What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Schubert

Sonata in B flat major D960, in repeat.

Should we infer that Schiff finally clicked for you?

[Harry]

Should we infer that Schiff finally clicked for you?

He plays differently in this sonata Andrei, more poetically, and with a certain sense of direction, but there is also a tendency to play too loud, hammering as it where the notes out. I am wondering about that, so I play it again with the score next to me, to figure out what he really does, and how much freedom he takes in telling the story. But it did not click yet.

[Florestan]

He plays differently in this sonata Andrei, more poetically, and with a certain sense of direction, but there is also a tendency to play too loud, hammering as it where the notes out. I am wondering about that, so I play it again with the score next to me, to figure out what he really does, and how much freedom he takes in telling the story. But it did not click yet.

Which is your favourite pianist when it comes to Schubert?

[Harry]

Which is your favourite pianist when it comes to Schubert?

That would be Michael Endres who recorded all the sonatas on Capriccio from 1995 onwards.
I will play them after Schiff.

[George]

Should we infer that Schiff finally clicked for you?

Morning!

I was wondering the same thing. 

[val]

Regarding the D. 960 I never heard Endres. To me Rudolf Serkin, Clifford Curzon and, in certain moments, Clara Haskil are my favorites. They always click for me  .

[Harry]

Ferdinando Carulli.
Complete Works for Guitar and Fortepiano.
Volume I.
Massimo Palumbo, plays on a original fortepiano Felix Gross, Wien 1812.
Leopoldo Saracino, plays on a original guitar Gaetano Guadagnini, 1820.
Recorded in August 2002 in Milan, Assunta Church.

Highly original works, not often encountered on CD. And now the complete works in excellent performances and a good enough recording.

[Harry]

And if Carulli is recorded now could we also have the works from say: Johann Andreas Amon, Leonard von Call, Wilhelm Neuland, Guillaume Gatayes, Louis Aubery du Boulley, usw....

[George]

[ChamberNut]

Shostakovich

*String Quartet # 4 in D major, op.83

Eder Quartet
Naxos

*Repeat listen after last night's listen.  Love this quartet!  Especially the gorgeous second movement and the third movement (ostinato! ostinato!)  Mr. Shostakovich, I have a fever, and the only prescription is more ostinato! 

[George]

Yes, those Shostakovich Quartets are a treasure. 

[ChamberNut]

Shostakovich

String Quartet # 6 in G major, op.101
String Quartet # 7 in F sharp minor, op.108

Eder Qt
Naxos

[DavidRoss]

Yesterday afternoon/evening:

Beethoven, "Pastoral" Symphony, Barenboim/SB
Mahler, 5 Rückertlieder, Urmana/Boulez/WP
Bach, Partitas for solo violin, Zehetmair
Rachmaninoff, Preludes, Osborne

This morning, so far:
Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Upshaw/Zinman/St. Luke's

edit:  followed by John Williams's compilation disc, Romance of the Guitar

[Henk]

disc 1-2

[jlaurson]

Bach Cantatas for the complete Liturgical Year    Volume 8, BWV 13, 73, 81, 144 "Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen" Accent SACD 25308

The excellence continues. OVPP might be silly as an ideology, but Bach sure can be made to sound mighty fine with it.

[DavidW]

The excellence continues. OVPP might be silly as an ideology, but Bach sure can be made to sound mighty fine with it.

Well this is going to sound stupid, but are there recordings that don't do OVPP?  I've only heard it that way.

[jlaurson]

Well this is going to sound stupid, but are there recordings that don't do OVPP?  I've only heard it that way.

One Voice Per Part? As far as I know ONLY the Purcell Quartet and Kuijken are working on larger sets (if not cycles, outright) that are strictly OVPP. Gardiner, Koopman, Harnoncourt/Leonhardt, certainly Richter, Rilling, and the Leipzig cycles are not OVPP... Suzuki comes closest, but he, too, doesn't do strict OVPP.

[bhodges]

Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy (Antal Dorati/Concertgebouw, live recording, March 15, 1984) - Sensational.

--Bruce

[DavidW]

One Voice Per Part? As far as I know ONLY the Purcell Quartet and Kuijken are working on larger sets (if not cycles, outright) that are strictly OVPP. Gardiner, Koopman, Harnoncourt/Leonhardt, certainly Richter, Rilling, and the Leipzig cycles are not OVPP... Suzuki comes closest, but he, too, doesn't do strict OVPP.

Oh I see, Suzuki is what I'm used to.  Even if he's not strict OVPP, it sounds a little too sparse to my taste.

[ChamberNut]

Wagner

Siegfried - Act I

Siegfried - Reiner Goldberg
Mime - Heinz Zednik
Wanderer - James Morris

James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DG