What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Buon giorno, Bill!

[Sergeant Rock]

RVW 7




Sarge

[mozartsneighbor]

I had forgotten just how good this recording is -- the music is top-drawer Händel, and at times very moving. Kirkby is great, but that is no surprise.
When I got this a few years back it was available as a bargain re-issue in a cardboard slip with the BIS catalogue attached, for $7. A great bargain for Händel fans if this still around in that form.

[not edward]

Really? It's a marvelous account of the Schoenberg.

Agreed: the Schoenberg blew me away. Admittedly, I wasn't particularly impressed by the Sibelius (I'll usually take Heifetz/Beecham when I want that piece) and haven't returned to it since the first couple of listens, so I imagine the disc might disappoint if bought purely for the Sibelius.

Talking of Sibelius:



An appealing (to me, at least) collection, though there's nothing in it that reaches the heights of the repertoire.

[Harry]

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thunderous great recording, too, but the performance is smashing and the music is just plain awesome. I wish there were more of it. An early candidate for new release of the year...

I do have a complaint, however: what is with the blatantly fake "Aboriginal" painting on the cover? It looks like it was made by somebody in Kansas who saw an Australian tourism video on YouTube. 

I am so glad Brian, you like it that much. It was for me, certainly the same, when I first encountered it. A amazing musicality, with dept, and written with compassion.

[Harry]

Can you give us a comparitive soundscape, bcause you seem to be blown away by it, and I'm interested in any Classical Music that has that power.  What 'kind' of music is it?
Your enthusiasm is rubbing off.

Dear John, be quick about it, just buy it, you will not be disappointed about this disc, I promise you.

[Harry]

I'm completely satisfied with it. There was a discussion comparing it to Metzmacher's cycle on EMI but I didn't hear any compelling reason to switch, or to prefer one to the other.

Sarge

I am still waiting for the Metzmacher to go down in price...................

[Harry]

Overall, I am not crazy about the harpsichord, but this man's playing just has an amazing vitality to it.

So long as you take it in small doses, everything is in order. lol

[Harry]

I had forgotten just how good this recording is -- the music is top-drawer Händel, and at times very moving. Kirkby is great, but that is no surprise.
When I got this a few years back it was available as a bargain re-issue in a cardboard slip with the BIS catalogue attached, for $7. A great bargain for Händel fans if this still around in that form.

This disc has my full votes, its amazingly complimentary to perfect music making.

[ChamberNut]

Tchaikovsky

Manfred Symphony, Op. 58

Riccardo Muti
Philharmonia Orchestra
Brilliant Classics

[Harry]

Jean Marie Leclair.
Troisieme livre de Sonates, opus 5.
Sonate No. 3,4,6,10,11.
Convivium.
Elizabeth Wallfisch, Violin, Richard Tunnicliffe, Cello, Paul Nicholson, Harpsichord.

Wow, this blew me out of my chair, a budget release from Hyperion with parts of the opus 5 of Leclair, in fact Volume one, of the complete set, that came in this morning when I was at home. And it is good, in recording, but also as a performance. For a HIP recording this stands out as extraordinarily  good, in expression and musicality.
A firm recommendation for this one, is in order!  

[Kullervo]

Schubert - Impromptus D. 946, Moments Musicaux, etc. (Brendel)
RVW - A Pastoral Symphony, Symphony No. 4 (Haitink/London Phil)

[Keemun]

[karlhenning]

Continuing:

Wagner
Parsifal, Act I
Jeemie, conducting
(from the Big Bayreuth Box)

[Catison]

Carter - Symphonia
Ives - Three Places in New England
Stockhausen - Gruppen

[karlhenning]

Whose performance of the Ives, Brett?

[Opus106]

John Cage
4' 33"

[springrite]

John Cage
4' 33"

Which version? I started listening to Pogorelich's version almost an hour ago and it still hasn't finished.

[Sergeant Rock]

Continuing:

Wagner
Parsifal, Act I
Jeemie, conducting
(from the Big Bayreuth Box)

Looking at the timings of Levine's Parsifal, you should be winding up that first act sometime this weekend, Karl  

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Which version? I started listening to Pogorelich's version almost an hour ago and it still hasn't finished.