What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[owlice]

The theme to Gettysburg, played by the National Symphony, part of today's Memorial Day observance and concert.

[Brian]

Brian, that's brand new recording, isn't it?  There aren't many of Beethoven's Piano Quartets (likely because they are really, really early works of his).  Have you heard the Amadeus Quartet w/ Eschenbach on piano (DG)?  That's the recording Bill and I have.  There are some nice moments, but not much going on, and as you say, it's very piano heavy.  It would be interesting to hear Beethoven's string trios (much, much better works), transcribed into Piano Quartets, I think. 

Yep, it's brand new, and my introduction to those works. I bet Amadeus and Eschenbach make more of the music, at least to the extent that there is much to make of it.

BEETHOVEN | Symphony No 9
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner

To honor Gurn's Sunday tradition.  This is such a great performance... mmmmm!

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set for a second time to capture more details ...

[FideLeo]

[imperfection]

Now playing CD2 from this set ...

What do you think of the M2? I have only heard the later Chicago version, which was electrifying; but many have noted that the earlier LSO one is even more so.

[FideLeo]

Hear Monteverdi cat-walk like the figure on the cover!    
Christina Pluhar has been unusually inspired in her recordings of early Italian baroque works, and this one is no exception.

[Valentino]

Aimard, COE, Arnold Schoenberg Chor and Harnoncourt in Beethoven op. 80, the Choral Fantasy.

[Harry]

Baryton Trios No. 39-45.
Volume VI

[Valentino]

You sure like you baryton trios, Harry!

Me, I like imperfection the Végh way: LvB SQ op. 18/5 in A. Lovely.

[val]

JS BACH:      Die Kunst der Fuge           / Pierre-Laurent Aimard  (piano)  (2008)

When I bought this CD I had some doubts. The piano was not exactly the most obvious instrument to play this masterpiece.

But I was wrong. Everything here is clear, with perfect articulation and full of life. This is in fact one of the recordings that gave me more pleasure in the last months.
I still love the instrumental version of Goebel or the organ version by Walcha or Marie-Claire Alain. But Aimard is not inferior. His version is really wonderful.

[Valentino]

Continuing with LvB op.18/5. Endellion, Italiano and Takacs should do.

[Harry]

From the box "Musica Mexicana", Volume VI.
Works by Manuel Ponce.

The works assembled on this CD with some Orchestral works, sometimes accompanied by piano, is a mixed blessing. His Piano concerto from 1912, is not a example of tonal beauty, and Poema Elagiaco or Balada Mexicana, barely reach the level of interesting. The Gavota and the second movement of Chapultepec sounds nice in themselves, but in the context they detonate with the rest. Rough and ready accompanied by the Mexico SO, under Batiz, with Jorge Federico Osorio and Eva Suk on the piano's, this is the first major disappointment in this box. Sound is not that good either.

[Opus106]

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra|Karl Bohm

[Henk]

Henk!  Welcome back!  Long time no see.

Thanks, David! Was listening to jazz more for some time.

Henk

[Harry]

Symphony No. 9 opus 28.


What fine music this composer writes, the first and third movement take my breath away.

[Valentino]

Never stop tryin', that is my mantra.

[Coopmv]

What do you think of the M2? I have only heard the later Chicago version, which was electrifying; but many have noted that the earlier LSO one is even more so.

Very dynamic recording with good tempo was my first impression.  But I am a neophyte in Mahler ...

[Coopmv]

JS BACH:      Die Kunst der Fuge           / Pierre-Laurent Aimard  (piano)  (2008)

When I bought this CD I had some doubts. The piano was not exactly the most obvious instrument to play this masterpiece.

But I was wrong. Everything here is clear, with perfect articulation and full of life. This is in fact one of the recordings that gave me more pleasure in the last months.
I still love the instrumental version of Goebel or the organ version by Walcha or Marie-Claire Alain. But Aimard is not inferior. His version is really wonderful.

I have the Pierre-Laurent Aimard's CD.  I also have the CD-set by Tatiana Nikolayeva, which I think is wonderful ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1, another set that arrived from MDT a few weeks ago ...