What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[DavidRoss]

Good evening George - two of my recent Chopin additions (below) are w/ Primakov - he seems to be receiving some great reviews in this repertoire - have you had a chance to listen to his performances?  Dave 

Dave--we saw him a few years ago at the Mondavi.  He was terrific!

[George]

Hi George - the Piano Concertos are excellent, and certainly should please those wanting just one recording of these works - plenty of repeated good comments HERE - will be a keeper for me.

Does the SACD have a CD layer?

EDIT - Sorry, thought you were referring to the disc that Karl posted.

Agree w/ you on the Mazurkas, not my top choice for Chopin solo piano - but again bought on a review - some HERE; again, these are wonderful performances vs. what I own currently; again, another excellent one-disc choice but not complete - I guess the bottom line is that this guy knows how to play Chopin and is worth a listen - Dave 

I will keep an eye out for his Chopin in the bins Dave. I'd like to hear some of it before I buy.

[Christo]

If you keep mentioning Cooke I am going to experience financial difficulties from having to pick up the several full-priced CDs that I've had my eye on 

There are only one or two, available for less than £10 each. The most urgent buy would be this one, doing £8.49 at the moment.

                 

[Conor71]

Awesome!  0:)

[Que]

To start his morning revisiting this set: Music from the Court of Charles V with sacred music by Nicolas Gombert (c.1500-1557), another composer of the Franco-Flemish School. My favourite style: complex polyphony!

 

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[mc ukrneal]

Here's a lesser known favorite of mine (waking up music today):

[listener]

KORNGOLD   vol. 4 in the cpo series
         Symphony           Theme and Variations              Straussiana
Do I hear "Lover Come Back to Me" as the 4th variation?

Trio for piano, violin and cello  op.1    Suite for 2violins, cello, and piano (left hand)  op.23

[Que]

Act II

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[Wanderer]

Does the SACD have a CD layer?

Yes, it does.

[Lethevich]

It's been 8 years since I heard this piece in full. Every time I heard a snippet of it on TV, my disinterest in it was reaffirmed. I was tagging my rips/downloads folder and once I had done this one I decided to give it a play and am glad I did - it's brilliant, and the performance is as remarkable as all the Hogwood/AAM I have heard - really vivacious and a tiny bit tangy due to that early digital sound and early HIP levels of  performance quality. Why can't modern physical CDs be as beautiful as these old Lyre Bird releases?

[The new erato]

[DavidRoss]

Love that!  Maybe I'll spin it today as well!

Now playing:

[Lethevich]

One of my earliest CD buys, and still worth keeping.

Edit: Nobody listening today?

[Antoine Marchand]

Nobody listening today?

RACHMANINOFF EDITION
Brilliant Classics

CD 19 - Music for cello and piano
ADD/DDD

Morceaux de salon Op.6
1. Romance 5:31
2. Danse hongroise 6:08

CRISTIAN PERSINARU VIOLIN
NILS FRANKE PIANO
Recording: June 2004, Parry Hall, Eton College, UK
Licensed from Warner Classics

3. Lied in F minor: Andantino 2:51
Two Pieces for cello and piano Op.2
4. Prélude in F major: Comodo - Con moto 3:54
5. Danse orientale in A major: Andante cantabile 6:26
6. Vocalise in E flat minor Op.34 No.14: Lento 6:42

ALEXANDER IVASHKIN CELLO
RUSTEM HAYROUDINOFF PIANO
Recording: April 2003, St. Michael´s Church, Highgate, UK
Licensed from Chandos Records Ltd

Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19
7. I. Lento - Allegro moderato 13:01
8. II. Allegro scherzando 6:21
9. III. Andante 5:41
10. IV. Allegro mosso 10:18

DANIIL SHAFRAN CELLO
YAKOV FLIER PIANO
Recording: 6 December 1956
Copyright Pipeline Music Inc., under exclusive license from Gostelradiofund, Russian Federation

Total: 66'52

Superb disc principally dedicated to Rachmaninov's music for cello and piano. Just for the record: the previous CD (number 18) brings another great disc, this time dedicated to the Trios Élégiaques Nos. 1 & 2 by the Borodin Trio, licensed from Chandos. I had this last one, but an original back-up is not a bad thing. What a marvelous label is Brilliant Classics! 

[Harry]

I was really surprised hearing this music by Arnold Cooke, but so far as I am concerned he is a genius. He is a excellent orchestrator, that gives the music the extra impulse to be more as the total sum of notes. I found the Concerto in D for String Orchestra devastatingly beautiful, not to say the Suite which even got me more by the throat. I have to buy the rest of his music available. Fine recording and performance.

[Harry]

This is the best buying decision I made this month, for I discover Dvorak totally anew, with the scores so lucidly performed, that I hear more notes as ever in these early Symphonies. Suitner applies the dynamics in such a way, that not one instrument group dominates the other, therefore the balance between all sections are perfect. Where other conductors go for the clearest melody line, Suitner makes a total picture, of all what is there, and that gave me many a surprise. Hearing all melody lines makes you think that all is played a little of key, but concentration pays huge dividends, believe me. The Staatskapelle Berlin sounds smashing in the strings and brass especially. I never heard these works in this way, although densely scored, you do not miss a note here. Thoroughly recommended for just 10 euro the complete set.
I played the 2 & 3 today.

[mahler10th]

This is the best buying decision I made this month, for I discover Dvorak totally anew, with the scores so lucidly performed, that I hear more notes as ever in these early Symphonies. Suitner applies the dynamics in such a way, that not one instrument group dominates the other, therefore the balance between all sections are perfect. Where other conductors go for the clearest melody line, Suitner makes a total picture, of all what is there, and that gave me many a surprise. Hearing all melody lines makes you think that all is played a little of key, but concentration pays huge dividends, believe me. The Staatskapelle Berlin sounds smashing in the strings and brass especially. I never heard these works in this way, although densely scored, you do not miss a note here. Thoroughly recommended for just 10 euro the complete set.
I played the 2 & 3 today.

What an interesting review, and at only 10 euros, I'm applying for it now.

[Lethevich]

The disc that started such a buzz about Bowen, and rightly so. A lot of critics have compared him to all manner of great Romantic piano composers, and they are right - his music learns from all of the greats and synthesises it into music that I am grateful for existing. Who would've thought that somebody if not as great as, but in some ways comparable to Chopin, Scriabin and company was composing into the 1950s?

[DavidRoss]

Symphony 2...let's see how the master handles it. 

[George]

RACHMANINOFF EDITION
Brilliant Classics

I'll be interested to hear what you think of Santiago Rodriguez's Rachmaninoff.