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[Conor71]

Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 & 8

A first listen from this newly arrived boxset - this set replaces a recording of the Trios by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt on my iPod.
Im on the 2nd Trio of the first Disc at the moment and already I can tell that Im going to enjoy this new set a lot more than the previous one!.
Im a big fan of the Beaux Arts Trio and also have sets of them playing the Mozart, Schubert and Schumann Trios

[North Star]

From Spotify:
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[Brahmsian]

Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 & 8

A first listen from this newly arrived boxset - this set replaces a recording of the Trios by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt on my iPod.
Im on the 2nd Trio of the first Disc at the moment and already I can tell that Im going to enjoy this new set a lot more than the previous one!.
Im a big fan of the Beaux Arts Trio and also have sets of them playing the Mozart, Schubert and Schumann Trios

Bogey and I pound the table, Conor!   

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Another great joy in my collection, that cheers me up today, for I need a little of that, because I heard from one of the sweetest women I know that she was deceived by he room mate in a horrible way. Its always the very good of heart that fall victim of such abject creatures.
I said it before, I know, but this box belongs to the best I have, its all what one could wish, it leaves only the desire for more of it, a unending stream of such fine music, with such good performers as are assembled on the present recordings.
The delight on disc 9 is one of sheer beautification, and must have been a delightful answer to the Gods above, at least it is for me.

Rameau a L ' Academie Royale de Musique.

Hippolyte & Aricie. (Extraits)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski.

Les Fetes d'Hebe.
Hippolyte & Aricie.
Zoroaste.
All extraits.
Veronique Gens, Soprano.
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset.

[karlhenning]

First listen (thsi recording):

Elgar
Sonata for Violin & Piano in e minor, Op.82
Lydia Mordkovitch, vn
Julian Milford, pf

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I will tackle this box for the second time this year, and am as far as the fourth disc, containing the Symphonies 10, 12-15. Delightfully performed. Very good sound too. Would have liked the slow movements a tad more faster, and somewhat livelier, but I am not complaining, for all in all it is all very well done.

[karlhenning]

Pretty good rainy-day music, and it's time I revisited this, in any event:

Sorabji
Un nido di scatole
Jonathan Powell, pf

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[marvinbrown]

  The one hit wonder (hey this is the only CD I have of this composer's work):

 

  Sure, no other composer can make a violin weep quite like Bruch........... too bad it starts and ends here for him.

  marvin

[Brahmsian]

I will tackle this box for the second time this year, and am as far as the fourth disc, containing the Symphonies 10, 12-15. Delightfully performed. Very good sound too. Would have liked the slow movements a tad more faster, and somewhat livelier, but I am not complaining, for all in all it is all very well done.

I just got this from a local guy and new member on GMG for $20 CDN.  I have enjoyed it so far, although I haven't gone through all the set yet.  I've been working my way from the late symphonies down to the earliest.

[marvinbrown]

KeithW, you gave me a good idea, now listening:



Listening to String Quartet No. 6.

  Now THAT is SPECTACULAR! My God I remember the first time I heard that recording. It is raw, gritty with so much tension!

  marvin

[Brahmsian]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54

Barshai
WDR Sinfornieorchester

Brilliant Classics

[jwinter]

Bogey and I pound the table, Conor!   

I'll pound it as well -- very hard to go amiss with the Beaux Arts Trio.

This morning, it's Preludes and some Nocturnes from:

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I haven't seen much comment on Ohlsson's Chopin here, but I've quite enjoyed this set.  While I can't think of any piece where he's my absolute top choice, to my ears the set is of consistently high quality.  I think I prefer his earlier EMI Nocturnes, though -- they were much crisper, swift and rather bracing -- not at all what I'd want as a reference version, but a nice contrast from Arrau, Moravec, etc.

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[Sergeant Rock]

Continuing the 2011 Pettersson Masochism Tour with the 15th Symphony





Sarge

[karlhenning]

This morning, it's Preludes and some Nocturnes from:

[asin]B001F4YGUA[/asin]

I haven't seen much comment on Ohlsson's Chopin here, but I've quite enjoyed this set.  While I can't think of any piece where he's my absolute top choice, to my ears the set is of consistently high quality.  I think I prefer his earlier EMI Nocturnes, though -- they were much crisper, swift and rather bracing -- not at all what I'd want as a reference version, but a nice contrast from Arrau, Moravec, etc.

[asin]B0007RO55W[/asin]

I've got his traversals of the piano-&-orchestra works, the Mazurkas & Études. I do like him with all these.

[Sergeant Rock]

Same, although it's swimming against the tide. The CPO sounds less pleasant, and I like that - the angularity seems better identified and finds a possible lineage with music like Schoenberg's explosive expressionism. Although if you are to make any of his symphonies Romantic, I suppose it should be that one

When my Segerstam CD arrives, I'll listen to all three Sevenths and get back to you. Should be interesting.

Sarge

[Lethevich]

@Karl - the thread's first Sorabji play for a good few months, I'll wager? I forget if I asked how you liked it when it was first bought.

When my Segerstam CD arrives, I'll listen to all three Sevenths and get back to you. Should be interesting.

Thanks! I hope to eventually be sufficiently motivated to return to the Doráti, which I have never liked for reasons unknown to myself.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Continuing the 2011 Pettersson Masochism Tour with the 15th Symphony

I stand in awe. (No. 15 is great and survivable, though.)

[karlhenning]

@Karl - the thread's first Sorabji play for a good few months, I'll wager? I forget if I asked how you liked it when it was first bought.

Very well, though it's a mouthful . . . just need to be in the mind for it.  (Still, no good reason I waited so long on a second listen . . . .)

[Sergeant Rock]

I stand in awe. (No. 15 is great and survivable, though.)

Very listenable... 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Very listenable... 

Mrs Rock material?