its guises was assimilated into the establishment long ago. Dissonance has become the ‘proper’ mode of expression – obvious tonalism and (heaven forbid) diatonicism is considered ‘vulgar’.

So, to lower the tone once again ;) here’s a piece I promised to post a few months back. Dooj, I think you might enjoy this one - not un-Herrmann-like in parts :)


RESPIGHI - SINFONIA DRAMMATICA



MP3-V0
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/NBIVBME8/Respighi - Sinfonia Drammatica.rar

From the review on classicstoday:

... one of those decadent, late Romantic effusions that's gorgeously orchestrated (lots of organ pedals for extra emphasis), lush, bombastic, overlong, excessive--in a word, marvelous!

Thanks for the Respighi! He's one of those that I just gobble up.

I'm going to check out the Unsuk Chin as well, I remember hearing good things about it, but haven't ever actually heard the work itself. Thanks again.

Thanks for the Respighi Lens, I think I've got that one, but not by that conductor, so I'll check it out! I'm totally with you on your choices for 20th C composers. You forgot Arnold Bax tho (just kidding- I know you're a Bax fan :)).

Schnittke, no strong argument really about your opinion of the EMI box, but in its defense I can't think of any other single compilation of the 20th C that beats it for breadth and quality of performances. I do wish it included the people I listed before as well as Ligeti, Radulescu, more than 1 minimalist (Adams), Gubaidulina, Zorn, Feldman, Dun...etc (throw in Herrmann, Morricone and Ifukube too). Some odd choices in the later period as well - Maw? What about Maxwell-Davies? Zimmerman? Davidovsky, Wourinen, Foss, Amacher, Lachenman...? But anyways if you want the du Pre Elgar Cello Concerto with Bernstein's West Side Story with Das Lied von der Erde conducted by Klemperer this is the best all-in-one set IMHO.

When I said "avant-garde" I guess in terms of the music industry it's what doesn't sell and what no one plays ;).

(just kidding. oh wait, actually I'm not :( )

Here's a request : Eduard Tubin's 1st and 2nd Symphonies? I heard they were as exciting as Shostokovich's...thx in advance!

Anyone got any music by Hermann Koppel?

Lovers of Tchaikovsky and 20th Century British music might like these:

http://rapidshare.com/files/196285126/Bantock_1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196290396/Bantock_1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196293449/Bantock_1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196299577/Bantock_2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196305589/Bantock_2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196311733/Bantock_2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196313256/Bantock_2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196319523/Bantock_3.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196325698/Bantock_3.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196329382/Bantock_3.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196335088/Bantock_4.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196341269/Bantock_4.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196346547/Bantock_4.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196353069/Bantock_5.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196360025/Bantock_5.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196366380/Bantock_5.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196373475/Bantock_6.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196380540/Bantock_6.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196387722/Bantock_6.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196388418/Bantock_6.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/196279866/Bantock_scans.rar

That sounds good but do you have any sort of table of contents? I'll download the scans to find out, but rapidshare won't let me quite yet (as i'm assuming they will have the TOC). I'll just try later. Thanks for the upload. I'm excited to find out what's on these.

Take a look here:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDS44281/6

Start with CDs 1 and 2.

Double post

Oh cool, they have sample audio. That sounds really interesting, thanks for the upload, I'll have to get that!

Does anyone happen to have Ned Rorem's Poems of Love and Rain?

I was driving my car today and had the car radio tuned to a classic music station, where they were playing Concert for Piano and Orchestra n.3 by Rachmaninov(?), forgive me if i spelled the name wrong.
Does anyone have any recording of the full Concert please?

I was driving my car today and had the car radio tuned to a classic music station, where they were playing Concert for Piano and Orchestra n.3 by Rachmaninov(?), forgive me if i spelled the name wrong.
Does anyone have any recording of the full Concert please?


http://rapidshare.com/files/187056172/Rachmaninov__Piano_Concerto_No.3.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/187065515/Rachmaninov__Piano_Concerto_No.3.part2.rar

Thank you Schnittke.

Good evening. I would like to present tonight's contribution by declaring that I'm a big fan of Requiems. Not just Mozart's but any Requiem; they have that feeling of a gigantic completion; or of a desperate struggle against death. Or of the grandeur of God's gate. In Paradisum. They sound so alien and, at the same time, absolutely human. Magnificent yet never vain. But I rant.



