Completed listening to the last few movements on the above CD and the following CD over this morning 2-mile walk. Listening for the rest of today will be in the air-conditioned music room ...
Should have read 'The Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize' presented by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Got my Antipodean dames mixed up!
Now playing CD7 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues 5 & 24 Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire with Andre Cluytens from the following box for a first listen ...
Now listening to CD 7 from "The Menuhin Century - Complete Recordings with Hephzibah Menuhin" on EMI. Brahms - Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 4 Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 10
Now playing the following CD from my Brahms/Tchaikovsky collection. It has been years since I last played this CD ... Looks like I have the SACD version as well.
I guess he doesn't like Harnoncourt. Granted, he did some controversial things, but I like much of what he recorded and this set with the Berlin Philharmonic is one of the better Brahms symphonies cycles in my opinion.
I like some recordings by Harnoncourt, but not this one. It is mannered, rushed, weird orchestral balances, and the Berlin phil. sound like a chamber orchestra.
