What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[beclemund]

I will admit, a few years ago when I was looking for a Four Seasons performance at a local record store, I settled on this one in part for the cover image... 

I should not be ashamed, however; as beyond that, it is an engaging listen. The chamber setup works well and Janine Jansen is very capable on the violin. Definitely an enjoyable listen. I keep meaning to pick up the Biondi recording but have not yet gotten around to it as something else always catches my eye first.

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky
from Disc 9:

Symphony in C

I was many years a-warming to this one, but it's got me for good, now.

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[beclemund]

Motivated by the Bach Question, I decided to give this a spin... Listening to his '55 set at the moment. I plan to listen to both sets straight through though.  0:)

[Haffner]

Joseph Haydn op. 50 (The Lindsays)

Very good interpretation, but I'm still half-reaching for my Quatuor Festetics. the Lindsays can often sound screechy/scratchy, but of course that could be all due to the production.

[pjme]

Angelica Kirchschlager ,Yuri Bashmet and Helmut Deutsch in Brahms Gestillte Sehnsucht

Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg, Swedish radio choir in Schubert's Ständchen

Brahms: violinsonata nr 3 / Kyung Wha Chung /Peter Frankl

Schubert : Gesang der Geister über den Wassern - Singphoniker

Britten : Cantata misericordium (Fischer Dieskau & Peter Pears)

..during :washing up & doing the laundry.It went well!

yesterday on Dutch TV : Concertgebouw & Haitink in Bruckner 8. What a great orchestra - Bruckner, as ever : strange, very strange music!


Peter

[Solitary Wanderer]

Discs.1. Act.1. & 50% Act.2.

[Bogey]

Excellent line-up beclemund!

[hornteacher]

One of my favorites.  I think Hilary needs to record more chamber music.

[hornteacher]

I will admit, a few years ago when I was looking for a Four Seasons performance at a local record store, I settled on this one in part for the cover image... 

I should not be ashamed, however; as beyond that, it is an engaging listen. The chamber setup works well and Janine Jansen is very capable on the violin. Definitely an enjoyable listen. I keep meaning to pick up the Biondi recording but have not yet gotten around to it as something else always catches my eye first.

Agreed.  As far as modern versions go, its great.

[hornteacher]

Get the four cd set instead hornteacher.  Top shelf listening in my opinion, and Gurn and Harry enjoy it as well.

Okay, sold!  (Next paycheck that is).   

[not edward]

I'm sure there are better versions out there, but this is the one I have.

[George]

(and watching) Richter: The Enigma

[beclemund]

I suppose I am just in the mood for violin today; this is spinning now:

[M forever]

Agreed.  As far as modern versions go, its great.

Just wait until your girlfriend finds out you said that. Then you are in deep, deep trouble.

[Gurn Blanston]

I'm sure there are better versions out there, but this is the one I have.

And even if there are, so what? I have that one too and find it very much more than adequate! 

Right now I'm listening to Musica Florea playing those Brandenburg freebies that are being linked on another thread. I'll just say this: if you are a HIPpie (which fortunately I am) these are outstanding. If you aren't, just...don't...go....there! 

It's worth getting the flacs, the sound is super nice. Almost makes me wish I had started with flacs 8 years ago...

[Bogey]

Barcarolle #13 in C major, Op. 116 (3'16) great piece...
to be followed by fantastic 9 Preludes, Op. 103
& the Theme & Variations in C# minor, Op. 73

Thatis toward the top of my wish-list.

[Que]

Joseph Haydn op. 50 (The Lindsays)

Very good interpretation, but I'm still half-reaching for my Quatuor Festetics.

Ha, how did they do with you?

the Lindsays can often sound screechy/scratchy, but of course that could be all due to the production.

Andy, if it ain't HIP.......

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[Que]

Good morning/ day to all.


Frimmer, Prégardien, Schlick, Chance, Mertens,
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Kartusianum,
Neumann

Top HIP performances. Maybe in the Requiem and the Mass in C minor other recordings might take precedence (though they are very good, especially the C minor), but as a comprehensive Mozart masses set this can't be beaten. Superb.

Listening now: Krönungsmesse KV 317

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[val]

LISZT: Sonate après une lecture de Dante

Arrau, with a superb rhetoric, ample, very powerful and almost symphonic is one of my favorites.

But even Arrau seems pale when compared to the first version of Brendel (VOX): very spontaneous, tumultuous, with a passion and a violence that I had never heard in this work. It is difficult to believe that this is the same man that years later recorded for PHILIPS a version, more perfect perhaps, but cold as an iceberg.

The VOX CD of Brendel also includes an extraordinary version of the Sonata in B minor. In my opinion the best recording of Alfred Brendel.

[Que]

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