What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Heard no clanking oboe keys.  But did hear a very good performance--I had forgotten how much I like the Sixth.   Now listening to the Weller--so far, a little more restrained.  Ozawa was a man complaining about horrible things are.  Weller seems to be merely a man complaining how horrible things are compared to when he was a kid.

Thank you!  I, too, hear a directness in Ozawa's presentation which is the reverse (or, one possible reverse) of "politeness."

[Keemun]

I am on it like fleas on a prairie dog!

Now:

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - Symphonies w/ Mackerras + Scottish CO & Philharmonia Orch - OH VEY!  Do I need another Beethoven cycle; well in honor of the late Sir Charles (own his first cycle, too) - just getting started w/ the first disc - superb performances, and for 'live recordings' not a peep of audience noise!  Me thinks that this will be an enjoyable listening experience - 

[Franco]

Brahms: The Piano Quartets
Leopold String Trio, Marc-André Hamelin



These performances are wonderful, and the pieces themselves are not bad either. 

Right now, just finishing #1, Op. 25, in G Minor.

[Harry]

Delight in Disorder.
The English Consort of Two Parts, 1640-1680.
English Baroque Music from the 17th Century, for Recorder & Harpsichord.

William & Henry Lawes, Nicola Matteis, Matthew Locke,Henry Purcell.

Pedro Memelsdorff, Recorder.
Andreas Staier, Harpsichord.
CD 37.



Delightful music, well played and recorded

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays!  (Because I didn't quite make it to Scene iv yesterday . . . .)

Wagner
Das Rheingold
Scene iv
Karl Böhm, conductor
(recorded live at the 1971 Bayreuth Festival)

Wagner – The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

[Harry]

Jean Philippe Rameau.
Hippolyte et Aricie.
Orchestral Suite.

La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken.
CD 38.



A wonderful rendition, well done.

[Sergeant Rock]

Wagner, Die Walküre, Act III




Sarge

[Franco]

Dallapiccola: Solo Piano Music
Mariaclara Monetti



A fantastic collection of little known (at least to me) piano works.  Dallapiccola is a composer that has interested me but I had never heard his piano music.

[not edward]

On first listening, I'm most impressed with the Panocha Quartet in these works.

[karlhenning]

Clackety Oboe Watch!!

Сергей Сергеевич [Sergei Sergeyevich]
Symphony № 6 in e-flat minor, Opus 111 (1945-47)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ozawa

Prokofiev – 7 Symphonies, Поручик Киже

Do you know, if I listen very hard, and concentrate upon hearing such things, yes, I can make out the faint sound of the oboe's keys. No, it doesn't 'overbalance' the rest of the orchestra.  Hurwitz needs to get out more.

[Franco]

He must really hate Glenn Gould's humming.

[Scarpia]

Do you know, if I listen very hard, and concentrate upon hearing such things, yes, I can make out the faint sound of the oboe's keys. No, it doesn't 'overbalance' the rest of the orchestra.  Hurwitz needs to get out more.

Hurwitz' statement is obvious hyperbole.  But it suggests to me that it is in the category of recordings which were close-miked and obtrusively over-engineered, which is fairly typical of DG from that time period.  It is something that mars a lot of Karajan's recordings on DG which might otherwise have been truly spectacular.   That and a general lack of enthusiasm for Ozawa put the kibosh on my plans to get these recordings, especially since I own two Prokofiev cycles as yet un-listened-to. 

[Brahmsian]

especially since I own two Prokofiev cycles as yet un-listened-to.

Which ones?

[karlhenning]

Clackety Oboe Watch!!

Сергей Сергеевич [Sergei Sergeyevich]
Symphony № 6 in e-flat minor, Opus 111 (1945-47)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ozawa

Prokofiev – 7 Symphonies, Поручик Киже

All that wants adding at present is, that here is a heart-stoppingly good account of the first movement.

Pity Hurwitz doesn't have ears for that.

[bhodges]

Listening to--and watching--a recital by violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Nicholas Angelich, taped July 28 at the Verbier Festival:

Schulhoff: Sonata No. 2 (for solo violin) - A discovery, quite amazing.
Schnittke: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano - Wow, this received a huge ovation and "bravos" from the audience.
Mendelssohn: Lieder, arr. violin and piano
Walton: Sonata for violin and piano

--Bruce

[Scarpia]

Which ones?

Jarvi and Gergiev

[karlhenning]

Сергей Сергеевич [Sergei Sergeyevich]
Symphony № 6 in e-flat minor, Opus 111 (1945-47)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ozawa

Prokofiev – 7 Symphonies, Поручик Киже

Ozawa brings the same vital tenderness to the second movement which characterizes his recording wtih the BSO of Romeo & Juliet.  I have not heard a great many recordings of the Opus 111; but this one is, by a wide margin, the most intense and satisfying of those I've heard.

[karlhenning]

Hurwitz' statement is obvious hyperbole.  But it suggests to me that it is in the category of recordings which were close-miked and obtrusively over-engineered, which is fairly typical of DG from that time period.  It is something that mars a lot of Karajan's recordings on DG which might otherwise have been truly spectacular.   That and a general lack of enthusiasm for Ozawa put the kibosh on my plans to get these recordings, especially since I own two Prokofiev cycles as yet un-listened-to.

I applaud that your mind is open to giving the Ozawa a try all the same, Scarps.

[George]

I applaud that your mind is open to giving the Ozawa a try all the same, Scarps.

Don't stop clapping yet.