What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Philoctetes]

Also today,



Relistned to this set, to see if anything clicked, and it did not. While I find the music light and enjoyable. It's just so dull, but I'll continue on with Haydn until I get it.'


While this wasn't a bad recording, it simply wasn't stunning. I think I've come to expect too much for this recording, and I have Kocsis, wonderful rendition, still fresh in my mind. So I will definitely revisit this in a few weeks or so.

[Subotnick]

Sorry to be OT, but I have to say.... what a handsome chap Riccardo is! Or was...

Check out the youtube video of him conducting the Chicago SO in Prokofiev's 3rd symphony. Not looking his best.

Will do! 

[Philoctetes]

And I'll be finishing my day up with:



Which I expect to be marvelous: Gulda and Harnoncourt plus Corea = AWESOME! (That's math. Precision means correctness.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Careful Sarge, you might start something with this back cover posting!

     ...I was just too lazy to type in that many works. Easier to show a picture 


Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I'd like to get that Delius album. Thinking about it, I wanted to get it years and years ago but I seem to remember reading some very critical comments about Delius that put me off him entirely. Now i'm a big boy I can make my own mind up! 

Only £7.83  at Amazon UK...it would be worth it even at four times the price. Go for it.

Sarge

[George]

     ...I was just too lazy to type in that many works. Easier to show a picture 
Sarge

I think its a great idea.

[Brahmsian]

Look no further...

Thanks for the link, George! 

[MN Dave]

Kempff makin' with the Beethoven in the Fitties.

[listener]

while installing a new cartridge for lp's  (trying to keep track of the blue-green and green-ish blue connector orientation)
a quite pleasant, almost "pops"  program
KARG-ELERT   Homage to Handel, op. 75b   Partita retrospettiva, op.151
BACH  Concerto in E^b after anonymous: Triol
BOSSI:  Ländliche Szene  op.132/3                 Spanish Anon: Batalha de 6. ton
WEINER  Fanasie über Mozarts Türkischen Marsch  op.142
Paul Wißkirchen,   Klais organ (1980)   Altenberg Cathedral     
and to test the cartridge
BOHM   ORGAN WORKS   2-disc set
Marie-Claire Alain, Andersen  1973  organ, Nyborg, 1966 Marcussen organ at Viborg

[Conor71]

Good morning
Now listening:
Schubert: String Quartets 14 & 13
Dowland: Lachrimae

[Coopmv]

And I'm enjoying this perfomrance a lot more than the Jarrett. It's a lot more pounding, less lyricism, more enjoyment on my end.

BUT... I'm really looking forward to getting my ears around the recording below:


Everything I've heard from Lin has been stunning, and I expect this to follow, but I won't be able to get a hold of it until at least the end of next month, sadly.

I have quite a number of CD's by Nikolayeva.  She was particularly well-known for her performance of Bach keyboard works ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which just arrived from Presto today for a first listen ...

[Sid]

Griffes - Piano Sonata
Sessions - Second Sonata
Ives - Sonata No. 1 for Piano
Peter Lawson, piano



These three sonatas are all by C20th American composers, but completely different. The Griffes sonata, one of his final works, has oriental and Native American melodies (which I can clearly hear now, but didn't initially). The Sessions is an "atonal" work, but one can still hear the structure of the three movements which is cast in the traditional mould (moderately fast - slow - fast). At just under 40 minutes, the Ives first sonata is the most substantial work here. It includes his favoured hymn and ragtime tunes, & brings up memories of his youth in Conneticut. It's interesting to hear how Ives presents fragmentary themes at first and assembles the whole work from the ground up. It was apparently made up of 7 movements, but we only have 5 (the other two were probably lost). But the end still gives me a sense of resolution, humpty dumpty has been put back together again, so to speak...

[Bulldog]

And I'm enjoying this perfomrance a lot more than the Jarrett. It's a lot more pounding, less lyricism, more enjoyment on my end.

BUT... I'm really looking forward to getting my ears around the recording below:


Everything I've heard from Lin has been stunning, and I expect this to follow, but I won't be able to get a hold of it until at least the end of next month, sadly.

Concerning the Nikolayeva, I loved her "industrial strength" interpretations; Jarrett just doesn't offer it at any time.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived from Presto today for a first listen ...

[SonicMan46]

Onslow, Georges (1784-1853) - String Quartets, Vol.3 w/ the Mandelring Quartett - quality SQ writing and superb performances - another excellent 'forgotten' composer - 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from yet another BIS set I bought last month for a first listen ...

[Brahmsian]

Onslow, Georges (1784-1853) - String Quartets, Vol.3 w/ the Mandelring Quartett - quality SQ writing and superb performances - another excellent 'forgotten' composer - 

Awesome!  Which quartets are on this one, Dave?

I have this one disc of Onslow string quintets (with a double bass as the 5th instrument, which I really like!  )

[SonicMan46]

Awesome!  Which quartets are on this one, Dave?

I have this one disc of Onslow string quintets (with a double bass as the 5th instrument, which I really like!  )

Good evening Ray - as you know, Onslow was quite prolific!  He composed about 70 SQs & String Quintets total (almost equally divided) - I have a bunch of his  String Quintets and just started to add the Quartets.

The Mandelring Quartett have produced 3 Volumes of SQs on the CPO label, all of which I now own:

  Vol. 1 - Op. 9, No. 1; Op. 9, No. 3; and Op. 47.
  Vol. 2 - Op. 4, No. 1; Op. 10, No. 1; and Op. 46, No. 3
  Vol. 3 - Op. 8, No. 1; Op. 50; and Op. 46, No. 2

I also have a single disc on ASV w/ the Coull SQ: Op. 46, No. 1, Op. 56; Op. 9, No. 1 (one movement).

So, I'm almost 1/3 the way to all of Onslow's SQs!  Really so much music to appreciate!  Dave 

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A box set chock full of goodies. Listening to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht right now. Absolutely gorgeous.