What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening, everyone!
A belated Bruckner listen! Hope I'm not too late

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The 5th Symphony.

Such an incredible piece!!

[TheGSMoeller]

You mean the Naxos Fourth? That's conducted by Paul Daniel, who shared the cycle with Bakels.

sarge

Oops, yes, with Daniels.
Flos Campi is given a spectacular reading a well on that disc.

[jlaurson]

"They're all great" (paraphrase)
sarge

There's perhaps a trend of preferring Boult I over Boult II, though, no?

[classicalgeek]

Facing a big deadline at work.  Hunkered down at my desk with a classic performance:


Johannes Brahms
Piano concerto no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 83
Edwin Fischer, piano
Berlin Philharmonic
Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor




Plenty of energy and emotion in this performance - in the middle of a very lovely slow movement at the moment.  Fischer has more than a few bobbles, and the orchestra (horns and winds especially) aren't note-perfect, but that doesn't take much away.  Quite listenable sound for an early 1940s broadcast.

[Fafner]

Beethoven - Fidelio

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Now:



Listening to the Piano Concerto (original version), certainly a performance worthy of all the accolades one could hurl at it. Howard Shelley is complete control of the music's technical challenges, but more importantly he digs into the heart of the work and result is completely satisfactory for me.

[mahler10th]

Mahler 2
Tennstedt - LSO

If you ever wondered what it is about Tennstedts Mahler that works, it is that you can quite literally hear how much he loved the music he was conducting.  These performances are breathed through with the very life of Mahler, and Tennstedt loves these performances alive.

[madaboutmahler]

Mahler 2
Tennstedt - LSO

If you ever wondered what it is about Tennstedts Mahler that works, it is that you can quite literally hear how much he loved the music he was conducting.  These performances are breathed through with the very life of Mahler, and Tennstedt loves these performances alive.

*POUNDS THE TABLE*
Incredible performance!

[Karl Henning]

Chopin
Impromptu in A^b, Op.29
Claudio Arrau

[Karl Henning]

Chopin
Impromptu in F#, Op.36
Claudio Arrau

[mahler10th]

Mahler 2
Tennstedt - LSO

If you ever wondered what it is about Tennstedts Mahler that works, it is that you can quite literally hear how much he loved the music he was conducting.  These performances are breathed through with the very life of Mahler, and Tennstedt loves these performances alive.

Well, I have just listened to the second symphony from this, louder and in more surrounding detail than I ever have ever experienced in a home environment (due to recent hardware changes), and it is hats off to Tennstedt, he has just become the second conductor to make me cry with Mahlers music.  I am like a big baby, but elevated to heaven.

[classicalgeek]

Mahler 2
Tennstedt - LSO

If you ever wondered what it is about Tennstedts Mahler that works, it is that you can quite literally hear how much he loved the music he was conducting.  These performances are breathed through with the very life of Mahler, and Tennstedt loves these performances alive.

Yes, that's a great set!  I remember especially enjoying Tennstedt's 3rd and 5th.

Thread duty: wrapped up Brahms/Fischer/Furtwängler, now on to this:


Christian Sinding
Piano trio in A minor, op. 64
Ilona Prunyi, piano
Andras Kiss, violin
Tamas Koo, cello

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Listening to this recording again:



Listening to the Violin Concerto. An excellent performance. This one certainly rivals the much older Mark Lubotsky/Britten recording. Still a fine account, but this newer one from Marwood/Volkov is certainly special.

[Karl Henning]

You can't say you didn't see it coming:

Chopin
Impromptu in G^b, Op.51
Claudio Arrau

[Karl Henning]

Chopin
Fantaisie-impromptu in c# minor, Op.66 (Op. posth.)
Claudio Arrau

[bhodges]

Well, I have just listened to the second symphony from this, louder and in more surrounding detail than I ever have ever experienced in a home environment (due to recent hardware changes), and it is hats off to Tennstedt, he has just become the second conductor to make me cry with Mahlers music.  I am like a big baby, but elevated to heaven.

How great, and not surprising. My first encounter with Mahler's Sixth was live with Tennstedt and the LPO, and it was overwhelming (of course, the piece itself is overwhelming on its own). Not sure I was in tears, but certainly got goosebumps and that "hair on the back of the neck raised" feeling. Got to hear him a couple more times before his death.

Meanwhile, you might want to consider this DVD, which is excellent:

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--Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.7

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[Karl Henning]

Alkan
Overture (Étude Op.39 № 11)
Jack Gibbons

[Fafner]

Hopping on the Tennstedt bandwagon (in between the two acts of Fidelio)   

Beethoven - Egmont Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt

[North Star]

Alkan
Overture (Étude Op.39 № 11)
Jack Gibbons

That's a very nice set, Karl, should revisit it soon...

Thread duty:

Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato (Concertstück in G major for piano & orch.), Op. 92 (1849)
Tzimon Barto, Eschenbach & NDR Sinfonieorchester

https://www.youtube.com/v/6OeZ9-kqXo8