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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · May 19

My original pinned message, containing links to various box set and composer threads was deleted by BlueSky. So here it is again. Once you click into the first post, you’ll find all of the others set out below.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 10h

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 75 ‘Sängers Morgenlied, D165, 27 February 1815. Music of considerable spirit. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 14h

#NowSpinning Mǎcelaru’s fairly recent Rachmaninoff Second Symphony. The opening is bang on, with the right weight, atmosphere and dark tone for my taste.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 1d

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 74 ‘Nähe des Geliebten’, D162, 27 February 1815. The gently mobile melody allows the singer to float along with the whimsical mood. Cue Janet Baker! www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 1d

#NowSpinning Joly Braga Santos Symphony No.2. This is a very cool work, full of great ideas. The opening sounds almost like Bax.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a generally pleasing cycle, though 2 and 6 don’t quite convince me. He underplays the former and misses the atmosphere in the latter. I love that En Saga.

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 1d

#NowSpinning Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Decca Sibelius 5. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to this cycle. I’d forgotten how startlingly vivid the sound is!

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 2d

For the Menuet sur le nom Haydn, there is once again little in it. For me a minutely greater forward momentum brings a slight edge in favour of Chandos, though both are delicately done. So it’s 2 - 4 on Chandos.

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 2d

I did too!

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 2d

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 73 ‘A Mignon’, D161 from 27 February 1815. The melody is simple, but Schubert’s chord choices are stunning. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 2d

Great choice!!

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

#ClassicalDiscussion What are your favourite recordings of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra? These are the ones I return to most often, but I keep finding versions to challenge them.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

‘Bro, no, I composed it’. So it must be true.

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. Dude Walter, however…..

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

I just said the same, but without the Symphony No.3 bit!

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

I love walking in that kind of weather. It always seemed to be like that on the moors when I was a kid!

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

Not to Sibelius, but it was Mahler yes. To Bruno Walter.

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

Haha. It’s all still there for you when you are ready. Why did you go to real country side when some other dude composed it anyway?

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 72 ‘Am Flusse’, D160. A miniature in size only. But there is a big emotional impact here, and relationships with other songs are there to be unearthed…. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

Funny that! Yes it’s also a really excellent Sixth. Makes total sense even when the music goes off the rails!

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

#NowSpinning this awesome performance of Prokofiev’s Fifth form Järvi. I love this cycle. Absolutely no holds barred!

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

Oramo is a force to be reckoned with in these works.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

I have to say this Nielsen 2 is a treat. I listened again today and loved every second. To think that, in an interview between halves of a Prom some years back, a prommer described Nielsen as ‘Poor Man’s Dvořák’. Don’t you just love it when people try too hard to be connoisseurs!

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

I really like it, though the brass are blunted by the distanced sound in the Second.

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 3d

#NowSpinning Sibelius Symphony No.2 from Arvo Volmer’s Adelaide cycle. I loved this set when I first heard it and I have to say my enthusiasm has not diminished. I wonder why it is mentioned so little?

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 4d

#NowSpinning Playlist sorted for the drive to Norfolk. Brahms 3 with Karajan kicks things off in sumptuous style. But then some Animals with Mehta, Nielsen with Oramo and Dvořák with Ančerl for the final classic. Should cover the three hours!