From obscure (even thought Popeye signature theme is a carbon copy of his Light Cavalry overture, probably without paying any royalties(and they call us thieves!)) XIX century Austrian composer Franz Von Supp�; his Requiem. An even more obscure work that his operas; it was composed for theater director Franz Pokorny. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

http://massmirror.com/3560255e64dae88883a6b46609279247.html

Pass is: superkickasspass

Regards.

Thank you Another Mad Dancer. Any chance of a higher bit rate? Not FLAC, but above 192 would be good. Its a nice recording and its tinny at 128.
Many thanks

About that... found the following torrent but I can't assure it's quality. You see, I just don't care for lossless formats; I don't have the equipment needed to make it worth and my disk storage is nearing it's limit (mainly because of this site :))

http://www.torrentdownloads.net/torrent/578006/franz+von+suppe:+requiem+%5Bape,2cds%5D

It's on ape and it's a different recording. Theoretically the same, but tell me if you think it's worth it.

Thanks will check it out. Again, enjoying your upload. Cheers
Best

Looking for Song of Terezin by Franz Waxman-yes THAT Franz Waxman of many movie scores-sad but great piece about the Children of the Holocaust

Does anyone have Mozart's Piano Concertos by Gardiner / Bilson / English Baroque Soloists?

Does anyone have Mozart's Piano Concertos by Gardiner / Bilson / English Baroque Soloists?

I found No. 20 in .ape a while ago. Here's a fresh V-0 encode:


MOZART - PIANO CONCERTO NO. 20
Malcolm Bilson fortepiano
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1R1OHWPM/Mozart20GardinerBilson.rar

That's all I have to offer, but I'd also be keen to hear more, especially the early concertos, which I've had my eye on for some time, and the late C minor.

I really like this performance - the detail and incisiveness in the orchestra is fantastic, even if it sits slightly oddly with the delicate sound of the fortepiano. My only complaints would be that the declamatory solo moments in the final movement (eg the opening) sound too 'pretty', and Bilson is somewhat swamped in the stormy central section of the Romanze. Overall though it's superb. Invigorating and immaculately played. You’ve reminded me I should splash out on the box. :)

"You’ve reminded me I should splash out on the box."

If you are planning to, please let me know...as I will remove it from my Christmas list. ;)

I think I've found Threni by the way, along with other great sacred works of Stravinsky, if you're still interested:

http://rapidshare.com/files/173306714/Igor_Stravinsky_Edition_Vol.11_-_Sacred_Works_CD1.rar
http://rs441.rapidshare.com/files/173236933/Igor_Stravinsky_Edition_Vol.11_-_Sacred_Works_CD2.rar

It would be quite a job to upload the whole set, so I'd keep it on your Christmas list if I were you ;) I'm too old to be writing lists anymore, and even if I did request a particular recording from my family they'd blank-out and get a 'Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World You'll Never Need'. And I'm not buying goodies for myself till the new year.

By the by, what put you on to the Gardiner set? Are you specifically after period instruments?


I think I've found Threni..

Many thanks. Can't wait to listen! The only works by Busoni I know are his piano transcriptions and concerto (thanks to Sirusjr), and that needs to be rectified. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Do you happen to have Debussy's The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian?

"By the by, what put you on to the Gardiner set? Are you specifically after period instruments?"

Three things: First, the music historian/critic I follow most recommends that set as the definitive set of Mozart Piano Concerti; 2. Yes, I'm very interested in period instruments; 3. I really like Gardiner as a conductor, and for me, Mozart needs some revving up.

So much else is on the list though...sadly I like very rare things...who knows if anything will actually come of the list...I am always making lists anyway...my "most wanted" list = Christmas List at this time of year...currently consisting of the following:

Roussel- Padmavati
Wolpe - Yigdal
Busoni - violin con.
Mozart piano concerti gardiner
Rochberg - sym 2; phaedra
Rorem - Poems of love and the rain
DallaPiccola - Ulisse
Xenakis - Oresteia
cowell - sym 11
Berio - Un Re in Ascolto
Henze - boulevard solitude
Wuorinen - time's encomium
Hindemith - quartet for cl/vl/ce/pi

I would love to get Wuorinen's Whore of Babylon...but alas, it seems impossible to find =(

Most of these are pretty difficult to track down anyway...I'm be happy with any one of them I imagine.

