What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

Colourful and clever music. Tcherepnin is very good at evoking exotic atmospheres through thoroughly 'western' means.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

When it come to vinyl I am so nerdy, a vinyl that thin ultra thin, don't turn me on , it mean it's will sound cheap, the volume , the thick one of 50''60'', are awesome , the Westminster, Archiv Produktion, NON-SUCH, a vinyl you can bend is cheap ask Einstein ghost he will tell you.

When did I realize this factual mater, when I both Les Chansoniers Cordiformes a vinyl of the 80'' the program was sweet but the media was so thin o my goodness and it's sounded bad. Even if it were a quality label Loiseau Lyre,,, quality ensemble and direction. I was p*ss off sold it like what the...(censor). So I am goeing to listen to one of these thicck vinyl tonight Perhaps like Gesualdo/monteverdi  (on westminster 1952 first edition) tasty, or Adam de la Halle( Archiv Produktion) sweet. ya know.

[amw]

Marc-André Hamelin playing Beethoven Op. 109, 110 & 111 live in Warsaw, 2006.

It is of course interesting to hear the world's best pianist play these works. I'm 3 minutes into Op. 109 and already don't think this will become one of my favourite recordings of any of these pieces, though if he does take them into the studio with the extra 15+ years of experience, I'd probably buy it just out of curiosity. He uses a lot of sustain pedal, which I don't really like; plays the slow movements very slow and the fast movements very fast, which I do like; and tends to play everything in a sort of Romanticised virtuoso manner (à la Andrea Lucchesini or Steven Osborne, although with better control of touch than either of them, obviously), which does bring out the subjectivity of these works but doesn't ground Beethoven in the Classical style where he belongs.

Op. 109 interests me particularly because I'm learning it, but can't play it well at this stage, and am interested in what other pianists do to bring out the character of the work.

[SimonNZ]

[JBS]

From the Complete Erato Recordings set.

Excellent recording undercut by cover art suitable for the Ugly Covers thread.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Roussel Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43 (Tortelier/BBC Phil.)

[Karl Henning]

Weinberg
Symphony № 20, Op. 150
Gothenburg Symphony
Svedlund

Symphony № 19, Op. 142, « The Bright May »
St Petersburg State Symphony
Lande

As I noted on the Weinberg thread, I've listened to the 20th some four times in the past 10 days, and I think very highly of it.

I hadn't listened to the 19th since first getting the album, at which time it made little impression on me.  Tonight, I feel it is much better than my initial; appraisal.  My immediate feeling is that I think rather better of the 20th, but the 19th may yet grow on me.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Schulhoff String Quartet No. 1 (Petersen Quartett)



There's no telling how many times I've listened to this particular SQ now. Each time I listen, it gets better and better. Probably will move onto the 2nd SQ yet again next.

[SimonNZ]

Reacquiring this box.

CD1

[Irons]

Milhaud: Suite Provencale.



A breath of fresh air! A hotch-potch of fanfares, marches and minuets with a dash of jazz which Milhaud welds together with great skill. My description sounds a mess - it isn't.

I am becoming more and more impressed with recordings Munch made with the Boston SO.

[Que]

More from this 12CD boxset:

   

This is a recording I'm already very familiar with, but it's a pleasure to hear it again.

Q

[MusicTurner]

Discs 14 (B. Tchaikovsky, Mosolov) and 3 (Medtner, Balakirev, Lyapunov)

A very good box. Am a big fan of that Medtner recording, and Mossolov gets a slightly less industrial-sounding performance than on melodiya.

[vandermolen]

Colourful and clever music. Tcherepnin is very good at evoking exotic atmospheres through thoroughly 'western' means.

+1, especially for Symphony No.3.

[vandermolen]

Britten; Violin Concerto (Haendel/Berglund)
I can't stop playing this oddly moving work at the moment. A great new discovery for me. Moments reminded me of Bernstein and Shostakovich. It has a very poignant and deeply-felt conclusion:

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Organ Works.
Volume VIII.
Gerhard Weinberger, Organ.

Toccata BWV540/1-564-538.
Fantasia BWV 537/570/542.1/562/1121.

Instrument:
Arp Schnitger 1691.
Pitch:A= 465 Hz.
Temperament: Modified mean tone.

One of the few recordings existing in which the Schnitger organ is well recorded. Often the acoustics are incorrectly applied, resulting in muddy sound. But the recording distance is good, and the tempi are not too fast, so the details are heard. I like it very much.

[Daverz]

Britten; Violin Concerto (Haendel/Berglund)
I can't stop playing this oddly moving work at the moment. A great new discovery for me. Moments reminded me of Bernstein and Shostakovich. It has a very poignant and deeply-felt conclusion:

I love this concerto, and Haendel is great in this recording.  It's gotten much more popular in the last couple of decades; the Lobotsky recording used to the one you could find, now there are a couple dozen.

[Irons]

Britten; Violin Concerto (Haendel/Berglund)
I can't stop playing this oddly moving work at the moment. A great new discovery for me. Moments reminded me of Bernstein and Shostakovich. It has a very poignant and deeply-felt conclusion:

Fabulous recording and performance, Jeffrey. I noted in a previous post that you commented on the CD being a bargain. A contrast to LP where this recording has held it's price over the years. My 2004 price guide has ASD 3483 at £45. There is a later Greensleeves issue but although mid-price this sells for similar prices. A most desirable record.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Streamed that composer and works last year for the first time with a positive result. Revisiting now after some recent mentions.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 2 in D major, K 211 - Mozart Anniversary Orchestra wit James Ehnes Conductor & Soloist

[vandermolen]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1
Great performance. I intend to work my way through all three symphonies: