What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[ChamberNut]

Taking the cue...

Dvorak
String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96
Amadeus String Quartet

What a coincidence, Nav!  I just listened to that this morning.  (Panocha Qt.) 

Now listening to:

Elgar

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Jacqueline du Pre, cello
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim

and

Elgar

The Enigma Variations, Op. 36

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim
Sony Classical

[Que]

Thanks! I'm particularly interested in Louis Couperin. Intended to get Sempe's disc on Alpha but that offer ended before I got around to do it. How does Spieth compare with Sempe, and how both compare to Leonhardt (you should have that disc in the box) of whose interpretation I'm massively fond.
Could I bother you to upload one or two pieces from both for comparison, perhaps Courante La Mignon or Sarabande from a minor (La Mineur) suite?

Naturally - keep your eye on the French Baroque thread the coming days!

Q

[The new erato]

Have been listening to this soulful, fine disc this evening:



HARTMANN Concerto funebre, Symph no 4, Kammekonzert. Isabelle Faust is a thinking mans violinist.

[Drasko]

Naturally - keep your eye on the French Baroque thread the coming days!

Q

Will do, thanks!

[ChamberNut]

Tchaikovsky

Francesca Da Rimini, Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32

Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

Brilliant Classics

[karlhenning]

Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, Opus 61
La Hahn
LSO
Sir Colin Davis

[ChamberNut]

Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, Opus 61
La Hahn
LSO
Sir Colin Davis

Ahh, I think I provided some inspiration!   

[karlhenning]

Shouldn't begrudge it you if it were the case, Ray . . . we were just on a similar wavelength!  I had put this on, and it was mid-second-movement that I chanced on this thread.

[ChamberNut]

. . . we were just on a similar wavelength!

Shall I say it.....?

Elgarian wavelengths  0:)

[mn dave]

Just downloaded this one. So far, it is excellent.

[karlhenning]

Levin does good work.

For me, again:

[mn dave]

Levin does good work.

For me, again:

Collard! The man is everywhere.

[mn dave]

[Harry]

Good morning all!

The third cd from this box.

Hoboken XV, No. 11,12, 38, 38.
Van Swieten Trio.
Bart van Oort, Fortepiano.
Franc Polman, Violin.
Job ter Haar, Cello.

No. 12 is a jewel, especially the second movement Andante, with a excellent synthesis of all instruments, that make you aware of the fact that this has to be played on period instruments.

[val]

karlhenning

Oh, come on!  You want even the Piano Concerto (a piano concerto for Mercy's sake) to be "about the Holocaust"?  For that Schoenberg wrote A Survivor from Warsaw.  It is a shallow artist who only creates work which is a knee-jerk reaction to his times

Not "about the Holocaust". I said under the shock of the Holocaust. As you know, Schönberg gave some "subtitles" to each movement of the Concerto. And they obviously refer to the situation in Germany. A musical composition doesn't describe anything. But the state of mind of the composer reflects on the work he is composing.

[Que]

Hadn't come to this disk yet - since it came up in conversation with Drasko:

Listening to this disc:                                       From the 15-CD Leonhardt set:
       

Q

[Harry]

Hadn't come to this disk yet - since it came up in conversation with Drasko:

Listening to this disc:                                       From the 15-CD Leonhardt set:
       

Q

One of the discs I like very much, it had more fire as I expected, and the articulation is so perfectly in its lucidity.

[Que]

One of the discs I like very much, it had more fire as I expected, and the articulation is so perfectly in its lucidity.

Indeed, Harry! Sounds to me like that too, very nice.

I promised Drasko a Louis Couperin comparison on Leonhardt-Spieth-Sempé - with clips!
Since I have time on my hands, I think I'll devote my morning to Louis Couperin..

Q

[Harry]

This is the third time in one week that I am playing this cd, and it is with good reason, for the SQ by Alfred Hill are amazing in its melodiousness, and its clear yet intricate patterns. No. 4 in C minor is a perfect example of this excellence. Every movement is a jewel in its self. Add to that a perfect recording, and devoted performance, and you have a disc you must not miss trying.
Influences of Elgar, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky, but knitted together in such a way, that it becomes unique in its own conception.

[Harry]

Bill my friend if you are reading this, let it be known that your in box is full, since I answered your pm and it said that it was not able to deliver because of that.
You asked about the Karajan/Ferras recording of the Beethoven Violin Concert, on DGG. I do not have it, so I can not help you with the date, but I suspect it must have been in the early sixties.