Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #27)

I haven't done the paid membership, so I'm not sure how it works. I don't know if I actually downloaded anything. I was just given a bunch of tracks I could listen to when I did a search, but they weren't in any particular order. Spotify is not yet recommended, at least not by me.

 

OK, Rachmaninoff. I have more I could recommend, but I have tried my best to stick to the cream of the crop. They are all available and relatively inexpensive on amazon.

Solo piano

Ashkenazy - 24 Preludes and Sonata 2 - Original Issue OR First Reissue (I am 95% it's the same mastering)

Richter - Preludes and Etudes (a selection) Latest Reissue

Ogdon - Etudes Complete - Testament

Concertos

Janis/Kondrashin in PC 1 - Living Stereo

Richter/Wislocki in PC 2 - DG, Best Mastering

Janis/Dorati in PC 3 - Living Stereo

Wild/Horenstein in PC 4 and Rhapsody - Chesky

Symphonies

Ormandy - on SONY

 

Okay. That looks good. Thanks, George.

New question: does anyone remember which version of Verdi's Requiem Deutsche Grammophon released on its midprice Galleria label back in the late '80s/early '90s?

My Amazon shopping cart is becoming enormous.

 

Yeah, I made it 5 minutes with that thing. I will likely uninstall it soon.

 

It's useful for listening to things to see if i want to buy them, but so far, not particularly user friendly as a dependable listening option.

 

Yeah, I'd sooner listen to stuff on youtube. At least there's no interruptions.

And I only gave you the tip of the iceberg.

 

Hinky! Great word. Don't hear that one on the coast.

 

Lots more from "The Box" ...



Beethoven

CD24
Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 1 No. 1
Piano Trio in G, Op. 1 No. 2

CD25
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Piano Trio in E-flat, WoO39
Variations in G, Op. 121a on “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu” by Wenzel Muller

CD26
Piano Trio in D, Op. 70 No. 1 “Geister”
Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 70 No.2

CD27
Piano Trio in B-flat, WoO38
Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 44

Borodin Trio
(recorded 1984, Layer Marney Church, Essex UK)

Wonderful music for a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

 

Unfortunately, I've heard the word 'dinky' a few too many times...

 

I like these recordings of the trios a lot too.

 

Oops sorry. I do not know who Bubbles is.

 

Had to look it up:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hinky

 

You really thought that was me?

Bubbles is a character from the Canadian show Trailer Park Boys.

 

Some nice person is trying to help me with Spotify, but it's too complicated even to explain to him what I'm having a problem with. Spotify reminds me of those programs everyone else loves that aren't iTunes, which I can't make play music files with any semblance of order. Yet, Spotify gives me access to a little bit of things I can't find elsewhere (I find the varying SQ on youtube its own source of annoyance).

 

I wonder where I got it. I've been saying it since at least the '80s. Does DC have its own lingo?

Awww...

I use it to mean "weird" or "out of whack." In the case of Spotify, it's a little closer to "totally ****ed up."

 

I honestly thought maybe it was you showing off your cats. I used to wear specs like that before I got my eyes fixed.

 

So it seems that, at least for classical, Spotify is not worth the trouble.

 

I'll second that rejection.

 

Just placed an order with an etailer from across the pond on the following recordings ...

 

Currently spinning. Anyone else like this composer?

 

Awesome discs.

 

The sitcom was funny.

 

A huge improvement over my prior set of 93-98 on Odyssey.

 

Same for Pandora. It treats a movement as a separate "song."
Love it for other types of music, however.

 

Check out Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive,"