So, I have an Interesting Find I think some of you may want, I recently got a CD as Gift, and it was a piece of music Called The Queen Symphony, It is composed by a man named Tolga Kashif, It was done in 2002.

Its 6 movements and its for Orchestra, Chorus, and Boys Chior, and Its a bunch of Queen Songs All re-arranged. I listened to and found it to be pretty incredible, So if anyone wants something a bit different, let me know and ill upload it.

Hi ohwiseone,

I just wanted to say... I've actually been planning on posting The Queen Symphony for a few weeks now, and actually uploaded it yesterday. (Not posting just yet as I have a few things to check first.)

So, you might want to save yourself some effort. I was planning to cross-post it to the orchestral thread as well, as calling it classical music might be pushing a point here for some... And I think it has the ability to appeal to people beyond those who may be floating around in this thread.

I'm planning to upload the video edition as well. :)

Well Thanks Tango, Because personally, I can't seem find the ripped data files In my endless amount of music files. By all means go ahead and post it, and please post a link to the video as well, the Video seems harder to come by

Hi guys,

I was just looking at this thread from the beginning and I came across Joly Braga Santos' second symphony — I'm absolutely loving it. A few more of his works were also posted, including a later symphony, but the links appear to be dead now....any hope of a re-up? I'm especially interested in more of his symphonies if anyone happens to have them.

I'd also love to get the Hansen symphonies put back up as those links are dead now too...

Thank you in advance! :)

Does anyone have the disc Night Prayers by the Kronos Quartet?

WHAAT???

This thread is dying? I call shenanigans. (THAT MEANS YOU, SARAH.)

=(

Na, its in a slow recession it will pick back up soon, or maybe we need to start the Classical by request 2 thread

oh my sweet god, my ears will be happy for some time XD thanks all 4 sharing such good music.

Okay, i'll give the thread a little push, by posting another Hamelin recording. And yes, i'm mainly uploading piano music.

Marc-Andr� Hamelin in a state of Jazz

http://rapidshare.com/files/318221205/hamelinjazz.rar
pw: forgottenmelodies

A collection of Jazz compositions - no improvisations, although Kapustin might sound like it. It's an amazing feat to compose and correctly notate these pieces, and they're a unique blend of Jazz idioms in classical forms like Sonatas. Trust me, his Sonata #2 Mvmt 1 will blow you away! The Gulda compositions are a nice addition and certainly in the reach of amateurs, while the Weissenberg and Antheil are a more difficult matter, certainly less accessible.


I have a lot more piano music to share, namely:
Six Lost Haydn Piano Sonatas (finally almost surely ascribed to Haydn around 1993)
Hamelin - Kaleidoscope
Hamelin - Godowsky Studies
Korngold - Complete Works for Violin & Piano (beautiful stuff)
Masashi Hamauzu - Vielen Dank (Piano) (FFXIII Composer)
More Medtner, Saint-Saens, Alkan, Kapustin, Masashi Hamauzu etc.

i hope this inspires some of you to choose some gems from your collections as well =)

Thanks "Lens of Truth"
I've been looking for that for quite awhile now actually.

Ultimate Classical Guitar - Decca (http://catalogue.deccaclassics.com/product.p3p?product_id=30155883489) (320kbps)

Disc 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MMYKH040
http://rapidshare.com/files/324956933/Ultimate_Classical_Guitar_1.zip

Disc 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BCYA45BB
http://rapidshare.com/files/324961412/Ultimate_Classical_Guitar_2.zip

Disc 3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O7G1H7FT
http://rapidshare.com/files/324964143/Ultimate_Classical_Guitar_3.zip

Disc 4
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RIGCCJTN
http://rapidshare.com/files/324967612/Ultimate_Classical_Guitar_4.zip

Disc 5
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XIBK11LU
http://rapidshare.com/files/324971071/Ultimate_Classical_Guitar_5.zip

Hi guys,

I was just looking at this thread from the beginning and I came across Joly Braga Santos' second symphony � I'm absolutely loving it. A few more of his works were also posted, including a later symphony, but the links appear to be dead now....any hope of a re-up? I'm especially interested in more of his symphonies if anyone happens to have them.

