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Classical music obsessive. 🏳️‍🌈

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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 · 2h

#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 · 3h

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

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

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 · 4h

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

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5h

#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 · 21h

#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!

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

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 71 ‘Das Bild’, D155, 11 February 1815. The imagery here is indeed magical. There is something glowingly positive about this song. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W1...

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

I certainly have all four on that page yes.

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

Yes a very similar interpretation. Possibly a bit more flexible.

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

#NowSpinning Marcelle Meyer plays Richard Strauss’s Burlesca for Piano and Orchestra, with Cluytens in Paris. What a wonderfully unblended sound this orchestra has. But oh what wonderful piano playing!

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

#NowSpinning Mahler Symphony No.1. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the 1995 Amsterdam Mahler Festival. This is not the same Mahler 1 as appeared in the recent ‘Chief Conductor’ Edition. So that means there are at least four Chailly Mahler Firsts.

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

Haha. I am keeping them ALL.

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

Yes I think that’s fair.

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

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 70 ‘als ich sie erröten sah’, D153 from 10 February 1815. Graham Johnson’s essay is fascinating for this one, describing how performances are difficult and can sound inappropriately hectoring because of breathing issues! www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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

I am working through the whole box and really enjoying it.

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

#NowSpinning Dvořák’s Fourth Sympony with Libor Pešek. Although I am looking forward to getting to his accounts of the later works, Libor Pešek has done a nice job job of these earlier works. This Fourth is no exception, though the work itself is a touch loose for my total comfort.

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

I haven’t heard it yet

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

FINALLY! I remember listening to the 1995 Amsterdam Mahler Festival on the radio as it happened. Alas I only became aware of this 2006 box of recordings from the festival after it was deleted. It’s been too expensive ever since. Finally found a good price. Wow what a line-up!

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

#NowSpinning OH YES I AM. Cracking open the Mehta Warner box and starting with Ravi Shankar’s Sitar Concerto No.2. I’ve heard the First - with Previn - but not this one

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

#NowSpinning Karajan’s 1970s Brahms 1 and 2. I bought these on my 25th birthday - the very same day that I heard Haitink and the Boston SO play the second live at the Proms - and have never looked back. They still stand up well, though there are so many great recordings now.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

…aaaand we have the cheeky cymbal crash. Not sure if I think it’s naughty or not.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

#NowSpinning Karajan’s 1970s DG Bruckner 7. I am not sleepy, so I thought I’d put my earphones on and just take it in. I am NOT regretting my choice right now. The orchestra sounds majestic.

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

#A-Schubert-A-Day Day 69 ‘Minona oder die Kunde der Dogge’, D152, 8 February 1815. Dark, brooding and shadowy, this sing is often ignored or dismissed. www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2...

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

Now ordered. Thanks, fella!

Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know it! Must listen.