What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[dtwilbanks]

That's a nice one! 

Yeah, this particular piano-pounder is a pretty priceless player.

[Bogey]

Yeah, this particular piano-pounder is a pretty priceless player.

Just added to my wish-list.

[George]

Just added to my wish-list.

Particularly perfect pick, professor! 

[dtwilbanks]

[Robert]

For me, at least: Emerson, Juilliard, Keller and ABQ all fail to convince me that this is great Bartok (the Keller come close, though).

Similarly with every live performance I've heard.

Well then, how about Tokyo or Takacs?

[val]

Good morning to all.

JS BACH: 3 Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, by Wieland Kuijken and Leonhardt.

There are more perfect versions, better recorded, but the eloquence of Kuijken and Leonhardt, the way they express the deep melancholy of the slow movements, the extraordinary sense of the dynamic of Leonhardt (an example: the beginning of the Fugue in the Sonata BWV 1027), give to this recording from 1974 a very special place.

[Harry]

Handel

Organ Concertos, Complete, Volume V.

Concerto, No. 16 in F major.
From Six Fugues or Voluntarys for the Organ or Harpsichord.

Manuel Schmidt, Kirsty Wilson, Oboe.
Josef Weissteiner, Wolfgang Wipfler, Horn.
Frank Lehmann, Ulrich Hermann, Bassoon.
Christain Schmidt, Organ.
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Nicol Matt.

The last cd from this box, and a fine close of these concerti.

[Harry]

Antonin Dvorak.

Chamberworks, Volume VIII.


Rondo for cello and piano in G minor opus 94.

Robert Cohen, Cello.
Roger Vignoles, Piano.

Drobnosti, opus 75a for 2 Violins and Viola.
Bagatelles opus 47 for 2 violins, cello & Harmonium.

Alberni String Quartet.

Serenade for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 3 horns, cello and double bass, in D minor opus 44.

Nash Ensemble.

What a delightful close, after hearing the complete box in just a couple of days. Dvorak's music never disappoints really. There is always something for the heart to be found, and consolation for the ones that are sad. Dvorak was a man of deep emotions. Hearing the first four of his symphonies last night, and then the intro of the first symphony, "The bells of Zlovice" there you find the core of his oeuvre, from which he emerged as a comet. Allthough he himself did not think much of his first symphonic works, he was in error when he dismissed them as mere trifles.
Well then, recommended is this box without doubts.

[Christo]

Berkeley conducting his own creations. Refined 'gallic' music that can only stem from an English composer, I didn't hear his lovely Divertimento and Partita (especially) for over 25 years - and how much I love them and love to hear them again!
                     

[Harry]

Bedrich Smetana.

String Quartet No. 1 in e minor. "From my life".

Stamitz Quartet.

Everyone knows this work, so only a interpretation question here.
Nothing wrong with the commitment and ardent playing of the Stamitzes. It is well phrased, and the tempi are fine. They dive right into the heart of the music, with a vigour that makes the music sparkling, and very much alive.
Sound is bright but not overly so.

Brilliant Classics, recordings licensed from Bayer Records, recording Prague 1990.

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Henning, Nuhro, op.74, Choir of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston

Sarge

[springrite]

Karl Henning, Nuhro, op.74, Choir of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston

An early work, obviously.



Chopin Etudes, played by Cziffra
Chopin Preludes, played by Bolet
Chopin Etudes, played by Zayas

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Sergeant Rock]

An early work, obviously.

Yep...I'm listening to Karl's juvenilia now, the op.55, I Sang to the Sky, and Day Broke.

Sarge

[BachQ]

Antonin Dvorak.

Serenade for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 3 horns, cello and double bass, in D minor opus 44.

Nash Ensemble.

I shall place that on my "to listen" list . . . . . . . 

[karlhenning]

Nuhro is a Hymn of Light sung at Morning Prayer in the Maronite tradition.

[Haffner]

Beethoven

PC 5

Serkin/Bernstein


Glorious! 

Classic.



Maestro Shostakovich String Quartet #7 (Borodin)

This is a very good recording, though I think the sound engineer boo-booed a bit by making the highs seem too screechy at times. This fault wasn't on the two other recordings I have of this work, but it does spring up from time to time on the Borodin's other recordings.

SO maybe it's them (please understand that I happen to be a big fan of the Borodin SQ).

[Haffner]

Yep...I'm listening to Karl's juvenilia now, the op.55, I Sang to the Sky, and Day Broke.

Sarge

Excellent!

[karlhenning]

Good morning, Andy!

I think I need some Carter String Quartets this morning . . . .

[marvinbrown]

   Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Gulda)- I expect to complete the cycle in 3 days

  marvin