What are you listening 2 now?

[Maestro267]

Ginastera: Cello Concerto No. 1
Kosower (cello)/Bamberg SO/Zagrosek

[Mirror Image]

I have no comparison but I feel no need for other recordings,it's really fine playing.

By the way I'm waiting for the grrrrreat Erato Milhaud set

Very nice, Jan. Good to see you bought that Milhaud set. I hope it didn't cost you too much and you were able to get a good deal on it.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams:
Five Tudor Portraits
William Steinberg, Pittsburgh SO (1952)
An exciting version

I have this in the Steinberg Icon box but gave up on it part way through as the sound was appalling - perhaps I need to revisit it.

[vandermolen]

I have this in the Steinberg Icon box but gave up on it part way through as the sound was appalling - perhaps I need to revisit it.

I don't have a problem with the sound. Nor did I object to the 1936 recording of VW conducting Dona Nobis Pacem but I'm not a particular Hi-Fi buff. There are a couple of authorised cuts in this recording of FTP but they don't worry me as it does ramble a bit in places.

[Traverso]

Very nice, Jan. Good to see you bought that Milhaud set. I hope it didn't cost you too much and you were able to get a good deal on it.

Thank you John,I bought it for an attractive price    It's time to explore his music !

[steve ridgway]

Stockhausen - Prozession. Starting to sound better on second listening.

[Mirror Image]

Thank you John,I bought it for an attractive price    It's time to explore his music !

[Traverso]

Poulenc

CD5

Sonate pour flûte et piano - Sonate pour hautbois et piano - Sonate pour clarinette et piano - Elégie pour cor et piano - Sonate pour 2 clarinettes - Sonate pour clarinette et basson - Sonate pour cor, trompette et trombone - 3 mouvements perpétuels pour 9 instruments

Emmanuel Pahud, Michel Debost, Jacques Février, Maurice Bourgue, Michel Portal, Alan Civil, Maurice Gabai, Amaury Wallez, John Wilbraham, John Iveson, Orchestre De La Garde Républicaine, François Boulange

Beautiful music for Flute and Clarinet  and a few pieces wich are completely new for me.

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Poulenc

CD5

Sonate pour flûte et piano - Sonate pour hautbois et piano - Sonate pour clarinette et piano - Elégie pour cor et piano - Sonate pour 2 clarinettes - Sonate pour clarinette et basson - Sonate pour cor, trompette et trombone - 3 mouvements perpétuels pour 9 instruments

Emmanuel Pahud, Michel Debost, Jacques Février, Maurice Bourgue, Michel Portal, Alan Civil, Maurice Gabai, Amaury Wallez, John Wilbraham, John Iveson, Orchestre De La Garde Républicaine, François Boulange

Beautiful music for Flute and Clarinet  and a few pieces wich are completely new for me.

[Mirror Image]

Milhaud
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 5
Quatuor Parisii



The prices this box set are going for are close to $200. I paid a good bit for my set (not $200), but it was worth every penny.

[steve ridgway]

Luc Ferrari - J'ai été coupé, 1969.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Konx-Om-Pax, 1969.

[Mirror Image]

This entire recording (and yes, it's outstanding):

[André]

Orchestra and chorus are superb. Barenboim's conducting is effective in pacing the work, if unsubtle in balancing tenderness and terror, religious feeling and theatrical drama. The soloists are a good bunch, although Meier is no real mezzo, the bottom part of her voice lacks body. Domingo is too forwardly miked for my taste but there's no denying he has power and brilliance to spare. Turiddu goes to church. Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto twirls his mustache and snarls lustily, but the voice is a bit woolly and lacks the panache and suavity of Ghiaurov or Siepi. Soprano Alessandra Marc's powerful but well-controlled voice stands out and her contribution is reason enough to listen to this version again - along with that fabulous orchestra and chorus. The sound is very good.

[Que]

Q

[Florestan]

Q

Great but hardly HIP. What's your take on that? 

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZYBliPhLAE0&ab_channel=TheKing%27sSingers

[Sterna]

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZYBliPhLAE0&ab_channel=TheKing%27sSingers

Thanks for this!

[kyjo]

I had forgotten just how wonderful this music is. It turned a cloudy, humid and bleak afternoon into a sunlit and warm "land of smiles".

Oh yes! Wonderful music, above all his PCs and piano trios. Not only is Saint-Saëns' music utterly delightful and enchanting, but it is really satisfying too.

[kyjo]

I just couldn't deal with Mahler today, so...

That's me most days anymore! I recognize that Mahler was a singularly great composer, but most days I prefer music that's a bit less manic-depressive.