What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Marc Antoine Charpentier.

Les Descente d'Orphee aux enfers.
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie.

Well performed and recorded.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Guess what...

Sibelius, Second Symphony (Järvi/BIS)

[Harry]

Guess what...

Sibelius, Second Symphony (Järvi/BIS)

You are a kind soul!
I sincerely hope you like it, otherwise I pay you that 1,70 back!

[springrite]

Marc Antoine Charpentier.

Les Descente d'Orphee aux enfers.
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie.

Well performed and recorded.

I have had this for a year now but have yet to listen to it. Maybe i will put it on this week.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm now in the second movement (the wonderful lyrical theme has just started). In the opening Allegretto Järvi's tempo worked really well. You lose some Sibelian mystery, but what you gain is forward momentum.

No, I don't want my money back... 

[Harry]

I'm now in the second movement (the wonderful lyrical theme has just started). In the opening Allegretto Järvi's tempo worked really well. You lose some Sibelian mystery, but what you gain is forward momentum.

No, I don't want my money back... 

I think this forward momentum is essential to this work.

EDIT, I am happy to hear there has to be no money refund.....

[Harry]

I have had this for a year now but have yet to listen to it. Maybe i will put it on this week.

Its is so lovely Paul, and well conceived...
Good baby music too....!

[johnQpublic]

Caudella - Moldova Overture (Litvin/Olympia)
Panufnik - Bassoon Concerto (Thompson/Conifer)
Wolpe - Toccata (Serkin/Koch)
Bartok - String Quartet #4 (Arditti/Gramavision)

[Novi]

No, my friend, there isn't.

Except for maybe their performance of the first movement of Op. 131. Heard that yet? 

George, you are very very right. Both are incomparable, in terms of Beethoven's art (which need hardly be said) and the Vegh's playing. There is such tenderness in their slow movements.

[ChamberNut]

This morning:

Beethoven - Piano Trio # 1, in E flat major, Op. 1/1 (Beaux Arts Trio, Philips)

Bruckner - Symphony # 3 in D minor (Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden, EMI)

[George]

George, you are very very right. Both are incomparable, in terms of Beethoven's art (which need hardly be said) and the Vegh's playing. There is such tenderness in their slow movements.

I can remember not being too impressed with Vegh, but buying the set anyway, since so many regarded it so highly. Nothing really clicked until one night I put on their Op. 131. For the entire opening movement, I was spellbound, in a similar way to how I feel when I hear Richter's Schubert.

[Harry]

Organ Landscape Mecklenburg

Music by Buxtehude/Erich/Abel/Kuntzen/Muthel/Hasse/Riemenschneider.

Organs from the places Basedow/Zittow/Blankenhagen/Neukirchen/Neuburg/Belitz/Rostock/Sternberg.

Marin Rost, Organ.

First rate recordings in sound and performance on beautiful organs.

[PaulR]

P.D.Q Bach:  1712 Overture

[Que]

The 7th symphony, NYP 1951.

Q

[bhodges]

Tonight on TV, on Great Performances: Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler's Ninth Symphony, and Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.

--Bruce

[ChamberNut]

Tonight on TV, on Great Performances: Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler's Ninth Symphony, and Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.

--Bruce

I saw the commercial for this Bruce.  I'll try to catch some of it.   

[bhodges]

I saw the commercial for this Bruce.  I'll try to catch some of it.   

I was in the audience for both concerts, which were fantastic, and it's great that they captured them.  In New York, they are repeating the program on Friday morning (early, 3:00 a.m.) and at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. 

--Bruce

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Berlioz, Chasse royale et orage from 'Les Troyens' (Davis/Philips)

[Gustav]

It's not that "high end", it's just good solid equipment, but that's not the point. Most of the "high end" stuff is nonsense anyway. The difference was actually still quite noticeable.

so, what kind of speakers would you recommend for someone who has only a modest budget?

[M forever]

so, what kind of speakers would you recommend for someone who has only a modest budget?

The above.