What are you listening to now?

[Bogey]

  I'll join you although not on original instruments:

The Horn Concerti from this fine set which also features the violin concerti:

  marvin

The HC's are top shelf, Marvin!

Really like that disk, Bill. Amon Ra has quietly turned out some PI gems over the years. Wish they were more readily available, or at least advertised a bit more. Anyway, that was my first exposure to K 439b, such a nice combination of instruments. Of course, the versions for 3 bassett horns aren't bad either.

Hit me with a link to your favored recording of the 3 bassett horns.

[Bogey]

.....and from the top shelf:

[Wakefield]

Arrived today and predictably lovely:

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(3-CD set)

The London Fortepiano Trio
Linda Nicholson, fortepiano (Johann Schantz, Vienna, 1797)
Monica Huggett, violin ((Rowland Ross, 1994, after Stradivarius)
Timothy Mason, cello (Giovanni Grancino, Italy, ca. 1690)

[TheGSMoeller]

.....and from the top shelf:

 

Clever, looks like they used the same model for these cover pics. 


Thread duty...

[listener]

"Flemish Composers in Renaissance Italy"
The Boston Camerata    Joel Cohen
music of CICONIA, DUFAY, ISAAC, DES PRES, etc. nicely put into a historical perspective with good annotation on this LP
CANNING: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan for Double String Quartet Quartet and String Orchestra
WAGNER arr. Stokowski : Die Walküre:  Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music
and 3 CHOPIN transcriptions             Houston Symphony Orch.,    / Stokowski
LEES: Concerto for String Quartet and Orch.     SESSIONS: Symphony no.3
Royal Philharmonic Orch.     Igor Buketoff, cond

[Papy Oli]

Good evening all ! 

1st listen to :

John Adams

Phrygian Gates (for solo piano 1977)
Hallelujah Junction (for two pianos 1996)
China Gates (for solo piano 1977)
Road Movies (for violin and piano 1995)

Andrew Russo (piano)
James Ehnes (violin / piano)



Discovered Adams in the recent BBC documentary series on the 20th Century Music. This CD gathered most of the works that triggered my curiosity in that documentary.

[Mandryka]

.....and from the top shelf:

I've never heard that. Is it good?

I'm listtening to this:

[TheGSMoeller]

Nothing sounds quite like Gesualdo.

[Todd]

Edward Rosser playing Schubert.

[kaergaard]

As celebration of my ninety second birthday I selected from my classical concert collection the best of everything: Gustav Mahler, the best concert composer, his best concert, Symphony No. 7 in E minor, conducted by the best Mahler conductor,  Bernard Haitink, leading the best symphony orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker with the best classical orchestra players. The recording is from a concert in May 1992 in Berlin with almost all Herbert von Karajan musicians, artists I have followed their career on von Karajan's His Legacy For Home Video laser discs.
There they are, Martin Kretzer, solo Trumpeter, teaching at the Berlin Academy of Music; Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe, making a career with his own chamber ensemble; Wolfram Christ unforgettable in the viola solo part in Richard Strauss's  Don Quixote. Hanns-Joachim Westphal, leader in the second violin section, who consented to von Karajan's request to have his long white beard reduced to one only half as long. Georg Faust, solo cellist, appearing as guest on many chamber music recordings.
It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

[Brian]

Todd - your thoughts anticipated!

As celebration of my ninety second birthday I selected from my classical concert collection the best of everything...
It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

Goodness, happy birthday! Sounds like you had a fine celebration indeed. Here's to many more.

[HIPster]

As celebration of my ninety second birthday I selected from my classical concert collection the best of everything. . .
It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

A most Happy Birthday, kaergaard!  Congratulations!  What a celebration too.

Cheers, dude!

Thread duty ~

Continuing my Haydn Symphony exploration, with Weil and Tafelmusik.  Just excellent!

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CD #6 The Paris Symphonies II
85, 86 and 87

[kishnevi]

And from me also, Kaergaard, a happy birthday.

Thread duty:
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Intimate and often emotionally intense,  might be one of those mythical "reference recordings".

[Wakefield]

As celebration of my ninety second birthday I selected from my classical concert collection the best of everything: Gustav Mahler, the best concert composer, his best concert, Symphony No. 7 in E minor, conducted by the best Mahler conductor,  Bernard Haitink, leading the best symphony orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker with the best classical orchestra players. The recording is from a concert in May 1992 in Berlin with almost all Herbert von Karajan musicians, artists I have followed their career on von Karajan's His Legacy For Home Video laser discs.
There they are, Martin Kretzer, solo Trumpeter, teaching at the Berlin Academy of Music; Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe, making a career with his own chamber ensemble; Wolfram Christ unforgettable in the viola solo part in Richard Strauss's  Don Quixote. Hanns-Joachim Westphal, leader in the second violin section, who consented to von Karajan's request to have his long white beard reduced to one only half as long. Georg Faust, solo cellist, appearing as guest on many chamber music recordings.
It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

Congratulations, kaergaard! And thanks for sharing this celebration. 

[Wakefield]

Intimate and often emotionally intense,  might be one of those mythical "reference recordings".

You took the words out of my mouth, but about this recording:

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(Mine is a red book CD; same cover, anyway)

This lady and her partners are a serious thing. I'm not sure if I have ever listened to a better version of the Beethoven concerto.

[HIPster]

And from me also, Kaergaard, a happy birthday.

Thread duty:
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Intimate and often emotionally intense,  might be one of those mythical "reference recordings".

<pumps fist in the air>


Thanks for the brief review, Jeffrey - but really, this is all I need to read.  I just added it to the wishlist (soon to be purchased).

[lisa needs braces]

Haven't pulled this one out in a while!

[HIPster]

Nothing sounds quite like Gesualdo.

I agree Greg!  How is that Christie recording?

Thread duty:
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I am really enjoying this release by the Hilliard Ensemble.

[Jay F]

As celebration of my ninety second birthday I selected from my classical concert collection the best of everything: Gustav Mahler, the best concert composer, his best concert, Symphony No. 7 in E minor, conducted by the best Mahler conductor,  Bernard Haitink, leading the best symphony orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker with the best classical orchestra players. The recording is from a concert in May 1992 in Berlin with almost all Herbert von Karajan musicians, artists I have followed their career on von Karajan's His Legacy For Home Video laser discs.
There they are, Martin Kretzer, solo Trumpeter, teaching at the Berlin Academy of Music; Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe, making a career with his own chamber ensemble; Wolfram Christ unforgettable in the viola solo part in Richard Strauss's  Don Quixote. Hanns-Joachim Westphal, leader in the second violin section, who consented to von Karajan's request to have his long white beard reduced to one only half as long. Georg Faust, solo cellist, appearing as guest on many chamber music recordings.
It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

Happy birthday, kaergaard. Mahler is my favorite composer, too, and No. 7 is close to my favorite (2 and 6 compete with it).

[Bogey]

I've never heard that. Is it good?

I'm listtening to this:

Indeed it is.  Drasko highly rec. it.