What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

I may have to make due with this one, on hand:

Gielen's got to be good;  I love his Moses und Aron.

[Mirror Image]

Now:


Quite possibly one of the greatest Honegger recordings I've heard. This performance of "Symphony No. 2" is the best version I've heard. Blows away all the competition: Zinman, Dutoit, and Plasson.

[jlaurson]

Try Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. Seriously! I cannot stop air conducting when I listen to it. I'm moved to dance, also, but with the most music of the Second Viennese School it's essential to be blessed with one leg shorter than the other in order to properly execute the difficult steps. Alas, I was born normal.

Playing now, my favorite recording of one of my favorite works of degeneracy and ugliness:

I may have to make due with this one, on hand:

Of the two, I much prefer Boulez/Uchida. Much more romantic and sensuous than Gielen/Brendel. I love having the latter, admittedly... but more because I always think it should be so great and might yet reveal itself to me... not because I like it better. :-)

[Sergeant Rock]

Gielen's got to be good;  I love his Moses und Aron.

I bought Gielen's Moses but haven't heard it yet (Boulez and Solti have been long-time favorites). I'll make it part of the Marathon.

I own four versions of the Piano Concerto: Brendel/Kubelik, Gould/Craft, Serkin/Boulez and Uchida/Boulez. I didn't fall in love with the work until I heard Uchida. Jens is right about her sensuous, romantic approach. It's irresistible (well, maybe Teresa could resist  )  This is as close to Schoenberg as Brahms as we're likely to get.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

I own four versions of the Piano Concerto: Brendel/Kubelik, Gould/Craft, Serkin/Boulez and Uchida/Boulez.

Not Oldfather/Craft, Sarge?

[Opus106]

Try Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. Seriously! I cannot stop air conducting when I listen to it. I'm moved to dance, also, but with the most music of the Second Viennese School it's essential to be blessed with one leg shorter than the other in order to properly execute the difficult steps. Alas, I was born normal.

Playing now, my favorite recording of one of my favorite works of degeneracy and ugliness:



Sarge

It must be the hour of the night;  YouTubing the same recording as I type, and the music hasn't really made me close the tab or anything... so far.

[Sergeant Rock]

Not Oldfather/Craft, Sarge?

No, Gould. It was recorded in 1961 with the CBC Symphony, Craft conducting. It's part of Sony's Gould Edition.

Now that Naxos has boxed up the Craft Schoenberg CDs (thanks to Mirror Image for pointing that out) I'm tempted to buy the two volumes even though I'd duplicate a few CDs.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

It must be the hour of the night;  YouTubing the same recording as I type, and the music hasn't really made me close the tab or anything... so far.

Cool

Sarge

[karlhenning]

. . . YouTubing the same recording as I type. . . .

Glad you didn't double the b, a hypothetical process which probably would not reflect well on the recording . . . .

[Scarpia]

Now:


Quite possibly one of the greatest Honegger recordings I've heard. This performance of "Symphony No. 2" is the best version I've heard. Blows away all the competition: Zinman, Dutoit, and Plasson.

I agree it blows away the competition you gave it, but it doesn't blow away the best.



I love Karajan's Honegger 3, but the Honegger 2 on that release is not on the same high standard, as I hear it.

[Sergeant Rock]

The Arnie/Felix Marathon continues with Bartholdy's String Quartet in F minor, Op.80, a work which, like late Mozart, makes one wish the composer had lived much, much longer.



Sarge

[Scarpia]

The Arnie/Felix Marathon continues with Bartholdy's String Quartet in F minor, Op.80, a work which, like late Mozart, makes one wish the composer had lived much, much longer.



Sarge

Hmmmm.  I have a recording of the Mendelssohn quartets, but I think it sucks.   Cherubini quartet on EMI.

[Sergeant Rock]

Hmmmm.  I have a recording of the Mendelssohn quartets, but I think it sucks.   Cherubini quartet on EMI.

The quartets suck or the performances suck?

Sarge

[Scarpia]

The quartets suck or the performances suck?

How can I tell?  Presumably the performances.  I also recall having owned the Ysaye, which sucked big time.  You Leipziger's sound good, but cost a kings ransom, if I recall.

[Sergeant Rock]

How can I tell?  Presumably the performances.  I also recall having owned the Ysaye, which sucked big time.  You Leipziger's sound good, but cost a kings ransom, if I recall.

Yeah, they didn't come cheap but I like the way MDG records quartets. Lovely recordings from Leipzig and the Mandelring Quartet (my homies) too. It's hard to believe, though, that the Cherubini Quartet and Ysaye screwed up. Maybe the music just didn't appeal to you. I can't imagine you not liking the op.80 though.

Sarge

[Scarpia]

Yeah, they didn't come cheap but I like the way MDG records quartets. Lovely recordings from Leipzig and the Mandelring Quartet (my homies) too. It's hard to believe, though, that the Cherubini Quartet and Ysaye screwed up. Maybe the music just didn't appeal to you. I can't imagine you not liking the op.80 though.

MDG is tops in chamber music recordings, and I like the recordings I have of the Leipzig.

Ysaye didn't have the intensity I was looking (well, listening) for.  Cherubini seems shrill, maybe EMI is at fault.  Maybe I should pick up one disc of the Leipsig series, the one with Opus 80. 

[not edward]

I agree it blows away the competition you gave it, but it doesn't blow away the best.



I love Karajan's Honegger 3, but the Honegger 2 on that release is not on the same high standard, as I hear it.

Baudo is good, and clearly better than Karajan, but BSO/Munch is something else (the 5th is also amazing):



If second-hand copies aren't available, it's buyable as an ArkivCD.

[Bulldog]

Just listened to a Capriccio disc of Schubert hymns.  Probably haven't heard this one for over 10 years, but I found it very enjoyable.  Great upbeat music and performances, especially on the part of Peter Schreier and Magdalena Hajossyova. 

[Scarpia]

Baudo is good, and clearly better than Karajan, but BSO/Munch is something else (the 5th is also amazing):



If second-hand copies aren't available, it's buyable as an ArkivCD.

I have this one



but I'm not big on Munch.

[not edward]

I have this one



but I'm not big on Munch.

Yeah, I don't have that one, but I have read that it's greatly inferior to the BSO version.