What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

So sorry! Don't worry, it will be over soon!

Only twelve more to go! 

Thanks for the link to the Abbado. Despite hating the final bars of the last movement--too fast, sounds congested compared to the others I've listened to this afternoon (although that could be the fault of youtube)--I ordered it.

Sarge

[Brian]

Only twelve more to go! 

Thanks for the link to the Abbado. Despite hating the final bars of the last movement--too fast, sounds congested compared to the others I've listened to this afternoon (although that could be the fault of youtube)--I ordered it.

Sarge

On the audio file we were sent it was one of the least congested accounts, I think. I could hear the flutes!

You should have binged on La mer with the rest of us, Sarge. I think I listened six times last weekend.

[Gurn Blanston]

Wanted to do this yesterday, for Maiden-Listen Mondays!:

Saint-Saëns
String Quartet № 1 in e minor Op.112
Quatuor Viotti

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Don't have that disk, Karl, but I have all that music. Amply illustrates why Saint-Saëns is so high on my list of Late Romantic composers. And French composers in general. I particularly like his violin sonatas.

[Karl Henning]

Dvořák
Symphony № 8 in G, Op.88
Cz Phil
Václav Neumann

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[Karl Henning]

Don't have that disk, Karl, but I have all that music. Amply illustrates why Saint-Saëns is so high on my list of Late Romantic composers. And French composers in general. I particularly like his violin sonatas.

Splendid, Gurn! And good morning!

[Sergeant Rock]

Wanted to do this yesterday, for Maiden-Listen Mondays!:

Saint-Saëns
String Quartet № 1 in e minor Op.112
Quatuor Viotti

Well, you know I approve of that one 

Dvořák
Symphony № 8 in G, Op.88
Cz Phil
Václav Neumann

That Neumann Eighth really impressed me. I do believe it qualifies for my desert island.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

And now, the one GMG really hates 

Debussy La Mer, Giulini conducting the LA Phil



Debussy Brucknerized....I like it 


Sarge

[not edward]

Ancerl's Romeo and Juliet extracts, which I somehow didn't get around to acquiring till very recently.

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I don't like the 'bleeding chunks' approach to large works such as this one, but the performance here is so remarkable as to render that objection irrelevant. The playing is as outstanding as you'd expect from the 1959 Czech Philharmonic, with wonderfully characterful winds and superbly rendered soft string vibrati, and Ancerl's trademark phrasing and attention to detail as impressive as ever.

[mc ukrneal]

Only twelve more to go! 

Thanks for the link to the Abbado. Despite hating the final bars of the last movement--too fast, sounds congested compared to the others I've listened to this afternoon (although that could be the fault of youtube)--I ordered it.

Sarge

Gives you another M2 as well. That's never a bad thing. 

[Sergeant Rock]

On the audio file we were sent it was one of the least congested accounts, I think. I could hear the flutes!

You should have binged on La mer with the rest of us, Sarge.

I probably should have. I love La Mer. But...I have a weird aversion to this kind of comparison, with time limits. It feel too much like work. It reeks of homework    I wasn't going to join the Mahler 6 comparison either, but Daniel talked me into it. I'm still procrastinating on the final listen. I'll probably get my vote in at the last second 

Anyway, glad to hear the actual recording is better than what I heard on youtube. It is an extremely interesting interpretation.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Gives you another M2 as well. That's never a bad thing. 

Maybe yes, maybe no    I'm wary of Abbado in Mahler.

Sarge

[Opus106]

Ooh, I actually have some Schiff in Beethoven. A 2009 recital at LA. Now I remember not liking these so much back then. Let's see, um, hear... Op. 109.

[Opus106]

Ooh, I actually have some Schiff in Beethoven. A 2009 recital at LA. Now I remember not liking these so much back then. Let's see, um, hear... Op. 109.

Mixed feelings. Quite relaxed. He plays many of the sections in a manner that is similar to those in the lectures, but I thought he was doing that just for clarity in a demonstration!

[Karl Henning]

... with time limits. It feel too much like work.

+1

[Lisztianwagner]

Alban Berg
Violin Concerto

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[pi2000]

Bach- André Navarra
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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Mozart. Complete Symphonies.

CD I, from 19

Symphonies KV 16/19/19a/Anh 223/22/32/81-K731/97-K 73m

I am pleasantly surprised by the high standard Hogwood and his band is displaying. Well articulated, details impeccably observed, excellent playing, including the soli in K 32, third movement "Menuetto & Trio". Tempi are good. I am going to enjoy this box. You cannot compare this to Pinnock, Hogwood is in a totally different league.  I thought I would not need this set, but I am proven wrong. The sound is less polished, and that's a good thing. All Italian this box, but what the heck, its the music that counts. Good sound!

[listener]

Enrique Fernández ARBÓS   Chamber music:
Tres piezas originales en estilo español  op. 1
----Trio Bellas Artes
Tango op. 2     vn/piano     Pieza de concurso     cello/piano
Seis rimas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer  op. 3    Cuatro canciones para la marquesa de Bolaños, op. 4
'''-- Emilio Sanchez, ten.,  Fernanda Turina, piano
Pieces written before becoming concertmaster of the Madrid Symphony (except for the cello one).  He's bettter known for his orchestration of Albeniz' Iberia.
BRUCH   Violin Concerto no. 2 in d, op. 44      BUSONI Violin Concerto in D op. 35a
R.STRAUSS   Violin Concerto in d, op. 8
Ingolf Turban, violin            Bamberg Symphony     Lior Shambadal, cond.
The Busoni comes off best in this collection of neglected concertos.

[Conor71]

Liszt: Consolations


Listening to some Piano music - first up the Liszt Disc by Barenboim, really beautiful recording! I will follow-up this Disc with the Satie by Roge.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 7. Great performance!