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[wintersway]

Good morning day to all!

[wintersway]

This one looks nice! How is it? 

George

Superb Trout. Wanderer not so much! The recording itself is top notch!

[Harry]

Kaspar Forster. (1617-1673)

Oratorios & Sonatas.

La Capelle Ducale.

Gundula Anders, Soprano.
Constanze Backes, Soprano.
David Cordier, Alto.
Wilfried Jochens, Tenor.
Harry van der Kamp, Bass.

Musica Fiata. (On period instruments.)
Roland Wilson.

Extremely detailed recording from 1998, with the voices beautiful recorded. The orchestra sits comfortably in the middle, with a fine stage ambiance. Forster is a to me unknown composer, but by what I hear, this will change. He writes well for voices, and is very creative in the instrumental department. Very worthwhile.
In the high register Anders is somewhat overtaxed, but that is a minor point. The rest of the singers are known, and have proven their worth many times over. Excellent.

[Harry]

Francesco Durante. (1684-1755)

Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae.

Monika Frimmer, Mechthild Bach, Sopranos.
Margarete Joswig, Alto.
Kolner Kammerchor.
Collegium Cartusianum/Peter Neumann.


The recording from 1994 is very good, a perfect sound picture in all departments.
The soloists are a good match, it all sounds balanced.
And what wonderful music Durante produced, so far its the best in the latest batch so far.

[karlhenning]

Rakhmaninov
Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D Minor, Opus 30
The composer / Phila / Ormandy

[dtwilbanks]

Hummel! Who was quite hot stuff back in the day. 

[longears]

Hummel! Who was quite hot stuff back in the day. 

How 'bout those figurines!

[dtwilbanks]

How 'bout those figurines!

[George]

George

Superb Trout. Wanderer not so much! The recording itself is top notch!

Thanks, sounds like it is worth seeking out. It's OOP I believe.

[hautbois]

After listening to Harnoncourt/RCO's 80's Mozart 40 and 41, i knew this would not go wrong. And was i right or what, the Andante from 39 is  . The symphonies are interpreted to sound more like an opera than a symphony. Crazy good.

Howard

[Hector]

Hummel! Who was quite hot stuff back in the day. 

He was. John Field walked into a house where somebody was playing the piano and declared that only Johann Hummel could play like that. He was right as it was the said Johann Hummel playing!

Long list: Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony under Abbado and the LSO, a performance I had not heard but pleased that I had.
             Sibelius' 7th Symphony under Vanska in Lahti, surely the best modern recording?
             Berlioz's orchestral fragments from Romeo et Julliette from Chicago under Giulini. Berlioz it ain't but utterly compelling all the same.
             Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande under Karajan and the BPO. When anybody knocks this musician just draw their attention to this 'Classic of the Gramophone.' Unmatched.
             Pettersson's 5th Symphony. Utterly transfixing. Part of the admirable CPO set.

[dtwilbanks]

I'm a Field fan as well (based on the O'Conor recording alone).

Now...

Paganini, who sold his soul to the devil just so Midori could play his caprices.

[marvinbrown]

For today:

[Kullervo]

[dtwilbanks]

furt bpo schumann 4   0:)

[karlhenning]

Say more! What is this Madrigal Sonata?

[karlhenning]

Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony under Abbado and the LSO, a performance I had not heard but pleased that I had.

Very nice!

[bhodges]

Messiaen's last work, Illuminations of the Beyond (60'24)
astute piece, excellent, rich performance, detailed sonics...

I have heard this live--just once--a couple of years ago with Nagano and the New York Philharmonic.  It was a glorious experience.  So glorious, in fact, that I haven't wanted to listen to a recording, to allow the live experience to fade a bit.  My question: have you heard the Myung-Whun Chung/Bastille version and if so, how does it compare to this one?

--Bruce

[George]

Schubert

D 960

Richter

Moscow, May 1957 (Parnassus)


Not his best performance of this work IMO. Too many loose ends, perhaps he hadn't yet mastered this sonata. 

[karlhenning]

There ought to be a double-bill:

Stockhausen, Out There
Messiaen, Illuminations of Out There