Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #62)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by George P, Oct 27, 2014.

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  1. coopmv

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

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    Finally getting to this box, now playing CD1 for a first listen ...

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  2. Moonfish

    Moonfish Forum Resident

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    Haydn: Symphonies Nos 82 & 87 BP/Karajan

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  3. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    Great performances; less than stellar mastering. I believe the outside of the box made some reference to a remastering, but such is not the case. It is the Essential Classics mastering from the 1990's. It's too bad as some of the subsequent remastering Sony did for Szell really disclosed what was on the tape.
     
  4. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    What's more, it was a free ticket. She sounded a bit gimmicky. The recital got a mixed review in the Times.

    I have a subscription to the Y's Keyboard Artists series this season. Denk last night, Biss in January, Hamelin in February, Lugansky[?] in March.
     
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  5. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

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    I find the cover of that Warner CD very interesting.They are resurrecting the Angel logo,as it appeared on the later LPs in the 80s,and they have it positioned much like the thrift and UK export covers from the early 1950s.I need to put on the 1981 HvK Berlin LP of the Sibelius 2 since I have that handy.
     
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  6. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

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    Must be nice to have a local record store that sells stuff like this.I bought a copy on Amazon a few weeks ago that's still in my "to play" pile.

    Here is where it was recorded.
    http://www.emil-berliner-studios.com/en/meistersaal.html
     
  7. coopmv

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

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

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  8. RelayerNJ

    RelayerNJ Forum Resident

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    I found it at Princeton Record Exchange. Believe me, I was surprised to find it in the new release pile :) I'm probably one of three that actually have been anticipating this .
    Thanks for the additional info!
     
  9. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    Her performances are usually excellent.
     
  10. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    OK, here's a different take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons! Leonid Desyatnikov’s arrangement of Piazzolla's work adds a few quotes from Vivaldi's classic:

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    The Ginastera is mind-blowingly intense--probably not to all tastes. Goliov's work is closer in spirit to Piazzola. The perspective is from the front row, or even on stage, but the sound is not dry at all, just vividly present.
     
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  11. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    I have an album titled "Eight Seasons" that includes both the Vivaldi and the Piazzolla. The violinist is Gidon Kremer.
     
  12. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

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    I owned that at one point then sold it. Is it also the Desyatnikov arrangement? I mainly bought the disc for the Ginastera, but the other two works are growing on me.
     
  13. woosh1956

    woosh1956 Forum Resident

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    I've been enjoying the multi-disc "original jacket" compilations that Sony has been releasing (Horowitz, Entremont, Graffman, Stokowski, etc.) Is there any way to find out what is already available in this series and what is to be released in the future? If this has been answered elsewhere please direct me to that answer - thanks!
     
  14. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    Some of the Monteux/SFSO recordings were made by sending the microphone pickup over telephone lines from SF to LA!
     
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  15. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    I have several on either CD or LP & thought they were fine.
     
  16. markedasred

    markedasred Forum Resident

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    Slightly controversial comment maybe, but I dislike all the Karajan recordings except the Roussel symphonies. When I started collecting, I got one of his Beethoven symphonies boxes, then the next account of the pastoral I heard was so much more insightful, so much more intensely beautiful that I started to listen again to the lps by him, and found them mainly lifeless and over polished. I prefer mixed sets of large bodies of work like the Haydn quartets, Sonatas & Symphonies (even the switch between modern instruments and period), the variety adds to the pleasure, but there is not one single classical work that I love that I would have a Karajan version in the top five of.
     
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  17. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    It is. It was a gift, and I haven't played it often. I may spin it today.
     
  18. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member

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    Now listening to "Handel - Rinaldo" performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester led by Rene Jacobs on Harmonia Mundi.

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  19. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    Now: Mahler: Symphony 9 - Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - DG (1982)

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  20. coopmv

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

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    Just think about all the static on the phone lines that got picked up. Stay away from such recordings ... :agree:
     
  21. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    Now: Beethoven: Piano Sonata 23, Op.57 - Claudio Arrau - 11 CDs, Philips; disc 8

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  22. alankin1

    alankin1 Forum Resident

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    Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphonies Nos.1 Op.10 & No.6 Op.54
    — New York Philharmonic — Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)

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  23. coopmv

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

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    I wonder how the Philips box compares with the following box, which I have in my collection?

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  24. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    I guess your box uses the same masterings and is just a repackaging.
     
  25. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

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    Loped off high and low frequencies would be more of a problem. I wasn't around back then, but I don't remember static in phones in the 60s.
     
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