What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from MDT yesterday ...



I also have the same recordings on LP I bought almost 30 years ago in absolutely pristine condition ...

[bhodges]

Carter: Violin Concerto (1990) (Rolf Schulte/Justin Brown/Odense Symphony Orchestra) - The "big piece" on Volume Six of Bridge's ongoing Carter series, and to my ears, a huge hit.  Why has this piece escaped me previously?    Schulte, whom I first heard years ago in Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, is dazzling, and the Odense orchestra sounds very good, too.

--Bruce

[Homo Aestheticus]

****

A complete delight.

[DavidRoss]

How good to have pulled [Kempff's mono LvB cycle] off the shelf again. A hearty reminder of just how darn good this is, after all. You know... I'm beginning to appreciate those who say they like this better than the stereo set. :-)

Aww...it's nice to feel appreciated.    I don't have the complete stereo set, just the two-fer referenced above.  One of my faves--along with some others that I'm glad I don't have to choose among!

Listening this am:  More of Buchbinder's Beethoven sonatas, early ones this time.  Someone on the relevant thread said he thought someone was restoring this cycle to the catalog of sets in print.  That would be nice, as it's a good un that merits more appreciation.  BTW, I really like his recent traversal of Mozart's (Lou Cheezy's ?) PCs, too!

[George]

Yes.

The liner notes from that CD state:

"As [Kempff] approached 70 he...re-record[ed] the complete sonatas of Beethoven. It is from that cycle, first released in 1965...that the present performances are taken."

As I mentioned earlier, the Galleria CD I have also gives a 1965 date and for the two sonatas it shares with the DG Originals, the timings are exactly the same.

So I suspect that if Kempff recorded some sonatas prior to his second DG set, they are not the ones included on the Originals CD. 

[Harry]

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

Since you bought almost all available vocal recordings with the excellent conductor Robert King on the label Hyperion, I would really appreciate a full write up, of every one of them.
Thank you.

[ChamberNut]

This Mozart PC set I got a few months ago is wonderful ...

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[ChamberNut]

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

And? 

[Coopmv]

Now finally playing CD1 from this set, the first and so far the only recording by Mengelberg I own, which arrived from MDT more than 2 months ago ...

I will soon find out if this Naxos Historical rocks ...

[bhodges]

Schnittke: Symphony No. 7 (Polyansky/RSSO) - The piece uses four soloists (violin, bassoon, tuba and double bass) in writing that is often very spare and transparent.  Don't know the Schnittke symphonies as well as i'd like, so I'm trying to gradually get to know them better. 

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

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Are Canadian politicos doing the same like their American counterpart?    

[Christo]

Played my recently smuggled  0:) Rudolf Simonsen cd with his first two symphonies a couple of times, today, and listened with half an ear. As far as the half of my ear could discern, I like the Second (1921, `Hellas') more than the First (1920, `Zion'), so far. After all, the Second won the composer a bronze medal during the Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games  , so I feel very responsible.

         

Now playing another recent discovery: Ludvig Irgens-Jensen's Symphony in D (1941). Definitely a work by a master symphonist, as is also amply shown by his Passacaglia (1926) that I played in my car radio this week.

                         

[Coopmv]

Now finally playing CD1 from this set, the first and so far the only recording by Mengelberg I own, which arrived from MDT more than 2 months ago ...

I will soon find out if this Naxos Historical rocks ...

Jo Vincent, Soprano 

Other photos are difficult to find and the box set does not provide much in the skimpy liner note.

[jlaurson]

The liner notes from that CD state:

"As [Kempff] approached 70 he...re-record[ed] the complete sonatas of Beethoven. It is from that cycle, first released in 1965...that the present performances are taken.

That sounds pretty unambiguous. I must look into it what happened to those non-SET named sonatas. Thanks for the persistence. Kept me from promulgating Kempffian-non-truth. 

[SonicMan46]

Rameau, Jean-Phillipe (1683-1764) - Harpsichord Pieces in two volumes w/ Sophie Yates using a copy of a Goujon harpsichord (original dating from 1749) by Andrew Garlick - the discs just arrived and first listening this afternoon - 


 

[Coopmv]

Rameau, Jean-Phillipe (1683-1764) - Harpsichord Pieces in two volumes w/ Sophie Yates using a copy of a Goujon harpsichord (original dating from 1749) by Andrew Garlick - the discs just arrived and first listening this afternoon - 


 

I am awaiting your reviews before I take the plunge ...   

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

MAGNARD:   Symphony 1                          / Orchestra of Capitole Toulouse, Michel Plasson

Some good themes, above all the initial motif that reapears in the 4th movement, but the work is not very coherent. The Choral in the Finale doesn't make much sense and, worst than that, doesn't sound very convincing.
The best of this Symphony is the slow movement, Andante.

Plasson is decent but doesn't show a great enthusiasm.

I am glad you are listening to Magnard. The First, though it has its moments, isn't Magnard at his greatest. For that you'll have to turn to the Chant funèbre and the Third and Fourth symphonies. I think Plasson is excellent in the Chant funèbre, even compared to the newest recording with Stringer and the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra. But for those two symphonies Ossonce and Sanderling seem to be the best (I know them both, but not the Plasson).

Now listening to

Kallstenius, Dalarapsodi

[Lethevich]

Now playing another recent discovery: Ludvig Irgens-Jensen's Symphony in D (1941). Definitely a work by a master symphonist, as is also amply shown by his Passacaglia (1926) that I played in my car radio this week.

The Passacaglia is a superb piece!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Now playing another recent discovery: Ludvig Irgens-Jensen's Symphony in D (1941). Definitely a work by a master symphonist, as is also amply shown by his Passacaglia (1926) that I played in my car radio this week.

                         

The Passacaglia is a superb piece!

These pretzels are making me thirsty. (google it if you don't know it)

By which I mean - this Irgens Jensen is starting to interest me.

[Lethevich]

The frustrating thing is that the reissue of Japanischer Frühling (which I own) contains different couplings to the cover Christo links, meaning I haven't heard the symphony everybody has been banging on about Still, something to look forward to.