What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Ox gall is good for cleaning old oil paintings.

Then clearly Gielen had the gall to clean Mahler up... 

[Keemun]

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 (Davis/RCO)

[MN Dave]

[Brian]

Then clearly Gielen had the gall to clean Mahler up... 

Ooooh, good one.


DVORAK | Seven
BPO, Kubelik

Hard to believe this is the same orchestra which did Karajan's Beethoven cycle a scarce four years previous...!

[Wanderer]

I will join in the chorus of praise, and further, it has two imaginative and excellent fillers, Kurtág's Stele and Schönberg's Kol Nidre.  I really want to hear some others in Gielen's cycle.

--Bruce

I'm intrigued. This looks like a cycle worth collecting by getting the individual issues instead of the boxset; too many good "fillers"...

[not edward]

Revelatory readings: I can completely see why Guido thinks so highly of them.



Proof that it's possible to write an hour's worth of interesting avant-garde music for the double-bass. Crikey!

[karlhenning]

I will join in the chorus of praise, and further, it has two imaginative and excellent fillers, Kurtág's Stele and Schönberg's Kol Nidre.  I really want to hear some others in Gielen's cycle.

Well, I do consider that a temptation, Bruce.

[The new erato]

Last disc. Good performance and recording, perhaps some variation in the quality of the singers (a couple og heavy female voices), but overall very good. Very interesting music, gives a good perspective on Gluck from an italian perspective (1770) and also shows (perhaps) where some of Mozart opera serie were coming from.....

[Haffner]

ooOOOOOoooo...haven't heard that one!

[MN Dave]

I feel so Modern. 

[Haffner]

I feel so Modern. 

This is another I'm curious about.

Great pieces. You are JAHM-min'!

Thinking about playing my Arditti Schoenberg SQs.

[not edward]

I feel so Modern. 

The Brahms arrangement on there is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

I'm listening to the WP/Mehta account of Schmidt's great 4th symphony. Superlative.

[Haffner]

The Brahms arrangement on there is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

I'd say that sounds pretty darn fun! Now I'm really interested.

Now:

Mahler's 7th (Solti):

My second time ever hearing this Symphony, and I'm awed once again.

[BorisG]

ooOOOOOoooo...haven't heard that one!

Another for consideration, Mork & Lagerspetz. Prior to hearing this, my favorites were Rostropovich/Serkin, and Starker/Sebok.
I bought the Virgin double for the Grieg Cello Sonata with Mork & Thibaudet, and was pleasantly surprised by the Mork & Lagerspetz Brahms.

[Haffner]

Another for consideration, Mork & Lagerspetz. Prior to hearing this, my favorites were Rostropovich/Serkin, and Starker/Sebok.
I bought the Virgin double for the Grieg Cello Sonata with Mork & Thibaudet, and was pleasantly surprised by the Mork & Lagerspetz Brahms.

If you're liking it better than Rostropovich, that's saying quite a bit in my opinion.

[BorisG]

If you're liking it better than Rostropovich, that's saying quite a bit in my opinion.

I was surprised, but it is not the first time a legendary recording has been dethroned.

[Renfield]

I'm intrigued. This looks like a cycle worth collecting by getting the individual issues instead of the boxset; too many good "fillers"...

If it weren't for the price, I'd have done the same.

But even the Mahler "plain" is enough for me, being as good as it is, with Gielen.


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I expected this early Lenny cycle of these symphonies to be good...

But it's awesome. Literally. Highly recommended, so far as the 4th and 5th Symphonies I've heard up to this point go.

[Haffner]

If it weren't for the price, I'd have done the same.

But even the Mahler "plain" is enough for me, being as good as it is, with Gielen.


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I expected this early Lenny cycle of these symphonies to be good...

But it's awesome. Literally. Highly recommended, so far as the 4th and 5th Symphonies I've heard up to this point go.

I'l be gettting that one, then!

[BorisG]

I'l be gettting that one, then!

You might like to add to your purchase, the ferocious 1958 4.

[Haffner]

You might like to add to your purchase, the ferocious 1958 4.

A separate performance from the above box set?

Now: Beethoven op.130 (Vegh)