What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

First disc now. Quality job all over:

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Bought from an amazon reseller (don't remember which) at slightly under 15 British quid.

[Conor71]

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileira No. 1, W 246

Recent activity in the Villa-Lobos thread has prompted me to listen to this great Composer this weekend - Starting this evenings listening with Disc 1 from this set of the Bachianas Brasileiras followed by Disc 1 of the String Quartet Cycle.

[Wanderer]

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[pi2000]

Wuhrer/Gimpel/Schuster
Beethoven-Triple Concerto
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[val]

SCHUMANN:      Fantasie opus 17                    / Yves Nat (1953)

Nat lives this music in each moment, each detail. The most natural and authentic version.

Benno Moiseiwitsch is much more dramatic, with impressive contrasts in the first movement. But the third part is played too fast and aggressive.

Pollini offers the most perfect architecture of the work, but doesn't have the same poetry and imagination of Nat.

Jonathan Biss is deeply lyrical and touching. One of the most beautiful versions of this work, perhaps the best after Yves Nat.

As I said before, Dino Ciani, live, is a special case, but always fascinating.

[Lisztianwagner]

  For Haydn's birthday:

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.93

[Que]

First disc now. Quality job all over:

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Bought from an amazon reseller (don't remember which) at slightly under 15 British quid.

I need to have it, and £15 seems a reasonable price for a 3CDset - almost half of Amazon's list price. For me, incl. shipping, it would come down a bit over €20. Still saves some €7 in comparison to jpc.

It's going to be a bad, bad month for my bank account... But then again - what month is good month?

Q

[North Star]

Mozart
Symphonies nos. 38 & 39
Mackerras & SCO
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[mc ukrneal]

First disc now. Quality job all over:

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Bought from an amazon reseller (don't remember which) at slightly under 15 British quid.

I really love this cover.

[The new erato]

I really love this cover.

M e too. I would buy this box (very sturdy) and booklet (very fine) even if i contained no discs. 

[TheGSMoeller]

Happy Birthday, Haydn.
All Haydn, all day...not really that difficult for me to do though. Starting the day with the piece that first grabbed my attention, as a horn player in high school hearing Symphony #31 "Hornsignal" was revelatory. This Harnoncourt recording is not my favorite, but one of the first I heard...

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[Karl Henning]

Mompou
Cançons i danses (1921-62)
The composer playing

[The new erato]

Very good disc. And music to make one smile. Happy birthday, Joe!

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[The new erato]

Now on disc 2:

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What a distinctive works Shostakovich's 3rd is. One of the joyful (almost) works of the cycle. And also including a nice reminder of how fine a work Prokofiev's 2nd is.

[madaboutmahler]

It just seems that there has been a huge Glazunov-explosion!

Yay! I am very happy to see it! Glazunov certainly deserves more attention!

[fridden]

Since it is Haydn's birthday I am listening to some of his symphonies with Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra.
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Now, the 6th symphony. I really like this symphony, and the playing is really inspired!

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony #92 G major "Oxford" --the Hobbit Thomas Fey conducting the Heidelberger Sinfoniker




Sarge

[The new erato]

Haydn Symphony #92 G major "Oxford" --Fey conducting the Heidelberger Sinfonia




Sarge

I thought it was called the Ox?

[Sergeant Rock]

I thought it was called the Ox?

Sarge

[The new erato]

This biology thingy is all so confusing.....