What are you listening to now?

[Mister Sharpe]

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[Todd]

Op 6.  With the big Fluffy box coming soon, it only seems fair that Arrua should receive similar treatment.

[Spineur]

Emil Gilels

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 [Café Zimmermann]....

[listener]

someone else listening to RAFF today
2 Romances op.182, Cello Sonata op.183, Duo op. 89, 2 Fantasy Pieces op. 82
Joseph Mendoes, cello     Taeyeon Lin piano
Concert Piece "Ode to Spring" op. 76   Piano Concerto op.185
and BUSONI Concert Piece in d op.31a
Jean-François Antonioli, piano
Lausanne Chamber O.     Lawrence Foster, cond.

[Kontrapunctus]

The late sonatas, beautifully played and recorded.

[Todd]

The Second.

[Drasko]

[Brian]

The Second.

Hmm, interesting. On the one hand, that partnership has produced outstanding & sometimes reference recordings of Rachmaninov and Copland. On the other hand, Brahms doesn't have much in common with Rachmaninov or Copland.

[amw]

[Todd]

Hmm, interesting. On the one hand, that partnership has produced outstanding & sometimes reference recordings of Rachmaninov and Copland. On the other hand, Brahms doesn't have much in common with Rachmaninov or Copland.

The Brahms 2 is not a reference quality recording.

[Mahlerian]

You know, I've never actually listened to Mahler's string orchestra version of the Serioso.  How would you characterize this recording of it?

[amw]

I would have to listen to it again to be able to characterise it properly. I've never heard the arrangement before, and really enjoyed this recording—as well as the Brahms/Schoenberg, where the conductor brings out lots of the tiny orchestral details Schoenberg loved writing that are normally glossed over, without any loss of flow. The Beethoven/Mahler sounds symphonic and a bit more civilised and less eccentric than the quartet it's based on; this particular recording might just be somewhat more emotionally restrained though. It is Dohnányi after all. In terms of string quartet recordings a comparison that came to mind at a few points was the Quartetto Italiano.

Sorry I can't be more helpful—sample before buying, I guess.

[Todd]

Disc nineteen.  Schubert's Little C Major and Rosamunde excerpts.  Mehta takes it slow to start the symphony, but then it becomes all bouncy and sunny, with a most effective finale.  Rosamunde is much the same.  Good stuff.

[André]

[HIPster]

A first listen to a recent purchase ~

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Performance and sound quality are first rate.

Bought primarily for the Harrison String Quartet Set, the entire program is engaging.

[anothername]

Don Carlo, who's the artist whose work adorns the cover of that CD? It's a masterpiece of form and movement...

I am sorry for being somewhat late.
I am afraid I can't help you, I do have the digital downloads and the covers comes from internet, try to find it trough google search, no luck.
Again, sorry.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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[Wanderer]

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A R. Strauss morning.

[amw]

Angela Hewitt plays BWV 809, 810 & 811.

I'm not familiar with her much-discussed Bach recordings, this is first proper exposure. Her approach is not unemotional, nor is it particularly Baroque-sounding. It sounds like she is trying to treat Bach's music as though it had originally been written for the piano, with all the piano technique that was developed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. So she more or less ignores the rhythmic aspect (whereas for genuine Baroque players rhythm is the main way of creating expression), uses ornamentation primarily to add intensity, and focuses on creating expression through dynamics and occasional very slight rubato. I imagine this is what Bach would have sounded like as performed by Czerny or Hummel. (indeed I sometimes wonder if she's playing from Czerny's pianised Bach editions >.>)

It's a bit tame and typewriter ish, but she does really excel at piano touch and clarity of voices, so I suspect her Well-Tempered Clavier and Art of Fugue will come off better.