Meant to mention that this 32 track box set won't be officially released until tomorrow (1/19/18) but Spotify has it streaming. Quite enjoying it; especially with the awareness of Beethoven's early penchant for composing deliberately difficult pieces with which his competitors would struggle. None of them, of course, at the expense of a cleverly considered statement. Fun.
How is the orchestra? Bruckner symphonies are not the easiest to play and these regional orchestras are often "überfordert", or in English, let's say "challenged" to use a euphemism.
Not in the mood for anything too "heavy" this evening so this is sounding very nice to me right now. Even though it's a digital recording, it still sounds pretty good to me. .
That's a beautiful cover, even with a bullet-hole in it ... When I was watching the Vienna Phil New Year concert with Muti this year he made me laugh - the camera was on him and then all of a sudden he just downs tools and stops conducting like he wanted a little breather ... It happened a couple of times that I could see!
Yeah, what they do to covers for cut-outs is borderline criminal but this one cost me $1 so I’m not getting too upset about it. It’s a great performance and a great recording!
I can't remember where, but I think I read that music she wrote for amateurs was mostly published, but most of her serious work wasn't.
Listening to this right now on CD: Not sure I'm convinced by Harnoncourt's Haydn. I was expecting this to sound fresh and HIPpy. But it's quite stale, somehow. Doráti's older performances have more verve than this. Hmmm..
I recently got a cut out CD with a drilled UPC. Unfortunately the UPC was in the middle of the bottom edge so they drilled the CD too.
It’s available in Qobuz for under 40 Euros Also still available on cduniverse in mp3 for $9.99 Festetics Quartet - Haydn: The Complete String Quartets Played on Period Instruments CD Album Boxed
Ugh. I wonder, though. Is it still playable? If the hole is somewhere along the edge where there is no data and there’s no crack, it should be playable. (Unbalanced CDs do make a lot of noise in the drive, though.)
It would be hard to imagine much better performances! Superb sound, too. (96khz/24bit FLAC--I'm running out of room for LPs and CDs!)
I put the Freiburger in the same league as the MAK. In other words, I don't go crazy over their recordings. However, I have the following box and found MAK has done an excellent job
The heroic efforts to play these Albeniz piano pieces on the guitar and make them sound idiomatic, especially the four excerpts from Iberia, are mind blowing! Mind you, he doesn't sound as if he's struggling, but any guitarist will appreciate the gymnastics he's going through! Guitar Coop's engineering places Jorge in one's listening room. I opted for the 24 bit WAV download, but it's also available as a CD.
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Now streaming on Amazon, "Dunstable - Medieval Mass of Blessed Mary / Palestrina - Missa Aeterna Christi munera" performed by Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis on Hungarton.
I saw Eugene Ormandy do that once with the Philadelphia Orchestra. They were playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. In the dramatic second movement, Ormandy stopped conducting after the first few bars (having set the tempo) and then just stood calmly at the podium while the orchestra played the movement. It was amazing to watch an orchestra of that size playing that movement on it's own. I assumed Ormandy was demonstrating the skill of his players. I was impressed.