What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky
from Disc 21:

Threni

I really do think I "might could" listen to this first thing every morning, forever.

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[George]

LISZT: Sonate après une lecture de Dante

Arrau, with a superb rhetoric, ample, very powerful and almost symphonic is one of my favorites.

Is that the Philips or the live Orfeo?

But even Arrau seems pale when compared to the first version of Brendel (VOX): very spontaneous, tumultuous, with a passion and a violence that I had never heard in this work. It is difficult to believe that this is the same man that years later recorded for PHILIPS a version, more perfect perhaps, but cold as an iceberg.

The VOX CD of Brendel also includes an extraordinary version of the Sonata in B minor. In my opinion the best recording of Alfred Brendel.

I'll keep an eye out for that one. 

[BachQ]

Shosty 11 (Barshai)

[val]

George

Is that the Philips or the live Orfeo?

It is the PHILIPS version (1982).

I'll keep an eye out for that one.

I assure that you will have a great surprise. Brendel is not know as the most intense of the pianists, far from it. But here he seems completely different, violent, using exasperate contrasts. He was younger too, and that may explain the difference.

[George]

I assure that you will have a great surprise. Brendel is not know as the most intense of the pianists, far from it. But here he seems completely different, violent, using exasperate contrasts. He was younger too, and that may explain the difference.

OK. I hope the contrast is greater than the one between his Vox Beethoven and Philips Beethoven. 

[George]

It is the PHILIPS version (1982).

The Orfeo is from the same year.

[Bogey]

Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead Concertgebouw Orchestra/Ashkenazy (London)

Good morning.

[George]

Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead Concertgebouw Orchestra/Ashkenazy (London)

Good morning.

Morning Bill.

Part Two of Richter, The Enigma. 

[Haffner]

I'm sure there are better versions out there, but this is the one I have.

So, is that one good in general? Love the cover, and love the instrumentalists.

[karlhenning]

Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Opus 61
Ruggiero Ricci
Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg
Pierre Cao

[Daverz]

So, is that [Seven Last Words] good in general?

I'd recommend the orchestral version, particularly Ferencsik on Hungaroton.  But I have to say, philistine that I am, I can probably live without the work.

[prémont]

I'd recommend the orchestral version, particularly Ferencsik on Hungaroton.  But I have to say, philistine that I am, I can probably live without the work.

So can I, but if I had to live with it, I would probably chose the piano-version.

[Que]

So, is that one good in general? Love the cover, and love the instrumentalists.

I like the quartet version, but prefer the choral version - essential Haydn IMO.

But it needs a good performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien is my favourite.



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[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphonies Nos. 3 in E-flat Major, The First of May, Opus 20
& 14 for Soprano, Bass, Strings & Percussion, Opus 135
Maksim Dmitriyevich / Prague Symphony

[karlhenning]

Wow! Marina Shaguch singing "The Suicide" is exquisite!

[Robert]

So, is that one good in general? Love the cover, and love the instrumentalists.

IMHO Kodaly is great in this and the entire Haydn String qts....I have quite a few versions of this particular one, but this one and Mosaiques are my two favs.....

[Robert]

Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Opus 61
Ruggiero Ricci
Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg
Pierre Cao

Hi Karl,
I have these performances on LP.  I was never that fond of them so I hardly ever played them...What say you?

[karlhenning]

Hi Karl,
I have these performances on LP.  I was never that fond of them so I hardly ever played them...What say you?

I'm still absorbing them; but I entirely enjoy the absorption process :-)

[Que]

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[beclemund]