What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Concerto in A Major for Piano and Orchestra by Grieg,

That is a fine piece of music Muriel. Who are playing it, and what do you think Milady?

[Lady Chatterley]

That is a fine piece of music Muriel. Who are playing it, and what do you think Milady?

The National Arts Centre Orchestra,with Yuja Wang and Pinchas Zuckerman conducting.

I always forget how much I love this piece of music,I must get a recording of it.

[Mark]

I always forget how much I love this piece of music,I must get a recording of it.

May I make a highly biased but deeply felt recommendation, and suggest you get soloist Cecile Ousset with the LSO under Marriner? It's a stunner, I assure you, and it's on EMI Red Line.

[Harry]

The National Arts Centre Orchestra,with Yuja Wang and Pinchas Zuckerman conducting.

I always forget how much I love this piece of music,I must get a recording of it.

I have a recording from Geza Anda on DGG, with Kubelik at the helm. A oldie, but still never heard it better performed. A energy laden powerhouse of a recording.

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1.

Lovely morning music.

[Peregrine]

Wagner - 'Bleeding chunks'/Toscanini RCA Collection Vol.53

[Solitary Wanderer]

Liszt ~ PC 1 & 2 Entremont/Ormandy/Philadephia Orchestra

[BachQ]

Dvorak's Cello Concerto performed by Gregor Piatagorski (sp) .........

[wilhelm]

[Lilas Pastia]

I was listening to his 4th, yesterday, and I can say the same. Also very good with choral composition, apparently.

(And a very, very, very good composition for strings in that same disc: "The Path And the Traces". Outstanding!)

Thanks Renfield and Lethe for bringing that up. I'll be looking that one up! I only have Architectonics (the whole shebang) on Finlandia and I had not been blessed with an epiphany, but I'm always willing and eager to improve my knowledge!

[Renfield]

And there you have it: I interrupted my listening to Mahler's 5th, so I could remember how much I liked the Enigma Variations. Yes, Elgar; yes, "listening guided by a fellow GMG member". (Not very common, though.) But seriously, he wasn't a simpleton: the man was oppressed. An entirely uncommon thing, is it?

Right. I think I'm calmer now.

[Fëanor]

String quartets ... you might have guessed:

• Wolpe: String Quartet I. 92
• Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts
• Feldman: Structures for String Quartet
• Bartok: String Quartet No.6
• Ligeti: String Quartet No.2

[Renfield]

Op. 28 (the "Pastoral" sonata, no. 15)

Among the very best recordings of this sonata I've had the pleasure of listening to.

[Gurn Blanston]

One of Boccherini's last sets of chamber music, and the only string quintets he wrote which replaced the second cello with a Double Bass which plays its own part entirely different from the cello's part. The result is really quite wonderful, and the players here are among the very best.



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Now playing: Boccherini - Quintettes avec contrebasse, Op. 39 - Ensemble 415 - Op. 39 #2 3rd mvmt - Finale: Allegro vivo ma non presto

[BachQ]

One of Boccherini's last sets of chamber music, and the only string quintets he wrote which replaced the second cello with a Double Bass which plays its own part entirely different from the cello's part. The result is really quite wonderful, and the players here are among the very best.

We need a boccherini thread ........ btw .......

[SonicMan46]

We need a boccherini thread ........ btw .......

Well, if you're willing to check to OLD FORUM - look HERE - plenty of recommendations concerning this classical music composer - one of my favs from the period!  Enjoy - 

[Lilas Pastia]

We need a boccherini thread ........ btw .......

Check Gurn's suggestion: the haunt of the Massive Friends of Boccherini (that's whoever has more than a single disc of Boccherini in their collection!)

[Daverz]

A beautiful recording of the Prokofiev and some nice encores.



Dvorak 9 wth the RPO.

[Harry]

Francesco Maria Veracini. (1690-1768)

Overtures & Concerti.

Neue dusseldorfer Hofmusik/Mary Utiger.

A beautiful NCA rcording made in 1999, with a very good stage perspective.
The performance is good, and very telling on all the details from this fine composer.
A perfect beginning after 5 days of forced abstinence.
Goodmorning to all.