What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Bogey]

Yep.  Maybe it's because so much of his music is so beautiful and very easy to listen to that he's the Rodney Dangerfield of classical composers.  The Panocha box of complete quartets is a treasure--thanks to everyone who recommended it!

Think I'll put on another disc of Dvorák's SQs!

And think I will put that Panocha set at the top of my wish-list.

[Bogey]

Beethoven Symphony No. 7
HvK/BPO
DG-'63

[Brian]

I have to continue 5-9 tomorrow when my mind is fresh and alert after a good nights sleep.  In addition, for those of you unfamiliar with the Kubelik set, it also comes with the Scherzo Capriccioso, the Overture Carnival and The Wood Dove.  I'm not sure what those are yet (orchestral works?? I'll have to read the liner notes when I get to them) but I'll leave them till the end!

  marvin

I envy you, sir. The Wood Dove is a tone poem of great power - and a distinctly advanced musical language, a style shared by none of his symphonies.

longears, that is possibly the best or at least most amusing description of Dvorak's quandary that I've ever heard!

[toledobass]

Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe playing Beethoven Overtures.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Beethoven, Op.111, Moscow, 1975.

You may think you know pianism...and you may think you know Beethoven...but nothing, I mean, NOTHING can prepare you for the likes of Richter's exultant, bracing, devastatingly tactile and kaleidoscopic gut-wrench of an exploration through the second movement of this monumental work.

Find the nearest chair and hang on...

[George]

Yes, Don, that's the one that's also in the Brilliant box, if I am not mistaken. I put it on (the second movement) after reading your post, and I must agree, it's a great performance. He plays it fast, like Yudina, my #1 in this work. Richter is a minute faster than everyone else (except Yudina, who is a minute faster than Richter) I have in this movement. 

[Wanderer]

Händel: Rinaldo (J.Fischer).

Haydn: Armida (Bartoli, Harnoncourt).

[hautbois]

Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe playing Beethoven Overtures.

Delicious!!!

Howard

[Brian]

Yes, Don, that's the one that's also in the Brilliant box, if I am not mistaken. I put it on (the second movement) after reading your post, and I must agree, it's a great performance. He plays it fast, like Yudina, my #1 in this work. Richter is a minute faster than everyone else (except Yudina, who is a minute faster than Richter) I have in this movement. 

time = ?

[Israfel the Black]

1,2 & 7

This is an excellent set, particularly the 1 and 7. Blombstedt actually put me off my Jarvi for a while, but his 3rd and 5th are still quite a few notches below Jarvi.

[George]

time = ?

Richter 14:53

Yudina 13:43

[Wanderer]

[Que]

Q

[Papy Oli]

A Saturday morning at work...Empty office...Full quietness.. Tallis... Salve Intemerata... 0:)

[Lethevich]

So for today Symphonies 1-4 will suffice- I have to continue 5-9 tomorrow when my mind is fresh and alert after a good nights sleep.

A perfect day I would give a lot to be able to hear the 7th freshly again

In addition, for those of you unfamiliar with the Kubelik set, it also comes with the Scherzo Capriccioso, the Overture Carnival and The Wood Dove.  I'm not sure what those are yet (orchestral works?? I'll have to read the liner notes when I get to them) but I'll leave them till the end!

His symphonic poems and overtures are very major pieces, and alongside his Slavonic Dances (most of these can actually all be bought at once in this cheap set), would cover most of his major non-symphony/concerto orchestral works

I envy you, sir.

Me too

[Que]

See my comments HERE.

Q

[Lethevich]

Previous, current and next discs:

Pärt - I am the True Vine (Harmonia Mundi)


Vasks - Message (RCA/Catalyst)


Sciarrino - Un immagine di Arpocrate; 6 Capricci (Warner)

A Saturday morning at work...Empty office...Full quietness.. Tallis... Salve Intemerata... 0:)

[Peregrine]

1st Dec.

so....

[The new erato]

The Concerto Funebre, The 4th Symphony, and the Kammerkonzert for clarinet, string quartet and string orchestra.

I think this is the ideal Hartmann album for anyone wanting to try his idiom, or looking for a single representative Hartmann CD for their collection.

Chilling and intense stuff, really well recorded.

[val]

SCHUBERT:      Lieder           / Margaret Price, Sawallisch     (ORFEO)

One of the best recordings of Schubert's Lieder, because of the style and the beauty of Margaret Price's voice, her perfect intonation. A pity that Sawallisch gives her a very prosaic support.

With the splendid clarinetist Schöneberger, we have here the best version of "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" since the legendary Elisabeth Schumann with Reginald Kell.