What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from MDT a week ago ...

It is baroque music again ...   

[Coopmv]

Handel - Concerti Grossi (Orpheus Chamber Orch.)

This 3-CD set?  I have this set.  While it may not be as polished as the set by the English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, it is still a good set ... 

[marvinbrown]

John Eliot Gardiner is now the undisputed high priest for HIP ...

  6 masses, Bach Cantatas and that black attire I guess he really is knocking on heaven's door  0:)!

[Coopmv]

  6 masses, Bach Cantatas and that black attire I guess he really is knocking on heaven's door  0:)!

John Eliot Gardiner is really working hard to dethrone Nicholaus Harnoncourt as the Bach Cantatas champ.  I still have to start listening to the Harnoncourt's 60-CD Bach Cantatas set I bought from MDT in early February.   

[Christo]

I concluded a great summer day - a very sunny, hot summer Sunday - with a lot of Gershwin, naturally. All the rhapsodies (even the Second), concertos, suites, variations and Americans in Paris I could find. Great stuff, sweet melodies - have been singing and whistling aloud all evening, to the distress of our neighbours. 

Gershwin forever! (and now back to work).

[Coopmv]

I concluded a great summer day - a very sunny, hot summer Sunday - with a lot of Gershwin, naturally. All the rhapsodies (even the Second), concertos, suites, variations and Americans in Paris I could find. Great stuff, sweet melodies - have been singing and whistling aloud all evening, to the distress of our neighbours. 

Gershwin forever! (and now back to work).

Here is an American who really does not like Gershwin or in fact most American "classical" composers, they are just not classical enough for me.  I prefer the masters from the old world ...

[marvinbrown]

Coopmv  0:) open that Harnoncourt/Leonhardt set immediately and start listening.  I bought it last year and I couldn't put it away.  I spent 2 whole months listening to nothing but that cycle.  There is a rawness to these recordings that I found remarkably appealing  0:).  The Harnoncourt/Leonhardt cantata cycle is very earnest and I much prefer it to the polished Suzuki cantata recordings.

 marvin

[Christo]

Here is an American who really does not like Gershwin or in fact most American "classical" composers, they are just not classical enough for me.  I prefer the masters from the old world ...

Here's an inhabitant of the Old World who adores all the Very Serious Composers the Old World has produced - especially the Most Stern Modern Ones - but who can revel in Gershwin, and much more. There's really nothing wrong with American masters like Barber, Copland or Diamond, nor with the Jolly Ones from Gershwin to Bernstein and Reich (whom I wouldn't take that seriously, just a contemporary Gershwin, albeit a less talented one).  

Isn't music down here on earth to enjoy it? I would rather say so.  0:)

[ChamberNut]

Hi Ray - I've owned that Taneyev MDG disc for a while, and gave it a spin after the first post appeared - delighful late Romantic string works played beautifully and with excellent sound - checkout the MusicWeb Review HERE reprinted from Arkiv Music - 10/10 rating.

Now after listening to this recording, I decided to check in at Amazon to see 'what' might be newly released; apparently, Hyperion has released a recent recording (late 2008) of these same works w/ the Leopold String Trio - excellent Fanfare Review HERE, reprinted again on the Arkiv site.  So, now a couple of good choices!  Dave 

Thanks Dave.  If Don the Bulldog doesn't have these yet (he probably does), he'll surely be interested in either of these sets.     I will be adding one of these to the the 'small' wishlist I have. 

[Brian]

Very nice music from 1744, played marvelously by the Helsinki Baroque - this band sounds great! However, I think the best Richter work so far is the Symphony No 63, which is on the other Naxos disc from this series.

[Coopmv]

Very nice music from 1744, played marvelously by the Helsinki Baroque - this band sounds great! However, I think the best Richter work so far is the Symphony No 63, which is on the other Naxos disc from this series.

Looks like great stuff to me, I will have to bookmark its Amazon page.  I am still very much a Mr. Baroque ...   0:)

[Bulldog]

Thanks Dave.  If Don the Bulldog doesn't have these yet (he probably does), he'll surely be interested in either of these sets.     I will be adding one of these to the the 'small' wishlist I have. 

I have the Taneyev/MDG but not the Taneyev/Hyperion.  At the moment, I'm more interested in the Boris Tchaikovsky String Quartets on Northern Flowers.

[Brian]

Listening to music Beethoven wrote when he was all of 15 years old!

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set, which arrived from MDT a week ago ...

It is baroque music again ...   

[Henk]

 

This 3-CD set?  I have this set.  While it may not be as polished as the set by the English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, it is still a good set ...  

Yes it's the same recording I have different cover print:


I just love Handel's music. I think I'm gonna buy me some more of his opera's. I ordered Faramando a few days ago and will go the the music store tomorrow to see if they have (one of) these sets:





Henk

[DavidRoss]

Henk!  Welcome back!  Long time no see.

About to spin Walter Piston, Symphony 2, MTT/BSO

[Coopmv]

Yes it's the same recording I have different cover print:


I just love Handel's music. I think I'm gonna buy me some more of his opera's. I ordered Faramando a few days ago and will go the the music store tomorrow to see if they have (one of) these sets:





Henk

This is the Alcina I have ...

[George]

Listening to music Beethoven wrote when he was all of 15 years old!

Hi Brian!

How are the performances?

[Brünnhilde forever]

Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras.

My favourite section of my favourite Johannes Brahms, his Ein Deutsches Requiem. The Dresdner Philharmie and Chorus performed it on February 13, 2003, in remembrance of the destruction of Dresden on February 13, 1945. Christian Thielemann is at his best; compassion, sadness, beauty and hope, he leads all musicians and singers in a nonpareil performance.

[karlhenning]

Listened to my favorite symphony, the Saint-Saens Third, twice today, first with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mata, and then with the Chicago SO with Barenboim conducting.

Beauty!