What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Ruhadze (now that Vol. 3 has much more for a total of 5 CDs).  Dave

 

You should consider the whole Edition, Dave, it's a treasure trove. 

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Music w/ Ana-Marija Markovina on piano (26 CDs) - bought this box from Amazon 10 years ago; also own about a dozen discs of these works on other instruments (mainly harpsichord, but also tangent piano and clavichord).  Dave

[prémont]

Which versions of the Op. 109 have seemed the most interesting to you at this stage?

I have listened first and foremost to individual recordings, i.e. not part of complete sets, but I am at the same time going through the complete sets I own, but this is a long-time undertaking.

Some of the interesting op. 109's were:

Emil Gryesten
Dainius Vaičekonis
Tomoko Ogasawara
Fou Ts'ong
Sunwook Kim
Katie Mahan
Ishay Shaer

But there are others I haven't listened to yet.

[Florestan]

Emil Gryesten
Dainius Vaičekonis
Tomoko Ogasawara
Fou Ts'ong
Sunwook Kim
Katie Mahan
Ishay Shaer

Except Fou Ts'ong, I've never heard of anybody else, let alone listened to their recordings. 

[Harry]

Hi Poju - I had the Wallfisch recordings way back but replaced them 10 years ago (according to Amazon's records) with the second pic below, i.e. Ruhadze (now that Vol. 3 has much more for a total of 5 CDs).  Dave

 

The Wallfish recordings are okay, it is well recorded too. Hyperion is not likely to butcher up the sound, and they did not. Kraemer plays Locatelli as it becomes the status of this composer, he was like Paganini a virtuoso prone to show his talent, nothing wrong with that. Whether you like it is a totally different issue.

[71 dB]

Well, in his time he was a sort of Paganini, performing lots of unusual and difficult feats on the violin. He even composed 24 Caprices. 

(Unlike Paganini, he was a cultured and widely-read man, as well as a discriminating art collector. One of the most interesting personalities of the 18th Century.)

I'm not much into "Paganini style." The Locatelli I really like is 2 CDs of Concerti Grossi Op. 1 on Naxos (Capella Istropolitana/Jaroslav Kreček).

[prémont]

Except Fou Ts'ong, I've never heard of anybody else, let alone listened to their recordings. 

Before I started this journey through recordings of LvB's piano sonatas I had of these only heard of Fou Ts'ong, Sunwok Kim and Emil Gryesten. Gryesten is Danish.

[Florestan]

Gryesten is Danish.

I thought so.

[prémont]

I thought so.

Now you are not a devoted Beethovenian, as far as I recall, but Gryesten has recorded the five last Beethoven sonatas, and he is certainly excellent - particularly in op. 106.

[Florestan]

Now you are not a devoted Beethovenian, as far as I recall, but Gryesten has recorded the five last Beethoven sonatas, and he is certainly excellent - particularly in op. 106.

Thanks for the rec, I might try it some of these days. Not a devoted Beethovenian, sure, but every now and then I try to see if I can become one, and going from failure to failure doesn't deter me. 

[SonicMan46]

You should consider the whole Edition, Dave, it's a treasure trove. 

Hey Andrei - well, I've looked at that 21-CD box (shown below), but I already own 18 Locatelli discs (most in that box) and am mainly missing Op. 6 which is a 'hard' find; not available as a DL on Prestomusic -  Dave


 

[Todd]

[VonStupp]

WA Mozart
Symphony 6 in F Major, K. 43
Symphony 7 in D Major, K. 45
Symphony in G Major, K. 45a
Symphony in B-flat Major, K. 45b
Symphony 8 in D Major, K. 48
Danish NCO - Ádám Fischer

VS

CD2 from this set:

[Papy Oli]

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Andreï,

Your inbox is full... but thank you again!   

[Papy Oli]

BWV 248/1 and 248/2 by Jacobs

[Florestan]

Andreï,

Your inbox is full... but thank you again!   

Not anymore and you're welcome!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alan Hovhaness: Concerto No. 7 for Orchestra, Op. 16, Symphony No. 15, Op. 199, "Silver Pilgrimage" & Magnificat for Four Solo Voices.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Delibes

Killer album!

[JBS]

Well, in his time he was a sort of Paganini, performing lots of unusual and difficult feats on the violin. He even composed 24 Caprices. 

(Unlike Paganini, he was a cultured and widely-read man, as well as a discriminating art collector. One of the most interesting personalities of the 18th Century.)

My problem with the Ruhadze set is that he inserted the Caprices into the Concertos as cadenzas. According to the liner notes, that was in accord with Locatelli's intentions, but for me it resulted in an extremely unbalanced version of the concertos, with the caprices sticking out in the middle like an extraneous sore thumb.

[Florestan]

My problem with the Ruhadze set is that he inserted the Caprices into the Concertos as cadenzas. According to the liner notes, that was in accord with Locatelli's intentions, but for me it resulted in an extremely unbalanced version of the concertos, with the caprices sticking out in the middle like an extraneous sore thumb.

That's how Locatelli conceived and performed them.

They can be played as independent pieces as well, of course.