What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[jlaurson]

J.S. Bach
B-Minor Mass
(ed. Rifkin)
John Butt & Dunedin Consort
Linn SACDs

[Sergeant Rock]

Barber...recently acquired CD, first listen:




Sarge

[Christo]

Barber...recently acquired CD, first listen:

One of the best Barber recordings that I know of - curious for your findings. 

[Antoine Marchand]

El surtido hace algunos años, sin embargo, era allí bastante más generoso.

That's totally true, Gabriel; however, yesterday I bought this surprisingly fine 6-CD set:



Now playing CD1:

Erik Satie - Musique des origines [Sarabandes, Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, etc.]
Cristina Ariagno, Merlin the Magician piano
Recording: Sacile, Italy, Auditorium Fazioli - 06/2006, 12/2006
Brilliant Classics

[Henk]

Des Canyons aux Etoiles

Magnificent!



D 894

[Opus106]

Lisa Beznosiuk, transverse flute

Who accompanies Nancy Argenta in the under-the-lemon-tree recording of the cantata for soprano by JSB, BWV 82a.

[Christo]

Bernard Zweers, Symphony No. 3 `To My Country' (1890). Recently reissued by Sterling, but I own the old Olympia cd with it.

                                     

[jhar26]

[Sergeant Rock]

One of the best Barber recordings that I know of - curious for your findings. 

Completely agree with you (and Vandermolen). This is a sensational disc and a perfect one-CD compilation of Barber. Measham has a real feeling for the composer. The Second Essay is the best I've ever heard (magnificent, raunchy horns! ). Knoxville is quite touching, almost as good as Zinman/Upshaw; my only complaint is Molly McGurk's accent which puts the music on a different continent  The symphony is as good as my long-time favorites, Measham steering a middle course between Slatkin's expansive reading and Zinman's tautness and fierceness, but as passionate as either. Alsop I don't have for comparison but I just ordered a few CDs from her Barber cycle.

Edit: Listening to Music from Shelley again...utterly gripping!

Sarge

[Brahmsian]

Yesterday:

A mini Mahler marathon:

Symphony No. 3, final movement
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 9
Symphony No. 10, Adagio

Tennstedt/LPO
EMI Classics

Today:

A Brahms mini-marathon:

Symphony No. 2

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland
Jaap van Zweden

Symphony No. 3 & 4

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden

Brilliant Classics

[Christo]

Completely agree with you (and Vandermolen). This is a sensational disc and a perfect one-CD compilation of Barber. Measham has a real feeling for the composer. The Second Essay is the best I've ever heard (magnificent, raunchy horns! ). Knoxville is quite touching, almost as good as Zinman/Upshaw; my only complaint is Molly McGurk's accent which puts the music on a different continent  The symphony is as good as my long-time favorites, Measham steering a middle course between Slatkin's expansive reading and Zinman's tautness and fierceness, but as passionate as either. Alsop I don't have for comparison but I just ordered a few CDs from her Barber cycle.

Edit: Listening to Music from Shelley again...utterly gripping!

Sarge

Good that you remember our love for it. Yes, this is the most gripping account of the Second Essay that I ever heard. Indeed, it was my introduction to the composer ...  Many thanks.

raunchy horns!

I'll check them out ! 

[kishnevi]

Who accompanies Nancy Argenta in the under-the-lemon-tree recording of the cantata for soprano by JSB, BWV 82a.

Now I'll have to go listen to it to see what you mean by "under the lemon tree"

Thread duty:
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3:  S. Rachmaninoff, piano/Philadelphia Orchestra/E. Ormandy, conductor  recording dates: 4 December 1939 & 24 February 1940

[listener]

VIOTTI   String Quartets  in B-flat,   in G
   (Israel) Baker String Quartet
Viotti (1753 - 1824) is better known for having written 29 violin concertos

Havergal BRIAN:  Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme
  2 settings for chorus of poems by Herrick: The Hag, Requiem for the Rose
Why professional orchestras should fear his works when they can be attempted by the Hull Youth S.O. is a mystery to me.    I think appreciation of this recording depends on one's familiarity with amateur groups though.

SIBELIUS   Spring Song, Andante Festivo, Valse Romantique, Romance in C,
   shorter pieces, some for strings only

[Henk]

PC 2.

[abidoful]

PC 2. How do you like the balance? Do you hear "everything"? I mean from orchestra?

ugh- i wouldn't recommend this disc, sorry but stay away from it  Pierre Laurent Aimard made a wonderful recording of the 1st Sonata and Paavali Jumppanen of them all; very good. But this disc- I played the 1rst Sonata- there's even one point where she plays the wrong clef (!)

[SonicMan46]

Bach, WF (1710-1784) - Clavier Works w/ Siegbert Rampe on harpsichord (reconstruction by Ammer, 2006 after Johann Harrass, c. 1710 - apparently Papa Bach gave a similar instrument by the same maker to his eldest son!) and tangent piano (original but anonymous, ca. 1788) - 

[Christo]

First listen: Bernard Zweers, Symphony No. 2 (1883) by the Netherlands RSO under Antoni Wit.

                                   

[Christo]

Okay, Atterberg's Third is better - but it's not a symphony, but a series of colourful tone pictures: 

                           

[Gabriel]

That's totally true, Gabriel; however, yesterday I bought this surprisingly fine 6-CD set:

Now playing CD1:

Erik Satie - Musique des origines [Sarabandes, Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, etc.]
Cristina Ariagno, Merlin the Magician piano
Recording: Sacile, Italy, Auditorium Fazioli - 06/2006, 12/2006
Brilliant Classics

Yes, Feria del Disco is not deprived of all interest. However, once upon a time Hyperion, Chandos, Orfeo and other illustrious CD labels could be found there...!

[Scarpia]

Okay, Atterberg's Third is better - but it's not a symphony, but a series of colourful tone pictures: 

I don't know why you want to advertise your lack of musical perceptiveness.