Library CD check-outs

[M forever]

In how far beautiful productions?

[ChamberNut]

Haydn

Piano Sonata No. 46 in A flat major
Piano Sonata No. 19 in D major

Ivo Pogorelich, piano
DG

Haydn

Symphony No. 85 in B flat major, "La Reine"
Symphony No. 86 in D major

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff

Sibelius

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Chausson

Poeme for violin and orchestra, Op. 25

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - violin

London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas
EMI Classics

Dvorak

Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 & 72

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik
DG

Faure

Requiem, op.48
Pavane, op.50

Sheila Armstrong, soprano
Deitrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Edinburgh Festival Chorus

Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
EMI

Franck

Complete Masterworks for Organ

Michael Murray
The Cavaille-Coll Organ at Saint Sernin Basilica, Toulouse
TELARC

[Opus106]

Vivaldi
Concertos for the Emperor
Andrew Manze/The English Concert

I think the library only has two CDs of western classical music. The other one's full of Handel's recorded sonatas. OTOH, the library at the German cultural centre (Goethe-Institut) has a lot more, but I'm not a member there - yet.

[Brian]

Vivaldi
Concertos for the Emperor
Andrew Manze/The English Concert

I think the library only has two CDs of western classical music. The other one's full of Handel's recorded sonatas. OTOH, the library at the German cultural centre (Goethe-Institut) has a lot more, but I'm not a member there - yet.

Those are two very, very random CDs to have.

[Opus106]

Those are two very, very random CDs to have.

True. Someone probably donated them, or something. 

[ChamberNut]

Today's checkouts:

Mahler

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection

Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez

Michelle DeYoung - Mezzo-soprano
Christine Shafer - Soprano
Wiener Singverein
DG

Strauss, R.

Four Last Songs

and

Salome, final scene

Capriccio, final scene

Nina Stemme, soprano

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conducted by:  Antonio Pappano
EMI Classics

Haydn

Piano Sonatas No. 23, 24, 32, 37, 40, 41, 43, 46, 50, 52

Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Hyperion

Sibelius

Complete Symphonies

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
Philips

and 1 book:

Essential Canon of Classical Music

David Dubal, author

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday:

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai
Brilliant Classics

Shostakovich

Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 (Joan Rodgers, soprano)

Beaux Arts Trio
Warner Classics

Brahms

Four Ballades, Op. 10
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op. 35

Nicholas Angelich, piano
Virgin Classics

Holst

The Planets, Op. 32

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
James Levine
Deutsche Grammophon

Prokofiev

Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 82
Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 83
Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 84

Barbara Nissman, piano
Newport Classic

Strauss, R.

Elektra

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Hildegard Behrens - Elektra
Philips

[M forever]

How do you find the time to listen to all that?

[ChamberNut]

How do you find the time to listen to all that?

Check out time for books and CDs are 3 weeks, and you can renew for another 3 week period if they haven't been requested by anyone.  So, there's lots of time to have a chance to get to them all, but on occasion I don't end up listening to a particular disc, or a portion thereof.

[Brian]

Recently I've been broadening my interpretive horizons by dipping into the Universal special reissue series, "Great Conductors of the 20th Century." So far I've checked out the albums featuring Rafael Kubelik, Paul Kletzki, Eugene Ormandy, Karel Ancerl, Ferenc Fricsay, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Nicolai Malko and Rudolf Kempe, which was given to me by mistake by the audio desk when I requested Serge Koussevitzky. Today I also got Kubelik's SOBR Brahms cycle.

[M forever]

What do you need Kubelík's Brahms cycle for? Why would you want to waste your time with that second-rate crap? You already found and publically declared the "reference" recordings. Congratulations on that, BTW - I have listened to, played and studied Brahms' symphonies for a quarter of a century, and I haven't found a "reference" cycle yet.

Check out time for books and CDs are 3 weeks, and you can renew for another 3 week period if they haven't been requested by anyone.

OK, that makes sense. I just hope nobody requests the CDs you still want to listen to. If they do, you may have to find ways...to get rid of these people...just make it look like an accident. Then you can keep the CDs longer!

[imperfection]

Gustavo Dudamel

Mahler: Symphony No.5
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
DGG

Rent this one out just because Superhorn accused me of treating "young, talented artists" unfairly. Here, I gave him another chance. Sorry, though, he missed it again.

[M forever]

Yes - you are soooo unfair to "young, talented artists" who may be, well, "young and talented", but who don't really have the experience and maturity yet to tackle some of the classical repertoire's most substantial works - but their agents and record companies push them to do so anyway.
At the same time, "Superhorn" summarily dismisses all artists in the "HIP" sector, many of which are highly "talented", too, while maybe not so "young" anymore, and some of which have decades of very solid performing experience.
But no, it is you who is totally "unfair", not him.

