What are you listening to now?

[Wakefield]

Beethoven - Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello
Pieter Wispelwey, violoncello (Guadagnini 1760)
Dejan Lazic, piano (Steinway D)

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[TheGSMoeller]

Took me a while to get into the production with its darkly themed setting (black background, black suites and dresses,) and use of modern dancing (imagine Madonna doing her Vogue hand movements in super fast motion), but I eventually became captivated by the overall visual tone (inventive uses for umbrellas and leaves), finding it quite beautiful and mesmerizing at times. Of course Rameau's music is marvelous and Christie and the Gang are in top form.


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[Wakefield]

Gordo,
I completely agree with you. The DHM set kept surprising me in a very positive manner. I thought the Music Meister recordings were a delight (a bit different for sure with the spoken sections).

We are tied because I agree with you on that Ricercar's box set. No doubt both sets deserve to be better known. 

[Ken B]

First listen, from the BRO flood.

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[Todd]

[not edward]

I blame Godzilla:

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IMO Gielen's recording of the Requiem is significantly better than the Nott version on Teldec; it's just a pity this is a very early CD-era remastering, with a dull, lifeless sound picture.

[EigenUser]

I blame Godzilla:

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IMO Gielen's recording of the Requiem is significantly better than the Nott version on Teldec; it's just a pity this is a very early CD-era remastering, with a dull, lifeless sound picture.

Oh, nice! There's been a significant fall in modern repertoire on this thread (I think we all know why ) and I'm trying to keep it afloat (yet failing because most of the things I listen to I don't bother to post here). I think I'll give my Ligeti (Teldec) "Requiem" a listen later today when it gets dark enough .

Currently, I'm contributing to the lacking of modern repertoire on this thread. Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenish".
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[EigenUser]

I blame Edward.

Ligeti's terrifying "Requiem". Ligeti said that he poured all of his childhood fears into this piece. It shows.
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[Todd]

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[Bogey]

[listener]

RACHMANINOFF: Spring Cantata op. 20   Three Russian Folk Songs op. 41
TCHAIKOWSKY: 1812 Overture (with chorus, arr. Buketoff)
John Shaw, bar.,Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orch.   
church bells for the "1812" recorded in Russia
TANEYEV: Choral music  -  settings of Romantic Russian poets
The Rising Sun, op. 8   from op. 27 nos.1,2,4,8,11
Mountain Peaks for women's voices and harp, The Pine Tree, Serenade
U.S.S.R. Russian Chorus   Aleksander Yurlov, cond.
PROKOFIEV: The Stone Flower, op.110    complete
Bolshoi Theatre Orch.,    Rozhdestvensky cond.

[Pat B]

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto #2 (Mark Kaplan, LSO, Mitch Miller)


Decades ago, I taped the coupled Paganini off the radio and imprinted on it. (Does it sound ridiculous to talk about imprinting with Paganini? Well, I was a violin student, and whatever other recordings I've heard sound wrong.)

Years ago, I got the CD, but still haven't listened to the Wieniawski much. Time to fix that.

[Moonfish]

Graupner: Instrumental and Vocal Music Vol 1         Schmithusen /L'Ensemble des Idées heureuses/Soly

twice   

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[Que]

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Love this series! A less "brilliant", more sober sound than Cinquencento (Hyperion) but I don't mind that.

Regulars at jpc are advised that volumes 1 & 3 are on sale for 6 euros.....


Moonfish, that instrumental and vocal Graupner series by Soly is an unknown quantity for me - love to hear your impressions.

Q

[Mandryka]

I've got Block's on disc.  I disagree about it being kitsch.  It is superb start to finish, and on the same level as Sanchez, and Block's style perfectly brings out Albeniz's coloristic effects.

I'll just mention a couple of Iberias I'd like to hear, just in case you have them. Benita Meshulam's and Rosa Sabater's.

I'm listening to Pi-Hsien Chen's  particularly dramatic, atmospheric, poetic recording of Schoenberg op 19 here.

[Que]

Congratulations! I believe you did a wise decision, as this is probably the standard for this Telemann's collection.

BTW, this recalls me the best collection of Telemann's music, I have acquired the last years:

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It would be a 5-star box, even if it had only included Der getreue Music-Meister.

Your comments on Goebel's rendition of Tafelmusik sound encouraging, as does the recommendation of the HM edition, which is on the wish list.

On topic - disc 3: 

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[marvinbrown]

  This morning was all about Bach....that's right J.S. Bach! Now for the first time in my life I can say that I have all of Bach at my fingertips.  Went straight for the keyboard works and picked CDs no.110-112 (the English and French Suites) popped them into my car stereo at 6:30AM in the morning and drove to my meeting.  When I arrived my mind was so focused and fresh. It is as if Bach had cleansed every impurity...... now that is how you start a morning!

 

  PS: The English and French suites are played by Alan Curtis, on harpsichord (Bach on the piano is a NO DEAL in my book). They are split so each disk features 2 English suites and 2 French Suites staggered so that the first English and French suites play before the second English and French suites.

[Sergeant Rock]

Henning selections from op.75: Nastenka at the Bridge and A Walk Through the Forest


Sarge

[EigenUser]

  This morning was all about Bach....that's right J.S. Bach! Now for the first time in my life I can say that I have all of Bach at my fingertips.  Went straight for the keyboard works and picked CDs no.110-112 (the English and French Suites) popped them into my car stereo at 6:30AM in the morning and drove to my meeting.  When I arrived my mind was so focused and fresh. It is as if Bach had cleansed every impurity...... now that is how you start a morning!

 

  PS: The English and French suites are played by Alan Curtis, on harpsichord (Bach on the piano is a NO DEAL in my book). They are split so each disk features 2 English suites and 2 French Suites staggered so that the first English and French suites play before the second English and French suites.

I love the English and French Suites. I learned a few movements of the 3rd French Suite on piano (Allemande and Minuet) and they are so therapeutic to play. It just fits so nicely. The left and right hands constantly pass lines back and forth -- especially in the Allemande.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

My violin concerto du jour:

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