What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Scarpia]

Is it a recent Thorens? (Mine is 25 years old.) They once had a reputation for superb build quality....built like a tank. They also repair themselves apparently! After reading your post I took a look at it with the intention of disconnecting it and taking it to the shop. It started spinning again! Sounds fine.

Sarge

I have a Thorens TD-316, 25 years old, probably, but nothing tank-like about it.

[George]

Sarge is so organized, you'd swear he's a Virgo.

(but I know he isn't)

[Sergeant Rock]

What's with the colored dots and numbers?

My catalogue system. When I buy a CD I put a number on the jewel box and type the info into the database. When I went past a thousand, I decided to color code also so I wouldn't have to use (and buy) so many number stickers. BL89 means the disc with the blue dot; PUR2 the disc with the purple dot, etc. My CD database looks like this:



Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich 10, Kurt Sanderling, Berlin SO



Sarge

[Mirror Image]

On that side of the room, yes, Wagner rules    But on the opposite side Mahler, Bruckner and Sibelius hold top spot.






Sarge

I love the organization. Looks like you have them all cataloged. Nice. I'm still in the process of organizing mine and it's really a pain in the a**.

[Brahmsian]

On that side of the room, yes, Wagner rules    But on the opposite side Mahler, Bruckner and Sibelius hold top spot.


Sarge

When I look at your collection and all the pretty colors Sarge, I envision that this is what heaven must look like! 

[Brahmsian]

This week's 'Triple B' is:

Beethoven's Birthday Bash Week!! Beethoven all week long.

Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53 'Waldstein'

Barenboim
EMI Classics

[springrite]

Sarge is so organized, you'd swear he's a Virgo.

(but I know he isn't)

Being a Virgo myself, and with the end of the year approaching, I have finally reached Y in my alphabetical listening:

Isang Yun Symphony #4

[George]

Being a Virgo myself, and with the end of the year approaching, I have finally reached Y in my alphabetical listening:

Isang Yun Symphony #4

[Sergeant Rock]

Being a Virgo myself, and with the end of the year approaching, I have finally reached Y in my alphabetical listening:

Isang Yun Symphony #4

Did Vanessa stick with the original plan to explore the classics alphabetically?

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

When I look at your collection and all the pretty colors Sarge, I envision that this is what heaven must look like! 

[Antoine Marchand]

This one:

http://www.youtube.com/v/LzrIMOTUklE

[listener]

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Piano Concerto no. 1  in G, op. 92
Carlos SURINACH  Concertino for Piano, Strings and Cymbals
GINASTERA   Variaciones Concertantes
Santiago Rodriguez, piano       Richmond Sinfonia     George Manahan, cond.
All three works have a nationalistic/folk flavour and are easy listening, although the Ginastera has some nasty-looking solos that do not sound that way.  The Ginastera from 1953 pre-dates his switch to 12-tone works like Bomarzo or the Estudios Sinfonicos of the next decade.
And for piano duet:
ALKAN Fantasy on Mozart's Don Giovanni    FRANCK  Duo on God Save the King, op.4
BEETHOVEN Ich denke dein Variations WoO.74   VON HERZOGENBERG Variations on a Theme of Brahms
SCHUBERT Variations on a theme from Hérold's Marie
MENDELSSOHN & MOSCHELES Variations on the Gypsy March from Weber's Preciosa
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow

[Bulldog]

This one:

http://www.youtube.com/v/LzrIMOTUklE

That was only one Messiah highlight (but a fine one).  In recent years I've most enjoyed the set from Boston Baroque, but Hogwood's is also excellent.

[DavidW]

Will also be listening to the Messiah soon, but my recent listening is Mahler's 5th Bernstein/VPO.  I believe my Gatti Tchaikovsky set is arriving today, so at least one cd in that set will be my evening listening.

[Sergeant Rock]

This one:

Thanks for the vid; I hadn't heard Hogwood in this before. "For Unto Us" is one of my favorite bits of Handel. Love it. What I don't love--and this perfomance confirms it--are trebles and male altos. I'll stick with Davis, Richter, Solti, Beecham and Butt (Dunedin Consort).

Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

SDG 165 Volume 2 (2 cds) contains:

Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Trinity

BWV 2 – Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein

BWV 10 – Meine Seele erhebt den Herren

BWV 76 – Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

Heinrich Schütz 1585-1672 SWV 386 – Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

(recorded: Basilique Saint-Denis, Paris)

Soloists: Lisa Larsson | Daniel Taylor
James Gilchrist | Stephen Varcoe

Cantatas for the Third Sunday after Trinity

BWV 21 – Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis

BWV 135 – Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder

BWV 1044 – Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord

(recorded: the Fraumünster, Zürich)

Soloists: Katharine Fuge | Robin Tyson
Vernon Kirk | Jonathan Brown

The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner

Now listening again to CD1.

I never imagined that Gardiner would be that good doing this cycle of Bach cantatas. It's a continuous pleasure, even in those parts slightly out of style, like the sinfonia of the cantata BWV 76 Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes. Perfect matching among the beautiful voices of the soloists, correct size of the chorus and transparency and balance of the instruments.

Just one complaint: I hate those stupid digipacks with form of book.

[Bulldog]

SDG 165 Volume 2 (2 cds) contains:

Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Trinity

BWV 2 – Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein

BWV 10 – Meine Seele erhebt den Herren

BWV 76 – Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

Heinrich Schütz 1585-1672 SWV 386 – Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

(recorded: Basilique Saint-Denis, Paris)

Soloists: Lisa Larsson | Daniel Taylor
James Gilchrist | Stephen Varcoe

Cantatas for the Third Sunday after Trinity

BWV 21 – Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis

BWV 135 – Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder

BWV 1044 – Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord

(recorded: the Fraumünster, Zürich)

Soloists: Katharine Fuge | Robin Tyson
Vernon Kirk | Jonathan Brown

The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner

Now listening again to CD1.

I never imagined that Gardiner would be that good doing this cycle of Bach cantatas. It's a continuous pleasure, even in those parts slightly out of style, like the sinfonia of the cantata BWV 76 Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes. Perfect matching among the beautiful voices of the soloists, correct size of the chorus and transparency and balance of the instruments.

Just one complaint: I hate those stupid digipacks with form of book.

I like those books - they look good and are very substantial.  Overall, I find them the best packaging for any Bach series I know.  Compare them to the Koopman and Suzuki - totally boring.

[Conor71]

As if you are willing to share Miss Chung. 

Now playing:



Dvorak: Piano Quintets

[Antoine Marchand]

I like those books - they look good and are very substantial.  Overall, I find them the best packaging for any Bach series I know.  Compare them to the Koopman and Suzuki - totally boring.

I have no problems with the content or look of those books, Don. But that kind of packaging usually scratch the discs.

BTW, I like the info in the Suzuki series; Koopman's info is scarce and boring indeed (sorry Christoph Wolff!  ).