What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Todd]

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Andras Schiff's latest.  Superb, like most of his (non-LvB) ECM recordings.

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, which arrived today for a first listen ...

[Brian]

Absolutely atrocious, I have no idea how the violinist managed to live with himself after this.



(http://www.amazon.com/Pablo-Sarasate-Completa-Complete-Works/dp/B000068RS8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)

Get the Tianwa Yang series on Naxos. If you offered me $100 to name ten violinists with more panache, fire, emotional warmth, and technical wizardry than Tianwa Yang, I would lose the money. Orchestral vol. 3 is my favorite in the series so far.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A new acquisition. Listening to Violin Concerto No. 1. So far, so good.

[BobsterLobster]

Get the Tianwa Yang series on Naxos. If you offered me $100 to name ten violinists with more panache, fire, emotional warmth, and technical wizardry than Tianwa Yang, I would lose the money. Orchestral vol. 3 is my favorite in the series so far.

I just listened to this one:

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which was okay... she certainly has good technique, but she plays it a bit safe for my taste, I want to hear someone a bit more 'wild' (but in tune!) with some charisma. I will definitely try to check out the other in the series though, including volume 3.

[Mirror Image]

I just listened to this one:

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which was okay... she certainly has good technique, but she plays it a bit safe for my taste, I want to hear someone a bit more 'wild' (but in tune!) with some charisma. I will definitely try to check out the other in the series though, including volume 3.

Who, in your opinion, would be a "wild" player?

[Brian]

Who, in your opinion, would be a "wild" player?

For me that would be somebody like Ivry Gitlis. Curious to hear Bobster's view.

Still, Tianwa Yang is a lot freer with rubato, invented dynamics, embellishments, and rampant portamenti than most of today's violinists.

[Mirror Image]

For me that would be somebody like Ivry Gitlis. Curious to hear Bobster's view.

Still, Tianwa Yang is a lot freer with rubato, invented dynamics, embellishments, and rampant portamenti than most of today's violinists.

I'm not sure if she's still playing professionally or not but Kyung Wha Chung is a pretty wild player. She has, from what I have read, a unique approach to fingerings on the violin that are quite unorthodox.

[BobsterLobster]

For me that would be somebody like Ivry Gitlis. Curious to hear Bobster's view.

Still, Tianwa Yang is a lot freer with rubato, invented dynamics, embellishments, and rampant portamenti than most of today's violinists.

Well, perhaps she holds back a bit in the 2nd volume... but I'd love to hear some Russian virtuosos go for it!

[BobsterLobster]

It's Spanish hot-blooded music you know!

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Now listening:

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Quite possibly one of the single greatest Barber recordings ever released. Such scorching performances.

[Que]

Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776-1800) - Piano Sonatas w/ Richard Fuller on a restored 1814 fortepiano by famed Viennese piano maker Nannette Streicher - 3 disc set w/ 12 sonatas; did a MP3 download - just $9 for 33 tracks (3 1/2 hrs music) -

A most intriguing set, Dave!  (Apart from the hideous cover  )

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[Que]

First listen, but immediately becomes apparent is that Guillaume Bouzignac (1690?-1743?) was a one of a kind, who stood outside the mainstream musical tradition.

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Get the Tianwa Yang series on Naxos. If you offered me $100 to name ten violinists with more panache, fire, emotional warmth, and technical wizardry than Tianwa Yang, I would lose the money. Orchestral vol. 3 is my favorite in the series so far.

Let me affirm this statement, with a small twist, I love all three volumes.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I just listened to this one:

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which was okay... she certainly has good technique, but she plays it a bit safe for my taste, I want to hear someone a bit more 'wild' (but in tune!) with some charisma. I will definitely try to check out the other in the series though, including volume 3.

I do not recognize safeness in her playing, she is assured yes, because she mastered all the technical difficulties. Wild you say, well you have me confused on that point! And she has plenty charisma, but then perceptions and taste differ, as we well know on this forum.

[BobsterLobster]

I do not recognize safeness in her playing, she is assured yes, because she mastered all the technical difficulties. Wild you say, well you have me confused on that point! And she has plenty charisma, but then perceptions and taste differ, as we well know on this forum.

Well, I'll give it another spin tomorrow to give her another chance...

[The new erato]

A most intriguing set, Dave!  (Apart from the hideous cover  )

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There are certainly lots of Hyacinths there.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Another step in discovering Tomas Luis de Victoria anew, and what a exceptional journey it is. I hear through these performances Victoria on more different levels, as ever before. First of all the singing is seamless, that is not to say that it is sameness! They color the music in such vivid and glowing fiestas, that most regularly I have visions of churches, me being in them, and hearing this wonderful performance all around and in me! As such this is quite a thing, if a performance can engender such a situation, yet it does, so far. Being on the fourth CD now, I keep wondering where these guys where before, for having missed this for so many years is almost criminal. The recording lets you hear all voices distinctly from each other, a unity through harmony that is awe inspiring. A must have Gents!
Recorded in 2008, Cambridge, Chesterton, St George's Church.

Ave Maria, Motet a 8.
Vidi speciosam, Motet a 6.
Gaude Maria virgo, Motet a 5.
Missa De Beata Maria Vergine a 5.
Quam pulchri sunt, Motet a 4.
Sancta Maria, Motet a 4.
Trahe me post te, Motet a 6.
Magnificat primi toni a 4. ( antiphona: Virgo prudentissima)
Beata est, Motet a 6.

[The new erato]

Being on the fourth CD now, I keep wondering where these guys where before, for having missed this for so many years is almost criminal.

They were on Glossa. Many great discs of Morales, Guerrero, Vivanco, some still available. Highly lauded in music magazines (which in my opninion still are worth reading, the net doesn't answer all). I have some of them, bought on recommendations in The Gramophone.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

They were on Glossa. Many great discs of Morales, Guerrero, Vivanco, some still available. Highly lauded in music magazines (which in my opninion still are worth reading, the net doesn't answer all). I have some of them, bought on recommendations in The Gramophone.

I will dive into the matter and no doubt order many of them, thanks Erato for the info. I stopped reading Gramophone a long time ago, too expensive over here, too much emphasize on opera and long winded interviews that bored the hell out of me. I like to read more practical reviews instead of academic views.