What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Solitary Wanderer]

Rossini ~ Overtures RPO/Davis

Simple, but tuneful, melodic and direct. My parents had a Rossini Greatest Hits LP when I was a kid, so this music is very familiar to me. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

what sort of listening do you do? 

Oh, a little of everything.

I listened to most of my Sofronitsky collection last night  I don't keep all that many, but I do have more of him than any other pianist (sounds rather funny to say that considering how I used to collect...)

Excellent!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Medtner, 3rd piano sonata (Op.22), Gilels.

[Peregrine]

I've heard great things about this disc!

Yes, I enjoyed listening, not quite as powerful as the markevitch version I have, but very colourful. Excellent vintage Bernstein chat after - 'Berlioz takes a trip'. Well worth it.

[Que]

My new and 3rd HIP recording of the cello suites! 


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See my comments HERE!

Q

[Daverz]

Still my favorite Sf (note that, despite what the notes say, this is the 1963 version).  I also really like Mitropoulos on an Odyssey Lp.

[wilhelm]

[Daverz]

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 - Gould/Stokowski.  Yeah, baby!
Who would have thought that Gould could turn in such a beautiful "Emperor" (well, I didn't).  And, of course, Stokie's accompaniment is wonderfully robust.

Schmidt, Symphony No. 3 - Pesek/Slovak Phil.  This has become my favorite Schmidt work.  Lighter and more playful than the 4th.  It reminds me somewhat of early Toch, or even Prokofiev.  Excellent recording.  (Private transfer from Lp,  though there was a CD.)

Haydn, Symphony No. 92 - Ancerl/RCO. Rock 'n' Roll!  This is from a big set of live recordings from the RCO archives.

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 - Bohm/LSO/DG Japan.

BTW, all of this is being played over my home LAN from a hard drive in the other room.  I found out that my Macbook has an optical digital output via the headphone jack, so I hooked it up to a Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC that's been gathering dust for years (from a another wildhair project of previous years).  The plan is to rip all my CDs to FLAC so I don't have to dig thru scattered boxes of CDs to find what I want to listen to.  (That'll be about a terabyte of ripping, so I have my work cut out for me.)  Of course, none of this is impressive to iPod babies, but I'm trying to put something together with sound comparable to my "audiophile" Arcam Alpha 9 CD player. 

Haven't found quite the software that can handle the presentation of classical works (rather than pop tracks) well, though.  I find itunes rather unintuitive.  I might ending up writing my own app.

[Peregrine]

BTW, all of this is being played over my home LAN from a hard drive in the other room.  I found out that my Macbook has an optical digital output via the headphone jack, so I hooked it up to a Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC that's been gathering dust for years (from a another wildhair project of previous years).  The plan is to rip all my CDs to FLAC so I don't have to dig thru scattered boxes of CDs to find what I want to listen to.  (That'll be about a terabyte of ripping, so I have my work cut out for me.)  Of course, none of this is impressive to iPod babies, but I'm trying to put something together with sound comparable to my "audiophile" Arcam Alpha 9 CD player. 

Haven't found quite the software that can handle the presentation of classical works (rather than pop tracks) well, though.  I find itunes rather unintuitive.  I might ending up writing my own app.

I think this is the direction I'm heading, but at the moment it just seems too confusing. Necessity being the mother of invention however, I'm sure I'll get on top of it...

[Peregrine]

Richter in Prague, CD2

Various Beethoven sonatas

[71 dB]

Buxtehude - Sonate a due Op. 1 - Kraemer/Quintana/Roberts/Börner

Your avatar sucks Poju, get the last one back if you please....

No matter what I do somebody says it sucks. 

Well there are some recordings on Brilliant, but the cheapest ones, and in my eyes the best ones, you have allready the CPO's, they are priceless, and Naxos has done a good job too, and will release more of him in the future.
Brilliant is also working at a comprehensive collection of composers in the same time line......as Dittersdorf.

I will dive into my collection one of these days Poju, and if I find something that would be a enrichment of your Dittersdorf collection, I let you know.

Some recordings on Brilliant?  I didn't find any. CPO discs seem excellent indeed. I agree about Naxos too.

Thanks Harry! Let me know... 

[Daverz]

Gorgeous disc.  I think the best of the Hyperion Bantock series.

[Mark]

I agree with the praise of this release - an absolute stunner that should be on the shelves of all who love British music.

[Que]

Q

[Drasko]

Debussy - Pour le Piano

[gmstudio]

I agree with the praise of this release - an absolute stunner that should be on the shelves of all who love British music.

Well, y'all convinced me...just ordered it from the library. Should have it by the end of the week. 


As far as this morning goes: 

Glazunov - Symphony No. 1 "Slavyanskaya"
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya/MHS)

[Peregrine]

Richter in Prague, CD10

Haydn and Mozart piano sonatas

[Lilas Pastia]

Berlioz: Te Deum, op. 22. Inbal on Denon. I found this very disappointing. Inbal turns the mighty, awe-inspiring TD into a jaunty, almost flippant thing. Despite its age the Davis LSO version is better recorded, so one can safely investigate it without fear of being shortchanged on account of the sound. Davis has the measure of this work. Although he is a bit unsmling,  he captures the typical French pomp and circumstance of its time, as well as the sheer musical beauty and originality of the work.

One thing that impressed me in the Denon disc is the menacing rasp of the trombones - shades of La course à l'abîme - an effect that doesn't come off so well chez Davis. OTOH the poker-faced and ungainly tenor of Kenneth Riegel (Inbal) is a distinct minus.

[longears]

Johann Sebastian Bach - Les Suites pour Violoncelle seul (Jean-Guihen Queyras)  Suite N°1 en Sol Majeur

[johnQpublic]

Wagner - King Enzio Overture (Rahbari/Naxos)
Bruckner - Symphony #3 (Wand/RCA)