What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

No.3. Exactly the right thing after half a century of conventional versions.

[Roasted Swan]

No.3. Exactly the right thing after half a century of conventional versions.

I've not heard these but how are they that different from say Mackerras/SCO on Telarc or Dausgaard/Swedish CO on BIS - both of which use smaller orchestras than often and lean swift performance styles.  I have to say I really enjoyed the Dausgaard set.

[Traverso]

Max Reger

CD 5

[AnotherSpin]

I've not heard these but how are they that different from say Mackerras/SCO on Telarc or Dausgaard/Swedish CO on BIS - both of which use smaller orchestras than often and lean swift performance styles.  I have to say I really enjoyed the Dausgaard set.

What Fischer's and Dausgaard's versions probably have in common is that both departed markedly from the traditional approach. However, I find Fischer's solutions more convincing. I don't remember listening to Brahms conducted by Mackerras.

[Ian]

The postman kindly left this - and others - secondhand CD in my box this morning. Second listen... very enjoyable from start to finish!

[steve ridgway]

Varèse: Arcana

[Brian]

I've not heard these but how are they that different from say Mackerras/SCO on Telarc or Dausgaard/Swedish CO on BIS - both of which use smaller orchestras than often and lean swift performance styles.  I have to say I really enjoyed the Dausgaard set.

I have Mackerras and have heard some of Dausgaard and Fischer. Fischer discourages string vibrato and takes more creative liberty with dynamics, accents, etc. Mackerras is the most "normal" and Fischer the most "out there." Personally I find Fischer's tempos almost ideal but his orchestra's sonority unpleasant, but that is a matter of taste.

[DavidW]

Inspired by the Bruckner thread:

I haven't listened to 0th in many years.  I was missing out, this is a great symphony.  I guess I convinced myself wrongfully that it wasn't.

[SonicMan46]

Dohnányi, Ernst (1877-1960) - Symphonies with Matthias Bamert and the BBC PH & Violin Concertos w/ Michael Ludwig and JoAnn Faetta/Royal Scottish NO - reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

P.S. Checkout the Dohnányi Thread for recent activity.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach

Sonata 1-2 & 3

Is there music more lovely than these sonatas? After years of playing the clarinet, I started playing this instrument especially for these sonatas for traverso. Bach sometimes forgets that as a wind player you sometimes have to breathe. In my opinion, more beautiful works have never been written for this instrument.
It is striking that I never see it here on the forum, it is a shame, it is touchingly beautiful.

Schopenhauer played flute too! I will check the recording!

[Roasted Swan]

I have Mackerras and have heard some of Dausgaard and Fischer. Fischer discourages string vibrato and takes more creative liberty with dynamics, accents, etc. Mackerras is the most "normal" and Fischer the most "out there." Personally I find Fischer's tempos almost ideal but his orchestra's sonority unpleasant, but that is a matter of taste.

thankyou for that - very interesting.....

[Spotted Horses]

Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No 2, Serenade for String Trio




Both are worthy pieces, beautifully performed and recorded here.

Revisiting after a long interval, my initial impression is confirmed, the Piano Quintet No 2 strikes me as extending the style of Brahms towards a more edgy sound, and the string trio traces its lineage to Mozart's serenade for the same ensemble.

[Spotted Horses]

Finishing my exploration of the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1, this time Steinbacher.



This one is a bit of a let down. Although I am a longstanding Steinbacher fan, in this recording her measured approach fails to capture the madness that Iota referred to in his initial review of the Josefowicz recording. Overall I like Josefowicz and Pietsch, more or less equally.

[VonStupp]

Luigi Cherubini
Mass in F Major 'di Chimay'

Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Herbert Lippert, tenor
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Bavarian RSO & Choir - Riccardo Muti

Cherubini's 70-minute early Mass is beautifully played and sung, and live too, even if the work is rather long.

My only exception to the performance is the bass soloist Abdrazakov, who seems out of place here.
VS

[AnotherSpin]

I have Mackerras and have heard some of Dausgaard and Fischer. Fischer discourages string vibrato and takes more creative liberty with dynamics, accents, etc. Mackerras is the most "normal" and Fischer the most "out there." Personally I find Fischer's tempos almost ideal but his orchestra's sonority unpleasant, but that is a matter of taste.

Well, "out there" is what works for me just fine now.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ravel and Debussy. Reiner/Chicago.

[Karl Henning]

I don't often make the WAYLT  thread. Thanks, @Cato 

[Mandryka]

I've not heard these but how are they that different from say Mackerras/SCO on Telarc or Dausgaard/Swedish CO on BIS - both of which use smaller orchestras than often and lean swift performance styles.  I have to say I really enjoyed the Dausgaard set.

A friend of mine described Fischer's Brahms 1 as sounding like a baroque concerto.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Rach. Nice performance.




 

[DavidW]

A friend of mine described Fischer's Brahms 1 as sounding like a baroque concerto.

Bleh.  I'll just take Mackerras out of that group.