What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[not edward]

Yes, I do listen to this CD too much.

[karlhenning]

There must be reasons, Edward! :-)

[karlhenning]

Listening to:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
Cleveland Orchestra
Dohnanyi

Bellissima!

[SonicMan46]

What you heard is secondary to hearing from you....how are you Muriel? 

Muriel - hello, and glad to see you back 'in the ring' -     Dave

[Lady Chatterley]

Dave,
Take a look through your collection ,I need a vocal version of "To Be a Pilgrim" .Can't wait to find this tune.
Muriel

[not edward]

I love Szell's Mahler 4, but this one doesn't do it for me. The omission of the exposition repeat in the first movement unbalances the structure, and though I do like his way with the scherzo the andante feels disconnected to me. I also don't agree with his interpretation of the finale: the tension seems to me to drop unduly at climactic passages and I don't find Szell is looking for what's most important to me in this movement--a contrast between the desperate attempts to be optimistic and the inevitable tragedy to come.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Haydn – Trumpet Concerto

H K Gruber – Three Mob Pieces

[George]

Chopin

Piano Concerto 1

Tausig Orchestration

[karlhenning]

Seeing that picture, why is there a voice at my shoulder squeaking, "play dolce or I'll bust your [fundament]!!" ??

[wilhelm]

Schubert 9
LSO - Josef Krips

[hautbois]

I find this so excellent and precise and well recorded that i never bothered to get another version of the Rite. I don't have do of course and i am not in a hurry to hear another version. If i must though, whose Rite should i go for?

Howard

[Harry]

Brahms.

Sonate for Piano and Cello in E minor, opus 38.

Sonata for Piano and Cello in F major, opus 99.

Robert Schumann.

Anner Bijlsma, Cello.
Lambert Orkis, Piano.

Disc 6 from this most excellent box. Apart from the fact that I know these wonderful works well, and love them very much, these performances came as a pleasant surprise, for the many extra things I discovered, made me smile with anticipation for the rest, and it must be said, I did get my fair share out of this.
The period instruments do add so much otherwise hidden, that you could easily state that the performances sound like new, and in the capable hands of Bijlsma & Orkis, this is indeed a new discovery of well known music.
The recordings made in 1995 sound fine.

[pjme]

Strawinsky: Symphony of psalms ( great - on BBC 3 with Simon Preston/Philip Jones)
Kodaly : choral works ' (Veni, veni Emmanuel) - Aurel Tillai : Pecs Chamber Choir : heaven!

Peter

[Valentino]

Käbi Laretei playing music from films by Ingmar Bergman:

Mozart: the c minor fantasia; Chopin: Fantasie-impromtu, a-minor prelude, a-minor mazurka; a chaconne by Händel; Three sonatas by Scarlatti.

All on a used LP I picked up for NOK 25 today. I's nice to have the opportunity to collect this format.

Harry, I haven't got around to play that Brahms yet. High anticipations now!

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Harry]

Harry, I haven't got around to play that Brahms yet. High anticipations now!

If you loved the other discs, you will adore the Brahms/Schumann.

[Harry]

Louis Spohr.

Complete Violin Concertos, Volume III.

No, 4 in B minor, opus 10.
No. 11 in G major, opus 70.

Ulf Hoelscher, Violin.
RSO Berlin/Christian Frohlich.

The recording made in 1992, sounds fine, very detailed, good front to back soundstage.
Written in a very friendly and open style, in that the Violin parts are expertly and inventively written, and the Orchestra follows suit, in carefully enveloping and caressing the Violin.
Not masterworks, but pleasant music, that will never disappoint.

[BachQ]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Opus 47
CSO / Previn

Shosty + D Minor = Magic

[hautbois]

AMAZING

Howard