What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Madiel may like these recordings, there are three solo piano CDs of Schubert by Anthony Goldstone. In their way they're very good I think. I'm only listening on Spotify, they're not on Qobuz, so with decent sound they can only get better!

I just want to say this again a bit louder, I think anyone interested in Schubert will not regret trying these recordings. I've not heard all of all three sets yet - that's six hours of music. But what I have heard suggests that this is a real  hidden gem.

[vandermolen]

I am working through this set and I am very happy with this recording of the eighth.
I also have the recordings of Barshai and Haitink.
At the moment I have to say that I enjoyed his eighth symphony the most.
Tomorrow, if all goes well, his tenth.
I read little positive about these Ashkenazy recordings but I cannot say that I agree.
For many there are few roads that lead to Rome.
If it does not have the rawness of Kondrashin, it is substandard.
It is not the way in which I try to listen to a performance, I try to go along with the intentions underlying the implementation, comparing is only a handicap.
I have heard many good things about the recording of the tenth by Karajan who recorded it twice,I like to hear that too.

I myself once attended a Ashkenazy recital, he was alone and played the Préludes by Chopin.

By the way, it was a good fortune indeed.

Interesting to read. I also heard Haitink conduct a marvellous performance in London and his Decca recording is one of my favourites. Perhaps my overall favourite is the one that I came to know first, conducted by Andre Previn for EMI:

[Christo]

I might have guessed so! Interesting about the Tubin/Shebalin connection.

The opening of Tubin's 5th Symphony reminds me of the opening of the Tormis work.

You're the offspring of prophets: of course Tormis mentioned Tubin's Fifth as his specific source of inspiration (indeed he felt a bit guilty about it, called it a young composer's piece). 

[vandermolen]

You're the offspring of prophets: of course Tormis mentioned Tubin's Fifth as his specific source of inspiration (indeed he felt a bit guilty about it, called it a young composer's piece). 

Haha. Yes, as soon as you mentioned Tubin as a source of inspiration for the Tormis work the opening of Tubin's 5th Symphony went through my head.

[Traverso]

Interesting to read. I also heard Haitink conduct a marvellous performance in London and his Decca recording is one of my favourites. Perhaps my overall favourite is the one that I came to know first, conducted by Andre Previn for EMI:

I just saw a Kondrashin box, only 360 euros and 20 for shipping.
If I may ask you, do you have a complete set or only separate recordings of the symphonies
I will listen to the Haitink recordings after the Ashkenazy.
I think that I will relisten but surely not all of them,as I said before,I really liked the eight.

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/Kondrashin-Kyrill-Shostakovich-Complete-Symphonies-11-CD-MEL-CD-10-011065/312977606382?hash=item48deeb46ee:g:6cUAAOSw-RheNbXg

[SimonNZ]

[Mirror Image]

Debussy
String Quartet in G minor
Quatuor Debussy



An extremely fine account of this early Debussy masterwork.

[San Antone]

Part : The Deer's Cry
Vox Clamantis

The second ECM New Series album to fully showcase pure-toned Estonian vocal group Vox Clamantis and its artistic director/conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve is devoted to compositions by their great countryman, Arvo Pärt – whose music has been the most performed globally of any living composer over the past five years. This album – titled The Deer's Cry after its first track, an incantatory work for a cappella mixed choir – is also the latest in an illustrious line of ECM New Series releases to feature Pärt's compositions, the very music that inspired Manfred Eicher to establish the New Series imprint in 1984. Along with such classic works as Da pacem Domine the new album includes first-time recordings of the a cappella pieces Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima and Habitare Fratres. There is also an a cappella version of Alleluia-Tropus, which Vox Clamantis previously recorded alongside instruments for the acclaimed New Series album Adam's Lament. Rarely recorded material makes up nearly half of this new release, including three pieces with instrumental accompaniment: Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Sei gelobt, du Baum and Veni Creator. (ECM website)

[Mirror Image]

Debussy
Images, Books I & II
D'un cahier d'esquisses
L'isle joyeuse
Deux Arabesques
Hommage à Haydn
Rêverie
Page d'album
Berceuse héroïque
Kocsis

[Madiel]

Scriabin, Piano Sonata No.2



I particularly adore that 1st movement.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Quartets 1/2/4
Mandelring Quartet

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Tonight my favorite Russian composer Alexander Mossolov for his Intense piano works, and intense is a small word that don't render justice to describe the man work, people think he only famous for Iron Foundry but there more to this composer, the might the relentless Piano Forte he very great in my book a great great composer.

[San Antone]

Pascal Dusapin - Aufgang
Carolin Widmann

[Mirror Image]

Schoenberg
String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Susan Narcuki, soprano
Schoenberg Quartet

[andolink]

Pascal Dusapin - Aufgang
Carolin Widmann

Really stunning SACD sound on that one.  The piano concerto has gotten a lot of spins in my listening room.

[JBS]

CD 3


Finding myself vaguely dissatisfied.  I keep thinking "Brahms/Chopin/Debussy" did this better.  Since it's my first exposure in a while to many of these works, I can't decide if the problem is with Stott, with Faure, or just a consequence of me being tired from work.

[Mirror Image]

CD 3


Finding myself vaguely dissatisfied.  I keep thinking "Brahms/Chopin/Debussy" did this better.  Since it's my first exposure in a while to many of these works, I can't decide if the problem is with Stott, with Faure, or just a consequence of me being tired from work.

Don't throw in the towel just yet, Jeffrey! Fauré's solo piano music is extraordinary and you've got the best set of it, IMHO. Stott is masterful in this music. It's possible you just aren't attuned to it due to 1. unfamiliarity and 2. quite possibly being too tired to appreciate the subtle nuances of the music. It took me quite some time to appreciate Fauré, but when I had that lightbulb moment, he quickly became a favorite.

[Madiel]

CD 3


Finding myself vaguely dissatisfied.  I keep thinking "Brahms/Chopin/Debussy" did this better.  Since it's my first exposure in a while to many of these works, I can't decide if the problem is with Stott, with Faure, or just a consequence of me being tired from work.

Well if it's the 8 pieces breves that aren't enthusing you, they're mostly little more than scraps cobbled together by a publisher.

Whereas if it's Nocturnes 6 and 7 that are at issue, that's an entirely different matter!

[Madiel]

TD: Finally starting with this Dvorak album I bought last year.



I must say the liner notes are particularly good, giving proper insight into the 19th century domestic music-making world these were written for.

[JBS]

Well if it's the 8 pieces breves that aren't enthusing you, they're mostly little more than scraps cobbled together by a publisher.

Whereas if it's Nocturnes 6 and 7 that are at issue, that's an entirely different matter!

Well if it's the 8 pieces breves that aren't enthusing you, they're mostly little more than scraps cobbled together by a publisher.

Whereas if it's Nocturnes 6 and 7 that are at issue, that's an entirely different matter!

Thank you both, gentlemen.
Actually that is my reaction to all 3 CDs I have heard so far.  And it's not that I think the music is not good. It's just that I keep thinking "this is kind of like composer so-and-so, but not quite as good".  Although, come to  think of it, I did not have that reaction to Nicturnes 6 and 7.