Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by bluemooze, Feb 22, 2017.

  1. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    Listening to Symphony #2 on a CD from the second Living Presence box. I'm not a big fan or #1 or #3.

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  2. Mr Bass

    Mr Bass Chevelle Ma Belle

    Location:
    Mid Atlantic
    I'm concerned that the labels are looking to phase out Downloads as well as CDs. They might not do it officially but just with these pricing/making it difficult subterfuges. Download sales have been dropping rapidly.
     
  3. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    I have a few purchased downloads but not all came with the notes. I have nothing against digital music files but If I'm paying sometimes more than a CD for these, and they don't have everything that comes with the CD, to me there is no point.
     
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  4. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Syracuse, NY
    If CD production stops the prices will probably be even higher. I'll keep buying physical media.
     
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  5. coopmv

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

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Physical media will always be my first choice! :agree:
     
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  6. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    The Presto music website has a list of contents-go to the Melodiya label section-future releases. I don ‘t know how to link it( I am card carrying Luddite, pretty much).
     
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  7. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    CD 4 from the Boccherini Edition.

    Cello Concerto #12 in E Flat G 474
    Cello Concerto #8 in D G 478
    Cello Concerto #6 in A G 475
    Cello Concerto #10 in D G 483

    Enrico Bronzi, Cello and Conductor - Accademia I Filarmonici Di Verona

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  8. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Syracuse, NY
    I'm glad I bought the first edition of the box. The booklet contains Ligeti's notes explaining in detail how the pieces were constructed.
     
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  9. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

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  10. coopmv

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

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Now playing CD3 - Nocturnes from the following box from my Chopin collection ...

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  11. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

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    Syracuse, NY


    Played on a Lute-Harpsichord. I like the sound. Deeper and darker than a normal harpsichord.
     
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  12. Mr Bass

    Mr Bass Chevelle Ma Belle

    Location:
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    Yeah, that's why I called it a subterfuge. I just see no interest by the labels in expanding the Downloads market and in fact quite the opposite. Probably a wise idea to get any you are interested in now if there is no corresponding physical media.
     
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  13. crispi

    crispi Vinyl Archaeologist

    Location:
    Berlin
    Trying out some Spotify:

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    SCHUBERT · Impromptus · Paul Badura-Skoda, fortepiano

    ASTRÉE AUVIDIS (P) 1983 / NAÏVE

    What lovely sound and playing! I like this even more than András Schiff's recent fortepiano recordings on ECM.
     
  14. coopmv

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

    Location:
    CT, USA
    I imagine this recording is in stereo. I only have a box of his mono recordings ...

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  15. Bachtoven

    Bachtoven Forum Resident

    Location:
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    No.103. I think I'll stick with Karajan and BPO.

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  16. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

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    Syracuse, NY


    Amazing performance!
     
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  17. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    I enjoyed this mellow 2-CD set this morning. Recorded 5/25-27/87 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Producer: Steven Epstein. Engineer: Bud Graham. Issued 1992. Art by M.C. Escher.
     
  18. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Syracuse, NY
  19. coopmv

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

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Now playing the following CD from my JS Bach collection ...

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  20. coopmv

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

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Now playing the following CD from my Elgar collection ...

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  21. Walter H

    Walter H Santa's Helper

    Location:
    New Hampshire, USA
    Now listening:

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    One of the late 20th century's very best composers.
     
  22. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident

    CD from the Decca Analogue Years box. Includes Le Poeme de l’Extase.

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  23. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Frenchtown NJ USA
    Listening to "Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets by Giaches de Wert" performed by Stile Antico on Harmonia Mundi.

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  24. hvbias

    hvbias Midrange magic

    Location:
    Northeast
    I found it on their website, thank you. Looks like there is some overlap with the Brilliant Classics box but much that doesn't. I would have loved to hear her recordings of Shostakovich's Op. 34 and Op. 87, I hope these are in Melodiya's archives and if so see a release. IMHO I can't see myself paying $90 for this box, $50 would be more in my comfort zone given the poor sound quality (several of the WTC have out of tune pianos) and overlap with what I have.

    From streaming the pieces that I don't have I'm reaffirming my opinion that her reputation as an eccentric was more to do with her personality than her playing. Her pianism sounds no more unusual than many others from that generation.

    Last night listening was to two pieces from Lalo- Cello Concerto and Symphonie Espagnole (AP SACD).

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  25. HenryFly

    HenryFly Forum Resident

    Location:
    Germany
    Terry Riley: 'Sun Rings' — Kronos Quartet has just been released and is revealing itself slowly from corona to core.

    Commissioned by NASA for the Kronos Quartet and featuring pre-recorded sounds from the plasma around planets, Terry Riley’s Sun Rings is about as close an experience to being in space as it is possible to be. The ten-movement ‘spacescape’, as Riley refers to it, is a multimedia work for quartet and chorus, opening with recorded audio of the static heard from radio emissions in space. These are all triggered by members of the quartet’s hand movements over sensors.

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