What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[ChamberNut]

Brahms

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Intermezzi, Op. 117

Emanuel Ax
Sony Classical

[DavidRoss]

Mozart, "Prague" Symphony #38 -- Abbado/Orchestra Mozart  

[George]

My goal this year is to get to know more about some Dutch performers and ensembles.  I have a good number of recordings by Leonhardt and van Asperen and of course RCO both on CD and on LP.  However, my exposure to Dutch chamber groups is practically nil.  The following Haydn Piano Trios is now on my shopping list for July ...

I suggest that you sample both sets (that one and the Beaux Arts Trio set) before making any decisions. Unless you want both, of course. 

From what I heard, I liked both set, but I found the Beaux Arts was clearly more to my liking. More introspective, lush and the sound quality is excellent. 

[Dr. Dread]

vasary chopin yada yada...

[Christo]

the original issue, and my first introduction into Holmboe - a revelation! (for me, at least)

[Franco]

Beethoven: The 32 Sonatas: (Disk 4) Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 1
Wilhelm Backhaus



Next up: Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"

[ChamberNut]

but I found the Beaux Arts was clearly more to my liking. More introspective, lush and the sound quality is excellent. 

I heart lush.  0:)

[George]

Beethoven: The 32 Sonatas: (Disk 4) Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 1
Wilhelm Backhaus



Next up: Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"

What do think of Backhaus's Beethoven?

[Haffner]

Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony no.'s 3 and 9 (HvK 1962)

[Dr. Dread]

[Opus106]

MLM

Béla Bartók
String Quartet No. 6 in D major, Sz. 114
Emerson String Quartet

[Dr. Dread]

Man, I listen to something off the beaten path and I get no cred. 

[Opus106]

Very good, Dave.

[Dr. Dread]

Very good, Dave.

Don't patronize me! 

[Opus106]

All right. Give us you first(?) reaction, then.

As for me, I'm going off the path I take daily and was taken in by all this mesto stuff. This is still crazy man music.

[karlhenning]

As for me, I'm going off the path I take daily and was taken in by all this mesto stuff. This is still crazy man music.

That's in my Zone, dude!

[Dr. Dread]

All right. Give us you first(?) reaction, then.

My first reaction is that I want to hear it again, only louder than I can play it at work.

[Franco]

Bach: Cantatas BWV 98 - 180 - 56 - 55
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken



Beautifully recorded, with small group, these recordings will prove to be a cycle I will collect.

[Lethevich]

the original issue, and my first introduction into Holmboe - a revelation! (for me, at least)

I admire his style a lot, I find it highly articulate, well-crafted and dramatic. I also enjoy the fusion of apparent neo-classicism with 20th century extended Romanticism. But once again, when I listened to this disc I realised that I am still having problems recalling which symphony is which - a problem I do not have with, for example, RVW or Langgaard, but they are perhaps unfair comparisons due to their continual stylistic renewal. I suppose that there is one way to solve this: listen to them more

[Fëanor]

Man, I listen to something off the beaten path and I get no cred.  

OK, nice going.  

I feel you, man.  Seemingly there are a lot of people around here who would rather hair-split over which of the 70,000 recorded versions of some late Romatic work is best rather than hear about anything new.