What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Opus106]

Is it his birthday? It says March 21st (not 31st).

Yes. Per the Gregorian Calendar, it's tomorrow.

Hey, look, my post number read backwards gives the BWV number for the first Brandenburg Concerto!

[mc ukrneal]

Yes. Per the Gregorian Calendar, it's tomorrow.

Hey, look, my post number read backwards gives the BWV number for the first Brandenburg Concerto!

Ah - I see. I should have read the small print!

[North Star]

J.S. Bach
Motets
René Jacobs (dir)  RIAS-Kammerchor; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Sibylla Rubens, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Bernarda Fink, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy
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[Opus106]

Per the Gregorian Calendar, it's tomorrow.

I just noticed the absurdity of that statement. By either calendar it's "tomorrow".

[Que]

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A cute and intriguing set! I'd particularly recommend reading the Amazon reviews, varying from 5 stars to 3, but all evolving around the issue of the musical profundity of these works.

Showpieces of a 3rd rank composer or ambitious, intelligent and enigmatic music?  It's up to you!

Q

[The new erato]

Yes. Per the Gregorian Calendar, it's tomorrow.

Hey, look, my post number read backwards gives the BWV number for the first Brandenburg Concerto!

Life doesn't get substantially more geeky than that.

[Conor71]

Haydn: String Quartet No. 33 In C Major, Op. 33/3, H 3/39, "Bird"

[Lisztianwagner]

Have my eye on the Tennstedt Mahler cycle, various Tippett discs, more Debussy and Ravel plus some more Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Your next purchases seem to be amazing I ordered some Debussy discs two weeks ago too, to celebrate his 150th anniversary; it's the set of Debussy Piano Works with Aldo Ciccolini. Plus, Martinu's Piano Concertos.

[Sadko]

Haydn

The six last sonatas
(for voice and piano)

Glenn Gould

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[Karl Henning]

Haydn

The six last sonatas
(for voice and piano)

(* chortle *)

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

This beautiful CD in repeat, of all the interpretations I have this one ranks high on my list!

[Que]

Upon revisiting this set, I've fallen in love with it all over again.  I'm yet to embark on the multi-instruments set by Beghin (Naxos), but Schornsheim's cycle is an engaging and multifaceted one, be it on the "pretty" side (one could say it's undeniably feminine).

Listening to disc 5, featuring a double-manual harpsichord by Jacob & Abraham Kirckman, London 1777.

Q

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

In the repeat mode, a excellent performance of these sonatas for violin and piano.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Also in the repeat mode. (See my review 26-3-2012)

[jlaurson]

Now (and earlier-earlier):

Early Sonatas from...


L.v. Beethoven
Piano Sonatas
Claudio Arrau (1st cycle)
Decca (ex-Philips), 9 CDs
At last I've added Arrau I to my Beethoven. I've had a couple individual discs from it and was not particularly impressed back then... but did like his later cycle (generally considered a lesser effort). And a colleague absolutely loves the sound of it (he's got the LPs, admittedly.) So it had to be. This is the Italian, jewel-case-in-slip-case re-issue (Gran Concerto) which does not include the concertos or the Diabelli Variations as did the last, very nice, Philips edition. The new, super-budget "Collector's Edition" does, despite its name, include those performances, i think. That's the one the link goes to.

Earlier:

The Goldberg Variations -- Leonhardt's own favorite recording. Quite nice and I bow the master. But not exactly jumping up in the cue of established favorites.


The Gustav Leonhardt Edition

Too many goodies in this box that I didn't already have... so it was presumably worth it. Better yet: the CDs come in sleeves that have the original art work on them and the necessary information on the back... so I can toss the box and sort them according to composer. That was actually the reason I finally got it, after all. :-)  It's an odd mix of stuff, though, and strangely (yet naturally) incomplete. A similar box that brings more of the DHM recordings together would be nice.

It contains:

Leonhardt's Third, 1976 Goldberg Variations
Masterpieces of French Harpsichord Music (Rameau, Le Roux, Royer, Duphly)
Georg Böhm: Keyboard Works - Ouverture, Suites, Capriccio
J.S.Bach: Organ Works Hagerbeer-Schnitger Organ, Alkmaar

Organ Works of the Renaissance and Baroque from Alpine Countries
Organ Works of the Renaissance and Baroque from the Netherlands
Elector-Princely Harpsichord Music from Dresden (Weckman & Froberger)
Music of Versailles (Marais, d'Anglebert, Forqueray

Telemann, Paris Quartets (1-6 only)
D. Scarlatti, Essercizi per gravicembalo (14 sonatas)
L. Couperin, Suites & Pavane
J.S.Bach, Concertos BWV 1060R, 1044, 1052

J. S. Bach - Cantatas Nos. 27, 34 & 41
Harpsichord Concertos J.S. & C.P.E. Bach
Corelli Sonatas (w/ Brüggen & Bylsma)





 

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius
Valse triste, Op.44
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius
Symphony № 4 in a minor, Op.63
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius
Symphony № 4 in a minor, Op.63
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

Yum! This could become my new favorite Fourth!

[North Star]

Yum! This could become my new favorite Fourth!

That is a great recording

Thread duty:

Bartók
Dance Suite, arranged for solo zongora.

Zoltán Kocsis

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty:

Bartók
Dance Suite, arranged for solo zongora.

Zoltán Kocsis

That's a tasty one, too.