I'd also love to get the Hansen symphonies put back up as those links are dead now too...

Thank you in advance! :)
Bumpity bump bump...? :cryingbatman:

I got you covered buddy. I downloaded those earlier. I totally missed your last request :P Watch for them tomorrow. Just so you don't get too excited, I'm only re-upping the Hanson symphonies. I didn't grab that other one you requested.


Howard Hanson Complete Symphonies 4cd
|MP3|128kbps(sounds good)|

CD1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?nkhw1r2jzzo
CD2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?dzymfydymz2
CD3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?hmw33iijtw0
CD4 - http://www.mediafire.com/?gluyz4wgtmh
The files contain a recovery record so if it claims a track is corrupt try right clicking and hitting repair with winrar.

Thanks to original uploader for this.

Sweet, thanks Sirus! :) I'll have lots of good listening material for the holidays now, this is great.

No problem, Merry Christmas dude. I'll send you a PM with some of my upcoming posts and lossless rips of my presents. I think a few of them will be to your liking :D

Anyone have Ryuichi Sakamoto's latest album "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano"? I would very much appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

I have Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff, including Rach 2 and Rach 3

let me know if you want me to upload

So guys I found some 10 record set of The Seraphim Guide to the Classics (S60151-S60160) that are in great condition from a collection that used to belong to my sister's first boss. I have a terrible record player at the moment though although hopefully I will be able to keep these in great condition and eventually rip them and post it in lossless. Anyone have any idea of the quality of these recordings?

Hello!
I'm new here and i'm very impressed to found this.

I've every cds of Gustavo Dudamel, if someone want's I can up for rapidshare.

Someone has clarinet player's cds?
Something like Emma Johnson, Sabine Meyer, MArtin Frost
Thanks

Hello,

are there people interested in windband, brass or fanfare music ?
Let me know please, then I'll upload a few albums like theses:



Band of the Coldstream Guards - Profiles (http://www.tunespro.com/album/52952/band-of-the-coldstream-guards/profiles#)
Band of the Coldstream Guards - On Her Majesty's Service

here's one for you guys : anyone have "STRING QUARTET IN G, OPUS 54, NO.1 - THIRD MOVEMENT" by Joseph Haydn (as F. Haydn) ?

So guys I found some 10 record set of The Seraphim Guide to the Classics (S60151-S60160) that are in great condition from a collection that used to belong to my sister's first boss. I have a terrible record player at the moment though although hopefully I will be able to keep these in great condition and eventually rip them and post it in lossless. Anyone have any idea of the quality of these recordings?
I'm not familiar with that set. If they're EMI Seraphim recordings I'm sure they're good. If you list some of the performers I might have a better idea.


here's one for you guys : anyone have "STRING QUARTET IN G, OPUS 54, NO.1 - THIRD MOVEMENT" by Joseph Haydn (as F. Haydn) ?
Here's the full piece played by the Amadeus Quartet:
http://www.multiupload.com/GHWWMWK7DZ

I'm curious as to why you want that particular movement. Was is used in a film?

If you'd like to hear more, I posted the Op.76 quartets here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1288256&postcount=513

And two brilliant symphonies:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1255366&postcount=408

I would like to request the following. mp3 - V0 quality would be sweet.

http://www.amazon.com/Symphonic-Bach-Edward-Elgar/dp/B0000006XK/ref=pd_ybh_12?pf_rd_p=280800601&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=ybh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YA4Q9YXQTSA11TD6G12

http://www.amazon.com/Igor-Khudolei-Mussorgsky-Pictures-Exhibition/dp/B0000695UO/ref=pd_ybh_6?pf_rd_p=280800601&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=ybh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YA4Q9YXQTSA11TD6G12

Here's the full piece played by the Amadeus Quartet:
http://www.multiupload.com/GHWWMWK7DZ

I'm curious as to why you want that particular movement. Was is used in a film?

If you'd like to hear more, I posted the Op.76 quartets here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1288256&postcount=513

And two brilliant symphonies:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1255366&postcount=408

thanks!!! and yessir indeed it was - Wayne's World...lol

I got you covered buddy. I downloaded those earlier. I totally missed your last request :P Watch for them tomorrow. Just so you don't get too excited, I'm only re-upping the Hanson symphonies. I didn't grab that other one you requested.


