What are you listening to now?

[Moonfish]

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice       Fink/Cangemi/Kiehr/Freiburger Barockorchester/RIAS Kammerchor/Jacobs

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[Ken B]

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice       Fink/Cangemi/Kiehr/Freiburger Barockorchester/RIAS Kammerchor/Jacobs

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That is one beautiful recording.

TD Claude Greenhill, Tasso madigrals, reprise.

[king ubu]

first time that I play anything from this one:

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Schubert 1-4 again - and I guess I'll keep the box out and play the Beethoven symphonies (1-8 that is, can't just casually listen to 9, that one needs special occasions or moods).

[Moonfish]

That is one beautiful recording.

Yes, I am at the end of the first act and the performance is astounding in its clarity and power. Bernarda Fink's voice is beautiful! Wow!!! So exciting!!!!!   

[Brian]

Schubert 1-4 again - and I guess I'll keep the box out and play the Beethoven symphonies (1-8 that is, can't just casually listen to 9, that one needs special occasions or moods).

And to add on to what you say about 9, if that is the NDR orchestra recording of 9, that is a very, very special performance, maybe my favorite but surely one of my top five.

[Brian]

As for Rach 3, well, Kocsis finally has an equal, at least to my tastes.  Freire and Zinman work well together.

"Bigger" cadenza or "smaller" cadenza? Either way, I'm changing my note on this release from Mandatory to Double Extra Mandatory.

[EigenUser]

Now:



Listening to Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3). Possibly the greatest Italian symphony ever composed? Could be especially since there aren't many Italians that were interested in the genre. Nevertheless, this is a great performance of the work. I haven't heard Noseda's performance (yet).

Berio?

I don't know many Italian symphonies, but I can't imagine liking one more than that for its sheer wackiness.

[king ubu]

And to add on to what you say about 9, if that is the NDR orchestra recording of 9, that is a very, very special performance, maybe my favorite but surely one of my top five.

I haven't really gotten beyond Furtwängler live in Bayreuth 1951 - that is so monumental, I was really beat and beatified at the same time - and exhilarated. Not sure where to go to next whenever I'll be in the mood again: Toscanini, Walter, Scherchen, Cluytens, Schuricht, Monteux, Leibowitz, Horenstein, Bernstein, Böhm, Jochum, Wand, Gardiner, Abbado, Zinman, Herreweghe ... (I don't have complete cycles by Monteux, Horenstein and Herreweghe, by the others I do, though Scherchen, Cluytens, Bernstein, Wand and Jochum I've not yet played, or only in parts).

Anyway, Schubert 3 by Wand/Kölner RSO by now.

[Ken B]

Tearin' the room up!
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[psu]

I, too, enjoy the powerful sound of Klemperer's Mozart! Great performances!  Are you a Klemperer fan overall, Psu?

Overall yes. The Mozart is new though. In the past I had stuck to the Brahms/Mahler/Bruckner.

[amw]

Schubert 1-4 again - and I guess I'll keep the box out and play the Beethoven symphonies (1-8 that is, can't just casually listen to 9, that one needs special occasions or moods).

Hmm. I'm guessing that's the Köln Schubert cycle. His NDR recording (live) of the Great C major is probably the greatest version of that piece ever recorded, so if you enjoy his interpretations, be sure to check that out as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

Tearin' the room up!
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[TheGSMoeller]

On Spotify...

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[André]

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana. Having embarked on a buying and listening binge, I just now remarked that a lot - if not most -  versions of this nazi-era work are american: Saint-Louis, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland...

- Cleveland MTT
- St-Louis Slatkin
- Boston Ozawa.

I think I prefer the orchestra and soprano from the Cleveland version, the choirs and tenor from St-Louis, the conducting from Boston. Baritone-wise they all leave a bit to be desired.

[Todd]

"Bigger" cadenza or "smaller" cadenza? Either way, I'm changing my note on this release from Mandatory to Double Extra Mandatory.

Smaller.  I'd say go for the Sony box first, or at least at the same time.

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It has been a good long while since I bought a new version of Bartok's CfO, and it's hard to believe that I hadn't bought Kubelik's BSO recording, though I have had the BRSO version to tide me over.  Anyway, top-flight, up there with the Hungarian greats (Fricsay, Reiner, Dorati).  The Viola Concerto discmate is pretty good, if perhaps a bit romanticized, and not quite up to my preferred Kashkashian/Eotvos.

[North Star]

On Spotify...
[Jacobs' O&E]

What do you think?

[Moonfish]

On Spotify...

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Joining the Gluck Fest, eh, Greg?   

[North Star]

Joining the Gluck Fest, eh, Greg?   

Just needs some Glühwein to go with it

[TheGSMoeller]

What do you think?

LOVING IT!

Joining the Gluck Fest, eh, Greg?   

I think I'll buy a ticket, yes! 

[kishnevi]

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana. Having embarked on a buying and listening binge, I just now remarked that a lot - if not most -  versions of this nazi-era work are american: Saint-Louis, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland...

- Cleveland MTT
- St-Louis Slatkin
- Boston Ozawa.

I think I prefer the orchestra and soprano from the Cleveland version, the choirs and tenor from St-Louis, the conducting from Boston. Baritone-wise they all leave a bit to be desired.

Which is why this one is so desireable. 
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And there is that rather weird Ponnelle film, which can be seen on Youtube

Thread duty
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CD 2 sonatas 4-7

to be followed by a return to the Perahia box;  Murray tickling the ivories as Peter Pears sings Schumann lieder.