What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Robert]

WOW, whats this??

[bhodges]

WOW, whats this??

I was just wondering that myself!  Looks fascinating...

--Bruce

[Haffner]

I like the quartet version, but prefer the choral version - essential Haydn IMO.

But it needs a good performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien is my favourite.



Q

Hey thanks! The Harnoncourt looks particularly great!

[Haffner]

IMHO Kodaly is great in this and the entire Haydn String qts....I have quite a few versions of this particular one, but this one and Mosaiques are my two favs.....

Thanks, Robert! For me, Kodaly and QM are usually no-brainers!

[not edward]

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.

I'm no pianophile, but this is certainly my favourite of the Brendel recordings I own. It's hard to believe that the passionate young man who recorded these sonatas could produce emotionally sterile performances in his later years.

I'm currently listening to Aimard and Boulez in Ligeti's piano concerto--not the studio recording but a live aircheck with the CSO. It's a very different performance to the studio reading--not as hard-edged, more lyrical, some slower tempi allowing the music more time to breathe (though sometimes at a slight cost in emotional febrility). The playing is every bit as good as you'd expect from this combination.

[beclemund]

WOW, whats this??

I was just wondering that myself!  Looks fascinating...

It turns out to be quite an interesting story about the discovery of a lost discography. The performances are all quite engaging. I have to admit, I have not really explored a whole lot of solo piano music, so I am probably the last person to speak on the quality of a performance. I do enjoy this set, however. The transfers are up and down as some are from older recordings all from tape source that the performer maintained herself.

Check out that link to Arbiter's essay on it...

I am not sure where I came across the story. It did get me curious enough to explore the collection, and I am glad I did. Arbiter has released other sets of her work as well.

[Que]

Disc 2:      
Ravel - Tzigane (Rapsodie de concert)   
Clérambault - arranged for the G string: Largo in C Minor
Albéniz - Suite espanola Op. 47, no. 3: Sevilla, sevillanas
Debussy - from L' enfant prodigue: Prélude   
Dohnányi - Ruralia hungarica, Op.32, no. 6: Gypsy andante
Elgar - La capricieuse, Op. 17   
Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil, no. 9: Sumare
Vivaldi - Sonata Op. 2, No. 2, RV 31   
Mozart -  Concerto No. 5 , KV 219 (With Barbirolli & the London Philharmonia Orchestra)
Paganini - Caprice No. 13 in B-Flat
Bach - from English Suite No. 3 BWV 808: Gavotte I & Gavotte II (Musette)

Q

[Robert]

It turns out to be quite an interesting story about the discovery of a lost discography. The performances are all quite engaging. I have to admit, I have not really explored a whole lot of solo piano music, so I am probably the last person to speak on the quality of a performance. I do enjoy this set, however. The transfers are up and down as some are from older recordings all from tape source that the performer maintained herself.

Check out that link to Arbiter's essay on it...

I am not sure where I came across the story. It did get me curious enough to explore the collection, and I am glad I did. Arbiter has released other sets of her work as well.

Todd,
Can you shed any light on this??

[Robert]

It turns out to be quite an interesting story about the discovery of a lost discography. The performances are all quite engaging. I have to admit, I have not really explored a whole lot of solo piano music, so I am probably the last person to speak on the quality of a performance. I do enjoy this set, however. The transfers are up and down as some are from older recordings all from tape source that the performer maintained herself.

Check out that link to Arbiter's essay on it...

I am not sure where I came across the story. It did get me curious enough to explore the collection, and I am glad I did. Arbiter has released other sets of her work as well.

In checking this out...Qualiton is the source. $17.00 is the price for two discs. I thought it was a Bartok disc but there are only three Bartok compositions........

[beclemund]

In checking this out...Qualiton is the source. $17.00 is the price for two discs. I thought it was a Bartok disc but there are only three Bartok compositions........

Amazon has a couple of copies used for under 10 USD.

[Lilas Pastia]

I like the quartet version, but prefer the choral version - essential Haydn IMO.

But it needs a good performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien is my favourite.



Q

Personally it's the reverse for me. Quartet version first, , then Oratorio or chamber orchestra versions (equally). But they're all great. One of Haydn's undisputed masterpieces.

[Christo]

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

Happy to learn that you watched them, too !

[Solitary Wanderer]

Ravel ~ La Valse



Bartok ~ Concerto for Orchestra



Disc.1. 2nd half Act.2. &  Disc.2. Act.3.

[George]

Nice stuff!! Very romantic reading. 

[not edward]

(Opp 20-22, anyway. Skipped the First Chamber Symphony.)

[mateusz182]

Phantom of the opera [1987]

[hornteacher]

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

Oh crap.  

[Mark]

Phantom of the opera [1987]

Hey buddy, we have a non-classical music listening thread for stuff like this.




(PS: Welcome to the forum. )

[George]

Hey buddy, we have a non-classical music listening thread for stuff like this.

Again the avatar fits nicely. 

[Mark]

Again the avatar fits nicely. 

Now enjoying this: