What are you listening to now?

[Wakefield]

+1!

I'm in full accord with you, my friend.   

Thread duty ~
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It's pretty weird: I love her Mozart, I really love her Mozart, but I hadn't never considered any other of her disks.

That ECM disk looks totally enticing.

[HIPster]

It's pretty weird: I love her Mozart, I really love her Mozart, but I hadn't never considered any other of her disks.

That ECM disk looks totally enticing.

Yes, her Mozart is a favorite of mine too.  She is really the only non-PI player I listen to in Mozart (and Bach) with any frequency. . .

The Castello/Fontana disc is superb.  It grows on me with each playing!

Thread duty ~

http://www.sdems.org/

The concert by Benjamin Alard is about to start (I'm in my seat writing this).   

[Moonfish]

Rameau            Marcelle Meyer

My favorite version of Rameau's works (as performed on the piano). I wish we had more recordings of her interpretations.

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[Artem]

The more I listen to Hosokawa the more I feel like his orchestra compositions are all the same.

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[Wanderer]

Last night: [asin]B000000AU0[/asin]

Now: [asin]B002EYBNTC[/asin]

[king ubu]

Cheers, Moonfish, glad to see I'm not alone! Love that box, not just the Rameau, also Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel!

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Bartók at the Piano - disc one contains some Welte-Mignon rolls, from Berlin ca. 1920, then HMV recordings from Budapest 1929, all of Bartók's own compositions, finally four Sonatas by Scarlatti (test recordings, no date given) and then some Patria recordings of a piece by Liszt and more Bartók, Budapest c. 1936. Disc two and the first part of disc three go on with HMV recordings of Hungarian folk music by Kodály with singers Mária Basilides, Vilma Medgyaszay, and Ferenc Székelyhídy (Budapest 1928). Disc three mostly contains Columbia recordings from London 1930 and New York 1940, disc four has more from London 1937 and New York 1940, with Jószef Szigeti and Benny Goodman - though I bet the Naxos disc is sonically superior there. Not sure I'll get that far, but just for completeness' sake: disc five holds the magnificient Washington LoC recital from 1940 with Szigeti again - and the world's greatest "Kreutzer" sonata (plus the Debussy sonata and Bartóks Sonata No. 2 and Rhapsody No. 1). This has also been on CD by Vanguard (no idea about sonics there, haven't compared, so far only played the Vanguard disc, which I've had much longer). Disc six then opens with a radio broadcast recording of the Sonata for two pianos and percussion (with Ditta Bartók Pásztory, Henry J. Baker and Edward J. Rubsam, New York 1940, rel. on Vox) and goes on with Continental recordings (USA 1942 with Ditta again) and a 1945 radio broadcast - all Bartók pieces.

[Lisztianwagner]

Rued Langgaard
Symphony No.6

https://www.youtube.com/v/0p2Vc5wJze4

[TheGSMoeller]

Bach: Goldberg Variations
Vladimir Feltzman (piano)

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Symphony No.5 op.100, Tennstedt conducting the SOBR




Sarge

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Gaspard, among my most favorite Ravel.  My intro. to this most eccentric of eccentric pianists.  Happy Weekend to all!!

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[TheGSMoeller]

Prokofiev Symphony No.5 op.100, Tennstedt conducting the SOBR




Sarge

Two words...Desert island.

[Sergeant Rock]

Two words...Desert island.

For the Seventh, certainly, and it's a damn fine Fifth too.

Sarge

[Brahmsian]

The wonderfully dark Fantasia in A minor, K.475

Mozart

Eschenbach

[king ubu]

Switching to this, early into disc 3 of the Hungaroton box (same contensts as most of disc 3 and all of disc 4):

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[not edward]

A lot of folk music inspired music, including a transcription of the Dances of Marosszek.  It's lighter and more tuneful than Bartok, and Foldes in the 50s was at or near his peak.  The sound is very good mono.  (I'm awaiting Foldes' Bartok.)  The disc is short at 43 minutes.  There's not a whole lot to choose from in this repertoire.

Looks interesting. The only Kodaly piano music disc I have is Zempleni on Hungaroton:



Better programmed in some ways, but the sound isn't great and the playing occasionally a bit heavy-handed. And to link to the thread topic, I gave the op 11 pieces--which I'd regard as the standout amongst the Kodaly piano music I've heard--and the Dances of Marosszek a whirl.

[king ubu]

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I'm all tied up in this after only a few minutes!

[listener]

ELGAR: Violin Concerto
Nigel Kennedy, violin    London Philharmonic Orch.     Vernon Handley, cond.
BRITTEN: Cantata Academica,  Hymn to St. Cecilia, Hymn to the Virgin
Choral Dances from Gloriana
London Symphony Orch. & Chorus    George Malcolm, cond.
MOZART:  Concert arias for tenor and orch.
Werner Hollweg, tenor    English Chamber Orch.   Wilfried Boettcher, cond.

[mn dave]

I ain't afraid of no "ghost" trio.

BAT

[Brian]

MONKEY GREG ALERT



Excellent, near perfect. Aside from a couple quibbles with the scherzo, truly superb interpretation. And I didn't like the first volume as much as you did. Holy cow, the sound is so good it's like taking a nice warm bubble bath and eating dark chocolate and being surrounded by paintings of classical nudes all at once, that's how good the sound quality is*.

*this sentence will not appear in my professional review

[TheGSMoeller]

MONKEY GREG ALERT



Excellent, near perfect. Aside from a couple quibbles with the scherzo, truly superb interpretation. And I didn't like the first volume as much as you did. Holy cow, the sound is so good it's like taking a nice warm bubble bath and eating dark chocolate and being surrounded by paintings of classical nudes all at once, that's how good the sound quality is*.

*this sentence will not appear in my professional review

Ohhhh! 
The sound from their No.2 is some of the best I've heard, it's amazing how such clarity can compliment a piece of music. And I did enjoy Oramo's take on the work, not the final say but very fine.
I will purchase this. Thanks for the heads up, Brian!