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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Lisztianwagner - Today at 02:48:05 PM

I almost grabbed some of Delius' music to listen to today!  I have a box with Beecham. 

How did you like Barbirolli's Butterworth?  I haven't heard his recording of it before now.

PD

I have no terms of comparison since it was the first I listened to that Butterworth's piece, but I found Barbirolli's recording absolutely exquisite; the work itself is really enchanting, passionate and evocative, but also subtly melancholic and idyllic. I enjoyed it very much.

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GMG News / Re: Bug Report 2024

Last post by Madiel - Today at 02:28:54 PM

Working flawlessly now.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: RIP Sir Andrew Davis

Last post by lordlance - Today at 02:27:33 PM

Any recommendations of Davis in non-British repertoire. Classical Radio UK recently, for example, uploaded a live Bruckner 9th with him.

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The Diner / Re: Non-Classical Music Listen...

Last post by drogulus - Today at 02:25:24 PM

    I'm listening to some music from the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Cream and the Super Session album with Stills, Kooper and Bloomfield. The files are.dsf played on......WINAMP!!

    I realize a normal person would just DL foobar and the SACD plugin, but that wasn't good enough for me, ohhh nooo.....

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Last post by Madiel - Today at 02:19:45 PM

The problem of course is that kind of cheap reissue might not be accurate, in the same way that the Amazon listing of an entire set might not be accurate.

If you go through her catalogue you can see when the Pathetique and Moonlight were first released, recorded in 1986 with the Waldstein.** So when they appear again with the Appassionata the same problems arise as with Capova: were some sonatas recorded twice? Were reissues paired with a new recording?

**I'd trust that first album more than some, not least because it explicitly states when AND where the works were recorded.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Last post by prémont - Today at 02:07:25 PM

The recording featuring Tomsic performing sonatas 8, 14, and (23 ??) is, as far as I recall, the following:

https://www.discogs.com/release/17675455-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-Dubravka-Tomsic-Sonata-n-2-8-and-23

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by JBS - Today at 02:02:48 PM

Interesting. I ought to borrow that from the library.

My memory of it is close to Todd's. Nicholson, Beatty, and Keaton all play themselves.

I did like the witness interviews, but I can understand why they seem out of place.

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The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched

Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 01:54:29 PM

I remember watching that movie years ago...long (thankful for the intermission), but very very good.

PD

Interesting. I ought to borrow that from the library.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Last post by prémont - Today at 01:52:24 PM

Looks like the pianist for Op 57 is Sylvia Capova.

Perhaps, but I own another recording that is quite convincingly attributed to Capova, and it differs from the first. It is certain that both are studio recordings. And it seems improbable that she would have recorded the piece twice.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1107586-Beethoven-Piano-Silvia-Capov%C3%A1-Piano-Sonatas-Moonlight-Path%C3%A9tique-Appassionata?image=14464860.SW1hZ2U6NDMyNTA0Nzk%3D

[Puccini]

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by brewski - Today at 01:44:01 PM

An impromptu afternoon at the final dress rehearsal for Puccini's Madame Butterfly at Opera Philadelphia. A new, spare production (= good) by Yuki Izumihara with an interesting concept: the singer who plays Cio Cio San also helps manipulate a puppet of herself. Excellent cast and orchestra.

-Bruce