What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

Thanks Antoine for the many interesting YouTube. 

You're welcome, Coop.

While the SQ of this SACD set may be one of the best for Brandenburg Concertos, I am still in the wait-and-see camp when it comes to Richard Egarr and the AAM.  Only time will tell if he is a worthy successor to Christopher Hogwood who is not only an excellent harpsichordist and a renown musicologist who has appointments at both Cambridge and Harvard. 

If that is your point of view about Egarr, certainly this recording provides very fine arguments in favor of him. Not just the sound quality, but the music itself is crystal clear.

[FideLeo]

Partially supplies the justification for playing JSB's WTC on the organ. 

[Brian]

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 5
Yakov Kreizberg
Russian National Orchestra

[Que]

Partially supplies the justification for playing JSB's WTC on the organ. 

Morning, that is HIP, I presume? Not familiar with Fischer - interesting music?

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[mahler10th]

 

[Opus106]

Morning, John! Which symphony?

[FideLeo]

Morning, that is HIP, I presume? Not familiar with Fischer - interesting music?

This recording was made in 1985, and it was played on a (then) newly restored Schnitger
organ, so it is HIP to an extent.  But I don't find the performance to be that interesting.
(Or I should probably say that it is as interesting as Trevor Pinnock's Goldberg Variations
- those 1980s' HIP performances sound to me to be curiously straight-laced and earnest.)  
A pity really, given the importance of this music in baroque keyboard literature.



Consisting of twenty preludes and fugues in most major and minor keys plus five
ricercars on chorale tunes, this foretells the similar collections to come from JSB.  
Bach obviously knew this collection from 1702/15, and quoted Fischer's theme in the
same key for the E major fugue in Book II.

Other recordings of Fischer music include Luc Beausejour's 2 Volumes of Musical
Parnassus on Naxos (harpsichord) which I have not heard.

[val]

RAMEAU:    Suites of Dardanus & Les Boréades              / Orchestra of the 18th Century, Brüggen

The less convincing of Brüggen's recordings. There is no dynamic, the uniformity of the rhythm becomes very boring. Brüggen himself doesn't seem very familiar to this music. Gardiner or Minkowski in their recordings of this operas show how Rameau should be directed with all his rhythmic fantasy.

[mahler10th]

Morning, John! Which symphony?

5,7,9

Solti gave this music UPLIFTING POWER in a way which is not often portrayed.
Still...Naumann CPO for his finer interpretations, Tennstedt and Bernstien for passion, and Kubelik for poetic renderings.

This Solti / Mahler set makes my first full Mahler set since unfortunate events lost me almost all of my collecton a few months back...(minus Mahlers 10th, Solti didn't do it, but I have something from Cato to redress that balance).

For anyone coming to Mahler, Solti is a great place to start, and for anyone ending Mahler he's a fine place to finish too.

[bobby quine]

Allan Pettersson
Symphony no 16
Yuri Ahronovitch
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

[George]

Recital Rosenthal

(8 Mazurkas)

Moritz Rosenthal (piano)

Recorded in 1931, 1935, 1937

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I had the above at the start of a compilation, then a few Chopin recordings by Sofronitsky. Interesting thing was I was listening to this on the way to work and one performance really stood out and I thought to myself, wow, Rosenthal is incredible. When I looked down to see which track it was, it was Sofronitsky playing a Nocturne! It was one of those "time stands still" moments. I hadn't thought that I liked Sofronitsky all that much, but I guess I should be looking into more of his stuff.

[Drasko]

RAMEAU:    Suites of Dardanus & Les Boréades              / Orchestra of the 18th Century, Brüggen

The less convincing of Brüggen's recordings. There is no dynamic, the uniformity of the rhythm becomes very boring. Brüggen himself doesn't seem very familiar to this music. Gardiner or Minkowski in their recordings of this operas show how Rameau should be directed with all his rhythmic fantasy.

Completely agreed! Couldn't believe how grey and dull those Bruggen performances were when first heard them. Actually went and compared some of the pieces with Minkowski's Une symphonie imaginaire disc, level of alertness, color and zest with Minkowski were incomparable. Sounded like different music. Ditched that Bruggen disc after few spins.



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[karlhenning]

Thank you for that! 

I see that both the Jansons and Ančerl are available from ArkivMusic as "ArkivCD" reissues.

Delighted to be of service to you, neighbor!

I have the original single-disc release of the Jansons, which includes a splendid rendition of the Shostakovich orchestration of Musorgsky's Songs & Dances of Death. So I am hoping this is what the "ArkivCD" reissue may be!

[karlhenning]

I think it's the greatest symphony of the 20th century.    I haven't heard Ancerl but very much want to . . . .

Probably, the metronome marking that Shostakovich inked for the second movement is impossibly fast for any orchestra.  But Ančerl and the Czech Phil make an exhilirating attempt at it!

Edit :: typo

[not edward]

Which orchestra with Zinman?  Tonhalle Zurich or Baltimore SO?

Tonhalle Zurich. I have the same issue with his Schumann that I do with his Beethoven with the same orchestra; the tempi are exciting but the phrasing and shaping of the works feel undercharacterized to me.

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony № 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[karlhenning]

Again, for present comparison purposes:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony № 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
ii. Allegro
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[karlhenning]

And now:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony № 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
ii. Allegro
Moscow Phil
Kirill Petrovich

[Opus106]

Please be more informative and mention the exact bar. Thank you.



Thread duty:

Jean-Philippe Rameau
L'Entretien des Muses
Gustav Leonhardt

[Dr. Dread]