Library CD check-outs

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday's check-outs:

Elliott Carter

The Four String Quartets
Julliard String Quartet

Duo for Violin & Piano
Robert Mann - violin; Christopher Oldfather, piano
Sony

Bach

Six Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

James Ehnes, violin
Analekta (Fleurs de lys)

Schubert

Piano Music for Four Hands
The Carnegie Hall Concert

Fantasie in F minor, D940
Allegro in A minor, D947 Lebennsturme

Sonata in C, D812 Grand Duo
Characteristic March No. 1 in D, D968b
Military March No. 1 in D, D733

Evgeny Kissin, piano
James Levine, piano

Live recording, May 1, 2005
RCA Red Seal

Mozart/Schubert

Mozart
Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K.448

Schubert
Fantasie in F minor for Piano Four Hands, D940

Guher & Suher Pekinel, piano
Teldec

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday's checkouts:

Wagner

Parsifal

Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

Jose van Dam - Amfortas
Victor von Halem - Titurel
Kurt Moll - Gurnemanz
Peter Hofmann - Parsifal
Siegmund Nimsgern - Klingsor
Dunja Vejzovic - Kundry
DG

Desyatnikov and Raskatov

The Russian Seasons

Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica
Nonesuch

Richard Strauss

Don Juan
Ein Heldenleben
Till Eulenspeigels lustige Streiche
Also sprach Zarathustra
Tod und Verklarung

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Haitink
Philips

Schubert

Winterreise D911

Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto
Inger Sodergren, piano
Calliope

Charles-Valentin Alkan

Concerto for solo piano, Op. 39 Nos. 8-10
Troisieme recueil de chants, Op. 65

Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Hyperion

Barber/Korngold/Walton

Violin Concertos

James Ehnes - violin
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey
CBC Records

Bartok

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Apex

Bartok

Violin Concertos 1 & 2

Midori - violin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Zubin Mehta
Sony

[ChamberNut]

Smetana

Ma vlast

Sir Colin Davis
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Live

Ukrainian Music for String Quartet

Dmytro Bortnianski - String Quartet No. 4
Boris Liatoshinski - String Quartet
Myroslaw Skoryk - Melodia
Vasyl Barvinskij - Molitva; Pisnia Lyrnika
Lubomyr Melnyk - Antiphon No. 2 for Piano Quintet
Stanislaw Ljudkevych - An Old Song
4 Ukrainian Folksongs (arr. Filipenko)

Performed by the Gallicien Quartet w/ Lubomyr Melnyk at piano
Bandura Records

Vaughn Williams

Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Lark Ascending (Tasmin Little, violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis
Teldec

Taneyev

Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Valeri Polyansky
Chandos

Zemlinsky

Symphony in B flat major
Prelude to 'Es war einmal...'
Sinfonietta, Op. 23
Prelude to Act III of "Der Konig Kandaules'

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Antony Beaumont
Chandos

Bruckner

Te Deum
10 Motetten
150.Psalm

Berliner Philharmoniker
Chore des Deutschen Oper Berlin
Eugen Jochum
DG

Wagner

Tristan und Isolde

Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Christian Thielemann

Thomas Moser - Tristan
Deborah Voigt - Isolde
DG

Strauss, R.

Salome

Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Sinopoli

Cheryl Studer - Salome
Horst Hiestermann - Herod
Leonie Rysanek - Herodias
Bryn Terfel - John the Baptist

DG

[Sergeant Rock]

Hey, you nut, did you rent a U-Haul to get all that home?    Some really great stuff there (the Sinopoli/Studer Salome is high on my want list). It looks like a selection I could have made.

Sarge

[ChamberNut]

Hey, you nut, did you rent a U-Haul to get all that home?    Some really great stuff there (the Sinopoli/Studer Salome is high on my want list). It looks like a selection I could have made.

Sarge

  It was a little challenging walking back to the car (I didn't have a bag with me  )

[Gustav]

  It was a little challenging walking back to the car (I didn't have a bag with me  )

hey, save some for the others!

