What are you listening to now?

listener · June 09, 2015, 07:42:57 PM

at different times today
Conradin KREUTZER: Das Nachtlager in Granada
Hermann Prey, Regina Kleper, Michael Pabst, ..
Cologne Radio Orchestra and Choir Helmut Froscchauer, cond.
rather like light Weber
MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana
Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, ...
Ambrosia Opera Chorus National Philharmonic Orch. James Levine, cond.
George & Ira GERSHWIN: Lady, Be Good!

Mookalafalas · June 09, 2015, 07:58:22 PM

Just finished:
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First listen. Thoughtful, tasteful, rock solid. Typical Podger.

Now:
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Ken B · June 09, 2015, 08:30:11 PM

Quote from: Mookalafalas on June 09, 2015, 07:58:22 PM
Just finished:
[asin]B00EPQQH1G[/asin]

First listen. Thoughtful, tasteful, rock solid. Typical Podger.

Now:
[asin]B00KYMJ65Y[/asin]

Those are not from boxes!

Mirror Image · June 09, 2015, 08:34:46 PM

Now:

Listening to The Wood-Nymph, Op. 15 now. Such a great work.

Mookalafalas · June 09, 2015, 08:54:47 PM

Quote from: Ken B on June 09, 2015, 08:30:11 PM
Those are not from boxes!

They weren't purchased, either

I've been doing a lot of borrowing and sampling, etc.

Mandryka · June 09, 2015, 10:01:32 PM

Tom Beghin plays Haydn's 6 Auenbrügger sonatas. I'd forgotten what a summit these sonatas are, a sort of microcosm of Haydn's art really. Anyway I've been listenening for the tertiary rhetoric, but I'm not clever enough to spot it.

Camphy · June 10, 2015, 01:03:39 AM

Symphonies 88, 97 & 104

Moonfish · June 10, 2015, 01:07:23 AM

Gossec: Grande Messe des Morts Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Coro della Radio Svizzera/Fasolis

sampling Gossec

https://www.youtube.com/v/PNGfYsMUFRs

NikF · June 10, 2015, 02:51:32 AM

Chopin: Piano Concerto 1 - Pollini/Philharmonia/Kletzki

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Karl Henning · June 10, 2015, 03:18:35 AM

Quote from: sanantonio on June 06, 2015, 06:36:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/EkQbzZgwfl0

This is lovely. I came to half-resent it, because in the WCRB dark days they played it rather more (I felt) than it quite bears. But if one's listening is paced and balanced, this is simply exquisite.

Karl Henning · June 10, 2015, 03:22:20 AM

Quote from: Que on June 07, 2015, 03:23:50 AM
My first acquaintance, I like it already!

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Splendid!

Quote from: Que on June 07, 2015, 03:23:50 AMThe Amazon rating is dumbed down by a one star review by an "audiophile" complaining that the harpsichord and clavichord insufficiently produce lower, bass tones.....

Could someone please help out these mental cases?

Suggestions? 0:)

Karl Henning · June 10, 2015, 03:23:05 AM

Quote from: Que on June 07, 2015, 04:28:58 AM
Well, complaining that a clavichord or a harpsichord produces too little lower tones is like complaining that donkeys have tails...

I wonder why we're allowing it!

Karl Henning · June 10, 2015, 03:24:09 AM

Quote from: Moonfish on June 07, 2015, 02:02:30 PM
Debussy: Images pour orchestre
Beethoven: Symphony No 8
JS Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
Berlioz: Overture Benvenuto Cellini

San Francisco SO/Monteux

I like this even better than I had expected.

Karl Henning · June 10, 2015, 03:27:33 AM

Quote from: Ken B on June 08, 2015, 06:23:01 PM
No no. I bought the Abbado symphony box, him being a conductor I rarely heard, mostly late, and it's really outstanding.

Agreed.

ZauberdrachenNr.7 · June 10, 2015, 04:08:51 AM

Can't wait to hear this; newly rec'd:

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Edit: Yowza, is this wonderful - BIG vibrato, thoughtful yet dynamic bowing. Curious pauses from time to time to make a point, I think, unsure about those but magnificent playing on the whole and a surprisingly ambient recording from 1948. Curious to think she's prob. hanging out with the Big Bopper, Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, William Kapell, Jacques Thibaud and other musicians who've perished in plane crashes...