What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Michel]

Great works, IMHO among the greatest masterpieces of Brahms.

Really? I find it hard to improve on the violin sonatas, and I do very much like his piano music, too. Which I think more people should enjoy.

[Danny]

[karlhenning]

Schumann Concerto for Cello in A Minor, Opus 129
(orch. Shostakovich, Opus 125)
Aleksandr Ivashkin, Cello
Russian State Symphony
Valeri Polyansky

[Michel]

Schumann Concerto for Cello in A Minor, Opus 129
(orch. Shostakovich, Opus 125)
Aleksandr Ivashkin, Cello
Russian State Symphony
Valeri Polyansky

A brilliant piece; my favourite is Fournier.

[Sergeant Rock]

Two more Elgar Firsts...someone, stop me!






Disagreeing with the composer himself, I prefer the ultra-slow Tate to any of the Firsts I've heard imitating Elgar's own recording. Of the three I've heard tonight, Tate places first, too, for the sound quality of his recording: stunning.

Sarge

[George]

I can think of at least one member who won't be stopping you, Sarge. 

[karlhenning]

Disagreeing with the composer himself, I prefer the ultra-slow Tate to any of the Firsts I've heard imitating Elgar's own recording. Of the three I've heard tonight, Tate places first, too, for the sound quality of his recording: stunning.

Very interesting, Sarge, thanks!  Now to be sure to dig out the score to the First before checking out the Tate . . . .

[karlhenning]

Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto in A Minor
Jno Small
Royal Liverpool Phil
Handley

[not edward]

Kancheli: Symphonies 4 & 5 (Georgian National Orch/Kakhidze).

[Maciek]

Just picked up two old posts I wanted to react to:

Liszt
Via crucis
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best, conductor
Thos Trotter, organ

Was listening to the same piece (different performance - a Melodya LP) last Friday!

 Hello Karlhenning,  this recording is coupled with Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1.  I bought this cd off of iTunes.  I played the second movement of Rachmaninov's piano concerto no.2 adagio sostenuto and tried to listen very carefully from the beginning to the middle of the second movement (first 4 minutes)  I detect no obvious wobble.  In that regard the recording is clean.  However,  at 2 min 25 sec into the SECOND MOVEMENT you can hear a ticking sound that (now I am not sure) if that is a string instrument being plucked or an error in recording?  I can confirm there is no wobble can you confirm the ticking plucking sound on any other recording?

I'm not exactly an authority on this but from what I've heard from other people, there are also lots of other very subtle issues with the recording quality of this. E.g. the sound of the piano is a little "blurred" sometimes, and it seems this couldn't possibly be an effect of Richter's playing (as it "spoils" some of the passages). Which does not prevent it from being one of the 2 best recordings of the concerto .

Maciek

[karlhenning]

Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto in A Minor
Jno Small
Royal Liverpool Phil
Handley

Delighted with the subtle wit of the programming of this disc, which opens with Flos campi. The Oboe Concerto begins with an E, D, E, A gesture from the soloist;  and at the opening of Flos campi (a piece I'd never heard before, but this year I find myself with two copies of it) begins with an E, D, A gesture in the oboe . . . .

— Or maybe it's just that Vaughan Williams was in a white-key-modal rut 

[Danny]

An interview with Schoenberg from 1949 on my Craft-Naxos disc.  He seemed like a loveable old dude.   

[Sergeant Rock]

I can think of at least one member who won't be stopping you, Sarge. 

He and I disagree a lot...but not about the significance and greatness of Elgar.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

An interview with Schoenberg from 1949 on my Craft-Naxos disc.  He seemed like a loveable old dude.   

That is a great little document!

[George]

Which does not prevent it from being one of the 2 best recordings of the concerto .

Maciek

So what is the other one?

[Maciek]

So what is the other one?

You caught the wink, George?

Zimerman

IMHO, of course.

I rank them as equal.

But it's a matter of taste. Please don't all jump to strangle me, please, please...

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to John Barry's scores to Zulu, The Specialist, and The Tamarind Seed played by the City of Prague Philharmonic and the Crouch End Festival Chorus (singing Men of Harlech):




Sarge

[karlhenning]

An organ march arranged from Raff's Fifth Symphony by . . . our own Cato!

Dude, this rawks! 

[not edward]

Chaconne. Lucifer-Suite. Three Piano Pieces. Great stuff.

[karlhenning]

Carl Nielsen, Edward?  Yes, the piano music is varry nice.