I checked out two CDs from my school library:


Heinz Rogner/Berlin RSO


Schubert: Symphonic Fragments
Peter Gülke/Staatskapelle Dresden

[M forever]

Desyatnikov and Raskatov

The Russian Seasons

Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica
Nonesuch

That looks interesting.

[ChamberNut]

hey, save some for the others!

Fortunately, at our Millenium Library, there is an extensive classical music section.  Definetely a great (not to mention inexpensive) way to explore works/composers I haven't yet heard.   

[ChamberNut]

Desyatnikov and Raskatov

The Russian Seasons

Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica
Nonesuch

M, it definitely was interesting.  Not only this disc, but another Kremerata Baltica recording of George Enescu's Piano Quintet and Octet.

I will continue to look for some more KB recordings in the future.   

[Opus106]

Fortunately, at our Millenium Library, there is an extensive classical music section. 

That's quite evident by the discs you've been borrowing of late. I envy you.

[eyeresist]

Chambernut, how was the Taneyev? I have the Naxos disc of these works, which I found disappointing.

[ChamberNut]

Chambernut, how was the Taneyev? I have the Naxos disc of these works, which I found disappointing.

Eyeresist, just listening to Symphony No. 1 right now.  It's ok, but not particularly interesting.  I am a bit disappointed so far, as there is nowhere near the energy in this symphony, as compared to the string quartets of Taneyev's that I've heard.

I hope for something more in Symphony No. 3.   

[eyeresist]

Thanks

[ChamberNut]

Today's checkouts:

Shostakovich

Symphonies No. 4 to 8

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai
Brilliant Classics

Shostakovich

Complete String Quartets

Fitzwilliam String Quartet
London

Wagner

Tannhauser

Hermann, Landgraf von Thuringen - Hans Sotin
Elisabeth - Helga Dernesch
Tannhauser - Rene Kollo

Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys Choir
Sir Georg Solti
London

Vaughan Williams

A Sea Symphony

Margaret Marshall, soprano
Stephen Roberts, baritone

London Symphony Chorus
The Philharmonia
Richard Hickox
Virgin Classics

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor

London Philharmoic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
EMI Classics

[Brian]

Friday's check-outs
DOWLAND Lute music, volumes 2 and 3 / Nigel North, lute
WILLIAM BYRD My Ladye Nevells Booke / Elizabeth Farr, on four different kinds of harpsichord

Today's check-outs are from a slightly different time period:
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies 4, 5, 6 / Mravinsky!
NIELSEN Short orchestral music / Dausgaard
NIELSEN Complete symphonies / Kuchar, Janacek Philharmonic

[flyingdutchman]

The more CDs I can check out, the more I can copy.  What a great hobby!  Most of the cds I have checked out are in decent enough shape to copy w/o clicks or skips.

[Brian]

One of these doesn't belong...

SVIATOSLAV RICHTER Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume III [Rachmaninov, Schumann, Scriabin]
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Snow Maiden, Christmas Eve Suites (Jurowski, Berlin Radio SO)
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Music (Sviatoslav Richter)
RACHMANINOV Etudes-tableaux, preludes (Sviatoslav Richter)

[Brian]

Some more...

BRAHMS Two Rhapsodies and the late piano music / Radu Lupu
DVORAK Czech Suite, Hussite Overture, Festival March / Antoni Wit, the Polish Radio Orchestra

I'm thinking of checking out the complete discography of Rued Langgaard this afternoon as well.

[M forever]

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies 4, 5, 6 / Mravinsky!

Well, finally.

[Brian]

LANGGAARD Symphonies 2, 3 (Dausgaard/Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Da Capo)
MOSZKOWSKI/RUBINSTEIN/SCHARWENKA Piano Concertos (Michael Ponti/various orchestras and conductors/Vox)
TUBIN The Complete Symphonies (Jarvi/various orchestras/BIS)

The new Da Capo SACDs are such beautiful productions - and fabulous sound, too.