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beclemund

#5600
June 24, 2007, 04:31:23 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2007, 06:05:51 PM by beclemund
...broken image... so I attached an update...
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." -- Albert Camus

PaulR

#5601
June 24, 2007, 05:18:31 PM
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 Mravinsky/Lenningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

George

#5602
June 24, 2007, 05:57:20 PM
Beethoven

Early Piano Trio's

BAT

These are nicely classical and are at least as good as their Haydn. With just enough muscle when needed. I haven't heard a bad performance from these guys by any composer. I have their Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, etc.

Bill, you were right! Thanks!  :) 

Bonehelm

#5603
June 24, 2007, 06:10:52 PM
Chopin's Piano Sonata#3 in B minor - Martha Argerich

George

#5604
June 24, 2007, 06:13:52 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2007, 06:15:39 PM by George
Quote from: George on June 24, 2007, 05:57:20 PM
Beethoven

Early Piano Trio's

BAT

These are nicely classical and are at least as good as their Haydn. With just enough muscle when needed. I haven't heard a bad performance from these guys by any composer. I have their Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, etc.

Bill, you were right! Thanks!  :) 

As I listen, these guys continue to impress...their aristocratic playing reflects just how well they know the music. Simply a delight to listen to.  :)

Kullervo

#5605
June 24, 2007, 07:05:15 PM
Quote from: George on June 24, 2007, 06:13:52 PM
As I listen, these guys continue to impress...their aristocratic playing reflects just how well they know the music. Simply a delight to listen to.  :)

Who is BAT? Bill and Ted? Awesome!

Lilas Pastia

#5606
June 24, 2007, 07:13:47 PM
Symphony No 1 and a coupler of orchestral works by the swede Gustav Bengtsson (1886-1965). The symphony has the good taste to last only 20 minutes. It's a reasonably well-crafted but rather anonymous work of no great melodic distinction. More interesting are the 2 orchestral works that frame it "Vettern" and Convent Church Suite. Substantial and showing more individuality and a sharper melodic profile. Bengtsson was as lushly romantic as the period would allow a composer to be. This is quite apparent in these two works. In the symphony it's obvious he tried to compose a 'serious' work...  A Sterling release.

Bogey

#5607
June 24, 2007, 07:59:18 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2007, 08:03:51 PM by Bogey
Quote from: George on June 24, 2007, 05:57:20 PM
Beethoven

Early Piano Trio's

BAT

These are nicely classical and are at least as good as their Haydn. With just enough muscle when needed. I haven't heard a bad performance from these guys by any composer. I have their Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, etc.

Bill, you were right! Thanks!  :) 
Quote from: George on June 24, 2007, 06:13:52 PM
As I listen, these guys continue to impress...their aristocratic playing reflects just how well they know the music. Simply a delight to listen to.  :)

Glad you are enjoying these George....your assessment is right on.  IMO their sound has a level of "darkness"/depth (for lack of better terms) at times that just sets them apart, especially in this Beethoven set.  This is what continuosly draws me back to them.

Quote from: Kullervo on June 24, 2007, 07:05:15 PM
Who is BAT? Bill and Ted? Awesome!

Beaux Arts Trio.  :)

http://www.beauxartstrio.org/

Recordings George is referring to:

 
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Solitary Wanderer

#5608
June 24, 2007, 09:16:47 PM
Wagner ~ Symps in E & C Major

Great stuff :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Solitary Wanderer

#5609
June 24, 2007, 09:54:35 PM


Enjoying this classical guitar music :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Harry

#5610
June 24, 2007, 11:36:05 PM
Goedenmorgen allemaal.

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri.

Viennese Wind Divertimenti.

Consortium Classicum.

This fine recording from 1991 recorded by Holger Schlegel from MDG, is a treasure for every collection. The level of playing is amazing, as is the quality of the music. Very good compositions, melodious, and well crafted. Concentrated playing and attentive to every detail makes this a joy to listen, over and over again.
The recording is OOP.

CPO 1991.

val

#5611
June 24, 2007, 11:41:06 PM
BRUCKNER: 9th Symphony / Concertgebow Orchestra, Chailly

A good version, but too placid. We are very far from the human drama of the versions of van Beinum (Concertgebow), Furtwängler (BPO, 1944) and in special Giulini (VPO). 

Florestan

#5612
June 24, 2007, 11:49:18 PM
Hello all!

Prokofiev

Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 7, 8

Murray MacLachlan

To my ears this is Prokofiev at his most overtly Romantic mood. I love all three but especially the Eighth --- pure delight.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Harry

#5613
June 25, 2007, 12:41:39 AM
Quote from: Florestan on June 24, 2007, 11:49:18 PM
Hello all!

Prokofiev

Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 7, 8

Murray MacLachlan

To my ears this is Prokofiev at his most overtly Romantic mood. I love all three but especially the Eighth --- pure delight.

Goodmorning my friend.

For me these recordings and music will be over. I have a hearty dislike for the sonatas from Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Hammering away sort of music, to me, very irritating. I did my best to like them, but for now, I don´t want to hear them anymore. No romance for me I am afraid.

Harry

#5614
June 25, 2007, 12:52:08 AM
Ferdinand Ries.

Cello Sonata opus 21, in A major.

Introduction and a Russian dance for the Piano Forte and Violoncello.

Guido Larisch, Violoncello.
Robert Hill, Fortepiano.

Apart from the fact that I love the music from Ries, this kind of playing gave me some troubles, the direct recording is a little to blame, and the way Larisch plays his cello, at times very aggressively, to much so a certain stages. Lively it is, granted, but the more intimite details suffer somewhat. Hill is a excellent player and his instrument sounds smashing. Tis a fine sonata, so the music will not disappoint. Pity that Larisch could not play a bit more sensitive in the first movement Allegro.

Florestan

#5615
June 25, 2007, 12:55:18 AM
Quote from: Harry on June 25, 2007, 12:41:39 AM
Goodmorning my friend.

For me these recordings and music will be over. I have a hearty dislike for the sonatas from Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Hammering away sort of music, to me, very irritating. I did my best to like them, but for now, I don´t want to hear them anymore. No romance for me I am afraid.

'Morning, Harry.

How funny! What for me is a very pleasant Romantic music for you is a very irritating hammering. Yet another proof for the essential subjectivity of musical experience.  :)
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Harry

#5616
June 25, 2007, 02:10:25 AM
Ferdinand Ries.

Cello Sonata opus 125, in G minor.

Romance in G major.

Guido Larisch, Violoncello.
Robert Hill, Fortepiano.

As I said above.
The music is consistent in quality.

Sergeant Rock

#5617
June 25, 2007, 03:15:39 AM
Also sprach Zarathustra:




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"

marvinbrown

#5618
June 25, 2007, 03:18:14 AM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on June 24, 2007, 09:16:47 PM
Wagner ~ Symps in E & C Major

Great stuff :)

You should try his Gesamtkuntswerks, they are even better  ;)

  marvin

Haffner

#5619
June 25, 2007, 03:49:27 AM
Quote from: George on June 24, 2007, 05:57:20 PM
Beethoven

Early Piano Trio's

BAT

These are nicely classical and are at least as good as their Haydn. With just enough muscle when needed. I haven't heard a bad performance from these guys by any composer. I have their Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, etc.

Bill, you were right! Thanks!  :) 



WHOA! :o :o Your collection kills, George (in the "good" way)!

Gotta hear the LvB and Mozart now.
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