What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[petrarch]

Now listening to the title track of this one:



Seen this piece in concert some 15 years ago and it was the most memorable concert of Nono's music I have been to. Took me about 10 years and 3 recordings of this piece to get to the level of purity and overall sound I enjoyed during the concert, minus the cavernous live electronics projection, which can only be felt and experienced in concert--this CD is it, which I have treasured for the past 5 years; the others are the original recording of 1985, released by Ricordi in 1991 and the Col Legno release of 1998, both unfortunately recorded live and plagued with audience noise and less than stellar captured sound.

[Brian]

Caved in to peer pressure - listening for the first time to Bax's Christmas Eve!

[Harry]

Boccherini.

Concerto for Cello, and Orchestra, No. 11.
Symphony in C minor, opus 41.

Anner Bijlsma, Cello.
Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon.
CD I from this box, recorded in 1992.

Wonderful interpretations, but I agree with Que's side remark, that Italian influences are not to be found in this interpretations. It sounds very clean and German like, not that there is anything wrong with it, but a little more freedom in the playing would have been a added bonus. Nevertheless world class recordings. Would not like to be without them.

[Sergeant Rock]

Various works, includng Vivaldi Four Violin Concerto RV580 and Cello Concerto RV418, Handel Concerto grosso Op.3/6, Geminiani Concerto grosso Op.2/3, performed by Tafelmusik.




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Caved in to peer pressure - listening for the first time to Bax's Christmas Eve!

About damn time! What took you so long?

Sarge

[Brian]

About damn time! What took you so long?

Sarge

Forgetfulness!

I hereby sentence "Christmas Eve" to one week's regular-rotation listening for unreasonable gorgeousness and expert use of an organ in a public place.

[Harry]

From this box, CD II.

Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione.
No. 6/8/9/10/11/12.

I am surprised! This is really very good. I did not have so much pleasure in listening to Vivaldi as with this box. Fine recordings, and topnotch performances of these works. I have diverse interpretations, but this one tops all.

[Harry]

From this Box, CD II.
Second run through.

Libre Vermell de Montserrat.
A 14th-Century Pilgrimage.

Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall.

This box is a treasure trove anytime. Well performed and recording, it guides you through a bygone era, with so much color, that you actually are transported back to a world unknown. What a marvelous journey.

[Gurn Blanston]

From this box, CD II.

Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione.
No. 6/8/9/10/11/12.

I am surprised! This is really very good. I did not have so much pleasure in listening to Vivaldi as with this box. Fine recordings, and topnotch performances of these works. I have diverse interpretations, but this one tops all.

I'm not surprised at all! Of all my Vivaldi violin concerti (I have nearly 200 of them, and many versions of each) I consistently rely on Biondi for top-notch playing. That looks like a nice box, I have the disks already, but I like that format.

For me it is a 9th that I hadn't heard in a long while due to a disk malfunction. I got a new copy of it this week and so I am spinning up the London Symphony with Eugen Jochum. Recorded in 1979, it presents a marked contrast to the Jochum I listened to last week with the Bavarian RSO from 1952, or a couple weeks previous, the Concertgebouw in 1968. Certainly no lack of pep from the old man, and his soloists (Kanawa, Hamari, Burrows &   Holl) don't let down either. Something I hadn't noticed before, the Choirmaster position features the earliest known appearance (for ME) of Richard Hickox.   All in all, a nice recording to pull off the shelf every now and again.

[Sergeant Rock]

First listen to my new Beethoven Violin Concerto. I'm saving the Berg for late night listening tonight.




Sarge

[Que]

After my encounter with CPE Bach's violin sonatas, this is a familiar style - though Bohemian Franz (František) Benda's more ornamented style is more influenced by the Italian violin repertoire, Tartini comes to mind. And these sonatas are accompanied by the harpsichord, not the fortepiano. Though beats me what the provenance of the harpsichord is..? Sounds German.

Incisive and crisp playing by Anton Steck & Christian Rieger.



Q

[Que]

From this box, CD II.

Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione.
No. 6/8/9/10/11/12.

I am surprised! This is really very good. I did not have so much pleasure in listening to Vivaldi as with this box. Fine recordings, and topnotch performances of these works. I have diverse interpretations, but this one tops all.

Ha! I'm not surprised, Harry!

Q

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes, I was raving about this set months ago. A fine set indeed.

Interesting! Could you tell me what you like about the music (or point me to a post)?

[Sergeant Rock]

I can't stop with just one...need to hear Beethoven again; the very different take by Zehetmair and Brüggen:




Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

I can't stop with just one...need to hear Beethoven again; the very different take by Zehetmair and Brüggen:




Sarge

Well, this is my favorite version. I'll be interested to hear what your thought is comparing the Arabella version.

Right now, Cuartetto Casals playing Arriaga. I'd have to do too much digging to come up with what my older version is of these string quartets, but whatever it is, these blow them away. Very con brio and troppo too.

[Que]

Hendryk Wieniawksi's violin concerto no. 2

Q

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JS - Brandenburg Concertos et al w/ Jeannette Sorrell & Apollo's Fire - 2 1/2 hrs of music on 2 discs w/ several harpsichord concertos and a reconstructed violin concerto (w/ Elizabeth Wallfisch) - misled into thinking that this was a 'new' recording from a very positive American Record Guide review (check the Purchases thread - file attached to one of my posts there) - actually the recording dates are fairly recent (1999-2005); the music is played w/ aplomb on PIs and recorded well - for another perspective, a MusicWeb review HERE, which is less flattering - 

Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Bachianas Brasileiras from the box below - listened to the Choros yesterday which were just superb, such varied and well performed music - first disc of the BBs starting as I type - 7 CDs in all w/ the last being the 'solo guitar' music, which I already own but w/ a different instrumentalist - 


 

[Todd]

I've done a couple run throughs of volume nine from Ronald Brautigam's survey of all of Beethoven's piano music.  Rather than conclude the cycle, the good folks at BIS decided to dedicate the disc to juvenelia.  The three WoO 47 sonatas are here, as well as various other early, lightweight pieces.  The disc is nice enough as far as it goes, but the last three sonatas these works are not.  Brautigam plays in his customary manner.  Great sound.  Now, bring on the last three sonatas and the Diabellis, dammit!

[Brian]

Alright, all this talk about the Zehetmair/Bruggen Beethoven CD is getting me interested. But the truth is, I really don't like the Beethoven violin concerto.    I just really don't like it. What timings do they achieve? I think my problem might be related to the fact that so many of the recordings I'd heard (my first was Milstein) are Slow and Grand. Maybe HIP would help?

Brautigam plays in his customary manner.

That's a guarded statement. I know you've talked more about Brautigam's manner before, though, so I'll check those posts too, before buying. And I can't wait to hear Brautigam's Opp 109-111 - the sonatas that separate, so to speak, the men from the boys. In this case, maybe the Annie Fischers from the Annie Olands.

[Gurn Blanston]

I've done a couple run throughs of volume nine from Ronald Brautigam's survey of all of Beethoven's piano music.  Rather than conclude the cycle, the good folks at BIS decided to dedicate the disc to juvenelia.  The three WoO 47 sonatas are here, as well as various other early, lightweight pieces.  The disc is nice enough as far as it goes, but the last three sonatas these works are not.  Brautigam plays in his customary manner.  Great sound.  Now, bring on the last three sonatas and the Diabellis, dammit!

Todd, aren't the last 3 sonatas on disk 8? I have disk 7 right to hand here and it ends with the Hammerklavier, so I guess I just naturally assumed...