Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

I have the following Pergolesi box by Abbado ...



and a few other recordings by Hogwood on both CD and on LP.

 

For Backhaus, I only have the following Beethoven Piano Sonatas box, his Brahms Piano Concerto with Bohm and two Naxos Historical recordings. All in all, I am still not that familiar with his playing compared with Kempff ...

 

This is what the LPs looked like when the set arrived!

 

I have the following Palestrina CD, conducted by the older brother of Pope Benedict ...

 

WOW!

 

Honest I don't know how I did that five times.

 

Well, you've certainly made your point

 

I have noticed on a reply, some previously attached image may not show up. When you reply again, you end up with two images but five images is a first for me ...

 

Even the best RCM cannot clean this record!

 

If it wears only dust and with no physical scratch, I would have no worry. Dust could come off.

 

Actually, my VPI 16.5 cleaned it up perfectly--the surfaces are virtually silent!

 

My box does not even have the rubber foam and the two records are in absolutely pristine condition, as is the box itself ...

 

Don't have this recording but am familiar with Veronique Gens as she is the soprano in many of the Bach Passions conducted by the Philippe Herreweghe in my collection ...

 

Come on Maria do things to my head.

 

That's right.

 

First listen to CD 5 from "Rudolf Serkin - The Complete Columbia Album Collection" on Sony

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 the Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy

 

She is one of my favorite lyric singers. She sung Rosina on the Figaro by Jacobs SACD which is one of the best CD of the opera.
Also, her SACD of Chants d'Auvergne is so sweet and seductive. Highly recommended.

 

CD from the second Living Presence box.

 

Love this .

 

The sound quality on this box is very good, Decca were able to record a nice full bodied piano sound with great presence. For me there is something even better in his playing in the mono set. There is one earlier 50s mono recording in that box.

Listen to him play the Hammerklavier if you have some time.

 

It was a few years ago that I had my last and first listen ...

 

I asked Jens Laurson - the author of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas survey on Ionarts - about the two Backhaus cycles and he told me he slightly preferred the later cycle. Here's the survey: Ionarts: Beethoven Sonatas - A Survey of Complete CyclesPart 1, 1935 - 1969

I haven't heard the earlier (mono) cycle, so I can't say which one I prefer.