What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Conor71]

A beautiful pair of Discs!

[Antoine Marchand]

These days we have a new bonanza of Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin.

Now I am listening to a 4-CD set recently released on the Dutch label Et'cetera/Olive Music.

It's performed by the Dutch pianist Jeanette Koekkoek (I love that surname!) and the American violinist Sarah Kapustin. Apparently, they have performed these works for several years and with special success in the Indiana University Summer Music Festival (Koekkoek is a faculty member of the IU String Academy and Kapustin was a student there).

Too early for an opinion, but both of them play beautifully their modern instruments, with a good dose of complicity.



Recorded April 6/10 and September 30/ October 4, 2009. Recording Studio Valter Neri, Montevarchi, Italy.

BTW, this set is also recently available (an information, not a recommendation  ):

http://www.youtube.com/v/5WKmxgnCNA0

   

[Conor71]

Mozart: Symphonies 35-41 - Bohm/BPO

[Que]

Q

[Opus106]

Does anyone hear the C major Prelude (Book 1) in the second movement (accompaniment) of Beethoven's first violin sonata?

[Bogey]

Q

Thanks to your post, I may have to roll this one out, my friend!  *now I just need to convince my wife that these are Christmas sonatas*   

[Opus106]

Thanks to your post, I may have to roll this one out, my friend!  *now I just need to convince my wife that these are Christmas sonatas*   

Remember: if she asks you, it's the Violin Sonata in G minor, NOT "The Devil's Trill."

[George]

How does it compare to the recording he made with Previn/LSO

It's been awhile since I have heard the Previn (mostly because I didn't really like it), so all I can say is that I like this one more, though by no means would he be a first pick for a set of the concertos. Rudy/Jansons remain my favorite for a set of these works. They are available at budget price on EMI and Brilliant Classics.

[Coopmv]

Thanks to your post, I may have to roll this one out, my friend!  *now I just need to convince my wife that these are Christmas sonatas*   

Good morning Bill.

That Tartini CD on Zig Zag looks interesting ...

[Harry]

Another example of when its good its really good! Fine sound, and ditto performance.
From the big HM box.

[Antoine Marchand]

Rudy/Jansons remain my favorite for a set of these works. They are available at budget price on EMI and Brilliant Classics.

I have those discs on EMI -coupled with the symphonies-, but I prefer Earl Wild (Chandos, I don't know the recordings on Chesky) and Rafael Orozco ( my first love in these concertos). I have had for years those concertos performed by Ashkenazy, but I have never felt any affection for those discs.

Do you like Wild or Orozco in Rachmaninov, George? 

[springrite]

Another example of when its good its really good! Fine sound, and ditto performance.
From the big HM box.

Love that group. My good friend J. Bernfeld plays the Viol in that group.

[Harry]

Love that group. My good friend J. Bernfeld plays the Viol in that group.

Unfortunately this info is not on the CD cover, its all very sparse. But its the music that counts, and the rest I find on internet.

[Brian]

SIBELIUS | En Saga, Symphony No 5
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Leaper

Better than I expected. In fact, no need to patronize it. It's good. They're slightly out of synch in the last 2-3 bars of the first movement, though, and now I'm just beginning to hear the second. So it might go downhill in a hurry. 

[SonicMan46]

Mozart - Piano Concertos w/ Viviana Sofronitzki on fortepiano - 11 CD box - just starting at the beginning! 

[MN Dave]

BWV 538

[Harry]

Again one from the BIG HM box, that pleases me well, and in which Figuerras keeps her voice on a acceptable level. Good recording too.

[Antoine Marchand]

Hille Perl is one of my favorite Barocker girls... The sound of her viola is like to wake up of a pleasant Sunday snap; oh yes, definitively, this music inspires me. 

[Harry]

This Harmonia Mundi box is addictive, stay away from it, if you are short in time.
Another fine example of good music making.

[Bogey]

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture (Recorded 1962)
Wagner Love Music from Tristan and Isolde (Recorded 1960)
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht 1917 Version (Recorded 1950)

Stokowski conducting on all the above.