What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

I like the solo violin sonata very much indeed

+ 1

[Bogey]

Dirt frickin cheap. 15 discs for about $48. Bis super deal even better than the Sibelius box.

But....that is over $3 a disc! 

[Que]

This excellent Creation by Harnoncourt and his gang:

Would you pick this or Jacobs?  (or Hengelbrock?)

Q

[Que]

This is a fantastic disc, indeed. I think not even Mozart was never so authentic.  You know "the progress" and all of that...

We are in complete agreement... Not for the first time, and probably not for the last time either...

BTW, Schoonderwoerd's set of solo keyboard music is excellent too.

After this disc, I already made a mental note to check it out - thanks for the confirmation!

Q

[Que]

From my Stoki-phase:



Currently some sweet "bleeding chunks" from Tannhäuser.

Q

[DavidW]

Pricey set, David?  And good morning.   Spring break?

No, spring break isn't for awhile yet.  Pricey... not really considering the size of the set.

[Todd]

Courtesy of YouTube. 

[Karl Henning]

Malipiero
String Quartet № 1, « Pizzelle e stromboli Rispetti e strambotti » (1920)
Venezia String Quartet
(the piece, incidentally, was first performed 25 Sep 1920 in Pittsfield, Mass.)

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Lenny Bernstein's Harvard Norton Lecture #4: The Unanswered Question: the Delights & Dangers of Ambiguity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwXO3I8ASSg

Even his hair was talented.

[Ken B]

Lenny Bernstein's Harvard Norton Lecture #4: The Unanswered Question: the Delights & Dangers of Ambiguity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwXO3I8ASSg

Even his hair was talented.

Oh no! No reviving the HvK vs LB hair debate!

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn: Symphony No. 39 in G minor
Pinnock - English Concert

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[Brian]

Courtesy of YouTube.

Thoughts?

After the Schumann, I put on this:



...and I aaaaaaaaaallllmoost can't tell the difference, stylistically.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Oh no! No reviving the HvK vs LB hair debate!

I didn't know it was a debate?!* Pounds the table!  Lenny rules!  (He is the closest thing the U.S. ever produced in the way of a "public intellectual.")

In this program he quotes a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem which pretty much tells how I feel about Lenny:
"How to keep - is there any any, is there none such, nowhere
known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty,... from vanishing away?"

[Karl Henning]

Haydn: Symphony No. 39 in G minor
Pinnock - English Concert

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Enjoying the samples.

[Wakefield]

Would you pick this or Jacobs?  (or Hengelbrock?)

Q

Hengelbrock has been a long term favorite... However, the last year was re-released a fantastic recording (from the early 80s) by Kuijken and his orchestra, which is highly recommendable too.

[Todd]

Thoughts?

Outstanding.  One of the best Scarlatti on piano discs I've heard, almost rivaling Sergei Babayan and Mikhail Pletnev.

[EigenUser]

Violin Concerto No. 2

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[Ken B]

Kicking off ABBM here, anybody but Bartok month, my attempt to swim against the tide on this thread, is

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No Bartok til May, at least.

[The new erato]

Pizzelle e stromboli Rispetti e strambotti »

Sure that's not something you ripped from an Italian restaurant menu?

[Ken B]

Enjoying the samples.

Sample Weil/Tafelmusik. No to mention the Hog.