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orbital

#12100
October 23, 2007, 02:22:32 PM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on October 23, 2007, 01:45:15 PM

very nice. One of my favorite covers too.

Listening to: Beethoven - Egmont (Karajan/BPO). I find it utterly boring  :-\

Lethevich

#12101
October 23, 2007, 03:01:05 PM Last Edit: October 23, 2007, 03:03:00 PM by Lethe
Elgar - Symphony No.2 (Davis/LSO Live)

This one is ripped to PC as I'm going to be doing a lot of skipping back and forward to re-listen to parts - I want to try to isolate what bugs me about his symphonies, and how to cure it. At the moment, the only movement that I like more or less without any problems is the rondo.

BTW - Any anti-Elgar agenda potentially served by quoting this post won't work, as I like all his other major works :P :P
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

karlhenning

#12102
October 23, 2007, 03:51:22 PM
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on October 23, 2007, 01:56:37 PM
Funny you should say that about Naxos, I saw their Shosty set on Amazon for about £100...

That isn't by any remote chance a third-party seller named paulb?  ;)

karlhenning

#12103
October 23, 2007, 03:52:32 PM
Quote from: Lethe on October 23, 2007, 03:01:05 PM
BTW - Any anti-Elgar agenda potentially served by quoting this post won't work, as I like all his other major works :P :P

We'll always have the wonderful concerti and Falstaff, Lethe. The symphonies can go hang  ;D

prémont

#12104
October 23, 2007, 04:14:36 PM
Since Wilhelm Backhaus never recorded the Hammerklaviersonate in stereo, his mono and stereo Beethoven Piano sonata integrals share this sonata in the mono version. However Haenssler in their Profil series recently released a live recording of this work (along with the op. 27 no.2) from 1956 "Wilhelm Backhaus live at Carnegie Hall". The recorded sound is mono but very good and well-defined for the time, and the audience is resonably silent. What always impress is Bachaus´complete command of the piano even live, but what surprises me in this recording is the rather free, flexible tempi he uses, much more than in his two integrals, and almost making artists like Furtwängler sound metronomical. The result is rather expressive. Whether you like it or not, this is an interesting alternative to Bachaus´only studio recording of the op. 106, whereas the op.27 no.2 even exists in a live recording from 1968 released by Orfeo.

Link:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/7917444?rk=classic&rsk=hitlist
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

orbital

#12105
October 23, 2007, 06:27:53 PM
Demidenko plays Scarlatti (quite good).

Solitary Wanderer

#12106
October 23, 2007, 06:56:35 PM


Piano concerto #23

&

Rachmaninov ~  Symphony #2 Handley/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

mahlertitan

#12107
October 23, 2007, 07:32:31 PM
Bruckner symphony no. 7 Otto Klemperer BP 1958

George

#12108
October 23, 2007, 08:19:40 PM
Quote from: orbital on October 23, 2007, 10:46:50 AM

8 nocturnes, music for a restless night no doubt  8)

I LOVE that CD set.  :)

Dancing Divertimentian

#12109
October 23, 2007, 09:14:46 PM
Hindemith's colorful gem, The Four Temperaments, for piano and string orchestra. No excuse for a work so good to be languishing on the repertoire fringes.





Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Que

#12110
October 23, 2007, 09:18:02 PM


                      ~ ordre 10 ~

Q

Lethevich

#12112
October 24, 2007, 03:23:57 AM
Dunstaple - Musician to the Plantagenets (Orlando Consort)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Hector

#12113
October 24, 2007, 03:27:22 AM
Just started on Gotterdamerung.

Somebody's got to :)

Bayreuth 1955 on Testament.

Sergeant Rock

#12114
October 24, 2007, 03:38:10 AM
Started out my day with some "minor" Mozart: the C minor and D minor concertos:




Listening now to Brucknerized Beethoven:




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Harry

#12115
October 24, 2007, 04:14:43 AM
Hyacinthe Jadin. (1776-1800.

String Trios, opus 2, 1-3.

Ensemble Les Adieux.

This is the third time I played this fabulous disc. The writing by Jadin is fascinating, and the moulding of the melodies is superb. The string sing joyous, and warm intimacy is embracing you. Such a fine voice, and so unknown. Well this NCA disc puts that omission right, they perform these works with insight and feeling. Every nuance is picked up with eagerness. I really love this......
The sound is up to scratch, a good stage image, the best in fact...

Lethevich

#12117
October 24, 2007, 05:20:38 AM
Paganini & Vieuxtemps - Violin concertos (Mullova, Marriner)

Quote from: wilhelm on October 24, 2007, 04:54:19 AM


That overture is neat :)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Lilas Pastia

#12118
October 24, 2007, 05:22:45 AM
Quote from: Harry on October 24, 2007, 04:14:43 AM
Hyacinthe Jadin. (1776-1800.

String Trios, opus 2, 1-3.

Ensemble Les Adieux.

This is the third time I played this fabulous disc. The writing by Jadin is fascinating, and the moulding of the melodies is superb. The string sing joyous, and warm intimacy is embracing you. Such a fine voice, and so unknown. Well this NCA disc puts that omission right, they perform these works with insight and feeling. Every nuance is picked up with eagerness. I really love this......
The sound is up to scratch, a good stage image, the best in fact...

I like the dedication shown on the cover ("à son ami Kreutzer"). Jadin had excellent friends, it seems  :D

Peregrine

#12119
October 24, 2007, 05:25:05 AM
Boheme/Puccini
Bergonzi/Tebaldi/Serafin
Yes, we have no bananas
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