What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

Scarlatti, D. - Sonatas on the piano - Sudbin vs. Pletnev - just ordered the 2nd Sudbin disc based on Jens recommendation - Pletnev seems to receive 'mixed' reviews and I'm preferring Sudbin on the piano - have Scott Ross & Hantai (V.1-3) for the harpsichord.  Dave

 

It was listening to K 380 which made me see that Pletnev adds harmonies, this came up in a brief exchange with Jens. I haven't heard Sudbin, I'll maybe go to hear him later this week in London or Oxford, I don't know.

[Wanderer]

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[Autumn Leaves]

Todays listening:



Listening to Svetlanov's 5th again - this one really impresses me!



Listened to Symphonies #2 & 4



Played Symphony #4 - pleased with this box so far (especially that brilliant 3rd!).



This boxset just arrived today - have been looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.
Listening to Disc 1 as I type - I love Emerson Quartet. This set will not disappoint I think.

[aligreto]

Finishing off this set with Concerto No. 12....

[aligreto]

This boxset just arrived today - have been looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.
Listening to Disc 1 as I type - I love Emerson Quartet. This set will not disappoint I think.

That was a relatively recent purchase for me. I enjoyed all of the performances; I found them to be very lyrical. I also liked the fact that they were live performances.

[aligreto]

Don't know about the Hyperion but the Brilliant does not put them in separate tracks, and I have neither the time nor software to edit them out.

I can report that the Arts version that I have now completed above does not put them into separate tracks either. Some of the "cadenzas" are so jarring that I will probably just press the fast forward button on subsequent listens 

[aligreto]

What I have taken to latterly is focusing on one work by one composer and listening to all of the versions that I have in my collection. I am trying to do this at least once per month.

Ah. This of course would rarely work for me because the most frequent number of versions that I have in my collection of anything is 1.

I was like that once upon a time  However, once my collection started to expand my listening became somewhat haphazard. I am trying to get some structure on some of it. 

[Autumn Leaves]

That was a relatively recent purchase for me. I enjoyed all of the performances; I found them to be very lyrical. I also liked the fact that they were live performances.

Good stuff mate - im glad you enjoyed the box . Im starting to get into live performances more the last couple of years - these ones sound very good to me. The only downside to live records I think is noise from the audience but there has been none of that in this box as far as I can tell.

[aligreto]

Finishing this CD with Zigeunerlieder Op. 103....





Not something that everyone would be interested in for sure but I really like it I must say. The singing is of a high quality and is also beautifully sensitive.

[aligreto]

Good stuff mate - im glad you enjoyed the box . Im starting to get into live performances more the last couple of years - these ones sound very good to me. The only downside to live records I think is noise from the audience but there has been none of that in this box as far as I can tell.

As far as I can remember all of the performances are "clean" in that regard except for the obvious applause at the end of each performance.
Continued enjoyment 

[Mookalafalas]

Dug up a copy of this after hearing  Ms. Haendel praised here at GMG.   I'm glad I did.

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[Wanderer]

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[Madiel]

Finishing this CD with Zigeunerlieder Op. 103....





Not something that everyone would be interested in for sure but I really like it I must say. The singing is of a high quality and is also beautifully sensitive.

How odd. I was looking at that album today.

[Madiel]

Now:



Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
The Wild Dove, Op. 110

Excellently performed from Harnoncourt and the Concertgebouw.

Not exactly "following in your footsteps" as I had already planned to listen to it today, but currently enjoying the same 7th. Only mine looks like this:

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Not exactly "following in your footsteps" as I had already planned to listen to it today, but currently enjoying the same 7th. Only mine looks like this:

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Very nice, orfeo. My dad owns that set, too. I do have one comment and that's I never understood why these labels, like Warner or Decca, give Symphonies 7-8 the title of 'The Great Symphonies'. Surely, the 6th or 5th are worthy of such praise, too?

[Madiel]

Very nice, orfeo. My dad owns that set, too. I do have one comment and that's I never understood why these labels, like Warner or Decca, give Symphonies 7-8 the title of 'The Great Symphonies'. Surely, the 6th or 5th are worthy of such praise, too?

Well, the idea that Dvorak gets greater as he goes is not exactly a new creation of record companies. It seems standard practice to fawn over no.9, and then usually people will treat 7 to 9 as the best, and then sometimes 6 gets a look-in because heck, it was the first one that got published, and then sometimes 5 gets added because it was published eventually...

Bear in mind that Harnoncourt recorded 7 to 9 in that series, so he didn't go any further back either (though weirdly he did do the much earlier Piano Concerto).

And it's not just symphonies. The same thing happens with Dvorak's chamber music, and the concertos, and would probably happen with his other works if they were better known. I read something the other day to the effect that he's one composer where people consistently think (or assume) that later is better.

And not, I have to say, entirely without reason, although I think the point where he gets good is much earlier than many people explore. Somewhere on this forum I even coined the term "Burghauser limit", defined as the lowest Burghauser number one is prepared to listen to. I need to revisit string quartets 6, 5 and 4 (in that order) to see what I think of them.

[Karl Henning]

This boxset just arrived today - have been looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.
Listening to Disc 1 as I type - I love Emerson Quartet. This set will not disappoint I think.

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[Karl Henning]

That was a relatively recent purchase for me. I enjoyed all of the performances; I found them to be very lyrical. I also liked the fact that they were live performances.

Splendid!

[Karl Henning]

And not, I have to say, entirely without reason, although I think the point where he gets good is much earlier than many people explore. Somewhere on this forum I even coined the term "Burghauser limit", defined as the lowest Burghauser number one is prepared to listen to. I need to revisit string quartets 6, 5 and 4 (in that order) to see what I think of them.

We might even call it the "Mozart limit" 

Seriously:  lowest-numbered Mozart symphony to which one deliberately returns . . . .

[Karl Henning]

We might even call it the "Mozart limit" 

Seriously:  lowest-numbered Mozart symphony to which one deliberately returns . . . .

This method is only technically subverted by the misleadingly-numerated symphonies n^os. 42-56  0:)