What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[MN Dave]

Chopin
12 Etudes, op. 25
Pollini

[kishnevi]

Now playing this CD from my Beethoven collection.  The only CD recording by Furtwangler I have, the rest are on LP.  The asking price is just under $83 on Amazon ...   

I have to ask--what's so special about this particular issue?  Leather bound liner notes?  As part of the GROC series, it's $11.99.

[CD]

First listen

André Jolivet - Cello Concertos 1 and 2, Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, Suite en concert for solo cello

[Conor71]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 In Eb Major, Op. 127

[Que]

See comments HERE.

Q

[Wanderer]

[Sergeant Rock]

A choice of hosts (Zshare lets you stream the original file uncompressed):

http://rapidshare.com/files/343530270/schu13mov1terp.mp3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FSMWA16F
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/wofnimkg8
http://www.zshare.net/audio/71899087b5e43f42/
http://www.easy-share.com/1909150306/schu13mov1terp.mp3

I used a multi uploader, so it wasn't any effort on my part

Thanks, Lethe

Sarge

[Valentino]

I downloaded it too, Lethe. Thanks. Shall report back.

[Que]

Q

[Coopmv]

I love the Mosaïques Rosamunde. The hugely assured, measured and glassy style gives it a wonderfully frigid sound - like something beautiful frozen under ice. While the performance isn't "cold", none the less the slender profile and the lack of roughness gives it this feel - a certain untouchable quality. It's a mile away from the Quatuor Terpsycordes, which is the most jarringly weird sounding Schubert I have heard. It's good, but it will take me some listens to get used to the balance - it sounds as if the music has been turned inside out.

Re. the Mosaïques - it's also quite some feat to make the first movement reach 15 minutes in length

Interesting cover art for the second CD for sure ...

[Coopmv]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 In Eb Major, Op. 127

How do you like the set?  I zipped through mine about a year ago way too fast but finding time to get back to a big box is never easy.

[Coopmv]

I have to ask--what's so special about this particular issue?  Leather bound liner notes?  As part of the GROC series, it's $11.99.

I am clueless how pricing is determined on Amazon.  I guess scarcity determine the price.  People are generally fond of the original release for some reason, even though the remastering of the re-release may be better. 

[MN Dave]

Taking a cue from our Que.

Bach
Cantata "Ich habe genug" BWV 82
Hotter/Philharmonia Orch/Bernard

[SonicMan46]

For this quiet 'snowed-in' Sunday morning (at least the local & NY Times papers were delivered!) - a new acquisition of early Baroque Italian music which was highly recommended in the forum:

Fontana, Cima, & Turini w/ Monica Huggett & Ensemble Sonnerie on the inexpensive Virgin x2 label - 2CD set w/ mostly music by Giovanni Fonata (c.1571-c.1630) - a delight for me!   

[pi2000]

Very,very rare!!!
Enesco conducts:

Gabriel FAURÉ
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Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80 – Fileuses

Claude DEBUSSY
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Please visit this site and download:
http://quartier-des-archives.blogspot.com/
Thank you Benoit D.

[Antoine Marchand]

Fine performances, marvelous instrument:

J.S. Bach - Complete Concertos for Solo Harpsichord (Complete)
Elizabeth Farr
2 CDs
Naxos
Recorded at Ploger Hall, Manchester, Michigan, USA, August 2008
Producer: Wolfgang Rübsam
Booklet notes: Elizabeth Farr
Cover image: Harpsichord decoration and photo by Keith Hill

From the booklet:

"Among the wealth of works composed during his Weimar period, J. S. Bach made 22 keyboard transcriptions of concertos by Italian and German composers: six for two keyboards and pedal (BWV 592–596) and sixteen for keyboard (BWV 972–987), the latter of which are recorded here by multiaward-winning harpsichordist Elizabeth Farr. Complementing these masterful transcriptions is the Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV894, which Bach later reworked as the opening and closing movements
of his Triple Concerto BWV1044. Farr's other Naxos recordings have been universally praised".
-- Naxos

"For this recording, a large two-manual harpsichord was used with the disposition 16'8'8'4' and two buff stops, built by Keith Hill. The availability of 16' sound lends a power and grandeur that is reminiscent of the Baroque string orchestra, energetic and fiery, and the presence of two buff stops offers additional variety for more delicate expressions".
-- Elizabeth Farr

"Harpsichords built with a 16' set of strings, sounding one octave lower than 8' strings, still exist from the eighteenth century, although rare. They were undoubtedly expensive for musicians to afford, and the addition of a 16' set of strings complicates the construction of a harpsichord such that some makers would have avoided building them. Yet it is known that these instruments were available in the Baroque era and probably made as early as the sixteenth century. As the maker of the harpsichord used in this recording, I wanted to hear the acoustic effect of extending a Ruckers type harpsichord in size by adding a 16' stop with its own soundboard in the manner of Hass. The majesty, breadth, depth, richness and power of a 16' harpsichord create the only sound appropriate for music of composers whose conception of music was universal. Bach's music is breathtaking when played on a good-sounding 16' harpsichord, as demonstrated in this recording. Naturally, not every piece Bach wrote demands this particular resource, but when one does ask for it, its value cannot be overestimated".
-- Keith Hill

Tracklist:

CD 1 (76:26)
1-3 Concerto in D major, BWV 972 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV230) 8:10
4-6 Concerto in G major, BWV 973 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV299) 7:58
7-9 Concerto in G minor, BWV 975 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV316) 8:56
10-12 Concerto in C major, BWV 976 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV265) 10:53
13-15 Concerto in F major, BWV 978 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV310) 7:31
16-18 Concerto in G major, BWV 980 (after Antonio Vivaldi, RV381) 9:53
19-21 Concerto in C major, BWV 977 (after an unknown composer) 7:19
22-24 Concerto in G minor, BWV 983 (after an unknown composer) 8:58
25-27 Concerto in G major, BWV 986 (after an unknown composer) 6:20

CD 2 (74:09)
1-6 Concerto in B minor, BWV 979 (after Giuseppe Torelli) 12:13
7-9 Concerto in D minor, BWV 974 (after Alessandro Marcello) 8:44
10-13 Concerto in C minor, BWV 981 (after Benedetto Marcello, Op. 1, No. 2) 8:55
14-16 Concerto in B flat major, BWV 982 (after Johann Ernst, Op. 1, No. 1) 8:42
17-19 Concerto in C major, BWV 984 (after Johann Ernst) 8:27
20-23 Concerto in D minor, BWV 987 (after Johann Ernst, Op. 1, No. 4) 7:05
24-26 Concerto in G minor, BWV 985 (after G. Philipp Telemann, TWV51: g21) 7:28
27-28 Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894 12:08

[Sergeant Rock]

M6, Levi/Atlanta, one of the best of his Mahler cycle. The sound quality is excellent if one likes clarity. The percussion really makes an impact in this recording and I don't mean just the obvious hammerblows and bass drum but the quiet, coloristic effects too.




Sarge

[The new erato]

Arnell's 3rd on Dutton:



Outstanding! Echoes of Nielsen.

[listener]

BRITTEN  (Solo) Cello Suites      Tim Hugh   on Naxos
BRUHNS  and HANFF     Christoph Albrecht    The Papenius organ in the Marienkirche, Belzig is not very large, but is remarkably clear voiced, has a solid bass and a clear but not shrill sound from the higher-pitched pipes.  The mean-tone tuning sounds great. The recording is spacious but is close enough to pick up a lot of tracker noise.     Bruhns was a pupil of Buxtehude and his fugues have a similar feel of a well-organized ramble.    This is one of my favourie discs,

[The new erato]