What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Are you talking about the Decca/Wiener Philharmoniker recordings?

Or this set

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

A bit of JS Bach's organ music by Isoir (half of CD4).

[SonicMan46]

Apologies, Dave, for the belated comment.
Schoonderwoerd was a very mixed bag for me but I can definitely recommend that you investigate PCs Nos. 4 & 5 which are definitely worth listening to.  I merely mention out of potential interest.
Levin/Gardiner and Tan/Norrington are cycles that I have enjoyed in the past but it has been a long time since I have listened to them and I do not remember the details of either presentations.

Hi Fergus - no problem at all; I spent a few days w/ a Spotify playlist of Beethoven's PCs on period instruments, and listen to Tan, Brautigam, and Wallisch (shown below) - also my recording of Lubin-Hogwood.  I decided to purchase the 3-CD set of Wallisch because Beethoven's fortepianos are used, the recordings are recent (2017-2020), the reviews (several in the attachment) good to excellent, and a great price at JPC (21 Euros) - sure that I'll enjoy in my CD player.  Thanks again for your comments.  Dave

[foxandpeng]

Søren Nils Eichberg
Symphonies 1 and 2
Christoph Poppen
Danish NSO


First listen Sunday with this impressive, 'tackle out', in-your-face, release. Certainly merits the descriptions given to it by Music Web of being primeval, pounding, churning and violent. Nice backdrop to today's slate grey skies and bleak, wintry fields behind our home.

[Papy Oli]

BWV 63

[SonicMan46]

Marais, Marin (1656-1728) - Pieces for Viol, Bk. 5 w/ the performers on the cover art - Marais' last book of viol pieces; well done - reviews attached for those interested; and at a bargain price!  Dave

 

[vandermolen]

Working my way through this fine set of movingly baleful soviet symphonies:

[Papy Oli]

Sallinen - Symphony No.3

[foxandpeng]

Working my way through this fine set of movingly baleful soviet symphonies:

These are great. Man of taste, as per.

[André]

Concerto Festivo. Symphonies nos 7 (Metasinfonia) and 8 (Sinfonia Votiva).

[Spotted Horses]

Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pierre Monteux, L'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris



In this collection



Monteux's recording has some claim to being definitive, since he conducted the Premiere for the Ballet Russe, and conducted concert performances in Paris and elsewhere in the presence of the composer. It is also reported that Monteux assisted Stravinsky in preparing the score for performance.

As is the case for every Monteux recording I have ever heard, a very satisfying, performance. More colorful than brutal, although the Decca engineers insure that the bass drum is well represented, with a bit of analog tape saturation to add emphasis. 

[aligreto]

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 [Ashkenazy]





The first movement has a great sense of atmosphere, sound painting, drama and tension. One can occasionally feel a strong sense of nostalgia and longing in the music. I really like the quirky nature of elements of the music of the second movement which is wonderfully played. The final movement is big, powerful, exciting and sometimes menacing. The musicians rise well to every demand made of them.

[aligreto]

Good afternoon all,

A bit of JS Bach's organ music by Isoir (half of CD4).

You are certainly tempting me to make a return visit to that set, Olivier.

[aligreto]

Hi Fergus - no problem at all; I spent a few days w/ a Spotify playlist of Beethoven's PCs on period instruments, and listen to Tan, Brautigam, and Wallisch (shown below) - also my recording of Lubin-Hogwood.  I decided to purchase the 3-CD set of Wallisch because Beethoven's fortepianos are used, the recordings are recent (2017-2020), the reviews (several in the attachment) good to excellent, and a great price at JPC (21 Euros) - sure that I'll enjoy in my CD player.  Thanks again for your comments.  Dave

Cheers, Dave, and the best of luck with your enjoyment of the Wallisch/Hasselbock set in your own system. I have to admit that the relevant choice of instrument would also have been a big factor for me if I was making that choice; I would be very curious from an historical viewpoint to hear that instrument in that context.

[Spotted Horses]

Good afternoon all,

A bit of JS Bach's organ music by Isoir (half of CD4).

That is a beautiful set, which I would never have known about if not for GMG.

[aligreto]

That is a beautiful set, which I would never have known about if not for GMG.

Indeed, and hence the itch to revisit it. Perhaps I could be selective in my chosen listening. 

[VonStupp]

Igor Stravinsky
Faun and Shepherdess, op. 2
Ode (Elegiacal Chant in Three Parts for Orch.)

Lucy Shelton, soprano
The Cleveland Orchestra - Oliver Knussen

These two are new to me. Shelton does sing in Russian for Faun.

VS

[VonStupp]

Horowitz claimed that Mozart should be played as if it were Chopin, and vice versa.

Aye, it is an apt description of that middle movement. I failed to mention that Horowitz uses the Busoni cadenza for PC 23, K. 488.

VS

[Mandryka]

I've had a Jo Kondo kind of day, and what I'm seeing is that I enjoy pieces from the mid seventies. Like Falling on this. 

[Bachtoven]