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[Haffner]

Beethoven "Appassionata" (Schnabel)



Despite the dreadfully noisy recording, Schnabel is hard to fault here. Excellent, often riveting, musicianship.

[karlhenning]

Bruckner
Mass No. 3 in F Minor
New Philharmonia Chorus
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Barenboim

[Harry]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

String Quartet No. 1. "Carillon".

Pellegrini Quartett.

Devastatingly beautiful music. Hartmann is definitively on my wish list.

[Harry]

Andreas Romberg.

String Quartets Volume II.

SQ opus 30,1 in B minor.

Leipziger Streichquartet.

How beautiful is this music, and so friendly and open. The very opening of this quartet "Allegro moderato" has a very religious feeling to it. The genteel flow of subtleties and overflowing cup of fine melodies are a marvel to hear. The "Adagio cantabile" nearly breaks my heart. What a fine set of players the Leipzigers are. But in the end the music of Romberg is the true genius. State of the art recording and performance

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Opus 54
St Petersburg Phil / Temirkanov

[George]

Beethoven "Appassionata" (Schnabel)
Despite the dreadfully noisy recording, Schnabel is hard to fault here. Excellent, often riveting, musicianship.

Andy, I really admire your honesty and your ability to say both good and bad things about a recording. These days I rarely love or hate anything completely, but rather have things I enjoy about a recording and things I do not. 

[Harry]

Andreas Romberg.

SQ opus 16.2 in G minor.

Leipziger Streichquartett

I am truly amazed at these compositions, which can hold comparrison with his fellow composers easily.
Melodious and yet thoughtful.

[Harry]

Andreas Romberg.

SQ opus 2,2 in A minor.

Leipziger Streichquartett.

Enough said, absolutely top notch music.

[Danny]

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 conducted by Previn with the RPO.

[rubio]

I just listened to this one:

[George]

I just listened to this one:

Me loves that one, rubio!! 

[rubio]

Me loves that one, rubio!! 

Yeah, and my wife noticed that the music on the stereo was much more appealing to her than all the Bruckner and Mahler I have been enjoying lately  .

[SonicMan46]

John Blackwood McEwen.

String Quartet No. 13 in C minor.

Chillingirian Quartet

McEwen is a phenomenon, no less. Hardly is there a composer that you can compare with him. The power and the uttering of these works defy description. There is longing, stretched out in long lines, and fade out dynamics, desperateness as in the Moderato, and Andante, cheerfulness in the Allegro vivace.............

Harry - do you REALLY like McEwen that much, or do you pull them from your collection to stare @ the covers? 

[op.110]

Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 conducted by Karajan (on the cheap Beethoven cycle, because I'm a student and can't afford a $150 cycle  ).

Interestingly, this is the first time I've actually listened to the piece with the full attention. So far I'm really enjoying the first movement (unmistakably Beethoven... SO MUCH RHYTHMIC DRIVE!!!!)

[Harry]

Harry - do you REALLY like McEwen that much, or do you pull them from your collection to stare @ the covers? 

Both my friend I admit!

[Lilas Pastia]

Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 conducted by Karajan (on the cheap Beethoven cycle, because I'm a student and can't afford a $150 cycle  ).

Interestingly, this is the first time I've actually listened to the piece with the full attention. So far I'm really enjoying the first movement (unmistakably Beethoven... SO MUCH RHYTHMIC DRIVE!!!!)

I doubt very much that any widely available set costs that much (that would mean a whopping 30$ a disc ). Many sets can be had in the 25$ - 50$ range .

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Petrushka
Pulcinella
LSO &al. / Abbado

[Steve]

Igor Fyodorovich
Petrushka
Pulcinella
LSO &al. / Abbado

I too own this recording, and find the Petrushka particularily splendid. Excellent choice.

[Steve]

Gidon Kremer, Violin Sonatas - Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Prokofiev
DG Collector's Edition

Martha Argerich, piano

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.

Complete Overtures Volume II.

Overture in C major, for 3 Oboes, strings & B.C. TWV 55:c6.
Overture in F minor, for 2 recorders, strings & B.C. TWV 55:f1.
Overture in B flat major, for Strings & B.C. TWV 55:B8.
Overture in G minor, for 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, & B.C. TWV 55:g9.

Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire.

The third cd in this set, and its absolutely smashing, whatever posters say about Telemann being boring music.
The performance is stunning, in executing such a fine rendering of this music. Not a weak link anywhere.
The recording is topnotch.