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Coopmv

Quote from: ~ Que ~ on October 11, 2011, 09:59:52 PM


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How do you like this CD?  I bought the CD early in the year ...

DavidRoss

Quote from: Rinaldo on October 12, 2011, 03:52:48 PM
Nos. 1 & 4 from

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Virgin listen. I might like this old chap. Unlike Mahler & other symphonic greats, this is music that speaks to me from the get-go, especially the 4th. I've heard Sibelius was considered "simple"? Simple minds think alike, I guess.
Simple is good.  It takes skill to make things simple.  Not just a deep soul expressing inspired music, but a master craftsman who progressively honed away the superfluous.

And that is a very fine cycle.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

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Rinaldo

Quote from: DavidRoss on October 12, 2011, 04:32:27 PM
It takes skill to make things simple.  Not just a deep soul expressing inspired music, but a master craftsman who progressively honed away the superfluous.

As they say, perfection is achieved when there's no longer anything to take away, right?

QuoteAnd that is a very fine cycle.

And cheap to boot. Couldn't believe the price tag at the store – 8€!

Mirror Image

Now:

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Listening to Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1.

kishnevi

Quote from: Mirror Image on October 12, 2011, 09:11:19 PM
Now:

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Listening to Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Pounds the table so hard it breaks.

That recording of VC1 was the first Shostakovich I ever heard, and it remains a favorite, and the best performance of the work I've heard.  I love how she lets the devil dance.


Mirror Image

Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on October 12, 2011, 09:42:13 PM
Pounds the table so hard it breaks.

That recording of VC1 was the first Shostakovich I ever heard, and it remains a favorite, and the best performance of the work I've heard.  I love how she lets the devil dance.

:P A lot of people will be going out to buy new tables this weekend (myself included). ;)

Yes, this Mullova recording is one of the finest I've heard of Shostakovich's VC No. 1. I've always admired her playing and how beautifully she plays and she has such a gorgeous tone. Previn also provides excellent accompaniment. Glad to see another admirer of this performance of these boards.


Que


val

RACHMANINOV:       Piano Concerto n. 2                / Byron Janis, Minneapolis Orchestra, Dorati

An extraordinary moment of piano, even for those, like me, who don't like this work. The art of Janis and the exceptional quality of Dorati orchestral support. The dialogue between pianist and orchestra in the 2nd movement is sublime.

mc ukrneal

Listening to a collection of operetta highlights. Listening to disc 3 - All sorts of names here that I have never heard.
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Willoughby earl of Itacarius

From this box the last CD 6, with music played at Trinity, on the Aubertin Organ in Vichy, France.
That concludes this journey for now, and I will put it in my collection.


Sergeant Rock

Prokofiev Piano Concerto #2 G minor, Previn, Ashkenazy, LSO




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"

listener

BRUCKNER  Symphony no.5  - original version
Bavarian Radio S.O.    / Jochum
2-lp's     
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

The new erato

Elisabeth Søderstrøm singing Russian Songs, mainly Tchaikovsky. Reissued double set on Eloquence. Ashkenazy at the keyboard. Very fine stuff.

karlhenning

Quote from: The new erato on October 13, 2011, 02:53:23 AM
Elisabeth Søderstrøm singing Russian Songs, mainly Tchaikovsky. Reissued double set on Eloquence. Ashkenazy at the keyboard. Very fine stuff.

Mm, that must be lovely.

marvinbrown



  Currently Listeing to Janacek greatest masterpeice: JENUFA! from this set:

   

  marvin 

Antoine Marchand

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Alex Potter, countertenor

It's curious: on the cover of my copy is read "Chelycus" and not "Ensemble Chelycus", as in the above image.

Chelycus
Veronika Skuplik, Bjarte Eike, violins
Klaus Bona, Cosimo Stawiarski, violas
Matthias Müller, violone
Robert Schlegl, Adam Bregman, Wim Becu, trombones
Adrian Rovatkay, dulcian
Andreas Arend, chitarrone


The new erato

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 13, 2011, 03:01:00 AM
Mm, that must be lovely.
Wonderful singer, and, like Gedda, remarkably proficient in Russian as far as I've heard. I feel a case of Cyrillism coming on.

Sergeant Rock

Prokofiev Symphony #4 C major (original version 1930), Kitajenko conducting the Gürzenich O Köln




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"

The new erato

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 13, 2011, 03:35:13 AM
Prokofiev Symphony #4 C major (original version 1930), Kitajenko conducting the Gürzenich O Köln




Sarge
Isn't that a wonderful set in stunning sound, Sarge?

Lisztianwagner

Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler