#morninglistening to the @NakedEyesMusic’s...

#morninglistening to the @NakedEyesMusic’s #StorylinesCrossing on #Starkland:

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#inktober2018 / #inktober

An intriguing album of, well, #classicalmusic and #postclassical music with jazz and ‘clever pop’/rock influences. W/music by #JonathanRussell, #ZackBrowning, #RichardBelcastro, #RustyBanks & #RandallWool - and a classic.

The odd one out is that classic: #Rzewski’s “Coming Together”, the narrative style of which has aged badly (if it was ever good) and which is further undone by the child-whispering narration style that comes across as pretentious and gratuitously artsy. (Mos Def did it better.) The Vietnam-War message of the album, if ever intended, becomes lost to all but those that want to find it in the first place. It is aparently a law of the universe that Sociopolitical music is always either musically or socio-politically irrelevant - often both but never neither.

#classicalcdcollection #contemporarymusic #21stcenturyclassical #20thcenturycomposer #20thcenturyclassical
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#morninglistening to the @QuatuorEbene on @warnerclassics,...

#morninglistening to the @QuatuorEbene on @warnerclassics, inspired by having watched their documentary “4”:

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www.4-thefilm.com

Here in #EternalStories w/#MichelPortal, #RichardHery, XavierTribolet

Quote from first listen : “A wonderful album of… well, Jazz and strings in which the quartet relegates itself to crooning backup-band. Everyone should have a back-up band so inspired…”

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#morninglistening to #Bach on @OndineRecords...

#morninglistening to #Bach on @OndineRecords w/#ChristianTetzlaff:

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🎻♡♡♡ His third recording of the #Sonatas & #Partitas for #soloviolin

#inktober2018

#baroquemusic
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #PeterGreiner violin #violinmusic #inktober #JohannSebastianBach
comparative listening to #GottfriedVonDerGoltz’ terrific new recording.

#SeiSolo: You Are Alone.
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#morninglistening to @blandinewaldmann in #Scriabin, #Musorgsky...

#morninglistening to @blandinewaldmann in #Scriabin, #Musorgsky & #Brahms on @dux_RP

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#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #solokeyboard #PianoMusic #JohannesBrahms #modestmussorgsky #AlexanderScriabin
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#morninglistening to #Schubert #Masses on @sony_classical...

#morninglistening to #Schubert #Masses on @sony_classical w/@theoae & #BrunoWeil & @Wsaengerknaben

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#classicalmusic #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection

Much as I love Weil’s Haydn Masses, this is a dud thanks to shoddy choral singing throughout, courtesy of those overtaxed #Sängerknaben. A wholly uncompetitive set, albeit not without several moments of musical merit.

#FranzSchubert #sacredmusic #choralworks #vocalmusic #wienerklassik
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#morninglistening to #Haydn #StringQuartets w/@TatraiQuartet on...

#morninglistening to #Haydn #StringQuartets w/@TatraiQuartet on @_Hungaroton on #Paganini’s #Birthday*

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*My dedication to this has limits!

#inktober2018

#opus20 #SunQuartets

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #ChamberMusic #StringQuartet

#birthdaylistening of sorts

#classicalcdcollection #wienerklassik #TátraiQuartet #JosephHaydn #inktober
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#morninglistening to #Scarlatti on his #333rd birthday! ...

#morninglistening to #Scarlatti on his #333rd birthday! w/#ScottRoss on @warnerclassics

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From the @warnerclassicsUS #ScarlattiCube

Happy Birthday you keyboard-stud!

Original and happy freaks.

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #1685 #pianomusic #solokeyboard #333 #harpsichordmusic #DomenicoScarlatti #WarnerClassics #Birthdayboy
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#morninglistening to the @CalmusEnsemble in #FolkSong...

#morninglistening to the @CalmusEnsemble in #FolkSong arrangements from around the 🌎 on @carusverlag Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/7rnQACz #inktober2018 #Nationalfeiertag #choralworks #acapella #classicalmusic #folksongs #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #CarusVerlag #Volkslieder #stretch https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZtmrpAIyT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=96geavd5lhbi

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#morninglistening to #Haydn #Masses w/#HelmuthRilling et al. on...

#morninglistening to #Haydn #Masses w/#HelmuthRilling et al. on @HaensslerMusic

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#inktober2018 #Nationalfeiertag

V. fine performances of 8 great Masses of #JosephHaydn’s

#choralworks #sacredmusic
#classicalmusic #BoxSet #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #HelmuthRilling #GächingerKantorei #BachCollegiumStuttgart #stuttgartchamberorchestra #OregonBachFestival Orchestra et al. #HänsslerClassic #stretch
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#morninglistening to marvelous, enticing #Scriabin’s 1st...

#morninglistening to marvelous, enticing #Scriabin’s 1st #Symphony & #Prometheus w/@Filharmonien & @kirillGerstein

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#inktober2018 #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #vocalmusic #ChoralMusic #RussianClassicalMusic #symphonies #orchestralmusic #KirillGerstein #VasilyPetrenko #noFilter
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#morninglistening to #Bach on @LinnRecords: Alto #cantata #arias...

#morninglistening to #Bach on @LinnRecords: Alto #cantata #arias w/#CatherineKing who has a voice like chocolate on chocolate

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@BACH_JohannSeb #cantatas #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #vocalmusic #baroquemusic #earlyclassicalmusic #chopin #Klangkollektiv #LinnRecords
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#morninglistening to #Kubelik’s #Bartók...

#morninglistening to #Kubelik’s #Bartók #ConcertoForOrchestra w/@BostonSymphony on @dgclassics

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(also avail. on @pentatonemusic
as an #SACD)

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thcenturyclassical #orchestralmusic #BostonSymphony #RafaelKubelik #SeijiOzawa
#MiraculousMandarin
#BelaBartok #belabartók #Bartok
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#morninglistening to #Birthdayboy #FranzLiszt w/@rolandpontinen...

#morninglistening to #Birthdayboy #FranzLiszt w/@rolandpontinen & #UlfWallin in #Liszt’s works for violin & piano

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#birthdaylistening #classicalmusic #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection #chambermusic #BISRecords #germanromanticism
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Dip Your Ears, No. 222 (Mozart: The Best of Prematurity)

W.A. Mozart, Complete Symphonies, volume 2 Danish National Chamber Orchestra Adam Fischer (conductor) (Dacapo SACD) US | UK | DE

Mozart’s early works are, all mindless Mozart-veneration aside, not masterpieces. All the more surprising that Adam Fischer makes so very much of some of the earliest (1767/68) on this second volume in a well-advanced complete cycle (released in seemingly random order). With the Danish National Chamber Orchestra’s extraordinarily spirited playing, Symphonies 6 through 8, K45a (doubtful), and K.45b (“Old Lambach”) are kid’s stuff no longer. With Karl Böhm (Berlin Philharmonic DG), some slow movements rise to notable beauty, but the rest is tame. With Fischer, it’s fun, if not rapturous going throughout. Splendid, nifty liner notes and presentation round off this most enjoyable release.

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Delightful Mozart and Britten @ Konzerthaus Berlin

Berlin, Konzerthaus, March 2nd, 2014

If bright and airy and light and elegant are high on your list of qualities for what makes a concert hall beautiful, then Berlin’s Konzerthaus must be one of the most beautiful concert halls. Big enough to be sort of impressive; small enough to be intimate and versatile, and with 14 impressive chandeliers to take care of the splendid illumination.

Britten, Les illuminations et al. Sandrine Piau Northern Sinfonia, T.Zehetmair NMC US | UK | DE

Paul McCreesh, whose looks would not be out of place as a baddie in a Guy Ritchie film, led the Konzerthaus Orchestra – a smallish 34-head strong division thereof – in a buoyant and feathery rendition of one of the earliest masterpieces among Mozart’s Symphonies: K.201. The Andante, which can get long, quick, was lively enough and coy and the furiously shivering little finale was full of kick.

British and light in form (though hardly in content) and very fitting was Britten’s Les illumiations for high voice and string orchestra with Sandrine Piau as the soloist. She knew how to employ Rimbaud’s dramatic, quick-fire musical poem, including the high-wire acts and long stretches of pianissimo, to maximum enchanting effect. Her voice had an open, never nasal sound about it, with elegance and gorgeous substance. The cell phone boogie in the final poem, “Departure”, didn’t fit… but that, too, was overcome with style.

No other work so stands for “Mozart” to as many people as does the “Great” G-minor Symphony K.550. It is a constant tightrope-walk between cliché and trying too hard to avoid the cliché. And then there’s perhaps the danger of overthinking it. Better just to trust the music and play the hell out of it with a light touch and a lot of energy. Which is exactly what the Konzerthaus Orchestra under McCreesh did.

