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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8780 on: August 21, 2007, 05:30:46 AM »
Quote from: karlhenning on August 21, 2007, 05:11:08 AM
A hey-nonny no, and a hat-cha-cha!

Good morning, Andy!  :D





'Mornin' Maestro Karl!


Now:

Mozart Divertimento in Eb (Guarneri)


A personal Favorite.
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« Reply #8781 on: August 21, 2007, 05:45:21 AM »
Last night before bed I listened to Uchida/Tate doing Mozart p ctos #24 and #25.  I can't imagine there are many finer performances.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8782 on: August 21, 2007, 06:02:51 AM »
Quote from: James on August 21, 2007, 05:59:34 AM
Abraham & Isaac (10'26)
masterwork...


Aye, 'tis!

Perséphone (55'51)

This has to be the fifth time I've listened to this;  I am ravished.

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« Reply #8783 on: August 21, 2007, 06:32:05 AM »

Amazing.

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« Reply #8784 on: August 21, 2007, 06:40:13 AM »
Howard, that does look enticing!
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« Reply #8785 on: August 21, 2007, 06:47:01 AM »
Quote from: karlhenning on August 21, 2007, 06:02:51 AM
Aye, 'tis!

Perséphone (55'51)

This has to be the fifth time I've listened to this;  I am ravished.




I heard Persephone for the first time in many years on R3 one morning and was hooked.

Nagano's recording on Virgin arrived today and I am looking forward to listening to it once I've downloaded it to iPod.

In fact it is part of a 2CD set of all Nagano's Stravinsky recordings for Virgin which includes well-regarded performances of the Symphonies for Wind and Firebird and a lesser Le Sacre, all with either the LPO or LSO. Bit of a bargain!
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« Reply #8786 on: August 21, 2007, 06:49:00 AM »


Overfiltered transfer, but brilliant playing!  8)
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8787 on: August 21, 2007, 06:56:27 AM »
Organ's from Holstein Lubeck.

Organ landscape

Volume II.

Lunden/Ahrensbok/Todenbuttel/Breitenberg/Altenkrempe/Lubeck.

Composers.

Johann Christoph Schmugel.
Georg Michael Telemann.
Johann Paul Kuntzen.
Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow.
Hermann Jimmerthal.
Johann Gottfried Muthel.
Niels Wilhelm Gade.
Hans Matthison-Hansen.
Karl Ludwig Lichtwark.
Heinrich Stiehl.
Hermann Ley.
From 1696-1939.

Wolfgang Baumgratz, Organ.

A wonderful second volume, very well played and recorded.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8788 on: August 21, 2007, 08:11:56 AM »
Franz Schubert.

Quintet D 667, "Die forelle".

String trio Fragment D 111a.

String Trio D. 581.

Christian Zacharias. Piano.
Leipziger Steichquartett.

Zacharias and the Leipzigers is a match not made in heaven. Robust piano playing somewhat ruins the brittle magic of D 667. This playing style is at times adapted by the Leipzigers, and that makes for detached music making on the cool side of the spectrum. The overall impression is that it produces a Schubert, that is not near to my heart. I like my musical food differently made. So all in all, wrong decision to buy this one. Recording is forward.
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« Reply #8789 on: August 21, 2007, 08:13:25 AM »


Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor.

Does anyone share my preference for Haydn's works in the minor key?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8790 on: August 21, 2007, 08:19:19 AM »
Stravinsky
from Disc 21:

Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nominis

Before continuing the survey of the box, my ears really wanted to revisit this . . . and Threni after.

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« Reply #8791 on: August 21, 2007, 08:48:02 AM »
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Labèques / Davis / Verbier Festival Orchestra) - Thanks again to O Mensch, who posted the link below with archived concerts from this summer's Verbier Festival.  The quality of their Internet broadcasts is really quite superb.  (Note: apparently these will only be available until August 31.)

http://www.medici-arts.tv/

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8792 on: August 21, 2007, 08:53:57 AM »
Stravinsky
from Disc 21:

Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae



What a magnificent piece! And, I must own, hearing the flugelhorn in this score was one seed for the idea of writing a brass quintet with flugelhorns rather than trumpets.
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« Reply #8793 on: August 21, 2007, 09:09:33 AM »
Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)

Großmächtige Prinzessin from Natalie Dessay
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8794 on: August 21, 2007, 10:09:31 AM »
Johannes Brahms.

Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano.

Sonata opus 70.

Lieder. (Arr by Peter Horr)

Sonata opus 38.

Peter Horr, Violoncello.
Cora Irsen, Piano.

Very passionate performances, without them losing sight of the complete composition. Just enough of everything this is, and very effectively done, I might add. Quite a treat this is.
Recording is well up to scratch.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8795 on: August 21, 2007, 10:14:29 AM »
Brahms Symphony No. 1 performed by Walter/NYPO. It's a rough and exciting account of this work. The United Archives remastering is a bit on the bright side and it's a bit bass-shy, but the sound is IMO good enough. It would be interesting to hear the French Sony remasterings, though.   

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« Reply #8796 on: August 21, 2007, 10:53:04 AM »


And here I thought he only composed The Planets. ;)
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8797 on: August 21, 2007, 11:23:18 AM »
Quote from: George on August 21, 2007, 06:49:00 AM


Overfiltered transfer, but brilliant playing!  8)


compared to a Pearl transfer, sure. But presuming Bryan Crimp transferred it, I doubt "overfiltered transfer" would be a negative thing.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #8799 on: August 21, 2007, 12:42:30 PM »



This is actually the very first time i am listening to the piece in full, as I only ever heard the introduction before  :-[

Not what i expected, and relying on the intro is definitely misleading... could be a grower though... I find it does sounds a bit like Bruckner in parts (but what do I know...  ;D) , it will do me  :)
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