What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Am I one of the few that thinks that most of Vivaldi's best Music is the vocal kind?

We few, we happy few!

Thread duty - Maiden Listen
Elgar
Nursery Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Ulster, June 1982
https://www.youtube.com/v/ejYn_TvWIVc

[mc ukrneal]

Am I one of the few that thinks that most of Vivaldi's best Music is the vocal kind?

Do I have to choose!?! 

[Harry]

Do I have to choose!?! 

Never forget Neal, that an opinion about Vivaldi is an individual one, not meant for all. For me all of Vivaldi's works are top notch, even a few Vocal things but certainly not all. Much of his operas are mediocre at best and repetitive.
This said it's my personal opinion.

[Harry]

CD 25 already from the SEON box, and a good one too. Jeffrey was there before me, and he praised them into heaven so.....I agree!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/couperin-francois-1668-1733.html?spref=tw

[Tsaraslondon]

In need of a bit of cheering up on this grey afternoon, I've opted for a welcome injection of Italian sunshine, with Callas in top, sparkling, effervescent form. Almost impossible to believe that this scintillatingly breezy singer is the same one who plumbed the depths of Verdi's Forza Leonora in the studio only a couple of weeks before, but the chameleon-voiced Callas achieves the impossible yet again.

[Maestro267]

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Frith (piano)/Slovak State PO/Stankovsky

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Rudy (piano)/St. Petersburg PO/M. Jansons

[Harry]

One Bach CD a day keeps the doctor away!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/bach-js-complete-organ-works-weinberger_26.html?spref=tw

[kishnevi]

CD 25 already from the SEON box, and a good one too. Jeffrey was there before me, and he praised them into heaven so.....I agree!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/couperin-francois-1668-1733.html?spref=tw

TD
More Seon
CDs  38/39

Calm before the storm: I face the Black Friday storm starting at 3 this afternoon.

[Harry]

I have not seen this box acquired by anyone on GMG. Still it's really worth getting.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

Earlier today:



CD 2 of Hindemith´s complete sonatas for solo instrument and piano.

Little Sonata, for viola d'amore & piano, Op. 25/2    
Sonata for viola & piano, Op. 25/4    
Sonata for violin & piano in C major (1935)
Sonata for violin & piano in E major (1939)
Sonata for viola & piano in C major (1939)

Now playing



CD 1

Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 (1902)
Divertissement, for wind quintet and piano, Op.6
Sonata no.1, in D minor, for piano and violin, Op.11 (1907-8)

The Hindemith set is sonically superior to the Roussell but when it comes to music and performances both are superb.

   

[SonicMan46]

Rheinberger, Josef (1839-1901) - Piano Works w/ Jürg Hanselmann in the solo compositions - just getting started this morning w/ this box,  and enjoying.  Dave

 

[Harry]

Earlier today:



CD 2 of Hindemith´s complete sonatas for solo instrument and piano.

Little Sonata, for viola d'amore & piano, Op. 25/2    
Sonata for viola & piano, Op. 25/4    
Sonata for violin & piano in C major (1935)
Sonata for violin & piano in E major (1939)
Sonata for viola & piano in C major (1939)

Now playing



CD 1

Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 (1902)
Divertissement, for wind quintet and piano, Op.6
Sonata no.1, in D minor, for piano and violin, Op.11 (1907-8)

The Hindemith set is sonically superior to the Roussell but when it comes to music and performances both are superb.

I collected all the Hindemith CD'S recorded by MDG, and indeed they are sonically very good. So is the Roussel chamber music. The acoustics and engineers are different, but the musical impact is the same.
I remember when I called one of the CEO's of MDG to order directly the whole catalogue, he would sent me "one day delivery" this particular disc to let me taste before the really large crate was delivered 2 weeks afterwards. I knew right away that I made a good decision in including this whole series.

[Mirror Image]

Online streaming of Rattle's recording of Szymanowski's King Roger.

Whoa. Okay, early days yet, but... is this the perfect opera for CD? I've just read stuff suggesting that it can be problematic on stage, lacking action, but with thoroughly beautiful music. Sounds like a winner for sitting and listening to the music at home.

Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, for me, is the greatest opera ever written and is absolutely perfect for a recording as there's hardly any action whatsoever. Szymanowski's King Roger is certainly up there in terms of containing exquisite music, but, as North Star (Karlo) suggested, you may want to check out the Kaspszyk recording on Accord. Absolute smoldering performance.

[Florestan]

Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, for me, is the greatest opera ever written [...] there's hardly any action whatsoever.

But isn´t opera as a genre exactly about action? 

[Mirror Image]

But isn´t opera as a genre exactly about action? 

As Bartok and Szymanowski prove, not necessarily.

TD -



Listening to The Music Makers. Glorious performance.

[kishnevi]

I have not seen this box acquired by anyone on GMG. Still it's really worth getting.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999-orchestral.html?spref=tw

I keep looking at it, but the price is startingly high here in the States: roughly USD 80. Almost as much as I paid for the SEON and BAT boxes each.

[Sadko]

But isn´t opera as a genre exactly about action? 

Not necessarily an outer one, IMO. Singing of horses mostly is nicer than horses on stage :-)

[kishnevi]

Not necessarily an outer one, IMO. Singing of horses mostly is nicer than horses on stage :-)

And remember that in Greek tragedy, the action occurs offstage, and then reported onstage.  The onstage action is really the interactions of the characters and their reactions to what happens offstage.

[Harry]

I keep looking at it, but the price is startingly high here in the States: roughly USD 80. Almost as much as I paid for the SEON and BAT boxes each.

Wow, to remember that this box when I bought it was just 20 euros,, and I threw away all the vocal discs.

[Que]

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