What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Dr. Dread]

Thanks for getting me to play this one, Dave! Really fun indeed - I loved the great harmonica solos in the Huck Finn piece ... oops, did I say that out loud?

Glad to be of service, sir. 

[SonicMan46]

Debussy & Ravel - Orchestral Works w/ Martinon; outstanding 8-CD box set (split 4:4 w/ each composer) - just was able to listen to the first 2 discs this afternoon - really a fine collection if you want all of these works in a convenient package - 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

D887. A lot of Wagner lately, so I summoned the surgeons.

Can I politely demur and say 'alchemists' instead of 'surgeons'? Surgeons sounds so clinical.

Though I'm tempted to say 'bloodhounds'. 0:)

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1.

[DavidRoss]

Can I politely demur and say 'alchemists' instead of 'surgeons'? Surgeons sounds so clinical.

Though I'm tempted to say 'bloodhounds'. 0:)

Aye, on the scent and there's no holding 'em back!

Firing up LvB Symphony Quatro--Abbado/BP 2001

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Aye, on the scent and there's no holding 'em back!

woof x 4

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Cz Phil
Ančerl

[Coopmv]

Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Christoph Eschenbach



Specifically, No. 7, in C.

I have this excellent set.  I have always enjoyed Mozart PC's by Eschenbach ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD, which arrived yesterday ...

[George]

I have this excellent set.  I have always enjoyed Mozart PC's by Eschenbach ...

You mean PS, right?

[Fëanor]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Any judgement of mine bound to be naive, but surely this is a great symphony?

Anyone got performances they prefer?

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Any judgement of mine bound to be naive, but surely this is a great symphony?

It is, indeed.

Anyone got performances they prefer?

Jansons/Phila
Ančerl/Cz Phil

[Coopmv]

You mean PS, right?

Actually both.  Eschenbach also recorded an excellent Mozart PC #21 and he conducted from the piano ...

[George]

Actually both.  Eschenbach also recorded an excellent Mozart PC #21 and he conducted from the piano

Cool.

[ChamberNut]

These symphonies are making much more of an impression under Dohnanyi than they did under Zinman.

Which orchestra with Zinman?  Tonhalle Zurich or Baltimore SO?

[Fëanor]

{Shostakovich: Sym 10, a great symphony} It is, indeed.

Jansons/Phila
Ančerl/Cz Phil

Thank you for that! 

I see that both the Jansons and Ančerl are available from ArkivMusic as "ArkivCD" reissues.

[Antoine Marchand]

Now playing CD2 (BWV 1049, 1050, 1051); a captivating one indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/v/VG7kbqGU2w8

[Brian]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Any judgement of mine bound to be naive, but surely this is a great symphony?

Anyone got performances they prefer?

I think it's the greatest symphony of the 20th century.    I haven't heard Ancerl but very much want to; my recordings are Skrowaczewski/Halle (very good), Barshai/WDR (terrific and you get all 15 symphonies for the price of 3 CDs), and Karajan/Berlin (digital), which I remember being awesome but haven't heard lately.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 (BWV 1049, 1050, 1051); a captivating one indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/v/VG7kbqGU2w8

Thanks Antoine for the many interesting YouTube.  While the SQ of this SACD set may be one of the best for Brandenburg Concertos, I am still in the wait-and-see camp when it comes to Richard Egarr and the AAM.  Only time will tell if he is a worthy successor to Christopher Hogwood who is not only an excellent harpsichordist and a renown musicologist who has appointments at both Cambridge and Harvard. 

[Brian]

Dmitry
Nine
Barshai