[imperfection]

Yes - you are soooo unfair to "young, talented artists" who may be, well, "young and talented", but who don't really have the experience and maturity yet to tackle some of the classical repertoire's most substantial works - but their agents and record companies push them to do so anyway.
At the same time, "Superhorn" summarily dismisses all artists in the "HIP" sector, many of which are highly "talented", too, while maybe not so "young" anymore, and some of which have decades of very solid performing experience.
But no, it is you who is totally "unfair", not him.

I know my wrongdoings. Superhorn is always right. I apologize again. Perhaps Dudamel and Lang Lang are the best in their field. Combine the two in a piano concerto and you have the greatest recording of anything of all time. The day a CD like that is released is the day I dump my entire collection into the middle of pacific ocean and start listening only to that for the rest of my life.

[Dundonnell]

I know my wrongdoings. Superhorn is always right. I apologize again. Perhaps Dudamel and Lang Lang are the best in their field. Combine the two in a piano concerto and you have the greatest recording of anything of all time. The day a CD like that is released is the day I dump my entire collection into the middle of pacific ocean and start listening only to that for the rest of my life.

No, you are not wrong...you are quite right

Your cd collection is quite safe

[ChamberNut]

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1
Ballade in C minor for violin and piano, Op. 73
Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 10

The Nash Ensemble
Hyperion

Chopin

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19

Rachmaninov

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 (arr. Wallfisch)

Alexander Kniazev, cello
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Warner Classics

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14 for chorus and orchestra "To October"
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 20 for chorus and orchestra "First of May"

Rundfunkchor
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Rudolf Barshai
Brilliant Classics

Saint-Saens

Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Carnival of Animals, No. 13 (The Swan)
Allegro appassionato, Op. 43
Romance in F major, Op. 36
Suite 16 for violin and orchestra

Mischa Maisky, cello
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 32

Mischa Maisky, cello
Daria Hovora, piano
DG

Mozart

Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191
Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622

Stepan Turnovsky, Bassoon
Martin Gabriel, Oboe
Ernst Ottensamer, Clarinet

Vienna Mozart Academy
Johannes Wildner, conductor
Naxos

[Brian]

BACH | Cello Suites
Jean-Guihen Queyras

BEETHOVEN | Piano Sonatas Op. 10, 109, 110, 111, plus "Les Adieux" and a couple others
Paul Lewis

BRAHMS | Symphony No 4
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano

BRAHMS | Symphony No 4
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber
This is NOT the celebrated 1981 DG studio recording, but rather a live broadcast CD from a concert on December 16, 1979!

BRAHMS | Hungarian Dances arr. Joachim for violin and piano
Hagai Shaham, violin; Arnon Erez, piano

HAUSEGGER | Natursymphonie
WDR Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen

MARTINU | Piano music, volume 1
Giorgio Koukl

[Brian]

Mozart

Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191
Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622

Stepan Turnovsky, Bassoon
Martin Gabriel, Oboe
Ernst Ottensamer, Clarinet

Vienna Mozart Academy
Johannes Wildner, conductor
Naxos

Hmm, that could be a good one. If I remember correctly, Ottensamer is the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic.

[Solitary Wanderer]

I've just joined my local library.

I haven't had a library card for many years so it's good to be back!

I borrowed these three books today:

   

[ChamberNut]

Mozart

Violin Sonata in G major, K.379
Violin Sonata in C major, K.6
Violin Sonata in F major, K.547
Violin Sonata in B flat major, K.378

Rachel Podger, violin
Gary Cooper, fortepiano

Volume I of complete sonatas for keyboard and violin
Channel Classics

Mozart

Piano Sonata in A minor, K.310
March in C major, K.408
Courante in E flat major, K.399
Gigue in G major, K.574
Rondo in A minor, K511
Piano Sonata in F major, K.533/494

Richard Goode, piano
Nonesuch label

Taneyev

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 22

Vadim Repin, violin
Ilya Gringolts, violin (quintet)
Noburko Imai, viola (quintet)
Lynn Harrell, cello
Mikhail Pletnev, piano

DG

Franck

Prelude, Choral et Fugue
Plelude, Aria et Final
Troisieme Choral
Danse Lente
Grand Caprice
Les Plaintes d'une poupee

Stephen Hough, piano
Hyperion

Shostakovich

Complete concertos:

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

Viktoria Mullova, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129

Gidon Kremer, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107
Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126

Schiff, cello
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Maxim Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (for piano, trumpet and strings)

Peter Jablonski, piano
Raymond Simmons, trumpet

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102

Cristina Ortiz, piano

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Philips

Berlioz

Requiem, Op. 5

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Robert Spano, conducting
Frank Lopardo, tenor

Berlioz

Les Francs-Juges: Overture, Op. 3
Reverie et Caprice (Romance for violin and orchestra), Op. 8
Harold in Italy:  Symphony for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 16

Rivka Golani, viola
Igor Gruppman, violin
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Yoav Talmi, conducting

Naxos