What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mahler10th]

You are supposed to leave that CD in the barracks at all times  Private John, unless the inevitable happens, and then only with a written consent.
What were you thinking?

I was forced to do it by Herr Haydn, Sir!  Blame him, Sir!

Chung/Solti
Bartok VC2
Sarge

Thank you Sarge, Sir!

[SonicMan46]

Again from Supraphon a vintage recordings box from the analogue times. Recordings date from 1973.

Apart from the fact that this must be the best played recording of Dvorak's piano music, there is also another quality in this performance which endears it to me instantaneously. and that is the playing of the old school, from bygone times. The lyricism with which Kvapil plays is nothing short than amazing, and I am drawn to it unavoidably, over and over again. It doesn't matter if you have already piano music played by somebody else, this is essential for your collection. Strongly recommended!

Hello Harry - a while back, I bought into the Dvorak Piano Works on Brilliant w/ Inna Poroshina (1997-98) - the performances are certainly good, but I would be curious from you or others concerning comparisons of these two performers in this music - thanks all - 

[Harry]

Hello Harry - a while back, I bought into the Dvorak Piano Works on Brilliant w/ Inna Poroshina (1997-98) - the performances are certainly good, but I would be curious from you or others concerning comparisons of these two performers in this music - thanks all - 

Actually you cannot compare them Dave, you simply must have both. While Poroshina recorded the works complete, Kvapil did not, but most of the works are represented. Kvapil plays more with his heart, its simply above all other performances, you will know when you listen to them.

[SonicMan46]

Reicha, Josef (1752-1795) - Cello Concertos w/ Ericsson et al + Czech Chamber Orch - a recent arrival & GMG recommendation - 

Förster, Emanuel (1748-1823) - String Quintets w/ Les Adieux; a 2-CD set ($14 @ BRO) - 

 

[mc ukrneal]

Hello Harry - a while back, I bought into the Dvorak Piano Works on Brilliant w/ Inna Poroshina (1997-98) - the performances are certainly good, but I would be curious from you or others concerning comparisons of these two performers in this music - thanks all - 

Just to add more fuel to the fire, there is a third set (also complete) on Naxos (that I don't know at all) performed by Stefan Veselka. I have heard good things about it, though I have not heard it.

[Harry]

Reicha, Josef (1752-1795) - Cello Concertos w/ Ericsson et al + Czech Chamber Orch - a recent arrival & GMG recommendation - 

Förster, Emanuel (1748-1823) - String Quintets w/ Les Adieux; a 2-CD set ($14 @ BRO) - 

 

The Rejcha is a recent purchase of mine, and well worth the money. The Forster I bought a few years ago, and will not disappoint you either.

[DavidRoss]

BARTOK
Violin Concerto 2
Dudamel
LAPO
Leila Josefowicz, violin

What a carry on.  Severe violin virtuosity a necessary pre-requisite before attempting to play.  It is here with Josefowicz.  I do not hear her 'playing the violin'.  Rather, she performs the piece with the same sort of intense brutality that Dudamel calls from the Orchestra.

This is not a piece I have heard before, and I feel I must get a commercial version which has the same level brilliance.  Any ideas?   

I love Josefowicz.  Sounds as if you would like her recording of Prokofiev's violin concertos.  Where did you hear the performance described above?

Don't know the Chung disc Sarge likes.  This hasn't quite the controlled ferocity I imagine Josefowicz brought to the piece, but I like it, and the other pieces on the disc are pretty darned good, too!

Now playing:
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[Scarpia]

Don't know the Chung disc Sarge likes.  This hasn't quite the controlled ferocity I imagine Josefowicz brought to the piece, but I like it, and the other pieces on the disc are pretty darned good, too!

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Have that collection and like it, although DG's recording perspectives can be a little artificial.  For that Stravinsky concerto, if I recall it correctly, it sounds as though you are in seated in row E of the orchestra section, and Ms Mutter is standing in front of you, in row D, playing the violin.     Not that it wouldn't be a nice way to hear the concerto.

[Opus106]

Listening to chamber music for the oboe family, by Charles Koechlin:

http://www.youtube.com/v/eCwb8OQebnY



http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Koechlin-dAmore-English-Lencs%C3%A9s/dp/B00004Y6VB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1295901358&sr=1-1

Thoroughly enjoying this lovely music.

[Brahmsian]

First listen!

Bach

Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 772-801

Gould
Sony Classical

[Harry]

Another fine set that I bought from Supraphon, with the Piano Quartets, Quintets, String Quintets & Sextet.
CD I.

String Quintet No. 1 in A minor & No. 3 in E flat major.
Josef Kluson, Viola.
Panocha Quartet.
Recordings are from 1996.

Wonderful warm recordings, with a very idiomatic sound. This is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.

[Brahmsian]

Another fine set that I bought from Supraphon, with the Piano Quartets, Quintets, String Quintets & Sextet.
CD I.

String Quintet No. 1 in A minor & No. 3 in E flat major.
Josef Kluson, Viola.
Panocha Quartet.
Recordings are from 1996.

Wonderful warm recordings, with a very idiomatic sound. This is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.

  Very nice!  Harry, soon you will be changing your avatar to Dvorak's! 

[karlhenning]

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Концерт для виолончели с оркестром, соч. 126 [ Cello Concerto № 2, Opus 126 ]
Heinrich Schiff, vc
Bavarian Radio Symphony
Максим Дмитриевич [ Maksim Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]

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[Harry]

Tschaikowsky.
Orchestral suites No. 1 & II.
Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Neville Marriner.

Very clean and detailed recordings, that has almost everything what it needs, but by Jove it could have needed some Russian flavour, some wild energy as Svetlanov brings into the music. That said, it quite a achievement to bring these works of well, and Marriner is the man just to do that, but he is a tad too academic about it, not that is rules out what he does. I simply will have to listen to it more often to find the felicities of this set.

[jlaurson]

L.v. Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
PC No.5, Choral Fantasy
Brautigam / Parrot /  Norrkoeping SO
BIS SACD

[MishaK]

Now playing:

Bruckner 4
Wand/Cologne

Damn fine performance.

[karlhenning]

Bruckner
Symphony № 8 in c minor
Toledo Symphony
Stefan Sanderling
Recorded at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral,
Toledo, OH
14 March 2007

[abidoful]

Mozart's D-major Symphony

[Scarpia]

Mozart's D-major Symphony

All 13 of them?   

[karlhenning]

Mozart's D-major Symphony

K.186b? ; )