What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Que]

Prague & Jupiter

Q

[Fafner]

Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
Karajan, BP, 1963

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Now:



Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra. Great performance.

[Papy Oli]

First Listens :

Stravinsky : The Wedding / Renard The Fox / The Soldier's Tale

CD3 off the Stravinsky boxset.

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[jlaurson]

20th & 21st Century
Piano Preludes
Ulrike Fendel
Gramola
(Europe only, for the time being)
German link - UK link

I have no idea who Ulrike Fendel is (not beyond what the liner notes would tell me, if only I read them); I don't really even care to try to delve into whether it is her contribution in any significant degree, or just the ingenious assembly of works, but this is increasingly awesome, on each of now already very many listenings. And I usually am not keen on compilations. Three WP recordings; Wolfram Wagner, Alexander Kral, and Meinhard Ruedenauer.

Also included: Lyadov, Genzmer, Rota, Tcherepnin, Kabalevsky, Skempton, Casella, Delius, Mompou, Shostakovich, Piazzolla, and Gershwin.

[Wakefield]

Deutsche Barock Kantaten (IV)
Nicolaus Bruhns - Kantaten (Vol. 1)



The Ricercar Consort recorded during the second part of the '80s and the beginning of the '90s what, IMO, is one of the best and more beautiful collections of pre-Bach Baroque cantatas ever released. Fortunately, this series has been re-released in recent years, so several volumes are quite easy to get. For instance, this Bruhns:

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The line-up of singers is almost unbeatable.

Greta de Reyghere, soprano
James Bowman, counter-tenor
Guy de Mey, tenor
Max van Egmond

OVPP performaces, excepting of course the solo cantatas and two cantatas requiring 2 sopranos (+ Jill Feldman) or 2 tenors (+ Ian Honeyman).

... and then the instrumentalists:

François Fernández, violin I
Mihoko Kimura, violin II
Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba I
Kaori Huemura, viola da gamba II
Ageet Zweistra, violoncello
Roel Diltiens, violoncello
Friedemann Immer, trumpet I
François Petit-Laurent, trumpet II
Marc Minkowski, bassoon
Jean-Louis Fiat, bassoon
Bernard Foccroulle, organ

Recorded between 1988-1989, the sound quality is just superb, as if had been recorded yesterday.

[Que]

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WOW, what a classy, hypnotising disc...

Q

[Opus106]

Is the practice of OVPP as contentious an issue as it in Bach?

[Mirror Image]

First Listens :

Stravinsky : The Wedding / Renard The Fox / The Soldier's Tale

CD3 off the Stravinsky boxset.

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A great set, Papi! How are you enjoying it?

[ivsverko]

Murray Perahia : Goldberg Variations , one of my favorite renditions besides the timeless Gould recording(s).

[The new erato]

Beautiful stuff:

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[The new erato]

Murray Perahia : Goldberg Variations , one of my favorite renditions besides the timeless Gould recording(s).

As far as Goldbergs on the piano goes, I tend to agree.

Now disc 1 from this:

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[Fafner]

Brahms - Symphony No. 4
Bernstein, NYP

[TheGSMoeller]

La Double Vie de Veronique / Podwójne zycie Weroniki / The Double Life of Veronika - Original Film Soundtrack
Zbigniew Preisner

Preisner composed original music for many of Krzysztof Kieslowski's films. Blue (from Kieslowski's Three Color Trilogy) and The Double Life of Veronique both feature characters that are associated with music, first a composer and the latter a performer, so both scores contain pieces meant to work as stand-alone compositions, music within the film rather than for the film.

[Wakefield]

Is the practice of OVPP as contentious an issue as it in Bach?

Probably not, but principally because there are not many recordings of these cantatas, although the complete edition of them was published in 1937. Anyway, the sources include a limited number of indications, both in vocal and instrumental aspects, so they offer a good number of interpretative possibilities. As this point is very clearly explained in the liner notes, I think I will transcribe them if I get some time. 

[Papy Oli]

A great set, Papi! How are you enjoying it?

I have enjoyed the first 2 CDs with Firebird / Scherzo à la Russe / Petrushka / Rite of Spring - have listened to them a couple of time each and found them actually more accessible than I was "dreading".

Just finished The Wedding now and that is not my cup of tea 

Onto Renard the Fox now 

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I have enjoyed the first 2 CDs with Firebird / Scherzo à la Russe / Petrushka / Rite of Spring - have listened to them a couple of time each and found them actually more accessible than I was "dreading".

Just finished The Wedding now and that is not my cup of tea 

Onto Renard the Fox now 

You should never dread listening to Stravinsky. For me, he was one of the most accessible composers of the 20th Century. Even works like Agon where serial procedures have been applied to the framework of the music is highly listenable and enjoyable. This said, I love all periods of Stravinsky's development as a composer.

[Rinaldo]

Nos. 1 & 2

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[Fafner]

HAYDN: Piano Sonatas Nos. 35-38
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano

[The new erato]

Breaking up my Massenet box to play this:

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