What are you listening to now?

[Wakefield]

Thanks Scarpia - my 'search entries' on Amazon USA did not bring up the link above - I'll take a look!  Dave

Anyway, usually downloads include a digital booklet, so there is not problem at all, dear Dave! 

[Wakefield]

This is one of the hyped recordings of 2017. But I don't "think" it's a good Telemann disc 

Do you have any "reason" to think this way? 

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[The One]

Do you have any "reason" to think this way? 

Sure. I "believe" that Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin don't play with the "correct" feeling.


a.k.a. Trap to attract actual trolls

[The new erato]

I wasn't aware that there were "correc"t feelings and that anybody had the "correct" definition?

[The One]

I wasn't aware that there were "correc"t feelings and that anybody had the "correct" definition?

Don't blame yourself. You are doing fine anyway

[Florestan]

Sure. I "believe" that Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin don't play with the "correct" feeling.

In another thread you claimed that performance is a science. Now you make it dependent on the right feeling.

[Madiel]

The Inextinguishable. After the tennis.

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[Florestan]

The Inextinguishable. After the tennis.

Watched it too. Goes without saying I rooted for Halep but Wozniacky was better (she has an unbelievable mobility) and deserved to win.

[Spineur]

Martinu Parables, Ouverture, Rapsody...

Jiri Belohlavek

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[The One]

24/96. Is this year going to be a good year? 

[Madiel]

Watched it too. Goes without saying I rooted for Halep but Wozniacky was better (she has an unbelievable mobility) and deserved to win.

They were both seriously good. And the semifinal between Halep and Kerber was probably even more amazing than the final. The sheer determination involved is awe-inspiring.

[Undersea]

The Inextinguishable. After the tennis.

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I want this box too (because it's the companion to the one I recently bought) - good?.

[Florestan]

They were both seriously good. And the semifinal between Halep and Kerber was probably even more amazing than the final. The sheer determination involved is awe-inspiring.

Unfortunately I missed that one, but judging from fragments I've seen and commentaries I've heard / read it was probably the best match of this AO. You're right, both Halep and Wozniacki are amazing.

[Spineur]

Boris Christoff in Boris Godunov from the EMI icon box

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[Madiel]

I want this box too (because it's the companion to the one I recently bought) - good?.

Yes. If you ask me, this is the set of symphonies to get. I like the light and shade in it and chose it after sampling several sets online. If you ask some other people you'll get the same answer. If you ask still others, though, you'll hear grumbles about these recordings not being as high energy as some.

The fourth CD, of orchestral pieces conducted by Dausgaard, is universally praised as far as I can tell.

You also get DVD versions of the symphonies which I really haven't done anything with yet.

[amw]

(Definitely don't ask me about the Nielsen symphonies because you'll get some inaudible mumbling about the live Kondrashin/Concertgebouw No.5 on Philips, and Bernstein's No.3 but not any of his others, and how only Menuhin/RLPO gets the tempo relations right in No.4 and so on

But yes it's a good box, get it)

[The One]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Nielsen
I want this box too (because it's the companion to the one I recently bought) - good?.

Very much above-average for any such box for a start on Nielsen!

Although I must say that I am still crazy-fond of the first Nielsen Symphonies recorded by Ole Schmidt [avail. on this excellent inexpensive box on Alto!]

I'm not generally one who hangs around nostalgically among early recordings and wail on how great they are and how they've not been bettered... And indeed I've come to Schmidt's Nielsen very late. But they opened my ears to the works in a way no one else has done. Not even Alan Gilbert's set, which I do like a lot. (Thick, romantic Nielsen... bit like Colin Davis' Boston Sibelius -- which, on the other hand, I don't like...)

TD:


#morninglistening to @BrightSheng1 on @NaxosRecords w/@ShanghaiQuartet & #PeterSerkin

http://a-fwd.to/5MQhnMy

Includes "Songs for Piano" 1 & 2, #StringQuartet No.5 and the #violinsonata of the misleadingly titled CD' name: A night at the Chinese Opera...

[The new erato]

In another thread you claimed that performance is a science. Now you make it dependent on the right feeling.

What's more interesting is that he never defines what science says, of where the performers went wrong. I tend to trust performers with far more knowledge than anybody on this board, and in the end it's not important, since what's important is what you like. Making one's own preferences into science, or "correct", seems in the pretty immature to me. I might have been like that 40 years ago myself. But let's not feed the troll.