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Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by George P, Jan 7, 2015.

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  1. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

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    I was only speaking of the Casals Bach Cello Suites. They were transferred by Marston. This is a very rare case where I prefer another transfer, the Opus Kura.
     
  2. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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  3. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

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    Haven't heard that set, sorry.
     
  4. jukes

    jukes Forum Resident

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    A nice, snowy winter evening, therefore

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    Not my cup of tea. Better get out into the wood like the guy in that cover!
     
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  5. Fafner88

    Fafner88 Forum Resident

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    You don't like Gura? I just love his Schwanengesang and his other Schubert CD with the blue cover.
     
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  6. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    ...and, beyond the hill, fire at the mill! :eek:
     
  7. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    I hope you'll forgive me the conceit of quoting my own post, but I'm killing time out on the road again, and I got to musing on how the record market has changed. Yes, we do have it easy today, at least relatively speaking, but I wonder if in the process we've lost something, too? Does the rediscovery and recording of Heinrich Meingott's long-forgotten cantata The Diacritical Marks, composed for and last heard at the Great Assembly of the Worshipful Company of Type-Setters in 1723 at the Corn Exchange in Derbyshire, carry the same kind of anticipation and excitement our forebears felt as they waited (and saved!) for each release of the Schnabel Beethoven sonata sets, in some cases marking the first appearance of these works on disk? I remember one big-name critic of the day, maybe Irving Kolodin, writing that he skipped lunch for months to save up enough to buy those sets as they came out. Hard to imagine now, but back then large swaths of what we consider standard catalogue items were simply not on record at all, and collectors felt a compelling urge to see those gaps filled.
     
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  8. alankin1

    alankin1 Forum Resident

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    Famous Trumpet Concerti (Naxos)
    Benedetto Marcello – Sonata Op.2/11 for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord
    Giusseppe Torelli – Sonata a cinque No.1
    Georg Philipp Telemann – Concerto in D for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord
    George Frideric Handel – Concerto in D minor for Trumpet and Orchestra (reconstructed by Jean Thilde)
    Leopold Mozart – Concerto in D for Trumpet, Strings and Harpsichord
    Joseph Haydn – Concerto for Trumpet in E flat Hob.VIIe:1
    Miroslav Kejmar, trumpet — Capella Istropolitana — Peter Skvor

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  9. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    These performances may not dethrone Rostropovich's, but they are very powerful and well recorded.

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  10. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    I received these two new SACDs yesterday--both are excellent: well played and have superb sound.

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  11. Fafner88

    Fafner88 Forum Resident

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    I strongly recommend getting Pettersson's 8th symphony (if you don't have it already). I didn't hear all of his symphonies, but I think it's his best symphony among those that I'm familiar with (including the 6th and 7th). Look for Segerstam's recording, also on BIS.

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  12. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    ^^ I have just about every Pettersson disc that's available! (And a few LPs.)
     
  13. Fafner88

    Fafner88 Forum Resident

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    LOL, that's cool... Which pieces of his you like the best?
     
  14. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    The 2nd Violin Concerto (original version--recorded by Ida Haendel), 7th-10th Symphonies, and the String Concertos.
     
  15. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    Another wonderful new SACD--such an interesting coupling. Sudbin plays the daylights out of both concertos, and supplies his own interesting booklet notes. Since it's a BIS recording, you know it sounds great!

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  16. Don Jo

    Don Jo Forum Resident

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    It's a very cold Saturday winter afternoon (-10°C with a wind chill of -19°C), so we're staying home and dining-in instead. Fancied listening to Alfred Brendel's 2-CD set of the The Complete Schubert Impromptus and Moments Musicaux to go with a hot cup of dark roast Colombian.

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  17. Fafner88

    Fafner88 Forum Resident

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    Thanks, I'll check out the violin concerto.
     
  18. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Going through the shaded dogs slowly, finding the bulk of them presenting a muted treble I don't recall from previous auditioning. Mind you, the Frankenstereo has a lot going on on top.

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    Playing the Stereo Treasury Øivin Fjeldstad/LSO Peer Gynt after the Living Stereo Feidler/Boston Pops was like switching on the floodlights, really bright. And that's an early Stereo Treasury pressing. I'm half-way through the Reiner/CSO Schubert Symphonies 5/8 Living Stereo pressing from 1961, still a shaded dog for a label. More detailed up top than others from this batch I've auditioned but still muted. Playing is nice, perhaps the sound is thicker and bulkier than we've become accustomed to from more recent performances.

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  19. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    Be sure to get this one--he wrote it Ida, and this is the original version. The revision simplifies the solo part (it's brutally difficult) and thins out the textures.

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  20. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    Now playing CD11 - 24, 28 & 29 from the following box for a first listen ...

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  21. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    Edit: He wrote it FOR Ida. Man, I hate this 30 minute window in which to correct typos!
     
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  22. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    Now playing CD4 - Mozart Overtures - from the following box for a first listen ...

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  23. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    He does rather well with the complete operas.
     
  24. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    I was sampling that set on Spotify earlier this week.
     
  25. George P

    George P Notable Member Thread Starter

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    Giving Kovacevich another try. Op. 33, 119 and 126
     
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