Howard Hanson Complete Symphonies 4cd
|MP3|128kbps(sounds good)|

CD1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?nkhw1r2jzzo
CD2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?dzymfydymz2
CD3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?hmw33iijtw0
CD4 - http://www.mediafire.com/?gluyz4wgtmh
The files contain a recovery record so if it claims a track is corrupt try right clicking and hitting repair with winrar.

Thanks to original uploader for this.

Thankyou so much Sirusjr for posting this up,been trying for ages to find out what the track was called that played at the end credits of the 1979 movie "Alien".

I have Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff, including Rach 2 and Rach 3

let me know if you want me to upload

I wantttt iiittttt...How is the sound quality?

I heard and Prokofiev's 5th Live tonight along with Vaughn Williams Flos Campi-San Diego Symphony-I think the Prokofiev 5th is posted here as is Flos Campi- both highly recommended-

I've never heard Flos Campi, I need to look that one up. Thanks.

Marc-Andr� Hamelin in a state of Jazz

Ultimate Classical Guitar - Decca
Just wanted to say a big thank you to you both. Two fantastic posts that I've only just had time to catch up with.

I only knew Friedrich Gulda from a rather dry recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier, but wow, LOVE the Prelude and Fugue! - Sadly not within reach of this amateur!! Loads of great stuff here.

Discs 3 + 4 of the guitar set have many pieces that are new to me. I'm listening to the Giuliani concerti now and they're fabulous; fresh, sunny and pleasingly melodic, right up my street! The performances all round are superb.

Thanks again guys :)


I've never heard Flos Campi, I need to look that one up. Thanks.
You must put that right at once my friend. A bewitching piece. Let me know if you need it posting.

I figured I wouldn't ask since I had requested quite a bit from you recently, but if you're willing, I'd love it :D :D Please do!

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - FLOS CAMPI

MP3-V0
http://www.multiupload.com/BH71NUVZSF

A gorgeous, free-flowing fantasia, inspired by the Song of Solomon, and hence simmering with mystic, langourous eroticism. The ensemble consists of a small chamber-like orchestra (one of everything, plus a modest string section), solo viola and a wordless choir.

You've just made me very happy, Lens. Thanks for Flos Campi! It seems I just have a flood of new music to try, but this goes in at the top of the list with scott of the antarctic.

*edit* I listened to Flos Campi today, and I absolutely loved it!! It's a very interesting mixture of Vaughan Williams styles. Parts of it sound like The Lark Ascending, and there is a very obvious quote of (or inspiration for? I'm not sure which came first) the theme in the beginning of the Finale of the London (2nd) symphony. There are blissful, peaceful sections, wonderful brooding moments, and even some of the typical rhythmic stuff that I think of as the "Vaughan Williams Machine" style. The use of the choir reminded me of my favorite bits of his 7th symphony that used voice also. I was in complete awe for the first fifteen minutes until someone in the office came in hearing range and said "What are you listening to?!" with a good bit of distaste in their voice. I had to listen to the last few minutes later, but it was GREAT. I love hearing things I haven't ever listened to from my favorite composers :) :) Thanks again!

Anyone have Ryuichi Sakamoto's latest album "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano"? I would very much appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

Here's the two-disc version from Japan:



Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Hibari
2. Composition 0919
3. Put Your Hands Up
4. Mizu No Naka No Bagatelle
5. Tango
6. Amore
7. Ambiguous Lucidity (Hokuren)
8. A Flower Is Not A Flower
9. Before Long
10. Energy Flow
11. Mc8_ (Tongpoo)
12. Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence
13. The Last Emperor
14. Rain

CD 2
1. Sheltering Sky
2. Sweet Revenge
3. Highheels
4. Bolerish
5. Silk
6. Self Portrait
7. Bino No Aozora
8. Perspective
9. Behind The Mask
10. Tibetan Dance
11. 1919
12. Thousand Knives
13. Parolibre

KILLED

I went ape-sort of-at Off the Record in San Diego when they offered Vaughan Williams complete symphonies for ten bucks-not much classical at the store but that purchase made my day-I have an old VHS of Scott of the Antarctic which was interesting but the soundtrack was not good-great to hear the Symphony No. 7 in better sound-what about the Mystical Songs?-I heard live in a church hear in San Diego-wow great beautiful stuff-all his works have so much to offer listeners-

Would anyone happen to have the following Japanese release with Nikolay Tokareff? V0 quality would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/detail.asp?associate=SMO&goods=SICC-730
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Arch/SR/nikolaitokarev/SICC-730/index.php

Bit of a treat for you folks today - more information coming up soon (and a shameless crosspost in the Orchestral thread) but briefly...

