Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #48)

Now listening to this new-ish CD. I usually adore Cherkassky's readings, but the Rach Paganini Rhapsody on this is slowed down so much that it offers very little excitement. The same can be said for the Prokofiev Sonata, especially the finale. This great pianists best work lies elsewhere.

 

Now playing the following CD featuring the Rach Paganini Rhapsody that I absolutely love ...

 

Jarvi looks like Bill Hicks on that cover.

 

This is a 1981 recording ...

 

That is a very cool cover!!

 

Agreed, if arguments were not in place. There is nothing wrong support a position if the assessments are based on facts. As mentioned in my reply you selected this type of reaction in the first place and now you go out of it. That's fine.

 

"I'm right, you are wrong" is not an argument. And I am sure no one else on this thread wants to see it. So I am done with it.

 

Of course it is not, if not supported adequately. Not the case here. It seems you do not want in any way to elaborate new information that might change your view of things. I agree to end it. And I ll try not to mention LAPO, Dudamel or Wang again.

 

I am trying very hard to be polite about this but you are making it difficult.

 

this Iranian pianist was unknown to me until i checked this CD out of the library.i found the playing of both pianist & orchestra to be
briskly enjoyable.

 

Yes, that's an alternative.

Critics' views - especially when they're evaluating new records - sem to be a little too often guided by the interest to hear something Totally Awesome New. I've bought some records strongly recommended by the press and became slightly later disillusioned with them.

On the other hand, in a concert hall, it's the critic who sits in the hall with the other listeners. His standpoint isn't the one of the visiting conductor or soloist. So I don't know... perhaps both surveys could be used, in combination.

 

Look, there is absolutely no reason to fight over the web this way. I interpeted you response style in a certain manner and choosed to react correspondingly. If you feel that my writing was incosistent with the spirit of this particular discussion and, thus, not appropriate, I sincerely apologize without hesitation.

Alex

 

Now playing:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet for Piano & Wind Instruments K452, Trio K498 "Kegelstatt", Adagio & Rondo K517
— James Levine, piano & Ensemble Wien-Berlin (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Curious - is the "Kegelstatt performed by piano and winds or is there a viola (as written)?

By the way, Levine and Ensemble Wien-Berlin teamed up for a wonderful album of Poulenc chamber music.

 

They did also the Beethoven Piano Quintet and both are paired in a DVD as well.

 

Yeah - pairing the Mozart and Beethoven is the norm, I would say. I have Perahia and friends doing those two.

My understanding is that there aren't many other works for that combination.

 

I used to collect these pairings. I like a lot the Brendel and friends 80s recording for Philips.

 

Need some help here from those of you who have this set. I have looked over the listing of the 60 CD's and there are really only the JS Bach Cello Suites by Anner Bylsma that are worth getting. Anner Bylsma is a terrific cellist and I do not yet have the Bach Cello Suites by him. But other than those 2 CD's, I have not found many other compelling CD's I must have. To be honest, I also am not familiar with L'Archibudelli and Bruno Weil and there are many CD's in this set by them ...

 

Stuart,

I think Anner Blysma performs in every recording credited to L'Archibudelli

http://www.answers.com/topic/l-archibudelli

a sample of L'Archibudelli on youtube

 

Thanks. So Anner Blysma was a member of L'Archibudelli, some chamber ensemble. Bruno Weil is still an unknown to me ...

 

I like Wiel's Schubert. I can't find any videos of performances that I'm sure are in the set. If you search youtube for wiel vivarte schubert there are some videos. I know some of them aren't in the set. I'm not sure about others.

 

Breakfast with Munch/BSO famous recording of excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. It was recorded in 1957. Issued originally as mono (LM-2110), and later in RCA's Victrola series in stereo (VICS-1412). BMG Japan, in their massive 2006 Munch series, reissued on CD all 11 numbers, paired with Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto with Munch's niece as soloist (Schweitzer).

The Red Seal LM record had a gorgeous 10 page booklet illustrated with the "Eugene Karlin" drawings.

 

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/The-Decca-Sound-The-Analogue-Years/hnum/2589879

1.CD Saint-Saens: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1; Symphonische Dichtungen (Pascal Roge, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit / 1980)
2.CD Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 6 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti / 1979)
3.CD Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 4 (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink / 1979)
4.CD Debussy: Children's Corner; Preludes Heft 1 (Pascal Roge / 1978)
5.CD Sibelius: Pelleas & Melisande op. 46; Der Sturm op. 109 (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Horst Stein / 1979)
6.CD Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 2; Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen-Suite (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller / 1978)
7.CD Bartok: Orchestersuiten Nr. 1 & 2; 2 Bilder op. 20; Enescu: Rumänische Rhapsodie Nr. 1 (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati / 1978)
8.CD Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 5; Rimsky-Korssakoff: Russische Ostern-Ouvertüre; Capriccio espagnol (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lorin Maazel/ 1977)
9.CD Violinsonaten von Debussy & Franck; Ravvel: Introduktion & Allegro (Kyung-Wha Chung, Radu Lupu, Melos Ensemble / 1977)
10.CD Tschaikowsky: Manfred-Symphonie; Valse-scherzo (Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy / 1977)
11.CD Gershwin: Ein Amerikaner in Paris; Copland: Appalachian Spring; Lincoln Portrait; Kraft: Contextures (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta / 1976)
12.CD Wolf-Ferrari: Il Segreto di Susanna (Maria Chiara, Bernd Weikl, Covent Garden Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli / 1976)
13.CD Alicia de Larrocha - Werke für Klavier & Orchester von Montsalvatge, Surinach, Falla, Faure (Alicia de Larrocha, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos / 1976)
14.CD Schostakowtisch: Streichquartette Nr. 8, 9,15 (Fitzwilliam Quartet / 1975)
15.CD Schubert: Rosamunde; Ouvertüren von Schumann & Weber (Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Münchinger / 1974)
16.CD Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Ravel: Bolero; Schönberg: Variationen für Orchester (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti / 1974)
17.CD Grieg: Klavierkonzert op. 16; Schumann: Klavierkonzert op. 54 (Radu Lupu, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn / 1973)
18.CD Haydn: Symphonien Nr. 94, 100, 104 (Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati / 1972)
19./20.CD Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust; Mozart: Symphonie Nr. 40 (English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten / 1972)
21.CD Walton: Violinkonzert; Strawinsky: Violinkonzert (Kyung-Wha Chung, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Prein / 1972)
22.CD Chopin: Etüden (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Klavier / 1972)
23. CD Offenbach: Le Papillon; Massenet: Le Cid (London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge / 1972)
24. CD Holst: The Planets; Saint-Saens: Symphonie Nr. 3 "Orgelsymponie" (Los Angeles PO, Zubin Mehta / 1971)
25. CD Scriabin: Klavierkonzert; Prometheus für Klavier & Orchester; Poeme de l'extase (Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta / 1971)
26. CD Dvorak: Der Wassermann; Mein Heim; Die Mittagshexe; Die Hussiten; Das goldene Spinnrad (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz)
27. CD Bloch: Schelomo; Voice in the Wilderness; Rimsky-Korssakoff: Capriccio espagnol (Janos Starker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta / 1969)
28. CD Mendelssohn: Sextett op. 110; Borodin: Quintett c-moll; Berwald: Septett (Wiener Oktett / 1968)
29. CD Mendelssohn: Symphonien Nr. 3 & 4 (London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado / 1968)
30. CD Verdi: Requiem (Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti / 1967)
31. CD Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti / 1966)
32. CD Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 (Joan Sutherland, Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt / 1965)
33. CD Britten: Symphonie für Cello & Orchester; Haydn: Cellokonzert (Mstislav Rostropovich, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten / 1964)
34. CD Kodaly: Hary Janos; Tänze aus Galanta; Der Pfau; Der Pfau-Variationen (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz / 1964)
35. CD Sibelius: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 4; Karelia-Suite (Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel / 1963)
36. CD Mozart: Serenaden KV 361 & 388 (London Wind Soloists / 1962)
37. CD Bruch: Violinkonzert; Hindemith: Violinkonzert (David Oistrach, London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Hindemith, Jascha Horenstein)
38. CD Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1; Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 27 (Clifford Curzon, London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell / 1962)
39. CD Herold: La File mal gardee; Gounod: Ballettmusik aus Faust (Covent Garden Orchestra, John Lanchberry / 1962)
40. CD Martinu: Etüde für Streicher; Konzert für Pauken & Bläser; Honegger: Symphonie Nr. 2 (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet / 1961)
41./42. CD Verdi: Otello (Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan / 1961)
43.CD J. Strauss II: Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht; Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald; Dorfschwalben aus Österreich; Frühlingsstimmen (Hilde Gueden, Wiener Philharmoniker, Willy Boskovsky, Joseph Krips / 1961)
44.CD Tschaikowsky: Schwanensee (Ausz.); Lecoq: Mamzelle Angot (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari / 1961)
45.CD Rossini: Ouvertüren; Mendelssohn: Violinkonzert op. 64 (Ruggiero Ricci, London Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba / 1960)
46./47.CD Puccini: La Boheme (Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin / 1959)
47.CD Sibelius: Symphonie Nr. 2; Dvorak: Symphonie Nr. 7 (London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux / 1958)
48.CD Schubert: Symphonien Nr. 8 & 9 (London Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Krips / 1958)
49.CD Tschaikowsky: 1812-Ouvertüre; Capriccio italien; Slawischer Marsch; Rachmaninoff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 (Julius Katchen, London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Alwyn, Georg Solti / 1958)
51.CD Grieg: Peer Gynt; Klavierkonzert op. 16 (Clifford Curzon, London Symphony Orchestra, Oivin Fjelstad / 1958)
52.CD Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges;Ma mere l'oye-Suite (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet / 1954)
53.CD "Decca's first stereo recordings" - Rimsky-Korssakoff: Antar; Glasunow: Stenka Rasin; Werke von Balakireff & Liadov (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet / 1947)
54.CD Mono-Version der CD 53

 

Thanks for this; much appreciated!
I had a quick look and so far a small surprise is Holst's "The Planets"; I thought they would pick the Dutoit/Montreal Orchestra performance but went with the '71 Metha

 

It is a fine performance and awesome recording. I had gotten the expensive SHM-SACD of this one costing more than half of this box' cost...