What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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rubio

Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on April 25, 2007, 09:11:53 AM
Gilels is pure poetry in those two works, one of my favourites.

Nelson Freire with Chailly too is outstanding for a new interpretation of these two wonderful concertos.

With Gilels you have made an excellent choice  ;D

The Freire/Chailly recording is also very tempting (as well as the Richter/Leinsdorf 2nd and the Curzon/Szell...). How would you describe this interpretation compared to Jochum/Gilels?
"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

karlhenning

Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on April 25, 2007, 09:13:21 AM
Elgar: Falstaff (Just before a big night of European Football)  :D

An underated gem of a work!!

Hear, hear!

AnthonyAthletic

Quote from: rubio on April 25, 2007, 09:19:29 AM
The Freire/Chailly recording is also very tempting (as well as the Richter/Leinsdorf 2nd and the Curzon/Szell...). How would you describe this interpretation compared to Jochum/Gilels?

With Freire, not only on this set of works and in most others, especially Chopin, he has a lightness of touch which makes him by far my favourite living pianist today.

You more often then not, you won't get 'bang bang or a bravurra tour de force' with Freire, he won't attack you like Curzon will in his Brahms 1st, Freire's way is totally different and has to be heard to be believed how technically brilliant he is  ;) 

He is the most delicate, passioned calming pianist I have ever heard. 

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

SonicMan46

Quote from: Haffner on April 25, 2007, 09:06:49 AM

Do you have a favorite between those two?

Oh, not really, just different ways to do the work - if you wanted just one, then might depend on the other performances on the discs - here are some comments on the Hyperion CD and on the Holliger disc from MusicWeb.

BTW - made some prelim comments on the Haydn Piano Trios back on pg. 74 of this thread - continuing to listen to them (excellent set & superb bargain); also, Dussek Solo Piano works performed by Andreas Staier on a fortepiano (re-released recordings from the early '90s) -  :D

 

AnthonyAthletic

Quote from: karlhenning on April 25, 2007, 09:23:41 AM
Hear, hear!

Sort of comes into a category of "When or how, do you distinguish when a symphonic poem is all but a symphony"?

Something I have always been meaning to ask  :D

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

Wanderer


Harry

Glazunov.

SQ No.3 opus 26 in G major.

Utrecht SQ.


Wonderful SQ from a master in melody and tonal refinement.
:) :) :) :)

Harry


Harry

Glazunov.

SQ No. 5 opus 70, in D minor,

Utrecht SQ


Gorgeous.
:) :) :) :)

karlhenning

Hartmann
Concerto funèbre
Christiane Edinger, violin
Katowice Radio Symphony
Penderecki, conducting

Haffner

Quote from: SonicMan on April 25, 2007, 09:32:37 AM
Oh, not really, just different ways to do the work - if you wanted just one, then might depend on the other performances on the discs - here are some comments on the Hyperion CD and on the Holliger disc from MusicWeb.







Thanks so much for the links!

Don

Mozart's Great Mass in C minor from Leppard on EMI.  Absolutely fantastic performance, and Cotrubas is heavenly; the only one who can match her in this work is Stader for Fricsay.

karlhenning

Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No. 1, Opus 35
Christiane Edinger, violin
Katowice Radio Symphony
Krzysztof Penderecki, conducting

George

Quote from: Haffner on April 25, 2007, 10:28:18 AM
Thanks so much for the links!

Hey, Andy, that Holliger disc comes very highly recommended. I'd snap it up at budget price!  :)

Haffner

Quote from: George on April 25, 2007, 10:44:30 AM
Hey, Andy, that Holliger disc comes very highly recommended. I'd snap it up at budget price!  :)



I'm way ahead of you, George!


Please check PM.

BachQ

Copland, Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (E Power Biggs / Bernstein / NYPO).  Quite good.

karlhenning

Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite (arr. Gordon Jacob)
Royal Liverpool Phil
Vernon Handley

Wanderer

Quote from: Harry on April 25, 2007, 09:44:05 AM
That's a great set Tasos, and a firm favourite of mine. :)

Mine too, apparently.  8)


karlhenning

Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Royal Liverpool Phil
Alison Barlow, soprano **
Vernon Handley


[ ** Harry, don't look! ]

Harry

Quote from: karlhenning on April 25, 2007, 11:46:06 AM
Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Royal Liverpool Phil
Alison Barlow, soprano **
Vernon Handley


[ ** Harry, don't look! ]

I won't don't worry! ;D