Here is a video of Paul McCartney's most recent classical work Ecce Cor Meum, from its original concert performance from the Royal Albert Hall on November 4th 2006.

The Academy of St Martin In The Fields
conducted by Gavin Greenaway
Kate Royal (soprano)

with

The Choir of Magdalen College Oxford
King's College, Cambridge
The London Voices


Paul McCartney: Ecce Cor Meum (VIDEO) - 393mb
Video: H264 / 640x352 widescreen
Audio: LAME 3.98.2 -V0
Container: MKV

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1RPA78VA/PMC-ECM-LATRAH.part1.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/IYYJKR2T/PMC-ECM-LATRAH.part2.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/NOBBHBAG/PMC-ECM-LATRAH.part3.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0DYG4CBS/PMC-ECM-LATRAH.part4.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/FFFRZIJF/PMC-ECM-LATRAH.part5.rar

(AUDIO ONLY) - 90mb
LAME 3.98.2 -V0

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/YDB1NRVO/PM-ECMLIVE.rar

Note that the audio isn't from the CD release - it's the sound track from the video, which as far as I know hasn't been released separately.

A note on the source: This recording was made from a British television broadcast of the piece, made in 2009 on the channel Sky Arts 2. Quality is very good but isn't quite DVD standard. If you want DVD quality that badly, go buy it... To be honest I didn't like the piece enough to actually fork out for the DVD, although I did find it worth hearing.

Have fun. :)
TT

The world is full of surprises it seems: I never knew that McCartney was a composer as well as one hell of a musician. Guess it just shows the one basic truth: we are always ignorant of something, and always need to be willing to learn. :)

Verdict after I listen.

You know tango, if anyone else posted that I would ignore it as too good to be true. This is some great music and I would have never dreamed that McCartney would write something so classical. Thanks so much.

Lens...

Thank you for posting "VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - FLOS CAMPI"...absolutely brilliant!!!

I was in complete awe for the first fifteen minutes until someone in the office came in hearing range and said "What are you listening to?!" with a good bit of distaste in their voice.
Good work mate! Here's to offending co-workers with the sublimity of Vaughan Williams! :D You guys are very welcome btw, and if there any other RVW I can help you with just sing out.


..I would have never dreamed that McCartney would write something so classical. Thanks so much.
Well, I believe it was upholstered to some degree (the official credit is orchestrated an produced) by John Fraser; as was the Liverpool Oratorio before it by Carl Davis. I'm surprised Tango didn't include this info ;)

I look for the following Works of Donizetti:

BETLY

LE CONVENIENZE TEATRALI

Orchestra Sinfonica

RIGACCI, BRUNO

RITA

LA BELLA PRIGIONIERA

IL PIGMALIONE

OLIMPIADE

Orchestra giovanile 'In Canto'

MAESTRI, FABIO

IL FURIOSO ALL�ISOLA DI SAN DOMINGO

Orchestra Sinfonica di Piacenza; Coro Francesco Cilea

RIZZI, CARLO

CRISTOFORO COLOMBO

Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona

DE BERNART, MASSIMO

IL CAMPANELLO

Orchestra e coro del Conservatorio G. P. da Palestrina di Cagliari

PROIETTI, GIORGIO

CATERINA CORNARO

Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Torino della RAI

BONCOMPAGNI, ELIO

IL DUCA D'ALBA

All Works came out at the Label Bongiovanni.

Thanks! But upload it on Rapidshare.com! Please. I look for that Operas!

Dear guys,
I am very interested on these works. Maybe anyone can support me.

