What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Hartmann
Symphonies nos. 1*, 2" & 3^
Doris Soffel* (alto), Fritz Rieger* / Rafael Kubelík" / Ferdinand Leitner^
BRSO
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[Harry]

Superb.

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[Karl Henning]

Breaking in this box set right away!  Unlike some other Naïve box sets, it is not a cardboard sleeve around the original issues but the familiar slimline cardboard box (separate lid, like a shoe box) with the discs in paper sleeves. A thick booklet with full liner notes, though! Hurray for Naïve! A class act.

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This is Hantaï's 1st recording from 1992. After a while into this recording I was all ready to confess that I did not understand why this recording many years did not appeal to me, it sounds that great. But, a bit further into the recording some doubts crept in. Though the way I hear this recording has undoubtedly changed and I appreciate it considerably better, I can also hear where the reservations came from. Hantaï approach is fresh (and must have sounded even more so in 1992) and adventurous, but as a whole there is some unevenness: many brilliant moments with occassional quirky moments and notably in the brisker passages I feel he glosses over with sloppy phrasing. But definitely an impressive achievement which makes me more eager investigate his later recording on Mirare. Others have taking many things I hear in this recording further and in a more consistent way, but what remains here is the sheer energy and freshness and several brilliant insights.

Q

You're making me feel even better about having thrown that switch . . . .

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
Die Schöpfung H.XXI/2
Boston Baroque
Pearlman

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[Harry]

WOW factor.

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[Mirror Image]

First listen. Bought in 2012.


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I found Vesper and Bukoolika to be quite moving works. The rest of the disc was just okay IMHO.

[Mirror Image]

Hartmann
Symphonies nos. 1*, 2" & 3^
Doris Soffel* (alto), Fritz Rieger* / Rafael Kubelík" / Ferdinand Leitner^
BRSO
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Pounds the table! Fantastic set for sure, Karlo. I look forward to receiving the new symphony on Challenge with Vanska, Schonwandt, Metzmacher, et al.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6. Great work for such cold, snowy weather outside. This Essential Sibelius box set is worth it's weight in gold as not only does it contain Vanska's masterful Lahti symphony cycle but so many other great performances of the tone poems, incidental music, chamber music, etc. A great sampling of this Nordic master.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6. Fantastic.

[Que]

Beethoven V, Berliner Philharmoniker, 27th June 1943 (Melodiya)

Must be to most ominous LvB V that I know...

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven String Quartet F major op.135 played by the Emerson Quartet




Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Beethoven String Quartet F major op.135 played by the Emerson Quartet




Sarge

Every time I see these trios covers, I wonder why they couldn't have invested something...anything...into a decent cover! Anyway, are those acorns or some other nut?

[Todd]

The Tenth.

[Sergeant Rock]

Every time I see these trios covers, I wonder why they couldn't have invested something...anything...into a decent cover! Anyway, are those acorns or some other nut?

You aren't from Ohio, obviously They're buckeyes. By the way, Jay F and Monkey Greg like the cover design of the Trios:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.msg773352.html#msg773352

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

You aren't from Ohio, obviously They're buckeyes. By the way, Jay F and Monkey Greg love the cover design of the Trios:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.msg773352.html#msg773352

Sarge

Not from Ohio, so thanks for the clarification. Someone likes those covers?!?! Holy Moly! I'll continue my rant there!

[SonicMan46]

You aren't from Ohio, obviously They're buckeyes. By the way, Jay F and Monkey Greg like the cover design of the Trios:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.msg773352.html#msg773352

Yep - buckeyes!  I spent my first 12 yrs in Toledo before moving to southern Michigan - for kids collecting the nuts was just another fun activity; of course you could have a buckeye fight, but also w/ a corer bore a hole through them and make a necklace or whatever else seemed imaginative - Dave

[SonicMan46]

Bowen, York (1884-1961) - Solo Piano Works w/ Joop Celis - 4 CD set in a slim box w/ the original booklets; NOW, I'm not going to discard my Stephen Hough recording and a recommendation if you just want one disc of this composer's piano works.  Dave

 

[Que]

Staying with Beethoven - another Golden Oldie:

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Q

[Jay F]

Not from Ohio, so thanks for the clarification. Someone likes those covers?!?! Holy Moly! I'll continue my rant there!

If you do, it would be useful if you'd post some covers you do like.

[North Star]

Every time I see these trios covers, I wonder why they couldn't have invested something...anything...into a decent cover! Anyway, are those acorns or some other nut?

And I admire the fact that they have managed to get those great covers, with whatever resources