What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Good morning all.

From this box:
Disc VIII
Hoboken XV/21/22/23/31.
Van Swieten Trio

Every disc is a great pleasure to hear.

[Que]

Moravec/Neumann (and the CPO) play the work as if it were an old and dear friend - navigating with ease Schumann's peculiar - yet golden - language.

I was thrilled when I first heard that performance, don. 
It's the "golden standard" for this concerto to me.

Q

[The new erato]

I was thrilled when I first heard that performance, don. 
It's the "golden standard" for this concerto to me.

Q

But what an odd coupling on that disc.

[Que]

But what an odd coupling on that disc.

Yes, a bit of a hotchpotch.  But as a consolation for the buyer the performances of the Kinderszenen and the Symphonic Variations by Franck are more than excellent.

Now:



Disc 5: Kk 67-80, 82-87, 92 & 83.

Q


PS Note that this set is on special offer at MDT for an affordable price (£54,00/ €64/ $81). And that has been quite a while for this set, so if this is on your list...

[Harry]

And again from this box, because its so addictive, I actively participate in

CD IX

Hoboken, XV/24/25/26/32.
Van Swieten Trio.

[Que]

All that horn talk on the HIP Romantics thread is making me ....well, let's not go that way...

Anyway - here's another natural horn, made by Ignaz Lorenz, Linz (Austria) c. 1820-30, played by my countryman Ab Koster. I don't think it comes better that this.



Q

[val]

KURT WEILL:       Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, opera       

/ Lotte Lenya, Soloists, orchestra, Brückner-Rüggeberg


Mix of sarcasm and dispair, Mahagonny is one of the greatest operas of the 20th century. And this is the ideal version, with the singers showing a total adequacy to the style of the music, between cabaret and "grand-opera". The conductor imposes a very aggressive dynamic and Lotte Lenya ... is Lotte Lenya.

[karlhenning]

I better keep it then. 

I'm averting my eyes, O Dave.

[The new erato]

Klang 4th Hour: Heaven's Door (2005) for percussionist (28'00)

Is he knockin' on it?

[Bogey]

Last night:



This morning:



Good morning.

[karlhenning]

Good morning, Bill!

I started my listening today with (*ahem*) my own organ music (op 34)

[Sergeant Rock]

from 1973, Böhm's best period. Excellent and obviously different from the BP or SD recordings - mainly on account of the playing. Listen to the wind accents on the ländler rythms at 3:09 and 3:18 in II, or the beginning of the Trio. Only in Vienna...

And thank god for that    That pinched, nasal oboe is the reason I returned my Vienna Bruckner 8 and exchanged it for Cleveland's in 1973. Different taste, I suppose, but I prefer the sound of the Cleveland winds. And, contrary to what would undoubtedly be M's assertion, they play Schubert just as stylishly as the boys from Vienna.

Sarge

[mn dave]

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata #7 - Schnabel

[karlhenning]

. . . That pinched, nasal oboe is the reason . . . .

I must borrow that, Sarge!

[karlhenning]

Wuorinen
String Sextet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

With an opening chord that almost sounds like electronica . . . some crunchy sonic goodness for Wednesday morning!

[mn dave]

SCHUBERT Symphony #8 - BPO/Bohm

[karlhenning]

Wuorinen
String Quartet № 2
Group for Contemporary Music

[mn dave]

SCHUBERT Symphony #9 - BPO/Bohm

[mozartsneighbor]

[Opus106]

Bruckner 9
Munich PO/Jochum

Live, 1983