Revol Bunin: symphony 6 (Rozhdestvensky, on a "Rare" CD box)
Robert Still: symphonies (on Lyrita)
Bernard Stevens: Piano concerto and other works (Marco Polo)
John Mccabe: symphony "Elegia" (on an Pye LP!!, LPO conducted by John Snashall)
A. Hoddinott: symphonies 2,3,5 (on Lyrita)

Thank you a lot! Gabriel

Anyone got any harpsichord albums? No rapidshare please. IF not thats ok.

Here is my own upload enjoy! ^^ http://www.mediafire.com/?weomhd0nm4n

What is it?

*edit* Ah, I guess the filename says "Bach-sonatas for flute and harpsichord".

Yes I kinda got carried away and didnt say the name XD But yes.

Anybody want to share some Schubert lieder?

Does anyone have any Menuhin or Richter recordings? I'm trying to get a friend of mine to listen to classical music but he's weird in that he thinks only music performed by known virtuosos is worthy...
Also, on an unrelated note, does anyone have Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin?

In hopes of keeping this thread alive, I converted this fresh from lossless today into VBR V-0 for you guys. A wonderful choral piece that I think everyone should check out.


J. Brahms - Symphony 3
John Eliot Gardiner - Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - The Monteverdi Choir
Recorded live at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, November 2007
and the Royal Festival Hall, London October 2008
|MP3|VBR V-9|138MB|

http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/352211907/J._Brahms_Symphony_Number_3_Gardiner.rar

I look for the following Works of Donizetti:..
I'm afraid I don't know the first thing about Donizetti. But I have a friend who does. I'll see if I can borrow some :)

Anyone got any harpsichord albums? No rapidshare please. IF not thats ok.
There’s some Handel earlier in the thread if you check back a bit. With any luck I’ll have time to put up some Bach and Rameau soon.

Anybody want to share some Schubert lieder?
I posted a Schubert Lieder collection in this thread (Thread 71508). It’s MU unfortunately, but the link is still active. I thought to be on the safe side I’d direct you indirectly, in case they catch-on and take it down. ;)
The only other stuff I can offer are the obvious choices like Fischer-Dieskau and Bostridge..

Does anyone have any Menuhin or Richter recordings? I'm trying to get a friend of mine to listen to classical music but he's weird in that he thinks only music performed by known virtuosos is worthy...
Also, on an unrelated note, does anyone have Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin?
It’s time to put your friend right! Only someone who doesn’t like classical music would have that sort of attitude (in which case, you’re really limiting yourself in terms of who’s ‘known’). Play him something form this thread to win him over! ;)
Nevertheless I’ll keep an eye out.



J. Brahms - Symphony 3
John Eliot Gardiner - Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - The Monteverdi Choir


:neg:
Thank you!! I was eyeing this one up in HMV just the other day. Comments of a gushing nature *very likely*.. :)

Lens, the next time you are eyeing something like that chances are I can find it online first to make sure its worthwhile! Feel free to send me a PM and I'll see what I can find.

Sirujr -

Thanks for "J. Brahms - Symphony 3"

I posted a Schubert Lieder collection in this thread (Thread 71508). It�s MU unfortunately, but the link is still active. I thought to be on the safe side I�d direct you indirectly, in case they catch-on and take it down. ;)
The only other stuff I can offer are the obvious choices like Fischer-Dieskau and Bostridge...:)

Cool, I missed that somehow. Any other collections you would be willing to upload would be appreciated.

Anyone happen to have any concert works by John Williams? I have his Violin Concerto if anyone would like that ;).

Anyone happen to have any concert works by John Williams? I have his Violin Concerto if anyone would like that ;).

Are you looking for anything in particular? I have some of his concert works.

Anyone happen to have any concert works by John Williams? I have his Violin Concerto if anyone would like that ;).

i have the bassoon concerto (five sacred trees) if you want it

John Williams concert works that i have:

- Essay For Strings, Trumpet Concerto
- Sinfonietta For Wind Ensemble
- Violin Concerto. Flute Concerto
- Tuba Concerto (20th Century Concerti)
- Concerto For Bassoon And Orchestra (The Five Sacred Trees)
- American Journey
- Concerto For Cello And Orchestra (Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music Of John Williams)
- Duo Concertante (Duos For Violin And Viola)

I can upload it for you.


And while i'm here, i'd like to request Treesong, if anyone has it please.