Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

CD from the Decca Analogue Years box.
Includes:
Ravel - Introduction and Allegro.
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp.

 

Sorry, keep playing this when drunk, don't know if it is those first few bars that sounded like the machine that was keeping me alive after my first heart attack 20 years ago.
Or that it might be first Bruckner I had. No. 4 imgur is playing up. Sorted

 

New arrival, "Hildegard Von Bingen - Sponsa Regis" performed by La Reverdie on Arcana.

Thanks @coopmv.

 

That Melos is one of my favourite recordings.

 

Superb!

 

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass. Ancerl, Czech Phil. Czech Supraphon red label.

I'm a fan of 2oth C small or large choral music which I find quite innovative.

 

Listening to "Christine De Pizan - Chansons Et Ballades" performed by VocaMe on Berlin Classics.

 

Just returned from my 50 min, 2 1/2 mile late afternoon and listened to the following CD from my Elgar collection ...

 

No, no, no. No such thing. It’s just more recessed in the treble, that’s all. Ryan K. Smith would never do that. Come to think of it, some might prefer this mellow sound. I don’t, not when it comes to this recording.

 

Now playing variations on a theme by Haydn from Szell/Cleveland on Columbia. Brilliant!




Brahms strolled w a pet hedgehog ??

 

I liked these better. Maybe I'm just getting used to her approach. Sonatas recorded 9/3-5/90, Tonstudio van Geest, Heidelberg. Volume 13 recorded 3/91 & 9/91, Studio van Geest, Sandhausen. Producer: Martin Sauer.

 

Sonatas recorded 11/89, Tonstudio van Geest, Heidelberg. Producer: Martin Sauer. Dances & Waltzes recorded 1992, Clara Wieck Auditorium, Heidelberg. Producer/engineer: Martin Sauer. I enjoyed the second CD, representing the "Pops" side of Brahms. I have read that he was full of praise for Johann Strauss II.

 

Has Biret record all the Chopin works with Naxos?

 

I have to confess that the Academic Festival Overture is something of a guilty pleasure. Always manages to put a smile on my face for some reason.

 

@Wes H, Just out of curiosity, do you happen to have this open-reel tape for the above recording?

 

I think she did.

 

So there is a big Naxos Chopin box by her?

 

Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763): Trio Sonatas


96/24 flac

 

Collected in a 15-CD box.

 

Looks like a Naxos big box is priced like a Decca big box ...

 

CD.

 

Richard Strauss ~ Ein Heldenleben
Blomstedt/Staatskapelle Dresden
CD/Japan/1985

 

Listening to the SACD layer of disc one-Symphonies 38 & 39. Great sound and performance. The CD layer, to me, sounds overly bright and a bit harsh.

 

This sounds reasonably good for a YouTube video:

 

IBA is her own label. Guessing it was part of her deal with Naxos to get the rights back on license or somesuch.