What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lilas Pastia]

Rossini Overtures. Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Peter Maag. Originally on Decca (recorded in Salle Wagram, Paris). A short disc, but a total revelation throughout. I just can't imagine greater conductorial flair or instrumental character from an orchestra. Amazing for sound for its vintage (early sixties?)

[Lethevich]

<3 I must find their Mendelssohn CD - I appear to have mispaced it

Edit: I have also been listening to the Kodaly quartet's Schubert a bit, but it's sadly worse than I was expecting. Less inspired (in a workmanlike way) than their Haydn, it's just a bit lame. This was not helped by Naxos recording most of the late quartets in the first few volumes, leaving the next decade of gradually improving quality recordings to be taken up by mostly piecemeal. I guess there's just too much competition in the field for these guys to cut it

[karlhenning]

"Papa"
String Quartet in G Major, Hob III:81 (Opus 77 № 1)
String Quartet in F Major, Hob III:82 (Opus 77 № 2)
String Quartet in d minor, Hob III:83 (Opus 103)
L'Archibudelli

I like this even better than the Naxos disc (of whose quartet I don't recall the name . . . .)

[listener]

Edward MacDOWELL    Piano Music vol.1 on Naxos
The notes mention MacDowell being a contemporary of Debussy, but listening to these miniature pieces reminds me more of another contemporary, Edvard Grieg.   MacDowell was a pupil of Joachim Raff.
      Woodland Sketches, op.51  Sea Pieces, op.55     Fireside Tales, op.61  New England Idyls, op.62

[Lethevich]

I like this even better than the Naxos disc (of whose quartet I don't recall the name . . . .)

Woah, that's some interesting timing - see my post above for the ensemble name They are rather good in Haydn.

[karlhenning]

I don't know that Debussy would have had much impact on American musicians during his lifetime.  The Russian connection was much more 'live'.

[karlhenning]

Woah, that's some interesting timing - see my post above for the ensemble name They are rather good in Haydn.

Hah!

[Coopmv]

Mendelssohn
Symphony 5 "Reformation"
Claudio Abbado
London Symphony Orchestra

This is a pretty nice box set IMO.  I bought the set last year.

[listener]

I don't know that Debussy would have had much impact on American musicians during his lifetime.  The Russian connection was much more 'live'.

Probably not much influence on each other, but both studied together under François Marmontel and Augustin Savard at the Paris Conservatoire.  He then went to Frankfurt to study under Raff.

[Conor71]

Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major, BWV 1007



Have become interested in these works - they are quite a bit more expressive than I first thought .

[pi2000]

Oldie,but goldie

[Que]

Good morning, just finished listening to this again!
See my comments HERE.



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[The new erato]

Sallinens 3rd symphony from the cpo series. This is a very fine series with some magnificent music. IIRC I particularly like the 4th. The 3rd is very Sibelian in my opinion, with occasional angst-ridden outbursts a la Petterson, very fine IMO. I have 3 discs in the series (this one, with the 3rd and 5th coupled) arrived yesterday, and though they doubtlessly will appear as a box sometime, I nevertheless will buy the 2 remaining volumes separately soon (containing the remaining 2 symphonies coupled with the violin and cello concertoes, respectively).

[Que]

Q

[The new erato]

I'm a great fan of the Schoonderwoerd series (if only he could get an easier name...., typing it is a nightmare)!

Now playing another Finn:



Blackbird symphony, no 2. I have owned this for some time and like it a lot. Though obviously influenced by the mighty Shostakovich, this music still dances to it's own tune and has integrity aplenty. Anpother composer I need to explore further; this is my only Englund. Great recorded sound.

[Christo]

Gordon Crosse (*1937), Elegy & Scherzo Alla Marcia for string orchestra (1981) - in fact an arrangement of the two central sections of his SQ (1979).
Gordon Crosse, Watermusic, for recorder & string orchestra (1982).
Two fine, evocative pieces that made me `discover' Crosse as a composer, recently.

             

I'm a great fan of the Schoonderwoerd series (if only he could get an easier name...., typing it is a nightmare)!

The locality he's named after (his forefather apparently stemmed from) is spelled "Schoonrewoerd" nowadays. Easier, perhaps?   

[The new erato]

The locality he's named after (his forefather apparently stemmed from) is spelled "Schoonrewoerd" nowadays. Easier, perhaps?   

Does it mean Beautiful Gift, or something to that effect?

[Harry]

Thanks to Que, I got this box a while ago, and I enjoy every minute listening to it.

La Renaissance de L'Orchestre Francais.
CD XIV.
Michael Richard De Lalande.
Les Folies de Cardenio.
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin.

Jean Joseph Cassanea De Mondonville.
Sonate en Symphonies opus 3, No. 4 & 6.
Les Musiciens de Louvre, Marc Minkowski.

Well performed and recorded.

[val]

BEETHOVEN:     Piano Sonata n. 7 opus 10/3

- Artur Schnabel

- Claudio Arrau


Schnabel is extraordinary, very intense and dramatic, and culminates in a sublime interpretation of the Largo e Mesto, one of those that we never forget. To me there is no doubt that this is the greatest version of this masterpiece.

Arrau, in a perspective very similar to the one of Schnabel, is also remarkable. My second choice.


There are three other good versions: Edwin Fischer, Svjatoslav Richter and Friedrich Gulda. But all of them are very far from Schnabel and even Arrau.

[Harry]

Mozart.
Complete Symphonies.
CD VIII.
No. 29/28/33.

Well performed and recorded. Pinnock brings to the music a sense of urgency, that makes the music flow all the time in a very natural way, fast but not hasty. Every note is discernible for the ear. Well worth your money.