What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

I have to fight off urges to recommend this to everyone ;_:

I have ordered the set already Sarah, so thank you!

[Harry]

During the day, I listen to nothing, but at night, my current listening has been Bernstein's rendition of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Bloody H**** Philo, is it really?

[Harry]

The name is Segerstam, Leif Segerstam.

I take it as slow as I possibly can!

[Lethevich]

I have ordered the set already Sarah, so thank you!

Yay The Serenade to Music and Flos Campi recordings included are... insanely good recordings of unbelievable works 0:) If you have yet to hear one (or either) of those, then you are in for such a treat I also prefer the oboe concerto recording to the well-known one on the Marriner Decca twofer.

[FideLeo]

Click the image above to access the album page at Nippon Columbia (in Japanese)

A video demo is available in which the baroque violinist plays prelude to the G-major suite on his violoncello da spalla.

[karlhenning]

Gershwin
Lullaby for String Orchestra
Clevelanders
Chailly

[Sergeant Rock]

The recommendations for the Borodin always confuse me, is the "First Borodin" the one on Chandos historical?

Only if you were born after 1972 

The second Borodin (on Melodiya?) seems to be unavailable in the US, except for a excerpts on a 2-fer from Virgin.  How do the two sets compare in perfomance style and audio quality?

Sorry, I can't help you compare them. I only have their first cycle. I looked for a thread discussing the two but couldn't find anything. Odd. I'm sure it's been discussed before. Maybe on the old forum?

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich, String Quartets 2, 8 and 13, Rubio Quartet.

Sarge

[scarpia]

Only if you were born after 1972 

I don't know what that is supposed to mean.  Is this the set you are talking about or not?

[SonicMan46]

Revisiting this for the first time in a while......

Yep, pulled that box out the other day on the 50th anniversary of the composer's death - but been listening to other VW discs at the moment - need to start soon! 

[Wanderer]

Previously:

Bruckner: Helgoland (BPO/Barenboim).


Now:




0:)

[Sergeant Rock]

I don't know what that is supposed to mean. 

We apparently don't have the same sense of humor    Your referring to the first Borodin cycle as "historical" amused me because I was in my late teens and early twenties when it was recorded and I certainly don't consider it historical. But I can see how a younger man might see it that way 

Is this the set you are talking about or not?

Yes, those are the performances I own but my set (LPs) includes the 14th and 15th Quartets too (by the Beethoven Quartet, recorded in 1975).

Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Good evening all

Tchaikovsky - 6th symphony "Pathétique"
Karajan/BPO/DG

[Sergeant Rock]

Sibelius, String Quartet D minor "Voces intimae" performed by the Tempera Quartet

Sarge

[ChamberNut]

Enescu

Octet, Op. 7
Quintet, Op. 29

Kremerata Baltica (featuring Gidon Kremer)
Nonesuch

**2nd listen to this disc I took out from the library.  Any fan of chamber music should check it out!   

[ChamberNut]

Sibelius, String Quartet D minor "Voces intimae" performed by the Tempera Quartet

Sarge

Love that Sibelius quartet Sarge!    By the way, you seem to be listening to alot of chamber music lately?    And, I'm listening to alot of Wagner lately.  What is this world coming to? 

[rubio]

The third volume from this series (and the only one I have so far). It includes the slightly eerie "Der Zwerg" and the dreamy, calm "Nacht und Träume" amongst others.

[DanielFullard]

Having a bit of a Saint Seans day today after last nights Prom.

[scarpia]

We apparently don't have the same sense of humor    Your referring to the first Borodin cycle as "historical" amused me because I was in my late teens and early twenties when it was recorded and I certainly don't consider it historical. But I can see how a younger man might see it that way 

Sorry, I never meant to imply that I considered them "historical" recordings, I just referred to the fact that they were issued on CD by the record label "Chandos Historic."  Judging from the samples on the Chandos web site, the sound is not bad at all.

[Sergeant Rock]

you seem to be listening to alot of chamber music lately?    And, I'm listening to alot of Wagner lately.  What is this world coming to? 

Some may hear a howl of dire portent in this odd reversal of the natural order... I'm going to make sure my shutters are well secured tonight!

Sarge