What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Bernstein, conducting the [Vaughan Williams] Fourth during a Young Person's Concert

What a great piece to do for a Young Person's Concert, Sarge!  How few people in our day think of presenting such a large chunk of abstract music to kids!  We are saddled with an age that Barney-like dumbs it all down (It's all Carnival of tha Animals and 'Star Wars' for you li'l rug-rats!)

[karlhenning]

Silvius Weiss

To calm my nerves before sleep.

Sweet dreams, mijn vriend!

[not edward]

Berg: Violin Concerto (Suk/Ancerl)
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Oistrakh/Klemperer)
Brahms: Violin Sonata #2 (Oistrakh/Richter)
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata #1 (Oistrakh/Richter)

A very good morning to all!

[karlhenning]

Good morning, Edward!

It's a great day for Shostakovich! 

Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Opus 43
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[George]

Beethoven

Violin Sonatas

Haskil/Grumiaux


Oh, how I wish Haskil's piano wasn't so muddy/blurry. And I have the remastered one from Decca, 2007.

donwyn: I think that this was why I thought the balances were off. The violin's sound is MUCH clearer than the piano and thus easier to hear and enjoy. The difference between the two of them is astounding.

Anyone hear what I hear here? 

[wintersway]

[George]

Any thoughts on that one? I'd appreciate it. 

[Kullervo]

Borrowed this one from the library. This was my introduction to RVW, but I think I'll be picking up a set of his symphonies really soon.

[Harry]

Goodmorning/afternoon/evening all!

Brahms.

Clarinet Sonata in F minor
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major.

Karl Leistner, Clarinet
Ferenc Bognar.

This cd comes from a box from 12 cd's with the complete Chamber Music on Brilliant. I thought Andrei recommended it to me.
Well today someone gave it to me, for nothing, well only a hug, (Long One).
Starting with these Clarinet Sonatas I must say, that is a fine beginning, for these performances are good and warmly interpreted.
Their credentials are impeccable, and so is the result of this gorgeous music.

[Harry]

Brahms.

Cello sonata 1 & 2.

Herre-Jan Stegenga, Cello.
Philippe Entremont, Piano.

Well done these sonatas, good sound and a fine thoughtful performance to booth.
Almost the old school of playing, with style and grandeur.

[stingo]

Boccherini Cello Concerti on Brilliant

I'd not been familiar with Boccherini's work before this, and was left kind of cold at first listening. However, repeated listenings have opened up my ears a bit and I'm very much enjoying them now.

[rubio]

Mahler Symphony No. 5 performed by Chailly/RCO. I think this performance is superbly played, very well produced and the movements hang together in a good way. Then minor drawback is that I think the performance lacks something in the emotional dept.; compared to e.g. Bernstein or Bertini.

[Harry]

Boccherini Cello Concerti on Brilliant

I'd not been familiar with Boccherini's work before this, and was left kind of cold at first listening. However, repeated listenings have opened up my ears a bit and I'm very much enjoying them now.

These are fine performances, a very good choice indeed.
And they recorded so much mor e form this composer.

[Florestan]

Goodmorning/afternoon/evening all!

Brahms.

Clarinet Sonata in F minor
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major.

Karl Leistner, Clarinet
Ferenc Bognar.

This cd comes from a box from 12 cd's with the complete Chamber Music on Brilliant. I thought Andrei recommended it to me.
Well today someone gave it to me, for nothing, well only a hug, (Long One).
Starting with these Clarinet Sonatas I must say, that is a fine beginning, for these performances are good and warmly interpreted.
Their credentials are impeccable, and so is the result of this gorgeous music.

Brahms.

Cello sonata 1 & 2.

Herre-Jan Stegenga, Cello.
Philippe Entremont, Piano.

Well done these sonatas, good sound and a fine thoughtful performance to booth.
Almost the old school of playing, with style and grandeur.

Agreed.

[wintersway]

Any thoughts on that one? I'd appreciate it. 

George, it's a great disk. Good recording, fine chamber pieces and the Russian String Quartet interpret them wonderfully!

NP this fine set (inspired by Harry):

[wintersway]

Boccherini Cello Concerti on Brilliant

I'd not been familiar with Boccherini's work before this, and was left kind of cold at first listening. However, repeated listenings have opened up my ears a bit and I'm very much enjoying them now.

The second disc of that set is a personal favorite!

[dtwilbanks]

Amazon.co.uk Review
At music parties, piano duets are usually a thing to do rather than listen to, enthusiastic performances generally met with fixed smiles that wear a bit thin after a while. But in the right hands, the gems of the piano duet repertoire come alive, and you could not ask for two safer pairs of hands than those of Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten. The extraordinary thing about these performances is the sense of intimacy--you get the notion that the two players would have been just as happy making music with no audience whatsoever. But this sheer enjoyment of the act of music making communicates through performances that sparkle throughout. The recordings were made in the mid-sixties, and the sound is not so close as you would expect from a modern recording. But if you value musicality over audio brilliance, this is the recording to have. The best-known piece is the Fantasy in F minor, written in the year of Schubert's death. The opening is one of Schubert's most hauntingly beautiful melodies, his trademark major/minor shift used to full effect. --Keith Clarke

[Haffner]

Falling in love with this one, despite the old, "faraway" sounding recording.

[Harry]

George, it's a great disk. Good recording, fine chamber pieces and the Russian String Quartet interpret them wonderfully!

NP this fine set (inspired by Harry):

Well what can I say, I am playing this right now!

[George]

George, it's a great disk. Good recording, fine chamber pieces and the Russian String Quartet interpret them wonderfully!

Sweet, onto my "to buy" pile it goes!