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Que

#69680
July 31, 2010, 01:43:47 AM
Quote from: Antoine Marchand on July 30, 2010, 07:32:39 PM
This excellent, really excellent, 3-CD set of Mozart's Violin Concertos (it also includes the Sinfonia Concertante K. 364 and the Concertone K. 190):



BTW, nice price on AMAZON MARKETPLACE.  :)

Interesting! :)

Any comparisons to Leertouwer or Zehetmair/Brüggen? I recall that fltraverso/Masolino found it quite nice but not definitive.

Q

Mirror Image

#69681
July 31, 2010, 01:55:33 AM
Quote from: Sid on July 30, 2010, 07:24:27 PMI remember on TC you often would judge a composer (Ligeti & Frank Martin in particular) without having heard much of their music at all.

All I can say in defense of this is that people's tastes do change, Sid, but one thing that has never changed is my own general view of music, which I have had developed for years now. I would say that now I'm much more open than I was in the past to music that is different (i. e. serialism, minimalism).

It's okay if you don't like late-Romanticism (I love it as you know), but remember the old adage: Another man's junk is another man's treasure.

Harry

#69682
July 31, 2010, 02:41:02 AM Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 03:13:33 AM by Que
Heinrich Schutz.
Musicalia ad Chorum Sacrum, das ist, "Geistliche Chor Music opus 11, Dresden 1648, SWV 369-397, Volume I.
CD 5.

I sang praises over this set many times so I will refrain from this now. Let me hope that some of the info I gave about this wonderful set have sink into the minds of some GMG ers. ;D

Sergeant Rock

#69683
July 31, 2010, 02:48:15 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 30, 2010, 07:05:35 PM
It was that boring?     :o

No, not at all. I meant it ironically. In another thread a forum member had characterized Siegfried as a "snoozefest." I don't agree with that assessment.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Lethevich

#69684
July 31, 2010, 04:14:53 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on July 30, 2010, 05:26:01 AM
I see what you meant, Sara. I just listened to the version with Boult conducting Vienna State Opera Orchestra... perhaps not an English band, but a band it certainly was. :)
Your memory scares me :P
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Harry

#69685
July 31, 2010, 05:40:11 AM
Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck.
Third Book of Psalms Davids.
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der Kamp.
CD I. Comes with a very informative and colorful book, (In Dutch only)
Not available commercially until some time later, so I have no image

As with the previously three volumes the quality is high as ever. The singing cannot be faulted, and if it comes to interpretation and performance there is no competitor.

Coopmv

#69686
July 31, 2010, 06:27:08 AM
Now playing CD10 - Piano Concertos by Liszt and Chopin, the last CD from this set for a first listen ...

SonicMan46

#69687
July 31, 2010, 07:06:37 AM
Martinu - String Quartets w/ Panocha Quartet - finishing up the last 2 discs this morning!  :)

mc ukrneal

#69688
July 31, 2010, 07:14:14 AM
Not a ho-hum(mel) disc at all! A favorite and wonderful performance...
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Antoine Marchand

#69689
July 31, 2010, 07:21:35 AM Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 08:28:26 AM by Antoine Marchand
Quote from: ukrneal on July 31, 2010, 07:14:14 AM
Not a ho-hum(mel) disc at all! A favorite and wonderful performance...


A wonderful disc, indeed.  :)

Coopmv

#69690
July 31, 2010, 07:51:12 AM
On a sweep, I bought all the Rosalyn Tureck's Bach recordings on VAI from Presto, which arrived yesterday.  Now playing this CD for a first listen ...

Sergeant Rock

#69691
July 31, 2010, 07:59:46 AM
Sibelius Sixth, Maazel, Pittsburgh




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Coopmv

#69692
July 31, 2010, 08:05:28 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 31, 2010, 07:59:46 AM
Sibelius Sixth, Maazel, Pittsburgh




Sarge

The CD cover looks like a picture of the Norwegian fjord ...    ;)

Sergeant Rock

#69693
July 31, 2010, 08:19:17 AM
Sibelius Sixth, Davis, Boston




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Coopmv

#69694
July 31, 2010, 08:21:52 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 31, 2010, 08:19:17 AM
Sibelius Sixth, Davis, Boston




Sarge

This is a wonderul recording I have on both CD and LP.  IMO, this may be better than Colin Davis' later recordings with RCA.

Antoine Marchand

#69695
July 31, 2010, 08:25:02 AM
Quote from: Que on July 31, 2010, 01:43:47 AM
Interesting! :)

Any comparisons to Leertouwer or Zehetmair/Brüggen? I recall that fltraverso/Masolino found it quite nice but not definitive.

Q

Well, my favorite versions of these concertos (on period instruments) are Zehetmair/Brüggen and Terakado/Kuijken. I wouldn't choose just one because, IMO, both versions are exceptional; the first one probably more expressive, the latter superbly well balanced in a Classical way.

karlhenning

#69696
July 31, 2010, 08:25:17 AM
Quote from: Luke on July 30, 2010, 01:28:39 PM
Ah! That recording (the only one I tend to listen to, in fact) - what do you make of it, Karl? Intense, I think, hardly begins to cover it, but that's just IMO

I'm in a kind of stillness yet over it, and don't feel I can say aught.  Will listen again a bit later today.

Sergeant Rock

#69697
July 31, 2010, 08:26:44 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 31, 2010, 08:05:28 AM
The CD cover looks like a picture of the Norwegian fjord ...    ;)


I don't know what it is. The presentation, box and booklet, is ultra minimal: just the bare essentials, track listing, etc in a twelve page booklet, four of those pages completely blank. No picture credit given.  The photo is very atmospheric though. I like it.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Coopmv

#69698
July 31, 2010, 08:30:39 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 31, 2010, 08:26:44 AM

I don't know what it is. The presentation, box and booklet, is ultra minimal: just the bare essentials, track listing, etc in a twelve page booklet, four of those pages completely blank. No picture credit given.  The photo is very atmospheric though. I like it.

Sarge

I was in Norway a number of years ago and took the ferry across some fjords and the landscape shown on your CD cover looks very similar to what I experienced and Sibelius was a Scandinavian composer ...

Sergeant Rock

#69699
July 31, 2010, 08:31:14 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 31, 2010, 08:21:52 AM
This is a wonderul recording I have on both CD and LP.

I think so too. You know, though, we're probably the only two here to feel that way ;)  Colin Davis gets no respect around these parts.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"
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