What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

Antoine - the latter disc mentioned above is available on Amazon USA at a decent price - I just have another CD of these works (a good one w/ the Mozartean Players on H. Mundi) - but nice to have another interpretation w/ period instruments & interpretations - Dave 

Well, the Festetics and Badura-Skoda don't need recommendation; that disc is excellent. I think at some point I will acquire those piano quartets with the Mozartean Players, I have the piano trios performed by them and are really excellent... I am a Steven Lubin fan.   

[AndyD.]

Beethoven: String Trios & Cello Sonatas

I haven't heard these recordings, and am very interested in your thoughts.

[Bogey]

I haven't heard these recordings, and am very interested in your thoughts.

I can vouch for the first set, Ange.  Wonderful stuff.

[Bogey]

1. Light Cavalry 2. The Merry Wives of Windsor 3. Poet and Peasant 4. Orpheus in Hades 5. Donna Diana 6. La Dame Blanche

[karlhenning]

Not really New Year's music, of course . . . but:

Britten
War Requiem, Opus 66
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
Robt Tear, tenor
Sir Thos Allen, baritone
Mark Blatchley, chamber organ
Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
CBSO Chorus
CBSO
Sir Simon Rattle

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

[Bogey]

Not really New Year's music, of course . . . but:

Britten
War Requiem, Opus 66
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
Robt Tear, tenor
Sir Thos Allen, baritone
Mark Blatchley, chamber organ
Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
CBSO Chorus
CBSO
Sir Simon Rattle

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

When did you "net" that set, Karl?

Ha!  It says that customers that bought the above set alos purchased:

[karlhenning]

Early last year, Bill; this and the Langgaard symphonies box were courtesy of an Amazon gift card Santa.

And, happy New Year, Bill!

[AndyD.]

I can vouch for the first set, Ange.  Wonderful stuff.

Billage! Happy New Year!

Beethoven "Ghost" (Perlman)

[Bogey]

....and a Happy New Year to you chaps as well.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 - T2 and T3 from this set for a first listen ...

[Mirror Image]

I have the earlier version with only 3 CD's.  It is an excellent set with some of the best 4th "Italian" ever recorded ...

I really enjoy Mendelssohn a lot, which is odd because I'm not usually that favorable to early Romantic at all, but he had such an excellent grasp of form and his melodies just are to die for. I agree that it is an excellent set. Every bit as competitive with Karajan's recordings.

[Mirror Image]

Terrific set. Glad to see it back in print, not the least because it may contain the best 2nd Symphony of the better known sets. Only one I find competitive with Dohnanyi is Karajan, actually. Whereas Abbado, sad to say, spells crushing boredom in Mendelssohn.

Yeah, I thought Abbado was disappointing in Mendelssohn. He doesn't have the right kind of feel of his music. Maybe he didn't study it enough before he recorded or perhaps, knowing Abbado's perfectionism, he actually studied it too much. He never let the music pickup where it needed to pickup.

[listener]

Hughes Cuenod  "Le Maître de la Mélodie"    Nimbus 1979 recording with Geoffrey Parsons, piano
Main items: MILHAUD Catalogue des Fleurs, Quatre poèmes de Léo Latil; CAPLET Cinq Ballades Françaises;  AURIC Trois Interludes DE MANZIARLY Trois Fables de la Fontaine  + ROUSSEL, POULENC and CHABRIER
and I must look for an opera (LP set) by Cavalli, Il Callisto or L'Ormindo that I remember having been impressed with.
CARPENTER   Symphonies 1 & 2, Adventures in a Perambulator

[Mirror Image]

Now:




Listening to Symphony No. 4 right now. I have Zubin Mehta's performance somewhere, but Jarvi's will do for now.

[Antoine Marchand]

Tonight I listened to for the first time (via NML) the Op. 9, performed by the Festetics on Hungaroton:



It was a delightful experience; if it is possible, I found this interpretation even more cantabile and velvety than their posterior set on Arcana. 

I think I need this set.

[Scarpia]

Decidedly non-authentic Bach from Busoni and Demidenko.



These transcriptions of organ music capture the grandeur of the original on piano.   St. Anne Prelude and Fugue particularly impressive.

[Mirror Image]

Now:




A masterpiece of the genre.

[val]

JOHANN STRAUSS:      Walzer                      / RIAS Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay  (1950/1952)

One of the greatest interpreters - with Clemens Krauss - of this repertory. A legendary recording, in very acceptable technical conditions.

[mike1989]

Tchaikovsky Symphony 3, Dorati conducting the LSO

Mercury Living Presence (thank god for all the re-issues of this label

[karlhenning]

Good morning, all!

Schoenberg
String Quartet № 4, Opus 37 (1936)
The Schoenberg Quartet

Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Music for Strings