What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sadko]

I enjoyed the Bach. Not so much the Schubert. Then I got sidetracked. 

I didn't like both, and over the Schubert I fell asleep

[Ataraxia]

I didn't like both, and over the Schubert I fell asleep

Yeah, it's not my favorite.

[Sadko]

I can't get enough of this discovery:

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Marin Marais

Pièces de viole du second livre
Jordi Savall et al.

[listener]

spending the evening with Hermann GOETZ Der Widerspenstigen Zahmung  (The Taming of the Shrew)
on vinyl as the set (used) came with a text and translation.   There's another perfomance on Gala cd's conducted by Keilberth from Munich, 1955 that has no text.
Karl Elmendorff, cond.   Dresden State Opera  copyright is 1952
Sven Nilssen, Margarete Teschemacher, Elfride Trotschel, Gottlob Frick (here as Hortensio, he appears as Baptista in the Keilberth), Pavel Mirov, Matthieu Ahlersmeyer

[Antoine Marchand]

Dinnerstein's title and my previous listen today (Bernard Lagacé doing Bach) recalled me that probably these are not times specially favorable to things "almost being said".

Like Sainte-Colombe's output. 

Now playing:

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Volume II: Concerts XIX à XXXV

[mahler10th]

Didn't waste any time getting this (as a download)...

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Thanks Discobole.   

[Mirror Image]

Solti's CfO is very good, and the Dance Suite and the Violin Concerto are two of the best Bartok recordings in the modern era.

I agree. The Dance Suite is wonderfully performed. The same goes for the concerti.

[mahler10th]

That's a fabulous set.  Dohnanyi's 8th is a permanent member of my personal Hit List, and the pairing with the 3rd works brilliantly (as it does also for Szell...)

How very interesting.  I must check that out.

[Mirror Image]

Debussy

La Mer

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Boulez

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Is it worth getting the Cleveland version on DG as well if you have the one above?

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I think I do enjoy the Sony 2-CD set better, but there's something to be said of Boulez's DG remakes. The clarity in the music is just remarkable and the Cleveland Orchestra play incredibly well. I think the earlier Boulez recordings do have a bit more energy to them though. But it really doesn't matter, Debussy's Boulez recordings are all remarkable IMHO.

[Sadko]

I think I do enjoy the Sony 2-CD set better, but there's something to be said of Boulez's DG remakes. The clarity in the music is just remarkable and the Cleveland Orchestra play incredibly well. I think the earlier Boulez recordings do have a bit more energy to them though. But it really doesn't matter, Debussy's Boulez recordings are all remarkable IMHO.

I have a feeling I might prefer the newer version, I like the calmness of the later Boulez, it has something "wise" and "subtle" if I remember correctly, but I think I want to refresh these memories and find out.

[Mirror Image]

I have a feeling I might prefer the newer version, I like the calmness of the later Boulez, it has something "wise" and "subtle" if I remember correctly, but I think I want to refresh these memories and find out.

I wish Boulez recorded more Debussy. I think he would have worked wonders with Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien. This work hasn't been recorded very much. I only know of two complete recordings of it --- Bernstein and Tilson Thomas. I haven't heard Bernstein's, but Tilson Thomas's is fantastic.

[Sadko]

I wish Boulez recorded more Debussy. I think he would have worked wonders with Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien. This work hasn't been recorded very much. I only know of two complete recordings of it --- Bernstein and Tilson Thomas. I haven't heard Bernstein's, but Tilson Thomas's is fantastic.

Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien - I didn't listen to this work yet, it is on the to do list.

[Sadko]

At the moment I'm listening to jpc test bits of

Mozart
Così fan tutte

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf et al.
Guido Cantelli

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Thanks to the Blind Listening thread.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

More Shostakovich with DePriest -

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[kishnevi]

I love this girl. I don't have any of her discs (well, almost, because I have her fantastic Beethoven's cello sonatas with Zuill Bailey), but I love her. And now she plays Bach and Schubert in the same disc..., excellent; and she chooses my favorite harpsichord partita to start the disc, played exactly on the opposite style I like (she plays an introverted/slow beginning v/s the extroverted/virtuosistic kind of beginning that I like). She is challenging me! 

P.S.: Not to mention the exquisite title of the album.

I've listened to that recording exactly once, and that was not enough for me to decide if I like it or not, and why.  The title, or rather the poem from which the title comes, reminded me of why I never like Larkin's poetry.

I have two of her other recordings, of which I would suggest this one to you.  The contemporary work, by Lasser, is the highlight for me, but she does a pretty good job with the other works on the program.
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Thread duty: another new arrival gets a first listen. 
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Given the two groups involved, one would expect high quality, and one gets exactly that.
This was, btw, Richard Campbell's last recording.

[TheGSMoeller]

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Listening to Russian Easter Ovt., wow, Stokowski turns this piece into a mammoth wall of sound.

[fridden]

Yesterday I continued my Shostakovich listening with symphony 7 and 8 with Haitink. I really liked these two symphonies!

Also I saw some talking about Martinon in Debussy, so I hade to listened to these beautiful performances. I have this EMI box with 8 CD with both Debussy and Ravel, and it's just great. I listened to La Mer and Nocturnes, and will continue with some more today.
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[Que]

This morning back to the 8th disc of Vernet's Bach Cycle. He is playing the Treutmann organ in Graufhof-Goslar. Gorgeous.




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[mc ukrneal]

Mackerras and Mozart are really quite delightful - a good match (which also means I will probably cave in and get his Tito after all). Listening to symphonies 14-18. I really wish I had gotten this (Telarc) set when it was less than $20. I have a number of the earlier symphonies with Mackerras, and each disc is excellent. I would think that both HIP and non-HIP would enjoy these too. It's a nice middle ground.
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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

A disc that surprised me by it sheer quality of Olivier Vernet's Organ playing, made me somewhat grumpy with the middle of the road vocal contributions of Ensemble in Ore mel, and made me fall in love with the Organ "Thomas du Prieure de la Cotellerie, Bazougers".
The recording is really first rate, and Krebs music makes me gasp in amazement. I simply burn the organ music to a disc, and leave the vocal things out of it. Noemi Rime should be ashamed for the silly vibrato she is applying to this music, so inappropriate.
Ligia doesn't think much of customers outside of France, there is no translation of the French, as always the French think we should know our French, after all its still a language widely used........they wish.