What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques

[steve ridgway]

Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie For Orchestra With Solo Clarinet

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Clarinet Quartet

[steve ridgway]

Varèse: Ionisation

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: Fantasma/Cantos II

[steve ridgway]

Ives: Three Places In New England

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Silhouettes

[Roasted Swan]

That's an easy one :



That' the LP version I bought almost 50 yrs ago. There were 2 discs. They've been condensed onto one cd (minus the Husitska overture):



Recorded in 1968. Fine sound, with the Prague Rudolfinum Hall reverb adding greatly to the atmosphere. Hugely characterful wind and brass playing.

Harnoncourt's performances are very polished in comparison. It can be a plus or a minus depending on the pov. I find them excellent, just not as spooky and savage as Chalabala's.

I would take Chalabala over Harnoncourt any day for the drama and the character of the playing.  But important to note that Chalabala does cut Golden Spinning Wheel by about 5 minutes.

[Madiel]

But important to note that Chalabala does cut Golden Spinning Wheel by about 5 minutes.

Yes, people used to do that. Cutting late Dvorak is to be frowned upon. Whereas Dvorak himself cut early Dvorak...

[Papy Oli]

Yesterday:

Dvorak - Symphony No.9 (Reiner)
Dvorak - Cello Concerto (Du Pré)
Dvorak - Piano Trio No.3 (Beaux-Arts Trios)
Dvorak - String Quartet No.12 (Talich Qt)

[Florestan]

The finale of the Dittersdorf quartet on this disc is really fun and Hungarian folk influenced:



The Bennewitz Quartet has a perfect record on disc so far.

Got this just yesterday. I'm going to listen to it later today.

[Roasted Swan]

Yesterday:

Dvorak - Symphony No.9 (Reiner)
Dvorak - Cello Concerto (Du Pré)
Dvorak - Piano Trio No.3 (Beaux-Arts Trios)
Dvorak - String Quartet No.12 (Talich Qt)

that's quite a line-up of artists!

[vandermolen]

Milhaud: Suite Provencale
Honegger: Symphony No.3 'Liturgique'
The Luxembourg Radio Orchestra, Louis De Froment

I didn't know the Milhaud work and enjoyed it very much.
Fine performance of the Honegger with its deeply moving bird-song ending.
(Citadel CD)

[Traverso]

Elgar

Sea Pictures withy the unforgettable Janet Baker.

[Florestan]

The finale of the Dittersdorf quartet on this disc is really fun and Hungarian folk influenced:

Listening to this right now. The Dittersdorf is indeed a peach, the finale as humorous and unpredictable as anything Haydn wrote. One more evidence for my opinion that in the Classical era the average level of craftsmanship and inventivity was very high, probably higher than in any other period before and after.

[Florestan]

The finale of the Dittersdorf quartet on this disc is really fun and Hungarian folk influenced:

The finale of the Vanhal is not half bad either.

[Traverso]

Schubert

Janet Baker  Gerald Moore

 

[Todd]

Revisiting disc eleven.  Mozart's K570 is nice.  The Chopin selections, most markedly the Barcarolle, are nearly destroyed by recorded sound so bad that some playing is nearly unlistenable.  It's nearly as bad as Ciani's LvB.  The rough sound in the somewhat rough Prokofiev Seventh Sonata is OK.  The biggest issue, though, is with Debussy's Suite Bergamesque.  Most of Kapell's playing hovers in the mezzo-forte and below range, so overload is not an issue.  His playing is so nuanced, so subtle, so lovely that even through the muck this stands as one of the great recordings.  But.  But the recording is nearly fatally flawed because the recording and/or mixing was performed over previously recorded tape, and muffled announcers can be heard throughout.  Ugh.

[kyjo]

NP:

Rachmaninov
Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op. 5
Nikolai Petrov, Alexey Cherkasov

From this OOP set -

Great to see you back here, John! Rachmaninoff's two suites for two pianos are sheer delight from beginning to end, as I'm sure you'll agree.

[Florestan]

Sheer aural delight.