What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

Gerhard Weinberger plays BWV 669 - 671

Moving. He makes all three chorales fit with the mass text. He's in force-of-nature mode in 671, at the the end, all the clashes, it's like someone twisting their face with intense emotion. 669 is prayerful. And 670 is sour in the middle, the crucifixion. He doesn't dance for joy at the start of 670 like Nordstega does, he sings for joy.

I kept thinking: I wish I'd learned to play the organ just to play the end of 671.

[Sergeant Rock]

Grieg Piano Concerto A minor, Leon Fleisher, piano, George Szell conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Man, that link is a web-ad minefield!

[Karl Henning]

Yes, I wish-listed it straight off.  I remember Yvar in his tango collecting days

[Que]

What an impossible question......I have played 2 discs from each of them. But since the rare chamber music works seems less available than the piano works, ans since I'm a chamber music fan, I would prioritize that. But YMMV. This is purely subjective, quality in both sets seems very fine.

Sorry for that, and thank you for answering anyway!

Q

[toledobass]

Going through a bunch of Carlos Kleiber's discog again. 

[Mandryka]

So rapt and quiet and internal in 669, it's like you have to hold your breath for five minutes. In 670 the very clear pedal and tenor give a note of astringency to the basically joyful treble - I'm sure Koopman's way of dealing with the conterpoint helps, but I haven't worked that bit out yet. 670 slowly builds up force and tension over a good five minutes of fuging - memorable  the way Koopman cuts it off to descend into chthonic dissonance.

The performance is totally different from the one he made six years later for Teldec, I much prefer the way he played it on Novalis.

Nice sounding organ too.

[Lisztianwagner]

While waiting for the Neujahrskonzert 2014:

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[Wakefield]

Is this particular recording by Leonhardt to your knowledge included in one of the many reissued box sets?

No, AFAIK. Even I think the (quite elusive) Japanese 20-CD set that I have it's currently OOP...

I acquired it on HMV to get those harpsichord partitas and some other disk (although I owned 3/4 parts of its content), but I don't see it there now.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - listening to the last 2 discs of the box set below - Dave

[Mirror Image]

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Continuing my survey of Elder's Elgar series. Listening to Introduction & Allegro. Simply gorgeous.

[listener]

the EMI collection of Hoffnung concert highlights 1956,1958 & 1961

[Mirror Image]

Continuing my survey of Elder's Elgar series with this fine recording:

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to the Violin Concerto. Another winning performance from Little. Of course, the accompaniment from Davis is splendid.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Paris: The Song of a Great City. Excellent work and performance.

[Wakefield]

J.S. Bach - Cantatas Vol. 16: For the Sunday after Christmas (New York)
[BWV 225, 152, 122, 28, 190]

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http://www.youtube.com/v/GIiVBPa2NII

Bach Aria (Duetto) ''Jesus soll mein alles sein'' BWV190 by J. Gilchrist (T) & P. Harvey (B)

Occasion: New Year's Day (Feast of the Circumcision and the Naming of Christ).

[pi2000]

Brahms violin concerto: Haendel-Celibidache
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[listener]

CHARPENTIER: Te Deum, Messe de Minuit (Christmas Mass, based on old French carols)
La Petite Écurie et la Chambre du Roy      Jean--Claude Malgoire, cond.
GLAZUNOV:  Symphony no. 6,     USSR Ministry of Culture S.O.
  Scènes de Ballet   USSR Radio S.O.
both conducted by Rozhdestvensky

[Que]

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