What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Gurn Blanston]

Love Like Gould's Bach, just can't stand his Beethoven.

Haydn op. 50, 3 (Quatuor Festetics)

What a splendid choice! Statement one as corrected...

Schubert D 894 Sonata #17 in G for Pianoforte - Paul Badura-Skoda. The more I listen to this cycle, the more I like it.

[Mirror Image]

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An amazing recording. Szymanowski is slowly becoming one of my favorite composers. Can't believe I have neglected him for so long.

Having made my way through Rattle's set, I'm highly enjoying what Wit and his Polish forces bring to the table.

[The new erato]

Disc 2 of this excellent set.

[DavidRoss]

Maazel/WP Sibelius 7.  Long time no hear.  As usual, when I put on something from this cycle it pulls me right in and doesn't let go, commanding my attention from start to finish.  Great playing, wonderful color, terrific detail with flow and momentum and liveliness and zest and that returning undercurrent of unsettled striving that somehow pulls all the disparate bubbling, cooking, seething, grumbling, buzzing elements together into a magnificent, unified, and yet still enigmatic whole.

Ah...but given all the oomph! that Maazel put into so much of the first 19 or so minutes, his understated finish is a bit of a letdown....

[Père Malfait]

Disk one of this set:

[Scarpia]

Disk one of this set:

Really, the absurdity of that picture is enough to put me off the recording.  They play Beethoven String Quartets in the yard?

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Harnasie right now. Wit's recordings have proven to be really good so far.

[George]

Really, the absurdity of that picture is enough to put me off the recording.  They play Beethoven String Quartets in the yard?

The serioso, no less.

[Daverz]

Really, the absurdity of that picture is enough to put me off the recording.  They play Beethoven String Quartets in the yard?

Don't be a goofball, these were recorded in a studio, and very well recorded, too.

[Brian]

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Listening to Harnasie right now. Wit's recordings have proven to be really good so far.

I haven't listened to any other Harnasie, but that one was a lot of fun!

[Bulldog]

Really, the absurdity of that picture is enough to put me off the recording.  They play Beethoven String Quartets in the yard?

I suppose that's better than a stockyard.

[bhodges]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Christoph von Dohnányi/Cleveland Orchestra)

--Bruce

[Conor71]

Verdi: String Quartet
Verdi: La Traviata

[Subotnick]

Home from work and oh so happy to be listening to this. Been looking forward to it all shift.

[Lisz]

Wonderful mix of music  -- overtures, sonatas, pavants, fantasias, suites-- from one of my favorite composers.

[Mirror Image]

Home from work and oh so happy to be listening to this. Been looking forward to it all shift.

A truly great recording. I own all the Jarvi/BIS Tubin recordings and they are all fantastic.

[Mirror Image]

I haven't listened to any other Harnasie, but that one was a lot of fun!

I have only two versions of Harnasie: Rattle and Wit. Both are outstanding.

[Subotnick]

A truly great recording. I own all the Jarvi/BIS Tubin recordings and they are all fantastic.

I'd have to agree with you there. I have the majority of them and I must say there's not a bad one amongst them.

[AndyD.]

Die Meistersinger  Act One (Stein, Jerusalem)

[Benji]

Sibelius - Seventh Symphony. SFSO - Blomstedt.

Because, you know, it's in vogue.