What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Brian]

DSCH 5
Barshai

[Brian]

actually an earlier Melodiya release of the same recordings, but couldn't find the picture

Whoa! I need that one. I have Svetlanov's Kalinnikov First and it's spectacular.

[DavidW]

DSCH 5
Barshai

What do ya know?  I listened to the 10th from the same set earlier this week.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set from my Schubert collection ...

[Brian]

What do ya know?  I listened to the 10th from the same set earlier this week.

I haven't heard the Tenth since coming back to school a little over a month ago. Starting to feel withdrawal symptoms!

[DavidW]

I haven't heard the Tenth since coming back to school a little over a month ago. Starting to feel withdrawal symptoms!

I love that symphony, but it was like four years for me since I heard that symphony!

[DavidW]

So I listened to Bach's Cantatas bwv 198 and 110.  The first is a pretty terrific work, but those lutes were just so overwhelming in the recording that I listened to that I felt really pushed out of my comfort zone.   Anyway and then the second one started and I was like WOW!   I know this!  It's an orchestral suite!  What the heck is it doing here?   And I looked it up afterwards to see that it was #4.  And Leusink played it so slow that it sounded regal like a Handel suite.  And for once I wasn't offput by the singing, the whole thing worked and I will grudgingly accept a slow tempo in this case.

[Lilas Pastia]

Impressive, although it does not displace old favourites in the Sibelius. I know Tubin's symphonies from papa Järvi's version. It's a strong, sincere work, but it's not memorable enough to leave a strong impression one way or the other. I suppose Paavo's disc wins by virtue of its excellent sonics.



De Niese has a very good voice, but the florid divisions of Alcina's and Cleopatra's arias are handled with more aplomb and crystalline purity by Dessay and Sills respectively. Very good orchestral accompaniment - not a given in that kind of venture. Altogether this is a successful Handel recital, but not as strikingly individual as Rolando Villazon's stunning DG disc.

[Brian]

DSCH 5
Barshai

DSCH 5
Bernstein

Just one of those days! 

[Coopmv]

So I listened to Bach's Cantatas bwv 198 and 110.  The first is a pretty terrific work, but those lutes were just so overwhelming in the recording that I listened to that I felt really pushed out of my comfort zone.   Anyway and then the second one started and I was like WOW!   I know this!  It's an orchestral suite!  What the heck is it doing here?   And I looked it up afterwards to see that it was #4.  And Leusink played it so slow that it sounded regal like a Handel suite.  And for once I wasn't offput by the singing, the whole thing worked and I will grudgingly accept a slow tempo in this case.

Dave,   Which recording are the BWV 198 and 110 on?

[DavidW]

Dave,   Which recording are the BWV 198 and 110 on?

Leusink cycle from the big brilliant classics set.

[Coopmv]

Leusink cycle from the big brilliant classics set.

I bought that 155-CD set some 2 years ago and that was the last order I placed with ArkivMusic.

[Brian]

Time to celebrate the Gurn Blanston Weekly Op. 125 Tradition!
NDR-Sinfonieorchester
Gunter Wand

[DavidW]

 

I bought that 155-CD set some 2 years ago and that was the last order I placed with ArkivMusic.

That bad huh?  

Yeah ArkivMusic is great for finding things, but they are really not competitive with their pricing.  I don't have to feel bad about not buying from them though because they are still one of the few online stores to see an increase in sales during a nasty recession.   Well at least when I heard that story, that might have been long enough that things change, but I think they're not doing too bad...

[Antoine Marchand]

... I think they're not doing too bad...

Recently, I bought there my Annie Fischer set (Beethoven Sonatas); almost $40 cheaper than Amazon. But I agree, in general, they are not competitive in matter of prices.     

[Opus106]

I think this may well be Historically Informed Performance as to the style of interpretation but non-period as to the instrumental issue. This is of course more common the other way round, when e.g baroque music is performed in HIP style on romantic instruments.

It wouldn't necessarily not be IMO - cellos and violins from the baroque era are being used up to this day, though most instruments underwent "alterations" in the 19th century. This might just be one of those cases.

Q

EDIT: My post coincided with Antoine's reply.

From the liner notes by Alan Hacker (short, but interesting):

"Richard Burnett is playing an English Erard of 1866 and Jennifer Ward Clark uses her "Modern" 1729 cello but with mainly gut strings. I use a pair of Cocus wood clarinets by Albert with 13 keys and without the patent C sharp. These were the favoured instruments in Britain at that time and in all respects are very close to the design of Muhlfeld's Ottensteiner clarinets".

"... Jennifer Ward Clark uses her "Modern" 1729 cello but with mainly gut strings". This speaks about a modified/modernized instrument.

Thanks for the input. I guessed as much, but the phrase "On original instruments" seemed a little misleading to me at first.

I find it interesting that the liner-notes is written in the first person. I don't think I have come across one like that before.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Wait, that happens after you eat the stuff contained in the tin cans. Anyway, what's wrong with Bach on the bassoon?

[Que]

Q

[Harry]

Concerts et Symphonies pour le Roi.
Volume 5.

Francois Couperin, Premier Concert Royal & Deuxieme Concert Royal.
Played by Les Folies Francoises, Patrick Cohen Akenine.

Michel Richard de Lalande, Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi.
Jean Baptiste de Lully, Concert donne au Souper du Roi.

Played by Musica Florea, Marek Strynel.

Well played in a very relaxed way, so the King could eat without getting too stressed about tempi and all that. Again a good recording.

[Wanderer]

Good morning, everyone! 



Got it for the curiosity value; a nice glimpse into what could have been Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.3. Preliminary versions of the Scottish Symphony and Hebrides Overture only differ in minor details; excellent, characterful performances throughout.

[springrite]

Franck Symphony in d (Maazel) -- Does not come close to my favorite version by Monteux
Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony (Maazel) -- Excellent


Brahms Cello Sonatas (Du Pre et Barenboim) -- Brahms with lots of emotion. I like it!