What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

Szymanowski - String quartets, copled with some generally unsubstantial Stravinsky SQ works (Naxos)

Richard Wagner ~ Samtliche Klavierwerke Vol.2. S Moller

This OOP disc goes for ridiculous prices.

I found a used library copy of Vol.2. on Amazon for a great price. It warned of 'usual library stickers'. They weren't kidding! The cover has four large ugly stickers which someone has tried to remove, but only suceeded in defacing the artwork 

I hope it didn't (literaly) stink as well? I dunno WTF some idiotic library users do with CDs, but I suspect that some may use them to scoop fat out of the bottom of frying pans or something...

[Mark]

Getting stickers of the CDs themselves is easy enough: take a dry cloth and apply a little T-Cut, work in circular motions over the affected area(s), wipe clean and hey presto! Just be careful not to erase any disc text print.

[Peregrine]

[Que]

Inspired by the Dvorák piano concerto thread!
This would have been perfect: profoundly Czech and with superb conducting by Václav Talich, where it not for the fact that the "adapted" version by Kurz is used instead of the original.



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[Mark]

A rather impressive, full-bodied performance of Saint-Saens' Third Symphony played by the BBC Philharmonic under Alsop. Quite an old (relatively speaking ) recording and no longer available - it's on a BBC Music magazine cover CD I recently acquired.

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge

[Mark]

A rather impressive, full-bodied performance of Saint-Saens' Third Symphony played by the BBC Philharmonic under Alsop. Quite an old (relatively speaking ) recording and no longer available - it's on a BBC Music magazine cover CD I recently acquired.

No, seriously: this is actually a very, very fine performance of this symphony. I'm extremely pleased I found it.

[Mark]

Superb disc, that! The Ravel has been done better, but no matter.

[Mark]

Inspired by the Dvorák piano concerto thread!
This would have been perfect: profoundly Czech and with superb conducting by Václav Talich, where it not for the fact that the "adapted" version by Kurz is used instead of the original.



Q

Hmm ... wouldn't mind hearing that.

[johnQpublic]

Flagello - A Goldoni Overture (Amos/Vox Classic)
Adams - Violin Concerto (Kremer/Nonesuch)
Bolcom - Session I (Slatkin/New World)

[Lethevich]

Schnittke - Peer Gynt

[Que]

Hmm ... wouldn't mind hearing that.

Mark, I don't know how far your tolerance for older recordings has progressed, but please note that this is a Czech recording from 1951....

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Taking a short break from Ludwig van...listening to Yon Hall of Thunder (aka, Langgaard's Tenth Symphony):




Sarge

[Kullervo]

Szymanowski - String quartets...

Added to wishlist!

[Mark]

Mark, I don't know how far your tolerance for older recordings has progressed, but please note that this is a Czech recording from 1951....

Q

Noted. Thanks.

[Lethevich]

Added to wishlist!

Both his quartets are strong (and in slightly different styles), and while the Stravinsky works are pretty trifling, it is quite useful to have ALL of his SQ works on one disc. Good performances too.

[Kullervo]

Both his quartets are strong (and in slightly different styles), and while the Stravinsky works are pretty trifling, it is quite useful to have ALL of his SQ works on one disc. Good performances too.

Well, I love what little Szymanowski I have (only some piano works and pieces for violin and piano), and the string quartet is my favorite genre (yes, even over the symphony). I didn't know he wrote any string quartets.

[Peregrine]

I was listening to this:



Now this:

[Que]

Q

[George]

Et voilà les Barcarolles!



Maybe George will approve that.

Yes, he does.