What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Dave, I posted my comments in this set HERE! 
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I have bookmarked recordings of works by this composer - the next target for my collection.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 - works of Chopin from this set, which arrived from Presto Classics over a week ago ...

[pi2000]

Lully
Te Deum, Dies Irae
Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard

[Antoine Marchand]

I have had a little marathon of Brahms violin concertos this weekend:

(1981)
Anne Sophie Mutter
Berliner Philarmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon

(1960)
David Oistrach
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Otto Klemperer
EMI Classics

Borika van den Booren
Berliner Symphoniker
Eduardo Marturet
Brilliant Classics

(1989)
Thomas Zehetmair
Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi
Teldec

(1974)
Henryk Szeryng
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink
Philips

Listening to all of these discs between last night and this morning, I have discovered -with some suprise- that my favorite version has been Oistrakh [alhtough the cover showed below says "Oistrakh", my copy with the same cover says "Oistrach"]/ Klemperer, although previously I had said Szeryng/ Haitink. Several soloists are excellent, but Klemplerer provides a superb orchestral accompaniment.

Unfortunately, I have also noticed that my Brilliant Classics copy (never listened to before) is defective at the very beginning of the violin concerto. Does anyone else have the same problem? 

   

[listener]

lp set
Jacob Adolf HÄGG (180-1928)   piano music
   Suite in G, op. 3, Impromptu in D, op.16,   Kleine Nordische Lieder ohne Worte book 1, Valse de Salon in F#, 2 pieces from op 8,  4 pieces from Gotlanspolskor
Hägg, a student of Niels Gade, tended towards miniatures rather than extrovert concert pieces.
Pianos used are a 1840 Rosenwall grand, 1868 Malmsjö square, and 1898 Steinway.
MOZART:  Serenade K.320 "Posthorn"      Seenade K.239 "Serenata Nottuturna"
Vienna Festival Chamber  Orch.      Wilfried Böttcher, cond.
LIADOV   Orchestral works: Kiki Mora, From the Apocalypse, Baba Yaga, The Enchanted Lake, 8 Russian Folk Songs, A Musical Snuff Box, From Days of Old op.21b
USSR Symphony O.    Svetlanov, cond.
               Piano music: Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, Variations on a Theme by Glinka, Barcarolle in F#, About Olden Times op.21, 2 Preludes
Tatyana Nikolaeva, piano   

[Antoine Marchand]

A straggler contender:



CD4:

Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77
Nathan Milstein
Philarmonia Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari
Rec.: 23-24.06.1960, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
EMI Classics - ICON

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from MDT a few weeks ago for a first listen.  This is my 4th version of Handel Theodora ...

[bhodges]

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Movement IV - Was listening to various versions of this on YouTube, including David Oistrakh, Lisa Batiashvili, Hilary Hahn, and Sayaka Shoji.  All are excellent, but Batiashvili wins the prize, playing with a combination of amazing accuracy and intense emotion.  Her reading of the cadenza that leads into the finale is just astounding. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awwkoba4dGY&feature=related

--Bruce

[jhar26]

Fantastic.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set ...

[prémont]

I have had a little marathon of Brahms violin concertos this weekend:

Listening to all of these discs between last night and this morning, I have discovered -with some suprise- that my favorite version has been Oistrakh ..

Reminds me of when I heard (and saw) David Oistrakh play the Brahms concerto in Copenhagen. I was very young, and do not remember many details, but I was deeply impressed.

[kishnevi]

Quartet 3: Seconda Parte. Allegro

haven't listend to this music in a good long time, and wanted a change of pace from the previous recording--the Mackerras recording of Nozze di Figaro.

[Conor71]

Palestrina: Missa Brevis
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

[Coopmv]

Palestrina: Missa Brevis
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

I think this twofer is made up of tracks from the following CD's, which are in my early music collection.  Excellent polyphony and recording ...

[kishnevi]

I think this twofer is made up of tracks from the following CD's, which are in my early music collection.  Excellent polyphony and recording ...

Not quite.   The "Nigra sum" and "Benedicta es" (which I have as independent CDs) don't figure on this.  But it is a compilation; CD1 corresponds to the third disc you show; CD 2 has one track of the Lamentations, the Missa Brevis, and the Missa Papae Marcelli.

But your rating of them as excellent is 100 percent correct.

They've been issuing a number of these double CD compilations, which cover a good deal (but not all) of their previous recordings.  I have, besides the Palestrina, the issues devoted to Byrd and to Tallis (which contain about 90 percent of their recordings of those two composers), two volumes devoted to Tudor Church Music, one entitled Renaissance Giants (a sort of greatest hits:Spem in alium, Taverner's Western Wind Mass, DesPres Missa Pange Lingua, the Palestrina Missa Brevis,  Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, and the Victoria Requiem) and the latest member of the series, "Flemish Masters".

They're a fairly good way to acquire the recordings if you don't already have them in another form, but none of them are new issues, although those continue to come out at a slower pace compared to these.  Those interested can find details at the Gimell website.

[Coopmv]

Not quite.   The "Nigra sum" and "Benedicta es" (which I have as independent CDs) don't figure on this.  But it is a compilation; CD1 corresponds to the third disc you show; CD 2 has one track of the Lamentations, the Missa Brevis, and the Missa Papae Marcelli.

But your rating of them as excellent is 100 percent correct.

They've been issuing a number of these double CD compilations, which cover a good deal (but not all) of their previous recordings.  I have, besides the Palestrina, the issues devoted to Byrd and to Tallis (which contain about 90 percent of their recordings of those two composers), two volumes devoted to Tudor Church Music, one entitled Renaissance Giants (a sort of greatest hits:Spem in alium, Taverner's Western Wind Mass, DesPres Missa Pange Lingua, the Palestrina Missa Brevis,  Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, and the Victoria Requiem) and the latest member of the series, "Flemish Masters".

They're a fairly good way to acquire the recordings if you don't already have them in another form, but none of them are new issues, although those continue to come out at a slower pace compared to these.  Those interested can find details at the Gimell website.

I pretty much bought all the recordings by the Tallis Scholars on Gimell last year ...

[bhodges]

Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre (Alan Gilbert/NY Philharmonic, recorded from live broadcast) - Listening to this again, archived on the Philharmonic's website.  Anyone who likes the composer should check out this superb performance, which only grows more interesting with each hearing.

http://nyphil.org/broadcast/broadcast_main.cfm

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived a few weeks ago ...

[Saul]

http://www.youtube.com/v/z9Z-HCq5EeU&playnext_from=TL&videos=OX0U97qSVKA&feature=grec_index