Not yet. But the cd you posted must be good indeed and Harmonia Mundi is one of my favorite labels ever About Dvorak's chamber music, I have this cd by the Quatuor Talich on Calliope: I should check my cd collection because I don't know if I have something else in miscellaneous boxes etc.
Hilary Hahn - Schoenberg and Sibelius violin concertos Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa Pekka Salonen
Speaking of Hilary Hahn, a new release is on the way: it will be out on next May 17. I must confess I don't know the composer, but I think it's worth the purchase... an album for solo violin by HH is always remarkable.
Now enjoying CD 4 from this desert island box set. So serene, perfect music to close a stressful week. Sound and performance is exemplary.
Every time I listen to this CD, I am completely blown away with his playing. In the slower works he is incredibly tender, hypnotic. In the faster ones he is a fearless panther.
A panther is like a leopard, except with spots it isn't peppered. If you should see a panther crouch, prepare to say "ouch." Or better yet, if called by a panther, don't anther. --Ogden Nash My most recent pianistic enthusiasm is for a newly acquired set of selected Chopin mazurkas played by Ignaz Friedman on US Columbia 78 RPM set M 159 (a relatively late pressing of recordings from the early '30s). It's a really wonderful collection; I'll confess, the mazurkas are not usually the first works to which I turn when I think "I'd like to hear some Chopin," but this set just might change my mind. How I missed it all these years I don't know, but I'm delighted to have made its acquaintance at this late date.
Thanks for sharing that! I Googled, but can't find a definition for anther as a verb. Like you, the Mazurkas were not high on my list of Chopin works, but they have grown on me quite a bit. The modern pianist Luisada's DG set is wonderful, as is Wasowski's. I have Friedman's on Naxos and enjoy them, but I like Rubinstein's two mono sets more. I would be remiss if I din't mention Maryla Jonas's Mazurkas too.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Concertos Hilary Hahn Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Kahane (DGG 2003)
Haven't been sleeping well lately, so I am now trying to unwind by listening to the two gorgeous slow movements in the above 2 CD set. I don't normally like to split it works like this, but I really just need to chill right now.
Starting the day with the first two Dvorak string quartets. They are better than I recalled. I plan to listen through this set in the coming weeks.
The composer recorded a bit of it--not nearly as much as he should have, but some. Victor issued a group of electrical recordings as 10" album M 722, and in addition there were some single record issues on various labels. His first records were on Edison diamond discs and include the "Polka de W.R." and, inevitably, what Rachmaninoff called "It" (the Prelude in c-Sharp, op. 3 no. 2; he referred to the piece that way because he couldn't go anywhere without being importuned to "play 'it.'") Not his own music, exactly, but then also his own music, in a way: he recorded Liszt's 2d Hungarian Rhapsody for Edison and interpolated his own wild (and wildly incompatible, from a standpoint of style) cadenza as the bulk of the third side. Fabulous listening, which everyone should hear at least once. I'm sure at least all the electrical material must have been reissued, but I can't help you with specifics, as all my copies are original 78 RPM (or, in the case of the Edisons, 80 RPM) issues.
Yes, either on their own or as part of the Decca Complete Rachmaninov: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000041WS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ73VDG. And there is also his own recordings of the four piano concertos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003FGS.
George, I sincerely hope those two Chopin slow movements helped you unwind. I particularly love the Larghetto from Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto... one of the most lovely slow movements of any Romantic era concerto. For a composer who didn't particularly do well with orchestrations, he found amazing inspiration here. The entrance of the bassoon to take over the melody is so haunting -- just brilliant. As an aside, I might add that this movement was strikingly used as the theme music for a BBC mini-series, "Notorious Woman: The Story of George Sand," opening and closing each episode. It aired in the U.S. in 1975 on PBS (part of "Masterpiece Theater"). An excellent series featuring Rosemary Harris (George Sand), George Chakiris (Frederic Chopin), and Jeremy Irons (Franz Liszt). Sadly, it has never appeared on home video.
I was able to pick up the Richter: Live at Carnegie Hall 1960 box for cheap, so I am diving into it now. One thing I like about a good piano recital is that I listen to things I wouldn't have otherwise; I'm not big on Russian composers, for example, but I have enjoyed everything from these concerts I have heard so far. Other pieces gain new life for me when heard alone instead of in the larger context of the group they came from, like a Chopin Scherzo, a single Debussy Prelude, or a movement from Ravel's Miroirs.