What are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

  I just played the 5th, actually, and then went for his Haydn, Mozart, and finally Dvorak. Each made me want more!  I love that sound he gets--fat and full, yet rich with detail.  You can tell he has conducted each piece a million times and knows exactly what he wants (and then gets it!).
   I bought this box right when I was getting into classical, and I immediately knew it was great, but it got buried under all the boxes that came after. I'm glad you reminded me to go back to it. 
(this response is a few pages late. We are talking about this):
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I was actually thinking/talking about the Weil/Tafelmusik, but what I've so far heard from the Walter box so far was pretty great indeed (Mozart, Beethoven, now Schubert).

[Christo]

Basque composer Aita Madina (1907-1972)


A great find here, apart from the highly enjoyable 1969 Concierto Vasco for four guitars - featuring los Romeros, of course - are a couple of Basque Christmas pieces, one of them really outstanding: the orchestral Christmas Triptych (Preludium: Medium silentium – lento; Cunabularium: Vagit infans – andante; Jubilate: Gaudeamus – allegro moderato e jubiloso) that can compete with the better-known Finzi, Vaughan Williams or Respighi pieces in a similar vein. Off season, but highly recommended. 

[aligreto]

Excellent,  actually!  Even next to my favourite Hogwood.

Q

Thank you for that. Your enthusiasm for that set has prompted me to put it on my Wish List but it still has not been purchased yet. I will get it eventually!

[aligreto]

Mozart: String Quintet in G minor K516....





....performed by the Aeolian String Quartet augmented with Kenneth Essex, viola.

[Papy Oli]

Richter - Brahms PC No.2 in B Flat, from the Sony Boxset.

[Mirror Image]

Your strong recommendation was the precursor for that one.    I am getting very fond of the Pastoral Symphony at this point in time!

It's truly a remarkable work and that Elder performance only helped cement this fact for me.

[Mookalafalas]

I was actually thinking/talking about the Weil/Tafelmusik, but what I've so far heard from the Walter box so far was pretty great indeed (Mozart, Beethoven, now Schubert).

  Oh, I see.
    About the Bruno Weil Schubert--I love it!  It's not my favorite by a long shot, but it was such an eye-opener.  Brisk and refreshing, and arguably closer to the way Schubert himself had envisioned the music than the Beethoven-esque versions we usually hear.  As I recall, Schubert himself loved Beethoven but had some reserves about his symphonies.  I'm so happy that we are in a period where Weil can play them in a Haydn-esque vein and not be pilloried for it. I'm totally non-partisan in this stuff. I will happily switch between ultra-Hip and someone like Stokowski or Karajan, even in Bach.  That said, for Schubert I tend to prefer the real thundering teutonic approach--Bohm, for example.  For the high-road in the middle ground, maybe Harnoncourt.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Bought this set in a post-Christmas sale; usually wait until mid-summer to start playing the Yule Retool but craved some specific works herein.  As great jazz DJ, Harry Abraham, once said - "Christmas music, it's not just for christmas anymore."

(though he doesn't say that here:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6ttIkxM1w

[king ubu]

  Oh, I see.
    About the Bruno Weil Schubert--I love it!  It's not my favorite by a long shot, but it was such an eye-opener.  Brisk and refreshing, and arguably closer to the way Schubert himself had envisioned the music than the Beethoven-esque versions we usually hear.  As I recall, Schubert himself loved Beethoven but had some reserves about his symphonies.  I'm so happy that we are in a period where Weil can play them in a Haydn-esque vein and not be pilloried for it. I'm totally non-partisan in this stuff. I will happily switch between ultra-Hip and someone like Stokowski or Karajan, even in Bach.  That said, for Schubert I tend to prefer the real thundering teutonic approach--Bohm, for example.  For the high-road in the middle ground, maybe Harnoncourt.

Interesting. Besindes some old dudes, I've only heard Weil and the complete cycle by Roy Goodman and the Hanover band - as you, I'm mostly non-partisan as well and can easily switch (though I do have some limitations, i.e. I'm not much into contemporaries recording yet more Bach on modern grand, but I'm not opposed to them doing it, I'm just not interested, and I might just as well: at this time, as that may change).

No proper thread duty here, jazz days (early NY cool, Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Stan Getz with Jimmy Raney, Miles Davis' tuba band, earliest Modern Jazz Quartet ...)

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Listening to Mosaics. Really nice work and performance.

[kishnevi]

It is superb. In par with both Gibbons (my benchmark) and Hamelin (and Roland Smith). Maltempo has recorded 4 Alkan CD's so far, all excellent and deeply tuned to the Alkanesque idiom; as of recently, three of them (conveniently containing, among others, the totality of the op.39 Études, the Grande Sonate and the Sonatina) are also available as a set. Very highly recommended.

Thank you.  On the list it goes.
TD
CD  44 of the Decca Sviatoslav Richter box.
Liszt PCs 1 & 2 LSO/Kondrashin
Filled out by some solo works in the form of
Beethoven Sonatas 10, 19, 20

[TheGSMoeller]

Thread Duty:

Last night—

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+1 and pounds a table!

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Continuing on with some more Hanson:



Finishing up the Piano Concerto. Great work and performance.

[Mookalafalas]

I'm not much into contemporaries recording yet more Bach on modern grand, but I'm not opposed to them doing it, I'm just not interested, and I might just as well: at this time, as that may change).

   Yeah, I should be with you there (I've been collecting a lot of harpsichord Bach), but then, out of the blue I stumbled upon this and was just floored.
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  I'm by no means an Ashkenazy follower, and maybe it hit me so hard just because I'd decided piano just didn't have the piquancy of harpsichord for this music and so hadn't listened to any for a long time...

TD:
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  Ubu, you might go for this.  The Spanish edge of the music brings it to within spitting distance to some Jazz piano. Has a very spontaneous, fluid feeling.

[king ubu]

I have actually bought her ICON recently - have started listening and enjoyed what I heard, but haven't come far yet (one or two discs).

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. Great stuff.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Quartet No. 15, Juilliard Quartet....

[NJ Joe]

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Picked this up for $1.99 on my last visit to Princeton Record Exchange.

[Pat B]

I was actually thinking/talking about the Weil/Tafelmusik

If you're asking on account of the Tafelmusik box, it won't include Weil's Schubert which was with the short-lived Classical Band. (I haven't heard it BTW.)

No thread duty.

[king ubu]

If you're asking on account of the Tafelmusik box, it won't include Weil's Schubert which was with the short-lived Classical Band. (I haven't heard it BTW.)

I'm aware - we were discussing Schubert recordings we're listening to (Weil and Walter). Anyway, between the Haydn symphonies set and the Vivarte, I probably have too much of the upcoming Tafelmusik box to be interested - on the other hand it's not expensive and I could always pass the small Haydn set on, so ...