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[bhodges]

Mendelssohn: Piano Trios No. 1 and 2 (Ax/Ma/Perlman) - This is the first time these three have made a recording together, and from this masterful performance, they should have considered collaborating a long time ago. 

--Bruce

[DavidW]

I listened to Festetics Q and Badura-Skoda performing Mozart's Piano Quartets.  They play with a fire seldom heard, but I wish the instruments did not sound so thin and dry.  I'm not necessarily crying out for modern instruments, but I am crying out for better sound.  There should be a sense of depth to the soundstage and the instruments shouldn't sound so trebly but there is no presence, just a dry trebly sound as if the microphones were just shoved up right in front of the instruments.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD8 from this set ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 - Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 from this set ...

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - String Quartets w/ the Pacifica Quartet - second audition but now on some good home speakers - 3-CD set and an outstanding performance from this young group, who deserve the superb reviews received; again does not include the Octet, which is present on the 4-disc set by the Emersons, my only other 'complete' package of these works.

Haydn, Joseph - Sonatas & Variations w/ Andreas Staier on fortepiano (two different instruments by Christopher Clarke built in 1986 & 1989 after Anton Walter originals c. 1790s, Vienna); recordings from 1990/93 (3-CD in a small box w/ discs in cardboard sleeves) - highly regarded comments on this forum - 


 

[Conor71]

Bach: Mass In B Minor, BWV 232

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 - Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 from this set ...

[mahler10th]

My listening today involved the remarkable and the remarkable.

1.  Schmidt 4 - Metha - VPO   This is a symphony which cries to itself with such tragic sonorities that I decided to throw myself from my first flooor window after the first movement.  But I didn't, I listened to the rest.  It is a symphony which resonates with the mourning of his dead daughter, it cannot be anything other than deeply felt and personal, sonatas yearning life to be re-animated.  This is an outstanding recording and version.

2.  After Schmidt came some music I didn't recognise, but thoroughly enjoyed.  Yes, I forgot that Schoenbergs Chamber Symphony 1 Op 9 was on the same disk.  However, this is the second time this has happened to me with Schoenberg, the first time I heard and loved Transfigured Night all in one, and the same thing has happened with his Chamber Symphony No1.

There must be something about this composer - I think I have found it but I still don't know what it is.

[listener]

Having taken it off the shelf for a reply elsewhere, I shall go for baroque and listen before re-shelving
FASCH disc 1: Ouverture (Suite) in d minor; Concerto for Chalumeau in B-flat (played on the clarinet); Sonata in c minor for oboe, violin and continuo; Concerto in D for trumpe, 2 oboes, strings and continuo
       disc 2: Ouverture (Suite) in B-flat for double orchestra, Concerto in D for triple ensemble, each with  trumpets, timpani, 3 oboes and bassoon;, Cantata "Beständigkeit bleibt mein Vergnügen" for tenor and continuo; Missa Brevis in D major for soloists SATB, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 horns, 2 flutes, 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo.

Getting manuscript paper seems to have been no problem for him.

[George]

That must be amazing; I once heard a long time ago he's recording of the 1st Sonata, and it was great- I still remember it :)I'm thinking of buying it from amazon.com.u, but the price is too high

As luck would have it, I found another copy today. Check PM. 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 from this set ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD4 from this set ...

[George]

Rubinstein's 1950s set of Chopin Mazurkas

Great stuff!

[Bogey]

Rubinstein's 1950s set of Chopin Mazurkas

Great stuff!

Which are on the big RCA box, George?  I could look, but that would mean getting out of my seat, walking across the room and actually opening the liner notes (which ain't happening ), so I will defer to your Chopin grey matter.

[George]

Which are on the big RCA box, George?  I could look, but that would mean getting out of my seat, walking across the room and actually opening the liner notes (which ain't happening ), so I will defer to your Chopin grey matter.

The later (last) ones in stereo are in the box. The ones I posted are the second traversal. I haven't heard the first one yet.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD from my baroque collection ...

[Bogey]

The later (last) ones in stereo are in the box. The ones I posted are the second traversal. I haven't heard the first one yet.

Thanks!  I take it you enjoy this previous set?

[George]

Thanks!  I take it you enjoy this previous set?

Yes, it's a more energetic version. I liked the stereo too, just not as much.

[listener]

Carl BINDER after Richard WAGNER/ Robert Meyer after Johann Nestroy
TANNHÄUSER in 80 Minutes   (DVD)
a one-man adaptation of a parody by Nestroy (Lumpazi Vagabundis) with the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln.
If you know the Wagner original you"ll get more out of this than I did.   I decided to see this first before listening to the opera.   Meyer is pretty impressive in the 9 rôles, and the schrammel quartet is an accomplished group and enjoy it.    I think I got the intentions, if not the details of most of it.    Good fun.   Now I would really like to hear Offenbach's take on Nestroy in his Häuptling Abendwind.

[Que]

Another run of this - definitely a keeper, I just ordered the other volume.
Good morning!



Stefan Johannes Bleicher plays the organ of the Klosterkirche in Weißenau, built by Johann Nepomuk Holzhey in 1784-87.

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