What are you listening to now?

[NorthNYMark]

Some very unusual Shostakovich...

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/shostakovich-dmitri-1906-1975-symphony.html?spref=tw

Very interesting.  Your take on Bernstein's approach is very different from what I normally read about him, which is that he is usually exciting or at least very personal, but often willful or overindulgent.  As you describe this performance in the first of the two reviews, it sounds more like what one normally reads about, say, Haitink. Although I have listened to this performance, I am not yet familiar enough with the work to have a clear sense of whether or not I agree with your assessment--but I always enjoy reading opinions that go against the usual grain.

[Sadko]

More melodies from Melodiya:

Dargomyzhsky: Rusalka (Svetlanov)

I have finished it now, and indeed, it is an opera full of beautiful melodies.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Thread Do-bee.  Sinfonia da Requiem

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[SonicMan46]

Catching up with the forum after being AWOL a week, I noticed the above. My absence wasn't health related this time. We had house-guests which severely limited the time I had available to spend online. Mrs. Rock's sister showed up unexpectedly and then we had (not unexpectedly) friends from Ohio visit, friends we hadn't seen in five years, friends who selfishly demanded my complete attention   I should have posted a vacation advisory, I suppose (Mrs. Rock was on vacation last week, and we spent time showing our friends the local sights).

Hi Sarge - glad that all is well!  The above in bold gave me a deep chuckle - describes my SIL & her husband perfectly, especially when they visit my BIL in Montauk, Long Island!    Dave

[TheGSMoeller]

Fantastic album, all around A+

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven PC 3 & 6 with Schoonderwoerd.

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[SonicMan46]

Palladian Ensemble - double CD offerings of the 4 separate recordings listed @ the top left of the covers - just delightful performances - Dave


 

[Harry]

Very interesting.  Your take on Bernstein's approach is very different from what I normally read about him, which is that he is usually exciting or at least very personal, but often willful or overindulgent.  As you describe this performance in the first of the two reviews, it sounds more like what one normally reads about, say, Haitink. Although I have listened to this performance, I am not yet familiar enough with the work to have a clear sense of whether or not I agree with your assessment--but I always enjoy reading opinions that go against the usual grain.

Yes isn't it fascinating how one can have a totally different reactions to music.  Even my wife said listening from a distance, "Rather polite".
I like Haitink's rather cool approach in Shostakovich. His is a interpretation of ratio. But my emotions suffer.
I prefer Barshai, he offers the best of both worlds, Emotio and Ratio.

[Wakefield]

Here is a better deal for you in the 10 cd set ...     

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Do you know if this one (the only disk by Tipo that I have) is included there:



I don't believe because are transcriptions, but...

BTW, it's a superb disk. 

[Moonfish]

Do you know if this one (the only disk by Tipo that I have) is included there:



I don't believe because are transcriptions, but...

BTW, it's a superb disk. 

Yes, the first disk in the Maria Tipo set has exactly the same compilation (BWV 1004, 565, 564, 532 & 552) of Bach so I presume it is identical.     It was recorded in February 1988.

[ritter]

Do you know if this one (the only disk by Tipo that I have) is included there

Moonfish will probably know this better, of course (I just ordeerd it today), but AFAIK the 10 CD set includes 5 CDs of Tipo playing Bach, and one of them is the one you mention...

[Todd]

Year 3 from Ish-Hurwitz.  The recorded perspective sounds just a bit closer in the final year, and the tempi are, comparatively, a bit quicker than in year two, and while Ish-Hurwitz lavishes attention on tone and dynamics, he also plays with more intensity and an occasionally sharp tone, especially in Marche funebre and Sursum corda.  (This is a good thing, as it turns out.)  The first three pieces lack the fluidity of some other versions at times, and if perhaps Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este doesn't sparkle like some others, Ish-Hurwitz's potent left hand playing and more pointed staccato plays up the proto-modernism superbly.  An excellent final year from an excellent set.

Ksenia Nosikova waits in the wings.

[Moonfish]

Continuing the Tipo/Bach journey.
Are there some good older recordings of Tipo? This set originates from about 1988- early 90s. I do have the Scarlatti sonatas and her Mozart concertos (vox). Any recommendations beyond these?

JS Bach
Partitas Nos 1-6

Maria Tipo

from (#4-5)
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http://www.youtube.com/v/-IeD0xW9404

[Ken B]

Oddly, this box is great and frustrating at the same time...  I suppose making a selection of recordings cannot be easy, particularly with such a prolific artist as Szell, but why is it we get Leonore 1 and 2, but not 3 in this box? Why Mahler's Sixth, but no Fourth or Ninth?   

I don't regret at all getting it, of course (I bought it really cheap in Brussels--"my" store there imported these things directly from Korea  ), but sometimes you want to listen to something and then realize "dammit, that one isn't included" 

But beware, Ken, George Szell had the highest regard for Pierre Boulez (and vice versa)...

Well Boulez is a very great conductor. And I read that Szell was a very great prick.   

[ritter]

A Mahler evening chez Ritter:



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Bruno Maderna (cond.) - recorded live on Dec. 24, 1971 in Milan (odd programming for Chrismas eve, I'd say  )

The sound isn't that great, and the orcehstra isn't world-class by any standard, but Maderna's expert pacing of this work (which can sometimes appear unruly) manages to shine through...

[Sergeant Rock]

Dvorak Symphony No.1 C minor op.3, Rowicki conducting the LSO




Sarge

[EigenUser]

Boulez Le Marteau sans Maitre.

I enjoy it so far, but not as much as some of his other work I've heard. I still need to hear Pli Selon Pli.
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[Cosi bel do]

Oddly, this box is great and frustrating at the same time...  I suppose making a selection of recordings cannot be easy, particularly with such a prolific artist as Szell, but why is it we get Leonore 1 and 2, but not 3 in this box? Why Mahler's Sixth, but no Fourth or Ninth?   

I don't regret at all getting it, of course (I bought it really cheap in Brussels--"my" store there imported these things directly from Korea  ), but sometimes you want to listen to something and then realize "dammit, that one isn't included" 

But beware, Ken, George Szell had the highest regard for Pierre Boulez (and vice versa)...

Exactly, this box is great and Szell's recordings never sounded so fine ! But choices are weird, the most bizarre being the fact that the same recording of Mozart's Jupiter is included twice  ! When so many other recordings are omitted !

[Sergeant Rock]

Dvorak Symphony No.1 C minor op.3, Suitner conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin




Sarge

[Sadko]

Nikolai Petrov, Aleksandr Gindin playing:

BACH: Concerto for two pianos (only) BWV 1061
MOZART/BUSONI: Adagio and Fugue KV 608
MOZART: Fantasia KV 608

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EDIT: My, they are disorganised at Melodiya: Half an hour of the supposed playing time (of the download) is missing, Stravinsky, I think.