What are you listening to now?

[Justin Ignaz Franz Bieber]

amazing

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[Wakefield]

Good choice. The sound quality is so good, and this NML feed is so poor. And the liner notes are really essential - Honeck interprets this piece as programmatic tone poems, and his essay does a great job explaining many things about the symphony that have always confused and frustrated me.

I have assembled a good second audio system: big iMac, Cambridge Audio dac(magic), speakers Adam A3X and now ClassicsOnline HD. 

I will read those liner notes.

[North Star]

Fauré
Violin Sonatas
Isabelle Faust & Florent Boffard
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[Brian]

I have assembled a good second audio system: big iMac, Cambridge Audio dac(magic), speakers Adam A3X and now ClassicsOnline HD. 

I will read those liner notes.

Let me know what you think of the performance!

I'm afraid I still don't understand the finale at all.    it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

[Karl Henning]

  it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

"Warmed-over romance"?

[Drasko]

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[Que]

An outstanding organ disc. Recommended. (Que, Hipster, Jeffrey, Premont, Neal, Marc, ao)

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisitionkerll-johann-caspar-1627.html?spref=tw

I already ordered that one. 

Recommended and praised on GMG, and its all true!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisition-willaert-adrian-c1490.html?spref=tw

And that one as well!

Q

[Harry]

I already ordered that one. 

And that one as well!

Q

I suppose I have done this too?

[Wanderer]

I'm afraid I still don't understand the finale at all.    it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

Sounds like we might need popcorn when that review comes out. 

[Ken B]

Mozart PC 24 and 25 (Immerseel, Anima Eterna)

Loved Beethoven symphonies from them, but can't say I love the fortepiano playing...

I like that set, but you might prefer Sofronitsky for the vigor of the performances. Bilson is probably best for all round poise. But Sof is very fun.

[aligreto]

As I already own the Bruggen versions of the Paris symphonies I bought this set for the other two collections. On first listen I was a little underwhelmed with the Sturm und Drang. I cannot exactly pinpoint why; the answer may lie in the nature of the music itself. I will of course revisit these performances. The Paris symphonies sparkle exactly as I remember them however. So, onwards to the London symphonies and I am curious to see what the late maestro brought to these works.

[Todd]

Dueling Schubert, particularly two of the D946 pieces.  The winner?  My ears.

[Mookalafalas]

Haydn fortepiano, sir. 

Right you are Should have said "Solo Keyboard works". 

TD:
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[HIPster]

Looks good, I'm a big fan of Roberta Invernizzi.

Q

As am I, my friend!  Funny, I almost wrote the same thing when I listed the Handel disc.   

In any event, it is a winner in all aspects (and Invernizzi's voice is incredibly beautiful throughout).

Sticking with Invernizzi for thread duty ~
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[Todd]

I expected world-class Chopin.  I got world-class Chopin.  Freire's playing is predictably fine.  His unique rhythmic sense yields an unusually "danceable" Heroic Polonaise, and individual and compelling takes on the Fourth Ballade and Third Impromptu.  The Op 50 Mazurkas are light and require some listener adjustment.  The centerpiece of the solo works is, of all works, the Berceuse, which is a dazzling work here.  Then there's the Second PC.  I've read opinions by several people that Freire "owns" this piece.  Perhaps he doesn't "own" it, but it's hard to think of a better overall performance of the piano part.

[André]

As I already own the Bruggen versions of the Paris symphonies I bought this set for the other two collections. On first listen I was a little underwhelmed with the Sturm und Drang. I cannot exactly pinpoint why; the answer may lie in the nature of the music itself. I will of course revisit these performances. The Paris symphonies sparkle exactly as I remember them however. So, onwards to the London symphonies and I am curious to see what the late maestro brought to these works.

I was underwhelmed by the Sturm un Drang works too. Too gentle by half. Things improve with the later works. Why ? Maybe Brüggen is just too controlled and emotionally constipated to let go with a free hand ? I like that set a lot. But not for the S&D works, where Marriner (!!!) out-emotes Bruggen

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Life's Dance. Great performance from Holten/Aarhus SO.

[Walt Whitman]

Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F Major Op.68
Herbert von Karajan: Berlin Philharmonic
1977

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to The Oceanides. Absolutely fantastic work and performance.

[Moonfish]

Weiss: Ensemble Music II           Cardin/Laflamme

Catching a ride with the Cardin train.....
Great music!

cd 12 from
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