What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

You mean you don't have them already? 

No, thats right, still on my wish list, but soon to be bought! 

[Florestan]

No, thats right, still on my wish list, but soon to be bought! 

Too bad you're not into digital, I could have let you have them all for free. 

Honestly, I prefer d'Indy's chamber and piano music to his orchestral output --- but then again I could say that of most composers. 

[Harry]

Too bad you're not into digital, I could have let you have them all for free. 

Honestly, I prefer d'Indy's chamber and piano music to his orchestral output --- but then again I could say that of most composers. 

No, I am strictly old fashioned, I want the CD'S, after all I am an old geezer, remember.

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Organ Music, volume VIII.
Präludium und Fugen, Schübler Choräle.

Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV 531
Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV 545
Prelude & in C minor, BWV 546
Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV 547
Prelude & Fugue in D minor, BWV 549
Schübler Chorales:
Chorale Prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Chorale Prelude Wo soll ich fliehen hin (I), BWV 646
Chorale Prelude Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten (II), BWV 647
Chorale Prelude Meine Seele erhebet den Herren, BWV 648
Chorale Prelude Ach bleib' bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649
Chorale Prelude Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650
Chorale Prelude Nun freut euch, lieben Christen (I), BWV 734.

Ewald Kooiman plays on a Johann Nepomuk Holzhey, 1784-1787. Weissenau, Germany.
A fundamental restoration was undertaken between 1988-1991.
Temperament: Werckmeister III. Pitch: A= 442 HZ, at 15 degrees.

To start with the Holzhey organ, what an magnificent instrument, again excellently voiced, with such a sweet tone, as eating a pot of honey. A beautiful Subbass 16 Wood open in the pedal, and I could go on endlessly how well this organ performs, even the mixtur VI in the Hauptwerk is impressive. Would love to play on this instrument.
Ewald Kooiman makes a feast of it all, an amazing organist he was. Recording is pristine.

Could not find a downloadable image of this CD

[Florestan]

No, I am strictly old fashioned, I want the CD'S, after all I am an old geezer, remember.

Old fashioned, old geezer? You wish. Nah, you're a dinosaurus. 

[Harry]

Old fashioned, old geezer? You wish. Nah, you're a dinosaurus. 

Thank you my Brother

[Florestan]

Thank you my Brother

Welcome, my friend, any time.   

[Harry]

Welcome, my friend, any time.   

Looked through my collection and have the second volume already. I simply have no idea how I missed out on the other ones, but they are in my order list now!
Having a glass of Merlot to ease the pain.

[Florestan]

Having a glass of Merlot to ease the pain.

I'm having beer, so cheers! --- but hionestly, I don't enjoy Merlot. Too heavy and harsh for my taste. I prefer Pinot Noir or Cabernet Sauvignon.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No. 8 G major "Le soir" and No. 9 C major, Hogwood conducting the AAM




Sarge

[MusicTurner]

Myaskovsky - Symphonies nos. 2 + 22 /Rozhdestvensky, Svetlanov /russia revelation CD

(I also have the complete set. This is a bit different).

[Harry]

Music from the Eighteenth Century Prague.

Frantisek Jiranek.
Concertos & Sinfonias.
Volume IV.
World Premiere Recordings.

Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova.
Sergio Azzolini, Bassoon.

This series goes from strength to strength. So far not a weak CD amongst the ones I already have been listening to.

[Sergeant Rock]

Symphony No. 10 in D major, Solomons conducting L'Estro Armonico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp0vte3g7kM


Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev, Sergei - Piano Sonatas - Anne-Marie McDermott vs. Matti Raekallio - I own the McDermott 3-disc set but the Raekallio recordings have come up in recent posts, so I listened to him on Spotify for a few hours and now my Anne-Marie set playing and using headphones.  These performances are both outstanding - not sure which one I prefer, i.e. a tie for me; others think similarly in the attached reviews.  If one is looking for a 'box' of these works, then flip a coin IMO - Dave

 

Agreed: as performances, a tie, both excellent, Dave.

[Karl Henning]

The nice thing about the Raekallio set is there's more than the Piano Sonatas in the box set. The McDermott set looks like it's just the sonatas and Sarcasms. The Raekallio is a bit more bang for the buck.

A fair reason to tip the scales.

[Karl Henning]

Haydn Symphony No. 8 G major "Le soir" and No. 9 C major, Hogwood conducting the AAM




Sarge

(* pounds the table *)

[SonicMan46]

Bartok, Bela - Piano Music w/ Zoltan Kocsis on the Philips label when purchased a while back; same set now on Decca (as explained below) - slowly going through this 8-disc set and enjoying much more than I remembered from my last listening -    Dave

Philips Classics was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records. It was successful with artists including Alfred Brendel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Neville Marriner and many others. Parent Universal Music Group, which was formed in 1999 from the merger of the PolyGram and MCA families of labels, merged the label into Decca Records, because the new parent did not have the rights to the Philips name, while PolyGram was a subsidiary of the Philips company. The name Philips Classics still exists but appears on no new recordings and the Philips Classics Internet presence is within Decca's Web site. (Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

Blitzstein
The Airborne Symphony
Orson Welles, speaker (curiously uncredited on the sleeve in the Bernstein Symphony Edition—no mistaking that voice, though)
Andrea Velis, tenor
David Watson, baritone
The Choral Art Society
NY Phil
Lenny

More a curious artifact of its epoch than an important cultural contribution, IMO. I don't see myself reaching for it much, but quite an interesting listen.

[Karl Henning]

Dvořák
Symphony № 4 in d minor, Op. 13, B. 41
LSO
Kertész

[Brahmsian]

Dvořák
Symphony № 4 in d minor, Op. 13, B. 41
LSO
Kertész

*pounds the table!*