What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mozartsneighbor]

[Catison]

Continuing my Prokofiev ballet cycle:



Sergei Prokofiev
The Tale of the Stone Flower
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra

The sound is typically rough, as most Soviet era Melodiya recordings seem to be.  But there is no better recording that captures the melodic gifts Prokofiev gave us in his last ballet.  The music has real life and energy, and the orchestra glows green with malachite.  There is simply no better Ural Rhapsody, and I think I've heard them all.

[Harry]

Miguel Bernal Jimenez.
Tres cartas de Mexico, Symphonic Suite, 1949.

Wow, that's a dynamite piece, dark, rhythmically and so colorful.

[Harry]

Blas Galindo Dimas.
Homenaje a Cervantes, Suite 1947.

Colorful and inventive.

[Harry]

Ricardo Castro Herrera.
Vals capricho 1901.

Some brilliant writing for piano, done by Eva Suk in a very stimulating way!
Surprising piece of music.

[Harry]

Carlos Chavez.
Zarabanda 1943.

I really nice and powerful short piece, but what a color.

[Dundonnell]

You forgot to mention self-restraint!

Well if you come up with a dud there are only 207 others to try

[Kullervo]

Cello sonatas (Paul Tortelier, cello/Eric Heidsieck, piano), String Quartet (Quatuor Bernède)

First listen.

[Moldyoldie]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik, cond.
AUDITE
Certainly among my favorite recordings of this perennial favorite symphony.  It's recorded in live performance (sans applause) and exhibits a joyous, mostly straightforward interpretation with nary a ponderous moment.  The coda to the finale is brought off wonderfully!

[pjme]

Now we finaly know!

[Brian]

Brian, is the Nagano Brahms on Harmonia Mundi?

Yes sir!

[Keemun]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 (Segerstam/Helsinki PO)

[Que]

Since I have played the box twice, its always interesting for me, to know what you think about the individual issues in this release.
So...............if you please!

Harry, I think I'll post some impressions on the box as a whole when I've gone through all discs.
As you know my method is one or two at a time, playing them a few times in a run.
So, I still have five discs to go!

Q

[Que]

Cello sonatas (Paul Tortelier, cello/Eric Heidsieck, piano), String Quartet (Quatuor Bernède)

First listen.

Good call, that box is very nice!

Q

[Fëanor]

I know:  it just me.    But I really find this to be a tedious dirge, and not just the length.  Is it only the performance?

[mozartsneighbor]

Now we finaly know!

Hehe, good one!

[Lethevich]

I know:  it just me.    But I really find this to be a tedious dirge, and not just the length.  Is it only the performance?

That is a pretty good recording, really. Perhaps an interventionist such as Jochum could provide a contrast?

[mn dave]

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[Opus106]

I always feel, when listening to Bach's VCs on non-period instruments, that the things are completely out of tune.

Mutter and Accardo. ECO. BWV 1043.

[Henk]

Just arrived and planning to listen tonight: