Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #10)

Now if only Mr. Hoffman gave us trading stamps for each post you would be eligible to get that new blender.

Congrats on the 10K posts!

 

A great bargain. There is some terriffic stuff on that one.

 

You didn't look hard enough friend!

http://cgi.ebay.com/RESPIGHI-PINES-...cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_CDs&hash=item1c11c91093

 

Definitely worth it for a little over 10 bucks.

 

Spinning this right now....
Got it today.....pretty nice!

 

Absolutely!
Gotta grab em up before they go OOP and they get costly!

 

Found another Living Stereo I haven't played yet...Stokowski

Played first the Scriabin / Tchaikowski piano concerto (superb), thena very early Anne-Sophie Mutter / HvK & VPO - Die 4 Jahreszeiten and finally Grieg Sokolov's Preludes Op. 28 earlier tonight.
VERY beautiful music most definitely...

 

My favorite for the Scriabin. The Stokowski disc is great.

 

To help calm me down from a particularly aggravating commute home from work:

VIVALDI - Lute Concertos & Trios / Daniel Benkö, Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orch., Budapest (Hungaroton HCD 11978)

 

Wow. Someone else other than me likes HVK.

 

And Her Warrior Priestesses, Eris, Hecate and Ponyo!




Heavens! Don't have it! Must contact Amazon!

 

"Vonce Za Rrrockets are up, who cares where ze kome down? That's not my department"

And then there's that haircut? What's with that haircut? It's so, so, so . . .

 

That one is a must have. Make sure to play it on an SACD player with surround if possible. If not, it's still good.

 

One of my favorite recordings of all time. Mmmm.

 

William Steinberg - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Holst: The Planets DG LP

Good to know. If you can believe this, I picked up that VG++ LP a few years ago at an annual garage/yard sale in Calgary. I paid 10¢ an LP for that and several other DG titles.

I might also look at getting the CD as well. I'd like to hear the Strauss material.

 

Thanks.

 

Anne-Sophie Mutter - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Witold Lutosławski - DG CD

I purchased the CD back in the day. I think I read an exceptional review or something. I was also dabbling in a bit of 20th Century composers. Mutter's performance is very good.



The CD btw is out of print, but it you can still find copies for a low price thru amaozn sellers and such.

http://www.amazon.com/Witold-Lutosl...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272336370&sr=1-3

 

Now playing...

Remembered yesterday evening that I had a couple/3 Living Stereo SACDs. They were a great price. Got the following new, a few years ago when a&b sound was still open. $9.99.

Fritz Reiner: Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches - SACD hybrid
RCA - BMG - 1955 and 1958
SACD issue in 2004



Amazon.com review

Since its release on LP in the mid-1950s, Fritz Reiner's rendition of the Concerto for Orchestra has stood as the standard against which all other recordings of the work are measured. Even after all these years, the recording remains just as convincing and authoritative. Reiner's superb control of his orchestra and of Bartók's rhythms and textures is still unsurpassed, even by dozens of subsequent conductors in the digital age. Likewise, the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta shows just what an incredible ensemble the Chicago Symphony was under Reiner's direction.

 

It's only real
with the fitting sports pullover, a scarf and an open Porsche 911 Targa Coupè...HvK style special ...

 

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Seriously, dude—it's the Nazi/Yuppie Axis of Evil!

 

What Porsche ?

 

A very nice follow up to the above Schubert. Like a top-notch Pinot with a Ruth's Chris steak.

 

More Debussy - La Mer

Another recording with great sound is the 1987 digital Decca of the Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor. I have the 2001 remaster. The bass sound is spectacular in the third sketch: Dialogue du vent et de la mer.