The natural horns were perhaps a tad outside the comfort zone (theirs and mine), but also warmed up from the earlier Mozart, where the infelicities had been still more notable. They certainly had character; much like Fozzie Bear in Harry Belafonte’s Muppet version of the Banana-Song. Sounds like a quibble but was part of a never-sagging delight all the way to the spirited Allegro assai finale.

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#morninglistening to #JohnClark (#FrenchHorn) in #Mozart...

#morninglistening to #JohnClark (#FrenchHorn) in #Mozart -riffing #Jazz on @CompCord

The Odd Couple Quintet

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Nearly #classicalmusic #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection #WolfgangAmadeusMozart
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#morninglistening to #Bartok & #Stravinsky on LSOLive:...

#morninglistening to #Bartok & #Stravinsky on LSOLive: @ValeryGergiev w/@LondonSymphony & @YefimBronfman

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#MiraculousMandarin & #PianoConcerto 3 + #Firebird + #Prokofiev #RomeoAndJuliet Suite 2

#madeinnewjersey

#orchestralworks #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #LSOLive #classicalmusiccollection #OrchestralMusic #RussianMusic #YefimBronfman #HungarianClassicalMusic #20thcenturyclassical #20thCenturyMusic #balletmusic
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#morninglistening to #LvB #PianoConcerto No.5 & #PianoSonata...

#morninglistening to #LvB #PianoConcerto No.5 & #PianoSonata op.90 et al. w/@AlessioBaxPiano & @southbanksinf on @SignumRecords

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tastefully done #ludwigvanbeethoven

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #Ludwigvan #orchestralmusic #solokeyboard #AlessioBax @southbanksinfonia @alessiobax #SouthbankSinfonia #SignumRecords
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#morninglistening to #Richafort & #DesPrez et al. w/the...

#morninglistening to #Richafort & #DesPrez et al. w/the @KingsSingers on @SignumRecords ahead of their concert @festspielhausAT tonight

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#EarlyMusic bliss

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #renaissancemusic #StPölten #choralmusic #acapella #historicalinstruments #historicallyinformedperformance #HIP #flemishmusic #KingsSingers #SignumRecords
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#morninglistening to #EugenJochum’s #CarlOrff #Trionfi...

#morninglistening to #EugenJochum’s #CarlOrff #Trionfi w/@BRSO

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1952-55 mono recordings w/the composer’s imprimatur

#TritticoTeatrale: #CarminaBurana, #CatulliCarmina & #TrionfoDeAfrodite

#classicalmusic #orchestralmusic #stringorchestra
#classicalmusiccollection #20thcenturyclassical #Orff #20thCenturyMusic
#GermanClassicalMusic #germanromanticism #classicalcdcollection #onehitwonder #Jochum #DeutscheGrammophon
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#morninglistening again to #Zelenka w/ #FriederBernius,...

#morninglistening again to #Zelenka w/ #FriederBernius, #KammerchorStuttgart & #BarockorchesterStuttgart on @CarusVerlag

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Because it’s *that* good!

#Missa Sancti Josephi - which somehow pre-shadows Mozart’s Requiem. ♡

#EarlyMusic #sacredmusic #historicallyinformedperformance #historicalinstruments #jandismaszelenka #baroquemusic #CarusVerlag
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#morninglistening to #Mozart #pianoconcertos w/@mco_London,...

#morninglistening to #Mozart #pianoconcertos w/@mco_London, #Bilson & #Gardiner on @dgclassics

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#classicalmusic
#classicalmusiccollection #pianoconcerto #DeutscheGrammophon #orchestralmusic #pianoconcertos #JohnEliotGardiner #MalcolmBilson #EnglishChamberOrchestra
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#morninglistening to the #vocalConstructivists’...

#morninglistening to the #vocalConstructivists’ #WalkingStill on @innovadotmu

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#vocalmusic #acapella, maybe #classicalmusic #HIPSTERmusic #contemporarymusic #21stcenturyclassical #classicalcdcollection #classicalmusiccollection

Horrid, juvenile, ugly, stupid music that must seem clever only to pretentious college music majors. utterly unlistenable corny hokum. And not even actually new.
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#morninglistening to the opening statement of...

#morninglistening to the opening statement of #KLANGKOLLEKTIVwien in #Schubert’s 1st & 8th #symphonies:

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#FranzSchubert’s #Unfinished on @GramolaKlassik in analog CD and digital #SACD Sound.

#wienerklassik done proud.

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #germanromanticism #orchestralmusic #symphony
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#morninglistening to @surprisedbeauty composer #Braunfels on...

