What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Que]

Q

Maybe strange to reply to one's own post, but I just wanted to say that the performance and the transfer of the piano quartet are absolutely great. And...the recording is so old - 1932, just 35 years after the death of the composer - that I hereby officially declare it HIP!  At least we can be certain that the Steinway that is used (it sounds like one, anyway) is pre-war 

Q

[locrian]

Y'know, calling things HIP turns some folks off.     

[Que]

Y'know, calling things HIP turns some folks off.     

I know.. , which is not very smart of them.
But the real point is: many modern performers could take an example from this performance.

Q

[locrian]

I know.. , which is not very smart of them.
But the real point is: many modern performers could take an example from this performance.

I'm just jealous because I don't have that one.

[Que]

I'm just jealous because I don't have that one.

I seriously recommend trying some Brahms chamber music in the AR edition.
The later stereo recordings are quite stunning (and "idiomatic") as wel. Top of the pops: the piano quintet with the Guarneri Qt, and the piano quartets.

Q

[orbital]

Brahms - Op116 / Gilels  0:)

[Catison]

I trying an experiment today.  I'm switching between Boyce symphonies and Webern orchestral works.  Its a truly post-modern explosion.  And I am really enjoying it too.  Both composers cleanse the pallet for each other.

[locrian]

I trying an experiment today.  I'm switching between Boyce symphonies and Webern orchestral works.  Its a truly post-modern explosion.  And I am really enjoying it too.  Both composers cleanse the pallet for each other.

Now play them at the same time. 

[Lethevich]

Bartók - Duos for Violin

[Gurn Blanston]

This:

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Now playing: L'Arte del Arco / Guglielmo - Tartini D 113 Concerto in a for Violin 1st mvmt

I like Tartini. Sometimes hard to define as pre-Classical or post-Baroque, but always easy to say "damn! He makes a fiddler work!" 

[Bogey]

I trying an experiment today.  I'm switching between Boyce symphonies and Webern orchestral works.  Its a truly post-modern explosion.  And I am really enjoying it too.  Both composers cleanse the pallet for each other.

Love the Boyce works here.  What recording do you have?

[locrian]

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[val]

orbital

Brahms - Op116 / Gilels

Is that the version recorded live in Moscow in 1983 (RUSSIAN REVELATION) or the DGG version?

In my opinion the version live is much better.

[Lethevich]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Complete Keyboard Works, Disc 9 (NM Classics, various performers)

What I know about harpsichord music could be written on the back of my hand with space left over, but I'm loving this. It's had more impact than the Byrd discs on Hyperion, and after a fair sample, I think I'm going to buy at least some of these discs.

[Harry]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Complete Keyboard Works, Disc 9 (NM Classics, various performers)

What I know about harpsichord music could be written on the back of my hand with space left over, but I'm loving this. It's had more impact than the Byrd discs on Hyperion, and after a fair sample, I think I'm going to buy at least some of these discs.

For me this box was one of the highlights in that year when I bought it, and since then played it many times over.

[FideLeo]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Complete Keyboard Works, Disc 9 (NM Classics, various performers)

What I know about harpsichord music could be written on the back of my hand with space left over, but I'm loving this. It's had more impact than the Byrd discs on Hyperion, and after a fair sample, I think I'm going to buy at least some of these discs.

Byrd wrote at an earlier time than Sweelinck of course, so their music isn't exactly comparable (but I think Davitt Moroney doesn't usually go for "impacts" anyway).  I think the Sweelinck is only available as a set - maybe that has changed, but in any case do not miss the hardbound "booklet" which takes up half the bulk and, most appropriately, has a preface by Gustav Leonhardt.

ps.  Also the Sweelinck box is predominantly organ music - there are only two (three?) out of nine discs devoted to harpsichord - again, quite the opposite from the Hyperion Byrd.   

[Lethevich]

Byrd wrote at an earlier time than Sweelinck of course, so their music isn't exactly comparable (but I think Davitt Moroney doesn't usually go for "impacts" anyway).  I think the Sweelinck is only available as a set - maybe that has changed, but in any case do not miss the hardbound "booklet" which takes up half the bulk and, most appropriately, has a preface by Gustav Leonhardt.

ps.  Also the Sweelinck box is predominantly organ music - there are only two (three?) out of nine discs devoted to harpsichord - again, quite the opposite from the Hyperion Byrd.   

Ooh, danke for the clarifications, I assumed both composers were contemporary but didn't check. I have a habit of playing the final discs in a big set first if I have a suspicion that they may have been arranged in the order that they were released, as usually later ones will be recorded better. The last 3 seem to be harpsichord only - and I've only listened fully to discs 8 and 9 atm.

There being a lot of organ music included is promising, as I haven't heard much from the late renaissance* (in fact, I can only recall hearing one set, maybe by Gibbons, which didn't make an impression at all), and judging from the disc playing atm, it is just as advanced/complex as the harpsichord works.

*I tend to view composers like Sweelinck and Monteverdi (also Beethoven) as the culmination of their era rather than the beginning of another.

[Florestan]

Elgar

Froissart - Concert Overture Op.19
Cockaigne (In London Town) - Concert Overture Op.40
Imperial March Op.32
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra
Violin Concerto in B minor Op.61
Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Sir Adrian Boult (conductor), New Philharmonia Orchestra

My first exposure to Elgar's music and I love it. 

[Harry]

You made at least one person very happy Andrei, I am 100% sure!