What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[marvinbrown]

Get some of his piano music, Marvin. Maybe Gieseking.

  Thanks for the recommendation 

  marvin

[George]

Bach

Cello Suites

Casals

Opus Kura



Disk two. 

[71 dB]

Rodrigo - Piano Music 1 - Arthur Pizarro - Naxos 8.557272

[bhodges]

 Listening to the only   Debussy recording I have (I should get more  ):

If you like this, you should definitely, absolutely get more!  But if you were to have just one, you could do much worse than this recording... 

My listening last night: the score to Guy Maddin's film, Brand Upon the Brain!, composed by Jason Staczek, performed live by Ensemble Sospeso with narration by Edward Hibbert (who was hilarious).  I have already seen this film twice, and will probably return for the final showing tonight, with narration by Isabella Rossellini.

Brand Upon the Brain!

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

This morning: a disc featuring twelve works by Dr. Karl Henning. Here's a composer who can make fascinating music out of the banging of pots and pans. Seriously, his Murmur of Many Waters for percussion ensemble is truly mesmerizing...and beautiful.

This afternoon: two Mahler Fifths, back to back: Barshai and Barbirolli.

Sarge 

[George]

 Listening to the only   Debussy recording I have (I should get more  ):

   marvin

Indeed, Zimerman's preludes, Uchida's Etudes, any stuff by Michelangeli. 

[Harry]

Good day all!

Gabriel Faure

Complete Piano Music, volume I

Impromptus
Theme et variations
Trois romances sans paroles
Valses-Caprices

Kathryn Stott

From my last trip to Paris a few years ago I have a vivid recollection. A late evening over a pedestrian street. Cafes, bookstores, antiques, boutiques, people come and go. Somewhere at the last floor of an immeuble, someone plays a piano and the music overflows through the open window. A tranquil night falls over the scenery.

I've never known what the unseen performer played... until now. All the charms, the melancholy and the joie de vivre of that magic city are in Faure's piano music. While listening to it, yesterday late at night, I opened my window and looked down my street --- it was no more. I saw a pedestrian Paris street, with boutiques and cafes and bookstores...

Extraordinary beautiful music, very sensitive performing, top-notch sound. A ravishing experience.

Highly recommended.

This is the kind of review I so value!
Thank you Andrei.

[Harry]

Martinu.

SQ No. 1.

Stamitz Quartet

These recordings must be one of the best on the market.
It is a rare combination of core concentration, and weaving a tapestry of fine details into a splendor of color, and yet never overblow the effect by adding unnatural things to the playing. Its a organic whole, and its played to perfection. Sound is just fine too!
Martinu at his best.

[Hector]

Another one of Lebrecht's 100 best. A little ways into it and I like.

Even thouigh it has been blighted by the dreadful Lebrecht!

Mathilde di Shabran.

[Harry]

Martinu.
SQ No. 2.
Stamitz Quartet.

This is also a very good performance, topnotch recording too.

[Harry]

Martinu
SQ No. 3.
Stamitz Quartet.

[dtwilbanks]

Even thouigh it has been blighted by the dreadful Lebrecht!

Mathilde di Shabran.

Haha. He doesn't seem to be too popular. But I like a good list of recordings to test out.

[karlhenning]

Even thouigh it has been blighted by the dreadful Lebrecht!

Even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Pervomaiskaya, Opus 20
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[Florestan]

Even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.

And therefore it's better than a clock which runs 1 minute ahead, because twice a day it shows the exact time.

[dtwilbanks]

Even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.

Gosh-a-mighty. Where are the critics everyone just loves? 

[Sergeant Rock]

Gosh-a-mighty. Where are the critics everyone just loves? 

They've all been strung up and buried by various partisan mobs. My particular mob enjoys bashing Gramophone critics 

Lebrecht's 100 is the most thought-provoking list of its kind...he goes way off the beaten path at times and it makes fascinating reading.

Sarge

[dtwilbanks]

They've all been strung up and buried by various partisan mobs. My particular mob enjoys bashing Gramophone critics 

Lebrecht's 100 is the most thought-provoking list of its kind...he goes way off the beaten path at times and it makes fascinating reading.

Sarge

I've written down the list but have yet to go back and read his descriptions of the recordings (I've read the rest of the book though). Sounds like I should get to it.

[karlhenning]

Gosh-a-mighty. Where are the critics everyone just loves? 

[Drasko]