What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Now listening to this one.

4,99 euro, at JPCde.

[springrite]

Time for Harry to purchase another werehouse.


Now listening:
Froberger Harpsichord Works (Leonhardt)

[Coopmv]

Good morning all.
Having a day off from work to celebrate the "discovery' of the New World by the original ethnic cleanser.

Now playing this CD ...

[Brian]

BEETHOVEN | Opp 109, 110, 111
Paul Komen

Hello, Gurn! 

[Coopmv]

Just completed listening to CD2 from this set by the Austrian composer Gottlieb Muffat, another set that arrived last week ...



Now playing another Glossa CD that arrived last week ...

[Harry]

This is a healthy dose of good music.

[Bulldog]

Gouvy Symphonies on CPO.  Nice works, but rather thin and not memorable.

[SonicMan46]

Now playing this CD ...

   

Stuart - I recently purchased her 1987 set (from BRO and inserted above) which is now on a 3-CD package produced by Regis; our own Bulldog provides a superb review of these performances (Hyperion from 1990) on MusicWeb HERE - 

Now, I also own the Naxos production w/ Konstantin Scherbakov - well done IMHO; but am now looking for Don to provide us some comments in the near future on yet another set of these works, now on Hanssler w/ Jenny Lin, a strong recommendation in one of the recent record guides!   

[Harry]

I am absolutely delighted with these works. Perfect chambermusic.

Some samples to hear.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Friedrich-Kiel-Klavierquartette-Nr-1-3/hnum/3492354

[Harry]

Gouvy Symphonies on CPO.  Nice works, but rather thin and not memorable.

Volume I, yes its on my list too, after hearing some excellent chamberworks from his hands.
I hope to order that soon.

[Brian]

Listening to DSCH 5 and 9, Liverpool and Petrenko.

Somebody alert Karl to the text in the photo below...

(Petrenko and the RLPO have also recorded Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead, Paganini Rhapsody and Rachmaninov Third Concerto, though he won't say who the pianist was...)

Vasily Petrenko's blog is wonderful. I also learned that, on one occasion, his young son Sasha found his bag and stole his baton, so that night Petrenko conducted stick-free. 

[Que]

Some more attentive listening to this set, I feel a further post with comments is imminent.

Q

[Harry]

A unknown master, that is unjustly forgotten, in my humble opinion. Good music making, and excellent recording. The second movement of the opus 20 duly opens in B major, and what a dramatic impact it has. And than followed meditatively by the strings, the first violin con gran espressione, with a theme that is developed before a central B minor passage marked agitato. What a tranquillity, and again what impact. It moves me to tears.

Please listen to some samples of his mastery

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Ludwig-Thuille-Sextett-op-6-f-Klavier-Blasinstrumente/hnum/6130263

[Brian]

Second listen. My favorite Fifth Symphony is still Yakov Kreizberg's on PentaTone, which has a far fiercer second movement and some really ferocious brass playing, but as for the Ninth - well, there's nothing quite like Vasily Petrenko letting his Liverpool orchestra go totally bananas in that finale...!

Nice font on the cover design.

[Harry]

Second listen. My favorite Fifth Symphony is still Yakov Kreizberg's on PentaTone, which has a far fiercer second movement and some really ferocious brass playing, but as for the Ninth - well, there's nothing quite like Vasily Petrenko letting his Liverpool orchestra go totally bananas in that finale...!

Nice font on the cover design.

Brian my friend, non of the pictures you post show up on my screen.

[Brian]

Brian my friend, non of the pictures you post show up on my screen.

I hope this one works?

[George]

Some more attentive listening to this set, I feel a further post with comments is imminent.

Q

That would be appreciated, Q! 

[Bulldog]

Volume I, yes its on my list too, after hearing some excellent chamberworks from his hands.
I hope to order that soon.

Just don't expect those two Gouvy symphonies to be as compelling as his chamber recordings.

[Coopmv]

Stuart - I recently purchased her 1987 set (from BRO and inserted above) which is now on a 3-CD package produced by Regis; our own Bulldog provides a superb review of these performances (Hyperion from 1990) on MusicWeb HERE - 

Not sure if Nikolayeva might have recorded the 24 preludes twice.  At any rate, I have a good number of her recordings and like her style - a very natural flowing without exaggeration style. 

[Brian]

Not sure if Nikolayeva might have recorded the 24 preludes twice.  At any rate, I have a good number of her recordings and like her style - a very natural flowing without exaggeration style. 

There's a bit of confusion here. You've got the 24 preludes; Dave has the 24 preludes and fugues. Two very different works with two different opus numbers.