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[Lethevich]

I really like Yan Pascal Tortelier's Debussy set.

I find myself enjoying it most for the sound quality - Debussy is a composer for whom many of the classic performances (especially for piano) are quite old recordings, yet this Chandos one has uniformly strong performances in wonderful ambient sound.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived just before Christmas for a first listen ...

[Conor71]

Beethoven: String Trios, String Quintets, String Quartets

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived just before Christmas for a first listen ...

CD1 is actually the same as the following CD ...

[Bogey]

Wonderful looking run of music there, Conor.

Just finished spinning

Haydn
SQ Op.76 Nos. 1-3
Buchberger Quartet
Recorded 2008

Right now, on some 200 gram vinyl:



Easily my nicest sounding vinyl I own.

[listener]

D'INDY Poème des rivages
        Istar         Diptyque méditerranéen
Luxembourg Philharmonic O.      Emmanuel Krivine, cond.
R. STRAUSS   Schlagobers (Cream Puffs) op. 77   ballet set in a Viennese cake-shop
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony O.,   Hiroshi Wakasugi, cond.
nice presentation to go with this enjoyable Denon disc.  27 tracks with descriptions of the action, musical notes, and themes.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set for a first listen ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set for a first listen ...

BTW, CD2 is the same as the following CD ...

[Brahmsian]

Bach

Book II, The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 870-893

Walter Gieseking, piano
Newton Classics (Mono recording)

*Highly enjoying this Christmas gift.   

[Bogey]

K 449 features Serkin.

[Mirror Image]

I find myself enjoying it most for the sound quality - Debussy is a composer for whom many of the classic performances (especially for piano) are quite old recordings, yet this Chandos one has uniformly strong performances in wonderful ambient sound.

Thankfully, there's many fine Debussy recordings that have excellent audio quality.

[Mirror Image]

Now:





Listening to Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" which is just a brilliant work. I love Nielsen's music so much.

[Que]

Starting this morning with the 6th disc of this great set. 



Q

[val]

SCHNITTKE:        Concerto Grosso n. 2 ; Faust                / Oleg Kagan, Rozhdestvenski

I never liked much this composer. His language always seemed artificial and composite. But the 2nd Concerto Grosso is a very attractive work, with a deep moment of emotion in the 2nd movement, a Passacaglia.
Regarding the Cantata Faust, in the absence of the text and a translation it is difficult to have a good notion of the work.
The interpretation seems remarkable.

[Que]

I absolutely love the sound of the fortepiano, which is a copy after Johann Gottfried Silbermann, 1749, by the Sicilian keyboard builder Ugo Gasiglia - a small and precious, indeed silvery tone!

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Nielsen 3, Bernstein, Royal Danish Orchestra




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
The three piano sonatas
Glenn St-Gould ; )

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn's "Fire" Symphony, #59, A major, Derek Solomons and L'Estro Armonico




Sarge

[laredo]

Hi all. I'm listening Bruckner Symphony no. 5 directed by Wilhelm Furtwangler and La Sonnambula by Bellini with C. Bartoli in the cast.

[Opus106]

Hindemith
The three piano sonatas
Glenn St-Gould ; )

Didn't know he was in the Honours list at the Vatican this year.

Will join you with GG playing Papa and Son Bach, and some Scarlatti from this disc.