What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

There is only one recording, so there can't by any differnce there. The picture on the left I know is an issue by Sony France, the second probably too, but of later date.

Q

Right, I will listen to some samples and see what the difference is between my much lauded Philips recording with Marriner...

[Novi]

Hello everyone.



Someone on the board recommended this disk to me a while back for the Brahms lieder. I like the Four Serious Songs very much - love Hotter's dark and expressive tones - but I've also come to enjoy his 'Ich habe genug' immensely, older style Bach and all .

[johnQpublic]

Langford - Two Worlds Overture (Sutherland/ASV)
Warlock/Russ - Capriol Suite (Parkening/EMI)
M. Roberts - Elegy (Posner & Garvelmann/Olympia)
Vaughn Williams - Symphony #3 (Thomson/Chandos)

[Que]

Q

[ChamberNut]

Mozart's String Quartet No.15, K.421

Just listened to that quartet a few days ago.  A fine one indeed!  Have you heard  Hadyn's String Quartet # 61 in D minor Op. 76/2 "Fifths"?  It's outstanding

[Hector]

A one time friend in Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto in the famous (best?) recording of Curzon/LSO/Szell.

If I had bought an earlier edition of the LP, I was informed once, I would have sold it for more.

BBC R3.

I shall attempt, again, to like Auric's noisy ballet music Phedre on a Timpani disc bought on special offer a year or so back.

[FideLeo]

IMO rivals Andrew Manze in understanding and realisation of Biber's inimitable style.  There is more lyricism and the pyrotechnics are not overplayed as again IMO sometimes in Manze's case.

[Bogey]

No. 2

Good morning.

[Harry]

Q

That is a absolute gem, and I played that one many times over.
How do you like it Que?

[Harry]

IMO rivals Andrew Manze in understanding and realisation of Biber's inimitable style.  There is more lyricism and the pyrotechnics are not overplayed as again IMO sometimes in Manze's case.

And again this is a outstanding CPO disc, wonderfully recorded and performed, I am so glad with it, and you too, I see.

[Harry]

No. 2

Good morning.

Goodmorning Bill,  ehhhh Bill.............if you please!

[Harry]

Organ Landscapes.
Pomerania.
Martin Rost, Organ.
CD 2.

Works by: Heinrich Scheidemann 1595-1663.
              Johann Martin Rubert 1615-1680.
              Dietrich Buxtehude 1637-1707.
              Christain Michael Wolff 1709-1789.
              Anton Ludwig Ernst Trutschel 1787-1869.
              Wilhelm Rudnick 1850-1927.
              Max Wagenknecht 1857-1922.
              Georg Scheel 1866-1945.
              Karl Kuhn 1851-1930.
              August Wilhelm Bach 1796-1869.

Organs:   Stolp (Slupsk)
              Saal.
              Gutzkow.
              Patzig.
              Belgard (Bialogard)
              Stolpmunde (Ustka)
              Kenz.

The second disc in this box wirh Organs from Pomerania, and every bit as successfull. Well recorded and perfectly tuned, a wide array of fine organ music is unfloding before your ears. The booklet contains all the stops and pictures of the organs in full color.

             

[SonicMan46]

Avison, Charles (1709-1770) - Concertos, Op. 3 & 4 - excellent 2-CD offerning on Naxos w/ the Avison Ensemble & Pavlo Beznosiuk on the violin - this composer is completely new to me, but from the liner notes by Mark Knoll, he was considered the 'greatest composer of orchestral concertos from England' - he was from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but at 15 y/o he travelled to London and studied w/ the great Italian violinist Francesco Geminiani, so these compositions are in the Italian Concerto Grossi fashion, and are just excellent! Avison even criticized Handel as not being as good in this repertoire as his mentor - hmmm! Give this a try - you can't beat the price! 

I've not listen to the Hyperion offering yet, but Bill (i.e. Bogey) was impressed, so I'm looking forward to that experience in the next day or so - 

 

Just bringing this information forward - listened to the Naxos 2-CD set last night at dinner; this morning, the Hyperion Dyad of Grand Concertos after Scarlatti - these are my first Avison recordings, and all is enjoyable; the latter set was published around 1744; apparently a popular time in England for Scarlatti mania & transcriptions of works by earlier composer's into this format - if interested, a more detailed review @ MusicWeb - 

[bhodges]

Caught Live from Lincoln Center telecast of Verklarte Nacht on PBS which was very informative with the first half devoted to explaining the piece excerpt by excerpt and the second part to the performance.

The rest of the program is Brahms' String Sextet No.2 which can be watched here:
http://www.lincolncenter.org/load_screen.asp?screen=webcast

I watched this, too, and thought it was excellent.  Rob Kapilow did an enthusiastic job explaining Schoenberg's motifs, with the six players immediately playing excerpts illustrating what Kapilow had just discussed.  When they finally did the entire piece, it was really gripping--very transparent and intense.  (The musicians were from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.)   Also, the performance made me think I marginally prefer the sextet version over the one for string orchestra.

--Bruce

[Que]

IMO rivals Andrew Manze in understanding and realisation of Biber's inimitable style.  There is more lyricism and the pyrotechnics are not overplayed as again IMO sometimes in Manze's case.

I have that on my wish list - good to hear that it meets expectations. 
I fully recognise my own general impressions on Steck's playing in your comments btw.

That is a absolute gem, and I played that one many times over.
How do you like it Que?

It is a gem, Harry, absolutely.

Q

[not edward]

Indeed he is. And Glanert's Theatrum bestiarum is such an exhilarating work!

The Argerich/Abbado Prometheus is one of my favourite versions, with the exception of the chorus. Argerich is truly impressive here.
The Nono piece, though...

Which works are on the first CD, Edward?

Brahms' Schickalslied, Strauss' Drei Hymnen, Reger's An die Hoffnung (these two with Karita Mattila as soprano soloist) and Rihm's Hoelderlin-Fragmente.

[orbital]

The musicians were from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

While watching, I thought one of the cellists was from the Emersons    

[bhodges]

While watching, I thought one of the cellists was from the Emersons    

That's because...he is!    David Finckel plays with both.

--Bruce

[orbital]

That's because...he is!    David Finckel plays with both.

--Bruce

Oh my  and I thought he was a secret imitator 

I'll try to catch more of these programs whenever I can.

[Harry]

Beethoven.
Piano Sonata No. 7 opus 10, No. 3 in D major.
Yukio Yokoyama, Piano.

Again Yokoyama proves to be a man with one vision, straight ahead, rambling through the pages, and never stop top consider the beautiful spots around.
He is hammering his way through the first movement "Presto" as if he were a carpenter. Clearly he thinks that that's the way to approach Beethoven, but even in the second movement around 5:47 to 6:05, the accents are on louder playing without adding weight in the form of comprehension what the notes are about, and so destroy the evenness and intrinsic mood. This "Largo e mesto"  from the D major I consider one of the most gently of movements Beethoven ever wrote. The "Menuetto, allegro" is superficially played, without the esoteric dept it clearly has, but that is lost on Yokoyama IMO.
As if glad that he comes to a end with the "Rondo" he makes a virtuosic jump into recklessness, and abandons us mortals by even hammering faster. Dear o dear, those recordings are clearly going in my refusal bin, and I am not even sure if I should burden someone else with it.