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[San Antone]

LISZT : Années de pèlerinage, troisième année & other late piano works | Cédric Tiberghien

[Mandryka]

Heard them last week:
Ionarts-at-Large: The Hagen Quartett in Shostakovich, Dvořák and Schubert

Not all of what I read here chimes... but they are still a v. fine ensemble, of course.

Is that your review?

It sounds like they've changed a lot since 2010 when they made the recording we were talking about yesterday.

By the way,one thing I didn't mention and which I feel quite strongly about -- I don't like the sound on the Myrios recording one bit -- shrill, too forward, the dynamic variation are hard to manage on speakers, it just doesn't sound to me like string instruments sound, and I've tried through two different sets of speakers.

I heard them play Shostakovich 4 a few years ago, I don't know the music well enough to make any comments. But I do remember a fabulous Haydn op 33 (there's one called the joke I think)

[Traverso]

Ravel
Jacques Leguerney
Reynaldo Hahn

CD 3

[Mandryka]

A very attractive coherent sound in the 4th quartet, a polished and confident performance, I like it very much, I especially like the complete absence of a folk music feel. Well recorded. I've heard this quartet play many times, including Bartok, and this recording is what they sound like.

[Que]

And what are you votes Que. Is it interesting enough to have?

Yes it is.  And lovely mid-17th c. organ, that sounds fresh as newborn baby. 

Q

[Florestan]

lovely mid-17th c. organ, that sounds fresh as newborn baby. 

I am not the greatest organ fan, but this description has picqued my interest. 

[Que]

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Impromptus D935

Q

[ritter]

Recreating the first half of yesterday's wonderful concert at the Reina Sofia Museum.

Pierre Boulez's Mémoriale ("...explosante/fixe..." originel), from this CD:
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Followed by Georges Enesco's Chamber Symphony, op. 33:

[Kontrapunctus]

Phenomenal and musical playing. Very well recorded.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Is that your review?

It sounds like they've changed a lot since 2010 when they made the recording we were talking about yesterday.

I heard them play Shostakovich 4 a few years ago, I don't know the music well enough to make any comments. But I do remember a fabulous Haydn op 33 (there's one called the joke I think)

Yes. Here are reviews of my having heard them in 2013 and 2014: (I've added the links to the review, which I had forgotten to do earlier.)
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/notes-from-2013-schubertiade-7-hagen.html
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-4.html

Lukas has been the problem-child for a while. :-)

TD:



morninglistening to #BernardHaitink, yesterday's #birthdayboy (Happy 90th!) w/@Vienna_Phil in #Bruckner on @DeccaClassics

: http://a-fwd.to/4p35Rzd

3rd #Symphony #birthday

[Brian]

I remember really liking that Fischer Schubert. Been a few years.

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[Mandryka]

Yes.

I always thought you were based in Germany (maybe you are! this medium is so strange, you get to know people in completely new ways!)

[SonicMan46]

Well, the last few days starting in my Medieval-Renaissance collection @ the beginning of the alphabet - 

Anonymous 4 - the four CDs shown below (own several more, including a Hildegard von Bingen), which were their first releases in 1993-94 - the group came to my home town several times in the 1990s, so I was likely buying these then; quote below from their Wiki bio - the discography listing shows a couple of dozen more recordings released through 2015 (actually a CD of Civil War songs - will try to stream?).  Dave

Anonymous 4 was an American female a cappella quartet, based in New York City. Their main performance genre was medieval music, although they also premiered works by recent composers. The name of the group is a pun on the name used to refer to an anonymous English music theorist of the late 13th century, Anonymous IV, who is the principal source on the two famous composers of the Notre Dame school, Léonin, and Pérotin.

Anonymous 4 performed in cities throughout North America, and were regulars at major international festivals. The 2003–2004 season was their last as a full-time recording and touring ensemble, but they continued to tour and make recordings while pursuing individual projects. SOURCE

   

 

[Karl Henning]

Haydn
Quartets, Op.33
Quatuor Mosaïques

[Draško]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

I always thought you were based in Germany (maybe you are! this medium is so strange, you get to know people in completely new ways!)

US. Germany. Norway. Germany. Austria... it does change a bit. :-) I'd like to think of myself as based in the aether! 

TD:



#morninglistening to #SvendNielsen (*1937): #ButterflyValley w/@arsnovacph on @dacaporecords

: http://a-fwd.to/7dCU7W4

Earlyish @DanishDenise cover before the label grew bold and successfully went all out, design-wise

[king ubu]

LISZT : Années de pèlerinage, troisième année & other late piano works | Cédric Tiberghien

Great disc, methinks!

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

US. Germany. Norway. Germany. Austria... it does change a bit. :-) I'd like to think of myself as based in the aether! 

...and somehow you make a living listening to CDs? That's a princely racket.

[Karl Henning]

Again:

Mahler
Symphony #5 in C#
RCO
Tennstedt

[San Antone]

Great disc, methinks!

I enjoyed it.

TD



RAFF : String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 8 | Mannheim String Quartet - no. 2 in A Major, op. 90