CDs on your To-Listen List

[Brian]

Over the past couple days, I've seen five discs people have been listening to, and added them to my to-listen list for the next couple days. Thought that a new thread dedicated to the maintenance of such to-dos would aid in my actually remembering to listen to them!

Anyway, here are the albums on my to-do list for the next two weeks. It's a pretty darn long list, so I've got lots of homework. And the only music listed below that I've ever heard before are Haydn's Nelson Mass, Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, and one Taneyev overture.


   

   

   

   

[Mirror Image]

I've got hundreds of CDs I haven't even heard yet, so obviously my list would just be too long to list here.

[karlhenning]

Surprisingly few at this point.  An Eric Dolphy live reissue which I haven't unwrapped yet, is perhaps my only active acquisition to which I haven't listened.

[karlhenning]

Mm . . . well there may be some patches of the Boulez Sony reissues which I've yet missed, I've tended to target my listening there.

And I'll have a lot of catching up once the big Brahms box lands!

[Franco]

Not any CDs, but a bunch of DVDs: the remaining three operas of the Met Ring and the live set of Beethoven Symphonies with Claudio Abbado.

[karlhenning]

Not any CDs, but a bunch of DVDs: the remaining three operas of the Met Ring and the live set of Beethoven Symphonies with Claudio Abbado.

Likewise, I have many DVDs (most of them not musical performances) to catch up with.

[Lethevich]

I still need to properly finish listening to these two (especially the first):



I also burnt out on Langgaard just as I bought a few chamber music discs, so they remain unlistened and still in their wrappers

[springrite]

The Dream of Gerentius, which I bought but have never listened to yet. With the passing of my sister, I want to have a quite time next week to listen to this work.

[karlhenning]

Oh, gosh, yes, I still have a good half of the Britten box to make my way through . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

LIke MI, too many to list. And like Karl, some big boxes I've barely dented (Stravinsky, RVW, Siegfried Wagner). I've pledged to limit my CD purchases for awhile in an attempt to catch up. I'll buy wine instead 

Sarge

[Guido]

To Brian - that Naxos CD of Shostakovich cello concertos is fairly dire - the first is servicable, but not a top recommendation, but the second concerto, one of my all time favourite works, and my favourite by Shostakovich, is just awful here - I beg you to get this version:

http://www.amazon.com/Cello-Works-Rostropovich/dp/B000001GJK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1279206995&sr=8-2

which is a superb collection anyway - so many wonderful performances and works here.

The Moeran cello concerto is a superb work - bizarrely underrated - achingingly beautiful and I think Moeran's finest. The Moeran violin concerto is also lovely.

[karlhenning]

Very interesting, Guido . . . and you occasion a thread duty post . . . for I do not believe I have yet listened to the Cello Concerti in the EMI three-fer (the one with the matryoshki on the cover).

[Sergeant Rock]

I've pledged to limit my CD purchases for awhile in an attempt to catch up.

Sarge

Those evil, tempting bastards over on the Martinů thread destroyed my resolve last night 



Sarge

[karlhenning]

Martinů is just such a peril . . . .

[bhodges]

Those evil, tempting bastards over on the Martinů thread destroyed my resolve last night 



Sarge

  No kidding--that was quite an avalanche.

--Bruce

[Bulldog]

My listening over the next few days:

Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust - Harnoncourt, Herreweghe and Abbado.

Miaskovsky's Cello Concerto and Cello Sonatas - Musical Concepts, Arte Nova and Cello Classics.

Bach's WTC - Belder, Egarr, Watchorn, Pollini, Ashkenazy and Rangell.

Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - Faust, Mullova and Ibargimova.

[Todd]

My listening over the next few days (or week, or two, or whatever):

Schubert, Impromptus – Andrea Lucchesini
Mozart, Piano Sonatas – Heidi Lowy
Mozart, Piano Sonatas – Maria Joao Pires (DG)
Saint-Saens, Piano Concertos – Gabriel Tacchino, et al
Milhaud, Symphonies – Alun Francis
Liszt, Transcendental Etudes – Jorge Bolet (Ensayo)
Marais, Suitte d'un Gout Etranger – Savall, et al
Gubaidulina, String Quartets – Danish Quartet
Couperin, Les Concerts Royaux – Savall, et al
Debussy & Ravel, Piano Music – Monique Haas (Erato)

I think I'm starting to want to listen to some more Beethoven sonatas, too.  I may need to get a new disc or ten.

[Guido]

Very interesting, Guido . . . and you occasion a thread duty post . . . for I do not believe I have yet listened to the Cello Concerti in the EMI three-fer (the one with the matryoshki on the cover).

You've surely heard the pieces before though? Many play the first very well, but no one has ever come close to Rostropovich in the second IMHO. And Rostropovich would still be my choice in the first too.

[karlhenning]

Oh, yes, indeed, Guido. Mostly in a recording with Jiří Bárta, conducted by Maksim Dmitriyevich.

The recording I have yet to listen to is also conducted by M. D., with Heinrich Schiff the soloist.

[Guido]

Both of those are magnificent, amongst the very best out there.