What are you listening 2 now?

[Mookalafalas]

A really well chosen selection.

[Traverso]

Dowland

CD 4

[Traverso]

It concerns masterings that are oop at the moment.

If you don't know which mastering was used for the big box with the complete Philips and Decca recordings I wouldn't dare to purchase it and cherish the box with the Symphony edition

These are the controversial boxes, an edition that is now sold out and has had great reviews. Unfortunately for all those who do not know the original recordings.
I have reported this here before and Mirror Image responded that it was nitpicking by a reviewer.
He has now heard the difference himself and had to admit that he was wrong.
He is not getting rid of his box with the Symphony Edition.

[AnotherSpin]

[Mandryka]

Quite a nice program, actually. (The Bizet is last.)

what is the cover?

[Traverso]

Famous Organ Music

CD 1

Harald Vogel

[Harry]

Cipriani Potter (1792–1871)
Symphony No.1 in G minor.
Introduzione e Rondo (alla militaire) in E flat major for Piano & Orchestra.
Overture to Cymbelene.

Claire Huangci, Piano.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Howard Griffiths.

The First Symphony in G minor is the oldest of Potter's surviving symphonies, a dramatic, fully developed work that, in terms of its finesse and inventiveness, can be placed alongside its contemporaries Schubert or Spohr.The Introduzione e Rondo (alla militaire) in E-flat major for piano and orchestra (1827) gives an idea of what a brilliant pianist Potter must have been. Breathtaking chases across the keyboard and all kinds of humorous ideas make the almost 20-minute work a veritable bravura piece, from which the young pianist Claire Huangci knows how to extract many charming aspects.
And a perfectly accentuated, suspenseful performance of the overture to Shakespeare's Cymbelene, makes a successful ending of this interesting CD. Perfectly recorded.

[Spotted Horses]

Bacewicz, Quartet for 4 cellos.



Brief, quirky, sensuous work. Enjoyed.

[Leo K.]

[André]

Henri Marteau (1874–1934)
The Complete Works for String Quartet, Volume II.
String Quartet No.1 op.5 in D flat major (1904/1907, revised 2nd version, Süddeutscher Musikverlag Strassburg )
Clarinet Quintet op. 13.

Jean-Michel Charlier, Clarinet.
Isasi Quartet.

What I wrote about the first Volume can be applied to the second volume. The Clarinet Quintet needs further praise, for it is a fabulous piece of music, well conceived and played. Sound is PRISTINE:

That quintet is the first work by Marteau's I heard and I fell under its spell from the very first bars. What an enchanting theme ! It is indeed a fabulous work.

[Karl Henning]

what is the cover?

Miró

[André]

It concerns masterings that are oop at the moment.

If you don't know which mastering was used for the big box with the complete Philips and Decca recordings I wouldn't dare to purchase it and cherish the box with the Symphony edition

These are the controversial boxes, an edition that is now sold out and has had great reviews. Unfortunately for all those who do not know the original recordings.
I have reported this here before and Mirror Image responded that it was nitpicking by a reviewer.
He has now heard the difference himself and had to admit that he was wrong.
He is not getting rid of his box with the Symphony Edition.

Not sure I understand, Jan.

- The 2 boxes you show are the ones that are problematic ?
- The one I have is the Symphony Edition (Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Schumann and Tchaikovsky symphonies). That's the one that is in good sound, right ?
- I ordered the big box of 100+cds (too late to cancel the order, JPC told me). I could return it, but I guess I'll keep it for the sake of the 60something cds I don't already have.

Why is life so complicated ?

[Linz]

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, he Nutcracker Complete ballet, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

[Harry]

IGOR STRAVINSKY.(1882–1971)

The Fairy's Kiss Le Baiser de la fée 1928.
Scènes de ballet 1944.

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ILAN VOLKOV.
Recorded in City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, on 15 and 16 November 2008.

Ballets that have lyrical allure, but also Stravinsky's characteristic dislocation of rhythm and citrus harmonies, lots of color and turbulent dynamism, figure after figure so lovely and inventive. Brilliantly clear high-energy accounts, and superb performed and recorded.

[Traverso]

Not sure I understand, Jan.

- The 2 boxes you show are the ones that are problematic ?
- The one I have is the Symphony Edition (Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Schumann and Tchaikovsky symphonies). That's the one that is in good sound, right ?
- I ordered the big box of 100+cds (too late to cancel the order, JPC told me). I could return it, but I guess I'll keep it for the sake of the 60something cds I don't already have.

Why is life so complicated ?

Yes the two in the pictures are the bad ones.Your symphony edition  has excellent sound.Of course it is possible that the box you ordered from JPC does not contain those heavily edited masterings. Hopefully the booklet will provide clarity on that.
It shows once again that not every remastering is an improvement.
I have enough with the symphony edition and also this one. And many separate CDs

[Traverso]

Mahler

Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen

[ritter]

Liszt at the opera (disc 7 of 12): Leslie Howard plays  transcriptions of (or réminiscences based on) music from I Puritani, Jérusalem, Don Carlos, Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, and Lucrezia Borgia.

CD 43 of this mega-box :



"A te, o cara, amor talora
Amor talora mi guidò furtivo e in pianto..." 

[Karl Henning]

@ritter , that Leslie Howard box is a monster!

[foxandpeng]

Waiting in a rainy, dark hospital car park. All I want to hear is the best of the best at the moment. Why waste time on anything else. So, Luonnotar, on this disc. The most extraordinary music, a desert island piece (an odd image when one considers the text...). Sibelius at his most concentrated and intense? Well, I think so.

Continuing to think of you, Luke. Keep on, keeping on.

[brewski]

In about a half-hour, Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, live from Hamburg with Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. After discovering it as a teenager and seeking it out ever since — a lifelong love affair — hearing it live is always an event.

-Bruce