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[marvinbrown]

  Piano Concerto No.5 "Egyptian" from this set:


 

    Let the Romantic Period reign supreme over all other periods!

  marvin

[George]

This is the other Hotter CD that I have:



I don't recall much about it.

[George]

  Piano Concerto No.5 "Egyptian" from this set:

 

    Let the Romantic Period reign supreme over all other periods!

  marvin

*pounds table with both fists 

[Coopmv]

I can't recall the last CD I bought. I am getting to know all the stuff I have hunted down in the last year or so. Over 200 CDs that I have yet to hear once.

We are in the same boat.  I have yet to play one CD from the Karajan Symphony Edition, the same is true with the Harnoncourt 60-CD Bach Cantatas set and the Weinberger 22-CD Bach Organ Works and a few other sets.  You know, I think record companies have been cranking out these mega sets as a response to the lousy global economy.  Making slim profits is better than making no sales ...

[Diletante]

I'm listening to Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 1 played by Barenboim!

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  Lucia Popp was wonderful in her soprano role ...

[Harry]

Good evening all 

This by all means is a excellent recording, I had it for years, and it still holds good.

[jlaurson]

Funny you should ask, he just hit a few climax notes that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I have a lot of respect and admiration for any musician who can frighten me. This singer is one of those musicians.

Sh*t, yeah! Hans Hotter is duhhhhhhhhh-liciously awesome. A crown jewel among low bass-baritones. The Gurnemanz of Gurnemanzes. The progenitor of 20th century dramatic German bass-baritones into whose footsteps followed Kurt Moll in whose footsteps might likely follow Rene Pape. I very, very rarely buy compilation sets, preferring one-composer discs... but H.Hotter is one of those three, four artists I didn't hesitate at all getting (actually paying for it!) this box:


Lieder & Opera Scenes 1942-1973

Contains his account (of five or six commercially recorded ones) of Die Winterreise, but on here he sings the version for "Sehr tiefe Stimme".

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 and the last CD from this set.  Actually Peter Schreier was both the Evangelist and the conductor, a pretty unusual arrangement ...   

[Benji]

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet. Royal Philharmonic - Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Just what i've been looking for - a R&J that has both warmth and virtuosity. The playing is maybe not quite as polished as Maazel's Clevelanders but it's bloody close and, I feel, much more engaged with the feeling behind the music. I'm absolutely rivetted! 

[Conor71]

Weber: Der Freischütz

[Fëanor]

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
~ Maureen Forrester; Robert Lewis; Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony
~ Michelle DeYoung; Jon Villars; Eiji Oue / Minnesota Symphony

I've been listening to the excerpts from these two performances.  Both enjoyable but the nod goes to DeYoung/Villars/Oue by a pretty big margin: both performance and, especially, sound.

 

[Air]

Lowell Liebermann
Piano Works, Vol. 2
Track 4 - Gargoyles: Presto Feroce

I've always been quite fond of Liebermann's piano works.  Very enjoyable listening.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD from my Rachmaninov collection ...

[George]

SQ #2

Man, this is great stuff. Everytime I listen to these works I become further convinced that they are the best SQs ever written. Simply stunning. 

[Harry]

Muzio Clementi.
The Complete Sonatas Volume III.
"The London Sonatas".
Disc I, recorded in 2008, played on a Kirckman 1798, a'=430 Hz.

Sonata opus XI in E flat.
Toccata in B flat.
Four Sonatas opus XII No. I & II.

Gostantino Mastroprimiano, Fortepiano.

So far the best volume in this series, well played and excellently recorded, these London Sonatas are a feast for my ears.

[val]

SAINT-SAENS:  Trio opus 18

SCHUMANN:  Piano Trio n. 1

SHOSTAKOVITCH:   Piano Trio opus 67

/ Gilels, Kogan, Rostropovitch


Some of the last recordings that these great musicians made together. I had never heard the work of Saint-Saens: it is nice, in special the first two movements.

The versions of Schumann's Trio opus 63 and Shostakovitch's Trio opus 67 are extraordinary. The so moving Largo of Shostakovitch's Trio is perhaps the ideal way for someone to understand my enthusiasm about the Gilels,Kogan & Rostropovitch Trio.

[Harry]

Julius Rontgen.

Symphony No 8 in C sharp major.*
Symphony No 15 in F sharp minor.
Variations about a Norwegian Folk tunes.

* Carmen Fuggiss Soprano.
NDR Radiophilharmonie, David Porcelijn.
Recorded in 2006.

A very fine example of the art of Rontgen, and a great performance of all works, perfectly recorded. All the works I heard for the first time, but already they feel familiar. Well crafted these works, they duly impress through their lyricism and filigree details that emerge all the time, often out of a magical stillness. Like this Cello solo in the Lento of the Symphony No 15, it floats over the work like a magician and oversees the beauty he created.
Recommended.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Julius-R%F6ntgen-Symphonien-Nr-8-15/hnum/6142788

[Harry]

Johann Gottlieb Graun.
Trios for 2 Violins and BC.
Les Amis de Philippe, Ludger Remy.
Recorded 1998. On period instruments.

A bargain, considering the beauty of the disc, and the high level of performance, added to that the fine recording, and the circle is complete.
Its the second time I play this, and its getting better still.

[Orpheus]

Hi all! Please help me to identify this music fragment

http://www.goear.com/listen/e29b43a/frammento-58-

Thanks in advance!

Orpheus