What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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Brian

#46060
April 30, 2009, 07:33:27 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on April 30, 2009, 07:05:22 PM
Lousy recorded sound is something no musicians can control, Henryk Szeryng included ...
Chuck Norris is, as always, an exception.  ;D

Que

#46061
April 30, 2009, 10:15:01 PM


Morning! :) (night/ afternoon)

Q

FideLeo

#46062
April 30, 2009, 10:55:03 PM


Morning!
HIP for all and all for HIP! Harpsichord for Bach, fortepiano for Beethoven and pianoforte for Brahms!

The new erato

#46063
April 30, 2009, 11:31:20 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 30, 2009, 06:56:21 PM
ASV gave him bad sound for his recording of Manuel Ponce's concerto, but it's still a great performance!
......and the best work (by far IMO) in the Brilliant 8CD set of Mexican music.

val

#46064
May 01, 2009, 01:38:26 AM
VERDI:    Il Trovatore             / Price, Domingo, Cossotto, Mehta  (1970)


Mehta is splendid, subtle and with a perfect articulation. He characterizes very well each scene.

The singers are decent but not very convincing. Like Macbeth and in a lesser degree Rigoletto, Il Trovatore is an opera with a large influence of the aesthetic of the belcanto of Bellini and Donizetti, in a period of transition, Verdi trying to reach a new language. I think this is not the right repertoire for Price and Domingo. Price has not the vocal color for the role and Domingo sings most of the time with effort, with no elegance. Milnes is good but, as usual, very conventional. Cossotto sings very well even if she has not the vocal presence of Barbieri.

The ideal Trovatore would have Mehta as conductor (if he was born 30 years earlier) and Björling, Milanov, Barbieri as singers.

FideLeo

#46065
May 01, 2009, 02:27:20 AM
HIP for all and all for HIP! Harpsichord for Bach, fortepiano for Beethoven and pianoforte for Brahms!

The new erato

#46066
May 01, 2009, 03:07:21 AM


We'll see how much I like this - may be an expencive proposition as Hyperion has lots of these lesser known oratorios with the Kings consort available.

Valentino

#46067
May 01, 2009, 04:22:26 AM
May 1st, so:

I love music. Sadly, I'm an audiophile too.
Audio-Technica | Bokrand | Thorens | Yamaha | MiniDSP | WiiM | Topping | Hypex | ICEpower | Mundorf | SEAS | Beyma

karlhenning

#46068
May 01, 2009, 04:28:41 AM
Good morning, all!

Wuorinen
String Quartet № 1 (1971)
Fine Arts Quartet

George

#46069
May 01, 2009, 04:37:52 AM


Symphony Number 2

Good morn or evening friends! TGIF!  :)

Sergeant Rock

#46070
May 01, 2009, 04:56:03 AM
A little May Day celebration:



from Rostropovich's Shostakovich cycle




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Lethevich

#46071
May 01, 2009, 04:57:42 AM
From the Brüggen box: Haydn, symphony No.45. Probably Harnoncourt in the Londons next. I freaking love this composer! :D

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on April 30, 2009, 03:34:06 AM
Oh, it's too early, Sara . . . partly misled by the lower-case letters (I suppose), I read that as 'paris' & 'lotion' symphonies.

I'm glad you didn't misread 'Paris' as something along the same lines, there...
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

RussellG

#46072
May 01, 2009, 05:01:19 AM
Quote from: George on May 01, 2009, 04:37:52 AM


Symphony Number 2

Good morn or evening friends! TGIF!  :)

Damn, now I got Sibelius envy again...

DavidRoss

#46074
May 01, 2009, 05:48:10 AM
Quote from: George on May 01, 2009, 04:37:52 AM
These Bernstein Sibelius recordings are very good, as are the other 4 symphonies also recorded in the '60s.  The complete cycle was repackaged a few years ago by Sony France and is still available from Amazon marketplace sellers in the US here or directly from Amazon elsewhere in the world.

Now playing: Debussy Preludes, Steven Osborne
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

karlhenning

#46075
May 01, 2009, 05:53:40 AM
Elliott Carter
Piano Concerto
Ursula Oppens, pf
Southwest German Radio Symphony
Michael Gielen

George

#46076
May 01, 2009, 06:10:24 AM Last Edit: May 01, 2009, 06:30:58 AM by George
Quote from: RussellG on May 01, 2009, 05:01:19 AM
Damn, now I got Sibelius envy again...

I got this and the other half of the set used for only $6 each, last weekend.  8)

George

#46077
May 01, 2009, 06:37:27 AM


Another recent new/used acquisition.  :)

karlhenning

#46078
May 01, 2009, 06:39:55 AM
Wuorinen
String Sextet (1989)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Keemun

#46079
May 01, 2009, 07:00:00 AM
All this talk of Sibelius put me in the mood for this:

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven
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