What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Wanderer]

[SonicMan46]

What is your other piano disc of the Goldbergs?  Inquiring minds want to know. 

Don - I've tended to replace them over the years (rather than store them up) - in addition to the Schirmer, also have Schiff & Dinnerstein, bought the latter when first released - she was getting 'rave' reviews then until comparisons started to be made - like so many other things.  Now I do have her paired w/ a cellist in Mendelssohn & Beethoven, and enjoy her there!  Dave 

[Sergeant Rock]

Decided to skip the First and plunge directly into the Second from my new Mahler cycle:



First thing noticed: the percussion is astonishingly present and powerful...wow. I feared for the structural integrity of my house. The bass drum reminds me of the infamous early Telarc recordings.

Sarge

[Bulldog]

Don - I've tended to replace them over the years (rather than store them up) - in addition to the Schirmer, also have Schiff & Dinnerstein, bought the latter when first released - she was getting 'rave' reviews then until comparisons started to be made - like so many other things.  Now I do have her paired w/ a cellist in Mendelssohn & Beethoven, and enjoy her there!  Dave 

Interesting.  I'm strictly a "store them up" collector.  I do like the Dinnerstein; the Schiff/ECM is one of my favorites, but his earlier Decca recording is a disappointment.

[SonicMan46]

Interesting.  I'm strictly a "store them up" collector.  I do like the Dinnerstein; the Schiff/ECM is one of my favorites, but his earlier Decca recording is a disappointment.

Well, I've got a major space issue, so don't keep a lot of multiple sets of the same music around (of course w/ many exceptions!  ) - I plan to compare the Dinnerstein & Schirmer recordings; regarding Schiff, I have his older recording, although I know the ECM one has gleamed many good comments.

Of course, I have the Goldberg Variations in other formats - Hantai on harpsichord, Toth on Lute-harpsichord, Blassel on harp, and a guitar transcription recording - these compositions, like a lot of Papa Bach, seem so adaptable to a wide variety of interesting interpretations - 

[SonicMan46]

What I get from this is the set of recordings is an elaborate advertisement for a violin manufacturer?   Good thing I saw this, was considering buying this set of recordings.

Well, listened to the first 4 SQs of Op. 18 last night, and I must say that those 4 instruments sound quite good together - really should not dissuade one from considering these recent recordings for their multitude of merits - but I'll not say more until further listening; plus might do a few comparisons w/ my other sets mentioned that I have in my collection!   

[jhar26]

Just wonderful.

[DavidRoss]

Among the many OOP compact discs with the digitalized version of this gorgeous recording of Elgar's greatest work, the cello concerto, as performed by Paul Tortelier and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Adrian Boult. 

[DavidRoss]

Beethoven, LV - String Quartets Complete w/ the Alexander SQ ... now listening to Op. 18 - these are wonderful performances - great review by Michael Cookson HERE; own the Takacs Quartet & Quatuor Mosaiques in these Op. 18 works - I think that this trio in the 'early' LvB SQs will serve me well in the future - looking forward to hearing the rest of this set (9 CDs total packaged as sets of 3 discs in 'fold out wallet' sets in a box).   

And I'm looking forward to hearing your response to their middle & late quartets!   

[listener]

The Bennington Woodwind Trio:
PISTON Three Pieces     Otto LUENING  Short Suite  KOECHLIN   Trio
Lamar STRINGFIELD Chipmunks (Short Suite)   Lionel NOWAK  Soundscape

RACHMANINOFF:  Piano Transcriptions       Garrick Ohlsson

NIELSEN   Hymnus Amoris, op. 12      SLEEP  op. 18
Danish Radio Chorus & Symphony Orch.     Mogens Wöldike, cond.

[SonicMan46]

And I'm looking forward to hearing your response to their middle & late quartets!   

Hi David - tonight, just finished listening to the last two SQs of Op. 18; now on the first of the Razumovsky SQs (Op. 59, No. 1) - written 5 or so years later and over 40 mins in length - BOY what a change!  Op. 18 is wonderful - Mozart/Haydn, i.e. looking back & forward like Janus!  But this is a brand new ballgame - now, I've been listening to these works for years, but I must say that this group offered me one of the most 'dramatic leaps' in the SQ literature - and these instruments sound beautiful together (in fact, just left a post in my 'Old Musical Instrument' thread w/ a little further discussion of their origin and uniqueness) - 

[Lethevich]

Skipped Verklärte Nacht (burnt out on it). The Accentus disc is well-programmed, the Chamber Symphony is a great offset to the choral works, adding a pleasing change of sound. I have yet to understand why this disc has so little currency in the market - since its release resellers have been pricing it at almost nothing. I love the choice of image for the Philips disc, btw, more appropriate than the usual type.

[Christo]

Another wartime symphony: Tubin's Fourth `Lirica' (1943), showing the same type of respons to the wartime conditions - back to the sources of life - as Vaughan Williams did in his equally lyrical and consoling Fifth (1943 too):

                       

[George]

[Sergeant Rock]

Strikes me as odd: I'm a confirmed Wagnerite, love Celi, but don't own that disc. A puzzle.

Sarge

[Drasko]

Strikes me as odd: I'm a confirmed Wagnerite, love Celi, but don't own that disc. A puzzle.

Sarge

Even odder: I'm not much of a Wagnerite nor huge fan of Celi from his Munich days, but I do own that disc. A metapuzzle.
Beautiful Siegfried Idyll, protracted, floating, tender.

[jlaurson]

D.Scarlatti
Complete Sonatas
Disc #9
Scott Ross

[canninator]

The Accentus disc is well-programmed, the Chamber Symphony is a great offset to the choral works, adding a pleasing change of sound. I have yet to understand why this disc has so little currency in the market - since its release resellers have been pricing it at almost nothing. I love the choice of image for the Philips disc, btw, more appropriate than the usual type.

Nice find. Just purchased on Amazon at £3.99. It buys itself!

Thread duty

Schoenberg SQ1 (Arditti)

[Sergeant Rock]

Even odder: I'm not much of a Wagnerite nor huge fan of Celi from his Munich days, but I do own that disc. A metapuzzle.

Just call us the odd couple 

Sarge

[bhodges]

Last night: an outstanding recital by bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with Justus Zeyen at the piano.  Program was four Schubert songs, including Prometheus, Grenzen der Menschheit, Erlkönig and Im Frühling, and Brahms's Fünf Lieder and Vier ernste Gesänge.

But the highlight was Frank Martin's Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann (1943-44), a powerful piece I'd never heard before, with texts from a play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.  I hope Quasthoff will consider recording it.

--Bruce