Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

I have "Master and Commander" on Blu-ray and agree it is a superb film, handsomely produced, and a "must see" (IMO) if you like period war dramas.
The fine soundtrack has some great classical music by Bach, Mozart, Corelli, Boccherini, and Ralph Vaughn Williams--whose "Sea Symphony" we just discussed earlier.

 

Now playing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 27 & 29, performed by Charles Rosen. Very fine performance and well-recorded.
This is a Columbia Masterworks 3-LP box set that I bought in 1972. Recorded at Abbey Road, 1969.

 

Now streaming on Spotify, disc 5 from "The Golden Age of the European Polyphony, 1350-1650" performed by the Laudantes Consort led by Guy Janssens on Cypres.

CD 5: Cristobal de Morales

 

Good eyes. I actually have the stereo version.

 

When I see pictures like this, what immediately comes to mind is - no plumbing, no air conditioning/heating, no privacy, no running water, no shelter, what did they eat?, what were the work hours? To sum it up, from Apocalypse Now, "The horror."

 

The Gramophone’s review by Richard Osborne.

 

First listen to "Tschaikowsky - Piano Concerto No. 1" performed by Ivo Pogorelich and the London Symphony Orchestra led by Claudio Abbado on DG.

Yet another spelling of Tschaikowsky (and it works with Google).

 

Back to playing records after a long period of old tapes & new CD purchases. I bought this today at 20% off in honor of Record Store Day. By the time I got there at 10, three hours after they opened, all the hot items were gone. Recorded 12/28/70, Jesus-Christus-Kirche. Production: Dr. Hans Hirsch. Artistic supervision: Hans Weber. Engineer: Günter Hermanns.

 

Imagine being "impressed" into service by a press gang. Flogging, etc.

 

First listen to CD 12 from "Delius - 150th Anniversary Edition" on EMI.

A Mass of Life - performed by Dame Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by Sir Charles Groves

 

Great review. Thanks for the link.

 

That's the German spelling.

 

The Boult EMI cycle is very good, but the truly great one is his earlier cycle on Decca.

 

Now playing the following SACD from my JS Bach collection for a second listen ...

 

I have found the SQ for many of the EMI or Decca early CD releases to be surprisingly good. It is never a sure thing all the subsequent remastering have necessarily improved the SQ ...

 

I was talking about the music making. The early Decca is mostly in mono.

 

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To be released on May 11. Blu-ray Audio, or Pure Audio as DG calls it.

 

(CD Decca German Press 410 124-2) 1984 .... recorded January 1983 .... still - after all these years - benchmark recordings of both works - the performances haven`t lost a bit of their initial urgency and verve ....

 

Been enjoying this documentary from 2014. Obviously classical related, but more then that. Recommended.

Seymour: An Introduction (2014) - IMDb

 

I wish movie directors or whoever picks out the music would realize that Bach wrote more than one piece for solo cello: they always pick the Prelude from the Suite No.1!

 

Now playing CD8, the last CD - Partitas Nos 1, 5 & 6 from the following box for a first listen ...

 

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