What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Maciek]

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Andrzej Bauer) - Grand Tango
Andrzej Bauer, cello
"Amadeus" - The Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion
same set of performers

Astor Piazzolla - The 4 Seasons in Buenos Aires
Jarosław Żołnierczyk, violin
"Amadeus"/Duczmal

This is a radio (live) recording. I can post a link, if anyone is interested.

[Don]

Why the anger? I was only making an (correct) observation.

Oh, for future reference, anything you have to say to me can be said here instead of in a PM. Thanks.

I didn't notice that angry post by James.  Did you get it from a PM he sent you?

[hautbois]

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Andrzej Bauer) - Grand Tango
Andrzej Bauer, cello
"Amadeus" - The Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion
same set of performers

Astor Piazzolla - The 4 Seasons in Buenos Aires
Jarosław Żołnierczyk, violin
"Amadeus"/Duczmal

This is a radio (live) recording. I can post a link, if anyone is interested.

i am!

Howard

[bhodges]

Beethoven: Middle String Quartets (Orion String Quartet) - For an article I'm writing on some chamber music.  Liking this a lot...



--Bruce

[not edward]

The first couple of times I listened to this, it did nothing for me. Then I got a free hour after a frantic day and BAM, it clicked.

[sidoze]

Finishing a hard day the same way I started it, with a recital disk of Nikolai Petrov playing:

Schulhoff   Sonata #3
Prokofiev   Sonata #6
Stravinsky Sonata
Kapustin    Sonata #2

I got this as a sampler, to decide whether to buy his complete Prokofiev set (that question's been settled)

So will you buy it? I have it if you want it.

[Kullervo]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Ravel ~ La Valse



Bartok ~ Concerto for Orchestra



Debussey ~ La Mer


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Immolation Scene

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Maciek]

i am!

Howard

I may have gone too far in the ad. I'll post the links and explain the downsides as I go:

The Seasons:
http://www.mediafire.com/?aytpb4vdcpy
(first 3 movements are fine; there's a glitch near the end of the 4th mvt)

You do get another take of "Winter" though (the encore) - glitchless again:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3zbbmzjmzqb

Then there's Grand Tango BUT it also has a glitch towards the end :
http://www.mediafire.com/?9jz5xmccejt

What do I mean by glitch? The sound is fine but a portion of the music is missing - it just suddenly "jumps forward" a couple of seconds (30-60, I suppose - but am not sure).

The Milonga is the only one free from those. Though it does have a very slight "jump" in one place - I'm sure it's not more than half a second, perhaps a second, and you won't notice it unless you listen hard - it sounds more as if the cellist and orchestra sort of shortened a beat...
http://www.mediafire.com/?dswboynkmhc

The performers:
Jarosław Żołnierczyk, violin
Andrzej Bauer, cello
"Amadeus" - Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio
Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

[Valentino]

You technofreaks!

Bellini: Norma.
Callas, del Monaco etc., Serafin conducting. RAI live recording from '54. Mono. On a far from flat LP. Superb.

[Choo Choo]

So will you buy it? I have it if you want it.

That is a kind offer.  Having heard his take on #6, his #8 is now a must-have (for starters.)  However I see that HMV Japan have it for something pitiful like about 9 quid the set, so I will probably go for that.

[BTW I collected the BRO order last week - but haven't had time to unwrap any of mine yet ... let alone yours ]

[Valentino]

Have just listened to the download Drasko made available in the Shubert 8 thread.

A highly recommendable, dramatic reading, done in 22:32.

[Maciek]

A little Noskowski festival :

Zygmunt Noskowski - Variations on Chopin's Prelude in A Major for orchestra
(Polish Radio Orchestra in Cracow/Zbigniew Chwedczuk)

Zygmunt Noskowski - Symphony No. 3 'From Spring to Spring'
(Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra/Zygmunt Rychert)

Zygmunt Noskowski - Morskie oko Lake in the Tatras (symphonic overture)
(PRNSO/Gabriel Chmura)

Zygmunt Noskowski - The Steppe (tone poem)
(Sinfonia Varsovia/Grzegorz Nowak)

Zygmunt Noskowski - Sonata for violin and piano in A Minor
(Magdalena Rezler-Niesiołowska, Jerzy Maciejewski)

[not edward]

Mahler 6 (Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Abbado, aircheck).
I finally got around to listening to this beast that I downloaded a few weeks ago, and I'm impressed: I suppose some would think it too "middle-of-the-road" but I tend to like this sort of view of the more overtly tragic Mahler.

Does anyone know how this performance compares with the BP/Abbado recording?

[Que]

Good morning (day) everybody.



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[KevinP]

The SACD of Ozawa conducting Russo's Street Music and Three Pieces....

[Que]

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[val]

MUSSORGSKY:  Songs and Arias from his operas

This is the complement of the Khovantchina 1946. Reizen singing some of Mussorgsky's most famous songs. It is incredible, but in his recital in 1980 his voice seems the one of a young man (he was already 85 !).
Some songs are also performed by Preobraienskaia (the very touching "Hebrew song").
And the rest of the CD offers us the legendary voices of the Kirov in Leningrad (or St Petersburg). The thing that most impresses is the fact that all of them sing Mussorgsky in a sort of bel-canto, with a perfect style, like Pavel Andreyeff with a very clear and beautiful voice of baritone singing the aria of Chakloviti.

[Que]

MUSSORGSKY:  Songs and Arias from his operas

This is the complement of the Khovantchina 1946. Reizen singing some of Mussorgsky's most famous songs. It is incredible, but in his recital in 1980 his voice seems the one of a young man (he was already 85 !).
Some songs are also performed by Preobraienskaia (the very touching "Hebrew song").
And the rest of the CD offers us the legendary voices of the Kirov in Leningrad (or St Petersburg). The thing that most impresses is the fact that all of them sing Mussorgsky in a sort of bel-canto, with a perfect style, like Pavel Andreyeff with a very clear and beautiful voice of baritone singing the aria of Chakloviti.

On which label is that recording, Val?

Q