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[king ubu]

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BACH: Cantatas for Whit Monday / CD 23

Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut (BWV 173)
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (BWV 68)
Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte (BWV 174)

BACH: Cantatas for Whit Tuesday / CD 24

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (BWV 1048)
Erwünschtes Freudenlicht (BWV 184)
Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen (BWV 175)

Lisa Larsson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Panajotis Iconomou (CD 23)/Stephen Loges (CD 24)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner

Holy Trinity, Lond Meldord, live 12 June 2000 (CD 23)
Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, 13 June 2000 (CD 24)

[Karl Henning]

Henning
How to Tell (Chasing the Tail of Nothing), Op. 103
Members of The 9^th Ear
Peter H. Bloom, alto flute
kh, clarinet
Dan Meyers, frame drum

Listen here.

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven String Quartet C sharp minor op.131 played by the Emerson Quartet




Sarge

[king ubu]

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Jascha Horenstein - Broadcast Performances from Paris, 1952-1966

CD 7

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 31 [1963]
MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder [Marian Anderson, 1956]
STRAUSS: Metamorphosen [1964]

CD 2

BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra [1961]
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 [1952]

CD 8

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture, Op. 84 [1954]
RAVEL: Bolero [1966]
JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta [1952]
HAYDN: Symphony No. 100 in G Major, "Military" [1956]

Orchestre national de France/Jascha Horenstein

[prémont]

With so many versions in mind, I suppose it's increasingly hard to enjoy a work itself, as the first time: naively. As so many things in life, comparative listens are both enlarging and also an insidious poison.

Yes, it may be quite destructive, if one falls victim to the "scourge" of comparative listening.

Nowadays I try to listen to any music in a way as if I never had heard it played before, but only knew the music from the score.

In this way I get the most pleasure from the different recordings.

[Todd]

https://www.youtube.com/v/kHwaPxy8lnQ

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven String Quartet E flat op.127 played by the Gewandhaus Quartett




Sarge

[Moonfish]

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 & 7       San Francisco SO/Blomstedt

Very good/competent, but but not in the top tier as far as I am concerned.
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Bach: Aus der Tieffen  (BWV 131, 182, 4)    Ricercar Consort/ Pierlot

Excellent! Exquisite, warm and detailed soundscape.

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[Lisztianwagner]

On spotify:

Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in D

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[king ubu]

Bach: Aus der Tieffen  (BWV 131, 182, 4)    Ricercar Consort/ Pierlot

Excellent! Exquisite, warm and detailed soundscape.

Yes indeed! Big fan of the Mirare Bach discs by Ricercar Consort/Pierlot!

Now playing:

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Alfred Cortot - Anniversary Edition / CD 15

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen, Papillons, Kreisleriana (rec. 1935)

might pop in some more from this box later tonight ...

[listener]

Another RUBINSTEIN disc, new to me as of this weekend
Cello Sonatas 1 in D op. 18, 2 in G op. 39 and a transcription of the Mélodie op. 3/1
Anthony Leroy, cello   Sandra Moubarak, piano
REICHA Wind Quintets op. 91/1 in C, op. 99/6 in G, op.100/5 in a
Albert Schweizer Quintet
And Quintets again, but String, by DVORÁK op. 1 in , op.97 in E
Vlach Quartet, Prague with Ladislav Kyselák, added viola

[Moonfish]

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Jascha Horenstein - Broadcast Performances from Paris, 1952-1966

I very much enjoy seeing all these historical recordings in your listening sequence as they inspire visits to the realms of the past.     I actually got this set a few weeks ago after being inspired by Horenstein's Mahler 1, but I have yet to dig into it!!        More Time!!!!!

Have fun with the Cortot!

[Moonfish]

J.S. Bach: "Trauerode"  (BWV 198 & 78)          Orchestre de La Chapelle Royale/ Herreweghe

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[king ubu]

I very much enjoy seeing all these historical recordings in your listening sequence as they inspire visits to the realms of the past.     I actually got this set a few weeks ago after being inspired by Horenstein's Mahler 1, but I have yet to dig into it!!        More Time!!!!!

Have fun with the Cortot!

The Cortot is pretty wonderful! I've played about half of it by now, I guess - including the whacky orchestral Bach. Took me a while to get used to his piano playing though. I first heard him with Casals, those trio recordings with Thibaud (the Casals EMI box was my entry point, quite exactly two years ago, the Bach cello suites), but solo took me somewhat longer to dig. His Schumann and Chopin is great though, that's for sure!

Re: Horenstein, he's still mostly a new name to me. Don't know many things other than this box (which I've now played halfway through, rest has to wait some as I'm not that far repertoire-wise ... still stuck mostly with Mozart and Beethoven regarding symphonies, will slowly progress through Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms ... but this will take some time). I've got the OOP "Lied von der Erde" he did for the Beeb (this one here: http://www.amazon.com/BBC-Legends-Horenstein/dp/B000042NZC/ - life-changing stuff!), and a few less-good-than-hoped violin concertos he conducted with Ivry Gitlis (in a small Brilliant box).

[Todd]

https://www.youtube.com/v/-s68kHOnpiE

[Karl Henning]

He doesn't look like he's playing Mozart there. Looks more like he's trying to pass a kidney stone . . . .

[EigenUser]

I love this interpretation of the Bartok "Sonata" Sz. 80. Kocsis makes it sound so aggressive without putting any angst in it, as it should be (I feel). I like to say that the Sz. 80 is "aggressively cheerful".

Any other fans of this piece? One of my favorites in the solo piano literature.
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[Ken B]

Lou Harrison, Seven Pastorals

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Although I bought the Nimbus CD-R box.

[North Star]

I love this interpretation of the Bartok "Sonata" Sz. 80. Kocsis makes it sound so aggressive without putting any angst in it, as it should be (I feel). I like to say that the Sz. 80 is "aggressively cheerful".

Any other fans of this piece? One of my favorites in the solo piano literature.

A big +1 to all this. That Kocsis solo Bartók set is sweet!

[Ken B]

He doesn't look like he's playing Mozart there. Looks more like he's trying to pass a kidney stone . . . .

Playing Stockhausen then. It's in the score.