What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bruckner Mass No. 2 in E minor, Motets La Chapelle Royal Ensemble Musique Oblique Phillippe Herreweghe

[SonicMan46]

Visée, Robert De - Theorbo Pieces w/ Jose Miguel Moreno and Chamber Music w/ recorders, Baroque flutes, theorbo, and more

Vivaldi, Antonio - Cello Concertos w/ Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations - Vivaldi wrote 27 'Cello Concertos' RV 398-424 (Source); Dieltiens performs 12 in this RV range, but adds RV 544/561 for violin + cello(s); also own the 4-CD Brilliant set w/ L'Arte dell'Arco (last pic below) who records all 27 for single cello.  Dave

     

[Spotted Horses]

And you can't go wrong with it. Just start and keep us informed about your findings. I greatly enjoyed your Mozart/Zacharias installments and look forward to your Haydn/Buchbinder ones.

Glad you found it interesting.

I think Haydn/Buchbinder may be far off in the future. I feel saturated by late 18th century style. I will probably go back to my Liszt/Cziffra project, which interrupted my Bach/Faust listening, which interrupted my Brahms Piano Trio project, which interrupted my Maconchy String Quartet project, which interrupted my Malipiero/Casella project. Well, you get the picture.

[Florestan]

Glad you found it interesting.

I think Haydn/Buchbinder may be far off in the future. I feel saturated by late 18th century style. I will probably go back to my Liszt/Cziffra project, which interrupted my Bach/Faust listening, which interrupted my Brahms Piano Trio project, which interrupted my Maconchy String Quartet project, which interrupted my Malipiero/Casella project. Well, you get the picture.

I see where you're coming from. 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 With Cd1 of this 6 Cd set

[vers la flamme]

Richard Wetz: Symphony No.3 in B-flat major, op.48. Erich Peter, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin

My admiration for this composer grows with each successive listen. Wetz was a very, very fine composer, unjustly maligned, in my opinion. This recording—the first recording of any of his symphonies, I think—is excellent! The CPO recording is perhaps sharper (it's quicker too), but this one has a real sense of occasion to it. I don't know anything at all about the conductor, the orchestra, or the label—if anyone knows anything about any of them, I'd love to know. I suspect it was an East German production.

[Harry]

Richard Wetz: Symphony No.3 in B-flat major, op.48. Erich Peter, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin

My admiration for this composer grows with each successive listen. Wetz was a very, very fine composer, unjustly maligned, in my opinion. This recording—the first recording of any of his symphonies, I think—is excellent! The CPO recording is perhaps sharper (it's quicker too), but this one has a real sense of occasion to it. I don't know anything at all about the conductor, the orchestra, or the label—if anyone knows anything about any of them, I'd love to know. I suspect it was an East German production.

Agreed with all, I bought and I did this often in the past, almost the complete Sterling catalogue, and this way I discovered Wetz. Not always the best recordings or performances, but this one combines a few things that attracted me to it and thus I often listen to it. The CPO discs were most welcome, better orchestras and conductors, and certainly better engineers. Still I love the Sterling recording.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love it!

Yes I like Leinsdorf in general, but Browning and the Boston are amazing as well. Plus the spelling of Prokofiev looks cool.

Have a nice weekend Karl!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

John Browning Live. Performed and recorded on the day JFK was assassinated. Soulful playing.

[Lisztianwagner]

Fryderyk Chopin
Mazurkas Op.6, 7, 17 & 24

Pianist: Arthur Rubinstein



Absolutely brilliant performances, so lively and expressive, but also so delicate and elegant; the choices of tempo are always excellent and there's a very fine use of the rubato. Rubinstein was such a marvelous Chopin interpreter, he could perfectly bring out all the poetical beauty of that music.

[Karl Henning]

Good evening, Karl! Agreed, such a wonderful piece!

I have the Guarneri SQ recordings for those Mozart's compositions, how is the Juilliard SQ set instead?

Although I have not heard the Guarneri recordings, I understand that they are excellent. The Juilliard Quartet were, in their time, probably the premier American chamber group, and I enjoy these recordings a great deal, ilaria.

[Karl Henning]

Yes I like Leinsdorf in general, but Browning and the Boston are amazing as well. Plus the spelling of Prokofiev looks cool.

Have a nice weekend Karl!

You too, Manabu!

[Papy Oli]

Nice! Hope you are enjoying the work, Olivier.

I had the chance to see it live here in Madrid in 1992, conducted by the composer, and that is one of the highlights of my concert-going life. A mesmerising experience. Actually, it was a bit of a Boulez-a-thon, as the previous evening he had conducted Le Marteau sans maître (which was also extraordinary ).

Bonsoir, cher ami!

Bonsoir Rafael.
I only got to section 5 but it was intriguing so far. There's hope 

[Lisztianwagner]

Although I have not heard the Guarneri recordings, I understand that they are excellent. The Juilliard Quartet were, in their time, probably the premier American chamber group, and I enjoy these recordings a great deal, ilaria.

The Guarneri Quartet is an extremely fine chamber ensemble, I've only listened to their Mozart and Beethoven recordings so far, but those ones are great. Although I haven't had the chance to listen to the Juilliard Quartet performances yet, I've read excellent things about it, I read that the Juilliard was the first to record the complete string quartets of Bartók and Schönberg......that makes me already appreciate that chamber group. 

[Spotted Horses]

I see where you're coming from. 

I'm considering extending my sojourn with Mozart to listen to the fantasias, which are not included in the Zachariah set. I was thinking of the old Barenboim set on EMI, with Brautigam in parallel.

[Symphonic Addict]

An excellent choice to be recorded instead of the 'usual' repertoire:

https://www.youtube.com/v/s9zpBnn8Flk

[Todd]

First listen.  Predictably top notch.  Masques was recorded in 1994, and Zimerman's meticulously detailed, at times extremely hard-hitting style seems reminiscent of his Debussy from only a few years earlier.  The remainder of the works display a similarly wide dynamic range, and Zimerman brings even more finely honed nuanced to some of the playing.  Some A/Bs are needed for all the pieces, but especially for Masques where a few other heavy hitters have recorded versions.

Emile Berliner Studios got all the recordings to sound pretty close in style, though the earlier recording never sounds quite as beautiful in the quieter passages.

[prémont]

The Guarneri Quartet is an extremely fine chamber ensemble, I've only listened to their Mozart and Beethoven recordings so far, but those ones are great.

I only know their Beethoven, but I share your view.

[Karl Henning]

Taking a break from Mozart, and switching to Dvořák:

String Quartet in E^b, Op. 51 (1878-79)
String Quartet in C, Op. 61 (1881)
Panocha Quartet

[JBS]