What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[pi2000]

Souvenir de Florence
Borodin Quartet
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[Opus106]

Most - if not all - HIP ensemble versions, I know, tend IMO to overdo the aestetic elements of the work and sound too nice. I appreciate aestetic beauty, but I prefer an interpretation in which all the elements of the music are well balanced. This is true of most of the keyboard versions, I know (on organ, harpsichord and even piano). If you ask me, which HIP ensemble version I prefer, this is Jean-Claude Malgoire´s recording for K617:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-1685-1750-Die-Kunst-der-Fuge-BWV-1080/hnum/8870238

Thanks, again.

[Ataraxia]

Good morning/afternoon/evening.
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[Ataraxia]

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I wonder where my trumpet is. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Have you heard Tilson Thomas's Glagolitic Mass, Ilaria? Easily the best performance on record IMHO and I've heard almost all of them.

Of course, I've got that recording too; I agree it's very beautiful.

[Ataraxia]

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[North Star]

Mahler
Symphony No. 2
Klemperer

Symphony No. 3 (now)
Rattle

Fantastic music (and performances), this box is certainly one of my best purchases.
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[Antoine Marchand]

Hopkinson Smith, luth à treize choeurs de Nico van der Waals & de Joël van Lennep

329. The reason of effects. -- The weakness of man is the reason why so many things are considered fine, as to be good at playing the lute. It is only an evil because of our weakness.

-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées

[Que]

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I finally cracked the seal of this one. The luxurious musical delights and the packaging to match, make me feel like a little child in a candyshop. Good heavens, what an opera! 

Just finished the aria "Resta, ingrata, io parto" (Stay, ungrateful [wretch], I'm leaving)
Now, that's not for the fainthearted!

Q

[Opus106]

I'm gasping for air just listening to Lisa Besnosiuk play the partita for tr. flute solo, BWV 1013. Fast or slow movement, just to maintain the line of the music must be an arduous even the seasoned performer, I'd guess. First listen to this music.

BTW, thanks to Antoine that I saw this disc on sale at Abeille. I missed it on the first run-through of their list.

[mc ukrneal]

Listening this afternoon to Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra on Opera Rara. Singers include Renee Fleming, Bruce Ford, Nelly Miricioiu, Alastair Miles, and Diana Montague. The orchestra is the London Philharmonia Orchstra conducted by David Parry. This is a first rate performance in every way - a total success. The singing is simply outstanding, as is the chorus. The orchestra is conducted with great tautness and the result is tremendously exciting throughout. The packaging is the usual Opera Rara quality (big booklet).  Pure pleasure...
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[Mirror Image]

You should try the cello sonata too. Those late Debussy sonatas are all around amazing.

I've heard many, many times, erato. In fact, I've heard all of Debussy's and Ravel's chamber works.

[Mirror Image]

I can guess you'll say that they don't compare to the Boulez, but I'd still be interested to know your opinion. I think the performance of the Concerto for Orchestra is excellent. A great Dance Suite as well.

Nonsense, I love Solti's Bartok recordings. They're some of my favorites. I especially love his accompaniment to Ashkenazy and Chung in the concerti. Simply outstanding.

[Antoine Marchand]

I'm gasping for air just listening to Lisa Besnosiuk play the partita for tr. flute solo, BWV 1013. Fast or slow movement, just to maintain the line of the music must be an arduous even the seasoned performer, I'd guess. First listen to this music.

BTW, thanks to Antoine that I saw this disc on sale at Abeille. I missed it on the first run-through of their list.

You're welcome, Navneeth! Contrarily to other people who love Bach music, I really like all of these flute works. Probably it's because I was lucky enough to find the superb Hantaï's version as my first approach to this music.

Soon I will be listening to Besnosiuk, too. 

[Sadko]

Again:

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Berliner Philharmoniker
Pierre Boulez

[Opus106]

You're welcome, Navneeth! Contrarily to other people who love Bach music, I really like all of these flute works. Probably it's because I was lucky enough to find the superb Hantaï's version as my first approach to this music.

Soon I will be listening to Besnosiuk, too. 

Oh, I certainly prefer them to the cello suites.

[kishnevi]

Listening this afternoon to Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra on Opera Rara. Singers include Renee Fleming, Bruce Ford, Nelly Miricioiu, Alastair Miles, and Diana Montague. The orchestra is the London Philharmonia Orchstra conducted by David Parry. This is a first rate performance in every way - a total success. The singing is simply outstanding, as is the chorus. The orchestra is conducted with great tautness and the result is tremendously exciting throughout. The packaging is the usual Opera Rara quality (big booklet).  Pure pleasure...
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I have the highlights version.  Your description of the performance is spot on.


Thread duty:
my usual Sunday morning watching the pundits explain why (this week) Michigan is the center of the universe

[springrite]

Nonsense, I love Solti's Bartok recordings. They're some of my favorites. I especially love his accompaniment to Ashkenazy and Chung in the concerti. Simply outstanding.

Solti's CfO is very good, and the Dance Suite and the Violin Concerto are two of the best Bartok recordings in the modern era.


Now listening:
Concerto for Orchestra (LAP, Salonen)

[Antoine Marchand]

Oh, I certainly prefer them to the cello suites.

BTW, I am tempted to try these transcriptions:

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I was listening to some tracks and they sound as a very friendly and unforced interpretation.

BTW2, it's a scientific fact: you need at least three lungs to play decently the flute partita.

[The new erato]

You can get it from arkivmusic.com for 13 bucks.

Yes I know, I wondered when I posted whether I should have mentioned that I don't like Arkivmusic reissue program for several reasons, one of them being the extensive shipping costs for single discs to Europe.