What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Papy Oli]

Goes without say, there are some threads on this board where you won't be taken seriously if you have less than two dozen complete Beethoven Sonata cycles on your shelf.   

two dozen.... it'll never happen...

[Scarpia]

I try, and try, but I just can't please you today 

Sarge

I've been told I'm very fussy.

[Bulldog]

I've been told I'm very fussy.

You won't let me forget that one.

[Scarpia]

You won't let me forget that one.

I was thinking of the perennial complain of my wife.   

[SonicMan46]

Re: SonicMan's post

I recently bought Delius's Mass of Life (coupled with his Requiem) and although neither are masses proper, they are fascinating works nonetheless.

Hi Franco - I have nearly a half dozen discs of Delius, but only orchestral/chamber works - certainly would be curious about his vocal output - any specific recommendations?  Thanks - 

[SonicMan46]

I've been told I'm very fussy.

Sarge - I think your machine gun was shooting blanks! 

[SonicMan46]

Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-ca. 1638) - Solo Lute/Chitarrone, Bks. I & II, published in 1623 & 1639 (latter posthumously) - a 2-CD set from Brilliant, licensed from the Tactus label at a great BRO bargain!  First disc w/ Lusicano Contini and second disc w/ Francesca Torelli; on both CDs, a mixture of solo works played on the lute and the chitarrone (longer neck lute w/ deeper bass strings) - relaxing, enjoyable, well played & recorded - if you like this type of music, then a definite recommendation! 

[DavidRoss]

Wow!  When I went to Amazon for the image I saw that it's OOP and the marketplaces sellers are asking $35 for a new copy!  Heck, you can get the 5-disc complete Debussy solo piano set by Planès for less than that from MDT!

[Bulldog]

Wow!  When I went to Amazon for the image I saw that it's OOP and the marketplaces sellers are asking $35 for a new copy!  Heck, you can get the 5-disc complete Debussy solo piano set by Planès for less than that from MDT!

ArkivMusic has the Preludes for $20, but there's no doubt that the complete set is the better buy.

[kishnevi]

This symphony is not well represented in my collection, I only have one other recording, Ormandy/Philidelphia, and think Jarvi's is recorded beautifully by Chandos but I probably prefer the Ormandy performance.  Their takes are different enough, though, it is hard to make a meaningful comparison.

Do you have any personal favorites I might check out if I were going to add to my very short list of 4ths?

This was my introduction to the Fourth, and it blew me away, and still does every time I listen to it.   I haven't heard either the Jaarvi or Ormandy recordings.  I have two others, the Haitink/CSO that won the Grammy last year (or the year before?), and Rostropovich/NSO, which I found to be relatively weak--something I did not expect, since I have his LSO Live recordings of the 8th and 11th and think highly of both

Thread duty:


I have yet to encounter a recording by this group that I don't like.

[listener]

OFFENBACH   La Belle Hélène     with some(?)  dialogue and narration to keep the action straight and properly located.    French editions aren't very good at admitting that non-French speakers my be interested in their product, this does have a fairly detailed synopsis in French, but it is an all-French production and has that feel of "rightness" like a Vienna orchestra can give Johann Strauss.  A lot of his "greatest hits" that were included in the pastiche-ballet Gaîté Parisienne can be found here
Jean-Pierre Marty, cond.    Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra   c.1970
Danièle Millet, Hélène; Charles Burles, Pâris; Bernadette Antoine, Oreste; Jean-Christophe Benoit, Ménélas; Michel Dens, Agamemnon

link for a text in French http://www.mediterranees.net/mythes/troie/offenbach/helene1.html
(some updating in this performance, "locomotive" becomes "sputnik")
LP  2 discs  manual sequence

[Bogey]

Top-shelf:

[Que]

Jean-Charles Ablitzer plays the organ of the Sankt-Stephanskirche in Tangermünde, built in 1623-24 by Hans Scherer. More info about this recording HERE.

See also my comments on the Organ thread.

Q

[Harry]

First listen as to this recording and a first in listening to this work by Bach.

From this box CD VII & VIII.





Mass in B minor BWV 232.

Batlhasar Neumann Choir.
Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock.
Recorded 1997

This choir is topnotch. Very good voices, also the solo's from the choir are quite good. Have to get used to these big Choir works though.

[Que]

First listen as to this recording and a first in listening to this work by Bach.


Mass in B minor BWV 232.

Batlhasar Neumann Choir.
Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock.
Recorded 1997

This choir is topnotch. Very good voices, also the solo's from the choir are quite good. Have to get used to these big Choir works though.

My favourite recording of the Hohe Messe, and it would seem a good match for you considering this is a "smal choir" approach!

Q

[Christo]

Happy to know you like some of it. I confess, my arguments for Haitink's RVW8 did not persuade either Dutchman 

Sarge

   

[Harry]

My favourite recording of the Hohe Messe, and it would seem a good match for you considering this is a "smal choir" approach!

Q

It is Que.

[Sergeant Rock]

A really beautiful, sunny, warm afternoon so I decided to depress myself by listening to:

Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, Agnes Baltsa, Maazel, Wiener Phil

Sarge

[karlhenning]

First-listen Fridays!:

Toch
Tanz-Suite, Opus 30 (1923-24)
Spectrum Concerts Berlin

Toch – Tanz-Suite & Cello Concerto Christian Poltéra, vc Spectrum Concerts Berlin Thomas Carroll, cond

Déjà vu?

First-listen Fridays, Special Toch Division!:

Toch
Vn Sonata № 2, Opus 44 (1928)
Burlesken for piano solo, Opus 31 (1923)
Three Impromptus for cello solo, Opus 90c (1963)
Piano Quintet, Opus 64 (1938)
Spectrum Concerts Berlin

Toch – Piano Quintet &c. Spectrum Concerts Berlin Thomas Carroll, cond

[Franco]

Rautavaara: Symphony No. 6 - Vincentiana; Cello Concerto, Op. 41
Jorma Hynninen, Juha Kotilainen, Jaakko Hietikko, Marko Putkonen, Eeva-Lisa Saarinen, et al.