#morninglistening to @surprisedbeauty composer
#Braunfels on @CapriccioRec w/@StaatsphilRLP

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The #PianoConcertos

#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #orchestralmusic #20thCenturyMusic
Excellent liner notes. 😀 #20thcenturyclassical

#WalterBraunfels #capricciorecords #noFilter #SurprisedByBeauty #entartetekunst
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#morninglistening to #ToivoKuula’s #chambermusic...

#morninglistening to #ToivoKuula’s #chambermusic w/@karmonnina & #OliverTriendl on @jpc_de

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#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #FinnishClassicalMusic #classicalmusiccollection #contemporaryclassical #20thcenturyclassical #surprisedbybeauty

A student of #Sibelius’ #ViolinSonata & miniatures
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#morninglistening to #Munich-#American composer #GloriaCoates in...

#morninglistening to #Munich-#American composer #GloriaCoates in #chambermusic & #Symphony No.10 on @NaxosRecords

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#classicalcdcollection #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #contemporaryclassical #20thcenturyclassical #21stcenturyclassical #orchestralmusic #womencomposers

Even on second and third listen I cannot gain a glimpse of the WHY for this music. Rather disappointing, actually.
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#morninglistening to the #Shostakovich #StringQuartets...

#morninglistening to the #Shostakovich #StringQuartets w/@borodinquartet on @firmamelodia:

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The classic second (first complete) cycle from this #stringquartet

See also @ionarts’ #DSCH #SQ4t cycle survey!

#chambermusic #surprisedbybeauty #classicalmusic #DmitriShostakovich #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #20thCenturyMusic #20thcenturyclassical #RussianClassicalMusic #Melodiya #BorodinQuartet
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#morninglistening to #Bach #sonatas for #violin &...

#morninglistening to #Bach #sonatas for #violin & #harpsichord #BWV1014 - 1019 w/@rbpviolinist & @jvinikour on @cedillerecords

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#ChamberMusic #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #ViolinSonatas #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #RachelBartonPine #JoryVinikour

Among the works of Bach that contain the least of his dance-into-eternity magic; easy-come/easy-go, compared to, say, the cantatas or organ works or single-instrument chamber works. Strange, how an essential quality seems missing, and not strange at all that we should want to like these works so much, even if we cannot succeed very easily.
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#morninglistening to #Salieri’s #opera #LesHoraces on...

#morninglistening to #Salieri’s #opera #LesHoraces on @AparteMusic w/@TalensLyrique:

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Entertaining #ItalianOpera hinting of Gluck and Mozart. Fab. performance.

#baroquemusic #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #MozartContemporary #historicallyinformedperformance #historicalinstruments #LesTalensLyrique #AntonioSalieri
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#morninglistening to #Brahms’s #DeutschesRequiem...

#morninglistening
to #Brahms’s #DeutschesRequiem w/#FritzLehmann & @BerlinPhil on @dgclassics

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Slow and old but a rousing classic driven by the vast-yet-alert choral performance.
#classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #ChoralMusic #MariaStader #OttoWiener #DeutscheGrammophon #germanromanticism #GermanClassicalMusic #vocalmusic #JohannesBrahms #Requiem
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#morninglistening to #Boito in memory of #MontserratCaballe....

#morninglistening to #Boito in memory of #MontserratCaballe. W/(New) @londonSymphony & #
on EMI/@WARNERclassics:

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#Mefistofele - with a dream cast of #Treigle, #Domingo & #Caballé.

One of my favorite operas and my favorite recording thereof.

#opera #ArrigoBoito #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection #classicalcdcollection #vocalmusic #19thCenturyMusic #19thcenturyclassical #MonserratCaballé #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #italianopera #Goethe #Faust
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A Survey of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycles

An Index of ionarts Discographies

Continuing my discographies, this is a survey of - hopefully - every extant recorded cycle of Shostakovich's String Quartets. As opposed to the 16 quartets of Beethoven's, where the survey covers nearly six dozen cycles, there are 'only' about 20 such cycles of Shostakovich's String Quartets out. For now, they are neatly bookended by the Borodin Quartet's first and fourth attempt at a cycle. (Raising the question, à la “Can you step in the same river twice?”, whether a string quartet is still the same string quartet 50 years later, with all new members).

