What are you listening to now?

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Brian

Quote from: Todd on August 16, 2014, 07:23:22 AM
Disc 3.  Handel on a Hammond.  Well, at least Ms Schirmer tried something different.  Alas, it's god awful, the classical recording equivalent of the movie Thor.  It's Handel as played by a third-rate lounge jazz act.  The SOTA sound only serves to very clearly reveal its awfulness.

Listening to the sound samples. What the f---?

SonicMan46

Well, my friendly mailman just left the Naive 6-CD box of Vivaldi's Concertos - just $18 (+ $4) from the Amazon Marketplace - first two up shown below:

 

Bogey

 8)



Cocktail Hour With Verdi
Mono
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Wakefield

Quote from: SonicMan46 on August 16, 2014, 08:57:46 AM
Well, my friendly mailman just left the Naive 6-CD box of Vivaldi's Concertos - just $18 (+ $4) from the Amazon Marketplace - first two up shown below:

 

Nice guy! BTW, those two disks are simply perfect (although the lute disk is a re-release).  :)
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Harry

Quote from: Gordo on August 16, 2014, 07:44:33 AM
It's great to know there are more great things to come.

Particularly, I have loved two things: (1) To remember the incredible range of possibilities of this fantastic Trost organ, from monumentality to the most delicate tenderness; speaking of which right now is sounding through the speakers a lovely prelude BWV 617, and (2) the relaxed, but highly focused style of Molardi.  :)

I will wait for the complete box, they are always much cheaper as separate releases. And the Trost organ makes it a must. Its my favourite organ. Do you know how it is tuned? a"=461Hz?
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Wakefield

Quote from: Harry's on August 16, 2014, 09:23:50 AM
I will wait for the complete box, they are always much cheaper as separate releases. And the Trost organ makes it a must. Its my favourite organ. Do you know how it is tuned? a"=461Hz?

http://brilliantclassics.com/media/775637/94792-JS-Bach-Organ-Registration-Download.pdf

:)
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Harry

Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Wakefield

"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

ZauberdrachenNr.7

#28468
Quote from: Bogey on August 16, 2014, 08:58:31 AM
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Cocktail Hour With Verdi
Mono


+1!  Do the prices relate to the records or cocktails?  ;D  Are you certain it's mono ?  There's a stereophonic sticker I can see on it (maybe it's stereo compatible...)

kishnevi

Quote from: Que on August 16, 2014, 07:10:46 AM


Symphony nr. 8 

I am curious how the live 2011 cycle from Rotterdam would compare.... :)

Q
It is great,  for 8 and 7/8 symphonies.  Possible contender for best cycle all through the first eight,  and the first three movements of the Ninth,  all the way through the first part of the fourth movement.

And then the bass and tenor soloists open their mouths.....
Total failure on the part of the male singers, and bad enough to ruin the whole enterprise.

listener

music of DONIZETTI, BALFE, LINDBLAD, FOSTER, etc. for brass band, voice and piano
Merja Sargon, soprano   Bernard Rose, piano      period instrument ensemble conducted by Frederick Fennell
2-lp set, with a 12-page insert of notes on the instruments and music
and a natural (?) follow-up: IVES: Symphony no.4, Central Park in the Dark
Boston Symphony Orch.    Seiji Ozawa, cond.
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

Sadko

Shostakovich

Katerina Izmailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)

The Choir and Orchestra of the State Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre
Gennady Provatorov (cond.)

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Papy Oli

A piano concerto day, today :

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Olivier

Papy Oli

Olivier

Sergeant Rock

Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Fischer-Dieskau, Furtwängler conducting the Philharmonia




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

SonicMan46

Well two more CDs from my new Naive Vivaldi Concertos box - Dave :)

 

not edward

Such a great disc... it should never have been allowed to go out of print:

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"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

André

Couperin, F. Several Ordres, played quite nicey by Michael Borgstede (Brilliant Classics.

Dvorak: Requiem. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Karel Ancerl (Supraphon/DGG). A legendary recording if ever there was one..

Elgar:  The Crown of india. The whole Masque cum spoken interludes and orchestral bits. Andrew Davis and orchestra, soloists, chorus (Chandos). As authentic as they come, including a wobbly english contralto.

Todd

The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

EigenUser

Quote from: edward on August 16, 2014, 02:33:40 PM
Such a great disc... it should never have been allowed to go out of print:

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I just finished listening to this for the millionth time!
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".