What are you listening to now?

[ritter]

First dip into the Charles Rosen box:



Debussy playing that is right up my alley... and these Études are music that never ceases to amaze me...

[EigenUser]

Recommendation from Bruce last Friday. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos played by the Concerto Italiano. I haven't heard these pieces in a very long time! Too long! Since sophomore year of high school, possibly.

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[ritter]

...and more from Charles Rosen:



Elliott Carter: Double concerto for harpsichord and piano with two chamber orchestras - Ralph Kirkpatrick (hrps.), Charles Rosen (p.), chamber orchestra, Gustav Meier (cond.) - recorded in 1961.

I hadn't heard this piece in many, many years (the Nonesuch recording with Kalish and Paul Jacobs), and am enjoying it immensely. The Rosen box includes two recordings of the concerto (this earlier one, and another with Rosen and Jacobs, conducted by Frederik Prausnitz--from 1968)

[Ken B]

Recommendation from Bruce last Friday. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos played by the Concerto Italiano. I haven't heard these pieces in a very long time! Too long! Since sophomore year of high school, possibly.

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Thumbs up Nate!

[EigenUser]

Thumbs up Nate!

Antlers up!

I am really enjoying this. I really like everything of Bach's I've ever heard (especially that D minor keyboard concerto!), but his music is very, very intimidating to me. Where to start??!!

I also love how they included that part of a Cantata with a more richly-orchestrated version of the 1st movement of the 3rd BC. I've never heard that before and I was so confused when it started playing.

[North Star]

Antlers up!

I am really enjoying this. I really like everything of Bach's I've ever heard (especially that D minor keyboard concerto!), but his music is very, very intimidating to me. Where to start??!!

I also love how they included that part of a Cantata with a more richly-orchestrated version of the 1st movement of the 3rd BC. I've never heard that before and I was so confused when it started playing.

Where to start, you say?
The cantatas, organ music, harpsichord music, solo violin sonatas & partitas, solo cello suites, Musical Offering, Art of the Fugue, and definitely the cantatas. 
Do you want recording recommendations?

[Drasko]

1st listen to "Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine"




I got stopped right in my tracks while listening to the Cum Dederit (Andante) of the Nisi Dominus RV 608. Had to press replay on this one. Sensational.

[kishnevi]

Richard Arnell Punch and the Child Op 49
Lord Berners The Triumph of Neptune (suite)
F.Delius Paris Song of a Great City
Beecham conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Berners and the Royal Philharmonia in the others.
CD 1 of the Sony British Music Collection budget box I ordered last week.
First hearing of anything by Berners, so I looked for him on Wikipedia.  Turned out to be a very entertaining character
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Berners
ETA the National Portrait Gallery has several portraits of him, most but all being photographs.

[king ubu]

More Beethoven from the Böhm symphonies box:

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Disc 3 with Symphonies no. 3 and no. 8 - the later is probably by now my favourite next to no. 7.

[Ken B]

Haydn, Quartets op 64, Mosaiques

[André]

Alemdar Karamanov: symphony no 20, 'Blessed are the Dead".USSR Symphony, Vladimir Fedoseyev.

What a racket !

Follwed by symphony no 23, "I Am Jesus".

Both works are half an hour long, and part of a six-pack called "Let it Be" on the subject of the Apocalypse.

[Mookalafalas]

1st listen to "Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine"




I got stopped right in my tracks while listening to the Cum Dederit (Andante) of the Nisi Dominus RV 608. Had to press replay on this one. Sensational.

  This series is just sensational.  Alessandrini, especially, has gone to the top of my list of working conductors.

TD:
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Andras Schiff, I think I've got a man-crush on you

[kishnevi]

If that is a Decca box, the WTC is from his first goround with JSB

Since moving to ECM he has also redone the Goldbergs and the Partitas as well as the WTC.   ECM is the label for his Beethoven cycle, as well.

TD
From the Perahia box
Murray Mozart ECO PCs 20 and 11

[Mookalafalas]

Thanks, Jeffrey! That is, in fact, the achilles heel of this set--minimal (and crappy) documentation.  The discs are in blank paper sleeves.

[EigenUser]

Where to start, you say?
The cantatas, organ music, harpsichord music, solo violin sonatas & partitas, solo cello suites, Musical Offering, Art of the Fugue, and definitely the cantatas. 
Do you want recording recommendations?

The cantatas and the Art of the Fugue were things that stuck out to me. What recordings do you like?

[kishnevi]

The cantatas and the Art of the Fugue were things that stuck out to me. What recordings do you like?

Just get it all done at once
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Seriously the number of great Bach recordings, the diversity of music he wrote, the different sort of styles used to record his music...too much to say "start here".   There are several threads here on Bach, the main one being Bach's Bungalow.  Spend a day reading it and you will have some good ideas.

[Ken B]

Just get it all done at once
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Ummm.

For cantatas there's a lot of great choices. I rank Suzuki first but a case can be made for several others, Herrweghe for instance.

As Jeffrey says, there's so much. Look for HIP keyboard I'd say, but there's a lot of great piano recordings too. Hewiitt, Schiff.

For orchestral HIP is vital. Two rules: to live by no Karajan and above all no Klemperer

For The Goldbergs I really like Leonhardt's 1980 on Sony and DHM.

[North Star]

The cantatas and the Art of the Fugue were things that stuck out to me. What recordings do you like?

For Art of the Fugue, I really like Fretwork's recording, although it's probably not what Bach had in mind as far as instruments are concerned (but then again, they aren't, in the score).
For the cantatas, I'd recommend this one for starters. You will want to get all of them eventually, but I'm not sure you should get them all at once, especially since you said "his music is very, very intimidating to me. Where to start??!!" - having all the CD's might not actually help there (although it's pretty much all great so you couldn't really choose badly).
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[Ken B]

For Art of the Fugue, I really like Fretwork's recording, although it's probably not what Bach had in mind as far as instruments are concerned (but then again, they aren't, in the score).
For the cantatas, I'd recommend this one for starters. You will want to get all of them eventually, but I'm not sure you should get them all at once, especially since you said "his music is very, very intimidating to me. Where to start??!!" - having all the CD's might not actually help there (although it's pretty much all great so you couldn't really choose badly).
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Art of Fugue is demonstrably for keyboard. This is well settled.
That said, that Herrweghe cantata box is a great place to start.

[kishnevi]

Art of Fugue is demonstrably for keyboard. This is well settled.
That said, that Herrweghe cantata box is a great place to start.

But which keyboard?
Personally my favorite AoFs are not for keyboard....Musica Antiqua Koln which may be hard to get on its own and Emerson String Quartet.  I would suggest non keyboard for a single reason:  it is easier to keep the voices distinct. 
Thread duty
Moved on to the next CD in the Perahia box.  Same composer same orchestra only the concertos differ:  numbers 27 and 12