What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Do you have a good collection?

I need no further comments about my 8000+ classical recordings ...

[MishaK]

Dvorak 7 from a live broadcast with Kirill Petrenko conducting the NDR Sinfonieorchester.

[The new erato]

I need no further comments about my 8000+ classical recordings ...

Yes, but is it any good?   

[Coopmv]

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

[Antoine Marchand]

Never before I saw this painting on a cover... 

[Coopmv]

Yes, but is it any good?   

Practically all the choral works by Handel ever recorded and 20+ versions of Messiah
30+ Bach Brandenburg Ctos, 15 versions of WTC and 15+ versions of SMP, 3 complete Bach Cantatas cycles
10+ complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas and 20+ Beethoven Symphonies cycles
3 Wagner Ring cycles and all his operas
Just to name a few ...

BTW, I cannot give a damn about what some of my nemeses think. 

[Brian]

I'm excited!! Just uploaded to NML:



Very first impression: whoa! You can hear the contrabassoon!

[The new erato]

Disc one (Berlioz) from this extensive 37 CD set of French orchestral music, some of which have been little recorded.



A veritable treasure trove. Expect 37 postings.

[Coopmv]

Disc one (Berlioz) from this extensive 37 CD set of French orchestral music, some of which have been little recorded.



A veritable treasure trove. Expect 37 postings.

Are some of the pieces in this set 20th century works?  I have all the Berlioz choral works on Philips LP by Colin Davis and the best "French" box I have ever bought is this ...

[Coopmv]

In what pieces have you found him too fast?

Not sure, I heard it over my local NPR via the Sunday Baroque program.  It might have been works by Vivaldi ...

[The new erato]

Are some of the pieces in this set 20th century works? 

Sauguet, Durufle, Dutilleux, Magnard, Debussy, Faure, Ropartz, Ravel, Roussel, Honegger.....

I think the content are available on amazon.

[DavidW]

I'm excited!! Just uploaded to NML:



Very first impression: whoa! You can hear the contrabassoon!

Brian that image just won't load. What are you listening to?

[Brian]

Brian that image just won't load. What are you listening to?

Shostakovich: Symphony No 10. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko

Go listen and come back and post something about it, because I fear that if I try to write down my own thoughts about this CD, people will think I'm a gibbering fool.

[The new erato]

people will think I'm a gibbering fool.

You don't have to worry. We already know you are.

[DavidW]

That good eh Brian?   Well I can't wait!  Well I actually I can that is more of an evening piece for me.

[DavidW]

You don't have to worry. We already know you are.

Yeah he's barking mad.  Whenever there is a full moon Brian eats Londonites, it's a wonder why they like Americans at all...

[Coopmv]

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

Very beautifully performed cantatas by Buxtehude.  Now playing another CD, which also arrived from Presto for a first listen ...

[Coopmv]

Yeah he's barking mad.  Whenever there is a full moon Brian eats Londonites, it's a wonder why they like Americans at all...

The Brits in the classical music etail business like us because we send a lot of our worthless dollars their way ...     

[Brian]

That good eh Brian?   Well I can't wait!  Well I actually I can that is more of an evening piece for me.

That FREAKING AMAZING good.


...instant desert island material. Like I said, go listen and report back so I'll know if it's really that good or if I've gone werewolf on you guys. 

[Brian]

THEY EVEN NAIL THE ENDING!

Oh god I've died and gone to heaven. I wanna listen again! But I have to cook dinner. Shucks