The Borodin also raises the question as to what is a complete-enough cycle. Their first cycle, containing quartets 1-13, certainly counts - it was complete at the time and 13 out of 15 ain't bad. The Borodin's digital re-recordings of quartets 2, 3, 7, 8 & 12 for Virgin, however, which may or may not have been intended to be a cycle, don't qualify in my book. (Also, I don't think they are particularly good). Neither do the Hagen Quartet, who recorded six quartets (3, 7, 8 & 4, 11, 14), the excellent Jerusalem Quartet's 6/15 cycle (ionarts review), the St. Petersburg Quartet's first go at it for Sony (1, 2, 4 + 3, 5, 7), or the Rubio Quartet's first attempt at a cycle on Globe from 1996 - 98 (1, 4, 8, 2, 3, 5 + 7, 9, 12) or the Quatuor Debussy's six quartets (3, 7, 10, & 4, 8, 13), or the Aviv Quartet's eight quartets (1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 13), or the Prazak's two discs (7, 8, 14, 15 + op.36), or the Kopelman Quartet's recordings on Nimbus (1, 8 + Miaskovsky, 2 + E.Kissin [sic!], 3, 7 + Prokofiev & 10 + Weinberg), although their programming was innovative and prefigured the Pacifica cycle. (Then again, it still seems ongoing and might yet be finished.) There's even the Japanese Morgaua Quartet recording these works (when they don't dabble in progressive rock) with a cycle about half-way through and available only from/via Japan.

I am sitting on the data for several new discographic entries under work. Ring cycles, Mahler, Nielsen, Martinů and Beethoven symphony-cycles, as well as Bartók string quartet-cycles. They just take an awful lot of time to research and then put into html-presentable shape and even then they are rarely complete or mistake free. Neither will this one be, and every such post is also a plea to generously inclined readers with more information and knowledge of the subject than I have to lend a helping hand correcting my mistakes or filling data-lacunae. I am explicitly grateful for any such pointers, hinters, and corrections and apologize for any bloomers. Unlike some earlier discographies, this one does intend to be comprehensive. So I am especially grateful if sets that I have missed are pointed out to me. I have not listened to them all, of course, but most. Favorites are indicated with the "ionarts choice" graphic. With several hundred links in this document, there are, despite my best efforts, bound to be some that are broken or misplaced; I am glad about every correction that comes my way about those, too.

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#morninglistening to #Verdi in memory of #MontserratCaballe....

#morninglistening to #Verdi in memory of #MontserratCaballe. W/(New) @Philharmonia & #Gardelli on @DECCAclassics:

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#IMasnadieri - with a cast of #Bergonzi, #Raimondi, #Cappuccilli & #Caballé.

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#morninglistening to #Puccini in memory of #MontserratCaballe. W/@LPOrchestra & #ZubinMehta on @DECCAclassics:

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#Turandot - with the original dream-team cast of #Sutherland, #Pavarotti & #Caballé.

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#morninglistening to something that isn’t quite #classicalmusic - but within its wider realm: #Moondog, whom I first met in @philipglass’ autobiography.

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w/@davidchalmin, @KMLabeque et al.

Fascinating, entertaining; short review upcoming.

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#morninglistening to @BACH_JohannSeb’s #SonatasAndPartitas on @dgclassics w/@GCarmignola:

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A first taste of #Bach333

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#morninglistening to #Langgaard w/@viennaphilharmonic [!] on @DacapoRecords

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@SurprisedBeauty Music! ♡☆♡

My favorite quirky #20thcenturycomposer performed by the volatile but reputable #viennaphilharmonic! Win-win!

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#morninglistening to the #Shostakovich #StringQuartets...

#morninglistening to the #Shostakovich #StringQuartets w/@borodinquartet on @DECCAclassics:

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New, fourth (second complete) cycle in half a century from this #stringquartet

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#morninglistening to #BélaBartók w/@londonsymphony under...

#morninglistening to #BélaBartók w/@londonsymphony under #IstvanKertesz on @DECCAclassics:

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#Bluebeard’s Castle

with the original dream-team cast of #ChristaLudwig & #WalterBerry.

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#morninglistening to #Bach #cantatas w/@bachstiftung:

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#BWV156 Ich steh’ mit einem Fuß im Grabe

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#morninglistening to the @bachstiftung’s #LandsGemeinde #cantata by #RudolfLutz, roughly in the style of #Bach: Amazon: http://a-fwd.to/57zVW6K

#AllesLebenStrömtAusDir #classicalmusic #classicalmusiccollection
#classicalcdcollection #EarlyMusic #baroquemusic #cantatas
#BachStiftung almost #bachcantatas #JohannSebastianBach #Appenzell #Lederhosen
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