What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Karl Henning]

Non-retaliatory listening

(* chortle *)

I've certainly been listening to a lot of the Olivier Baumont Couperin box these past few weeks.

[prémont]

BWV 173a (Durchlauchtster Leopold "Serenada"
(they snuck* a secular cantata into the set there)

May God forgive them, - it is Bach after all. 

I agree with you about the quality of this set, which I also have enjoyed quite a lot.

[prémont]

It would be a great title for a review. A Fish Called Wanda is one of my all time favorite comedies. 

Interesting to know what kind of fish Landowska was.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Staatskapelle Dresden
Herbert von Karajan

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[Brahmsian]

Brahms

Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op. 120/1
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 120/2

Karl Henning Leister, clarinet
Ferenc Bognar, piano

Brilliant Classics

Interesting......I never noticed the tempo marking for the first movement of the 2nd Clarinet Sonata (Allegro Amabile).  I can't honestly say I've ever seen that particular marking, or ever noticed it anywhere else?

[Karl Henning]

I've not seen it anywhere else, Ray.

[jlaurson]

Interesting to know what kind of fish Landowska was.

From what I hear, with Landowska it wasn't easy to get tail.

[apologies all-round]

[Karl Henning]

Mozart
Symphony № 32 in G, K.318
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Marriner

[DavidRoss]

Although the singing falls just a bit short of the marvelous Böhm/Legge Cosi, Jacobs's spunky rendering never fails to make me grin:

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[TheGSMoeller]

http://www.youtube.com/v/pxgZcMGmkkI

[kishnevi]

Right, so anyone on possession of this set by Zinman who really wants to get rid of it, let me be the receiver of it. Jeffrey my friend, for me Inbal is also a highlight in the repertoire, no doubt about it, but I happen to like Zinman's take on the Mahler symphonies, in fact I am a Zinman admirer. Love his Beethoven and Schumann enormously.

Well, I'm certainly not going to get rid of my Zinman set!  I do however wish that he had recorded Das Lied von der Erde and the shorter song cycles.   I have his Schumann--which doesn't really appeal to me, but that goes for most recordings of the Schumann symphonies I've heard (Kubelik is the lone exception)--and the complete Beethoven series (or as I like to call it, the Zinman Zurich Zyklus), in which I prefer the concertos (especially the violin concerto),  but it's his Strauss set I really like.

Thread duty:  First listen.  Vivaldi.  Farnace.  Savall et al.



Currently on Act II.  Perhaps my standards in Baroque opera are too low, but I'm not hearing the problems Antoine had referred to in connection with this recording (perhaps you can specify what you don't like about it).  The recording does have a somewhat recessed sound, but it is after all a live recording.

ETA:
BTW,  alwayes keepe in thy remembrance that orthografical standardisation was among ye many inovationnes acheeved in the XVIIIth centurie, as the diverse spellinges found in sixeteenthe and seveneteenth century textes can be called upon to teftify.  Therefore never let badde orthografie undulie distrefs thyself.

[DavidRoss]

it's his Strauss set I really like.

Hmmmm....  I may have to give that a chance!

[jlaurson]

Ah, good stuff! For years--seven, at least--I've lustily circled the Thorofon box of Rheinberger's complete chamber music...
now it's arrived. Too good to pass up -- and bound to be very unavailable very soon.


J. Rheinberger
Complete Chamber Music
6 CDs, Thorofon
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Includes:
Nonet in E-flat (for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
Sextet in F-major (for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn)
Piano Quintet in C major
String Quintet in A minor
Piano Quartet in E-flat major
String Quartet No.1, C minor
String Quartet No.2, F major
Theme & Variations for String Quartet
Piano Trio No.1, D minor
Piano Trio No.2, A major
Piano Trio No.3, B-flat major
Violin Sonata No.1, E-flat major
Violin Sonata No.2, E-flat minor
Cello Sonata, C major


Disc 1, String Quintet & Piano Quintet

[Brahmsian]

http://www.youtube.com/v/pxgZcMGmkkI

My favorite part of the movie, Amadeus.  I fell in love with the Gran Partita upon first hearing the opening of the Adagio movement. 

[Karl Henning]

It's there in Shaffer's script; in fact, that was a scene I prepared in auditioning for the play.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

'Tis my mother language, and I've long since reached a place where the several ways in which we can spell nearly any sound in English is more amusing than anything vexatious. But I do appreciate how the orthographic snares can cause a non-native speaker to throw up his hands in despair . . . .

Next time I write in correct Dutch, that way everybody is happy.

[Karl Henning]

You've written nought to impede my happiness, mijn vriend ; )

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty:

Mozart
Violin Concerto № 4 in D, K.218
Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica

[Robert]

Halvor Haug

Symphony No. 3 "The Inscrutable Life"

An old favorite, that I never tire....

[Karl Henning]

A change of pace, a first listen:

Haydn
Symphony № 88 in G, Oxford
Cleveland Orchestra
Szell
Recorded 9.iv.1954

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