Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

CD from the Decca Analogue Years box. Includes Dvorak 7. A nice 81 minute early morning concert.

 

Haydn Piano Trios 31-33 on the turntable this morning. Performed by the Haydn Trio of Vienna.
From this 5-LP Telefunken set / German / 1977

 

Schubert
The String Quartets
Melos Quartett

 

Shostakovich
Ballet Suite No. 5 from “The Bolt", Op. 27a
Chailly
The Philadelphia Orchestra

 

On the TT..

 

Ligeti is one of my favorites from the last half of the 20th Century (post-WWII as I often call it). I would really try and seek out The Ligeti Project on Warner and the newly reissued Masterworks set on Sony. Both of these sets will provide you with all of the Ligeti you need. I suppose if you want Ligeti overkill, you could buy the DG set, Clear or Cloudy. Of course, I own all of the Warner, Sony, and DG recordings.

Monteux’s performance of the Sibelius 2nd is still a favorite of mine. Such a powerful performance that it makes me wish he’d done the whole cycle.

 

Listening to the complete Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. Gennady Rozhdestvensky / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
This is a Melodiya (Angel) 3-LP box set -- not dated, but I think the recording was made around '68.
The box photo is not really reddish; it's black, but difficult to photograph on this dark, rainy day.

 

His Dvorak on this CD 7 is a great, lively performance.

 

Listening to "Cesena: Songs For Popes, Princes and Mercenaries (c. 1400)" performed by Graindelavoix on Glossa.

 

Excellent choice! I presume that is the CD version of my 4-LP box set (released in 1977):




I don't know if your set comes with liner notes and photos, but the booklet in the LP set shows these guys in the very-'70s casual garb. Quite a contrast to their tuxedo cover shot:

 

Me either. I enjoyed the first disc. But there isn't a whole lot of romantic piano music I care to listen to unless it's the more subdued, meditative stuff.

 

I fully agree! I have it on this 1961 RCA "Living Stereo" (shaded dog) LP.
(This is before the renumbering, when Dvorak's No.7 was still referred to as "No.2")

 

First listen to CDs 15-16 from "Charles Munch - The Complete RCA Album Collection" on Sony.

Berlioz - The Damnation Of Faust Boston Symphony Orchestra

 

My father was AB Harvard 1952, LLB Harvard Law 1955 (but not gleefully) and my mother was AB Radcliffe 1954 (though not chorally) when this album was made. My father played piano as one of those college boy things (we have photos) but is now an old-time fiddler and banjo player.
My father was just 22 and mother 21 when this was released. They got married in 1955. I doubt they took in anything like Damnation of Faust, ever.
Me? I went to Boston University; my musical tastes are of my generation but have come around to classical lately.

Thank you for posting this @bluemooze - these photos gave me pleasure.

 

I don't know if they're the same version, but my liner notes has a different black and white photo, this one:



But the image you posted is on the cover of Brahms' String Quartets op. 67 and op. 51 also on Deutsche Grammophon:
Johannes Brahms, Melos Quartett Stuttgart* - Streichquartette - String Quartets: B-Dur (In B-Flat Major) Op. 67; C-Moll (In C Minor) Op. 51 Nr. 1

 

Now listening to the eClassical daily download:

Kalevi Aho: Ludus Solemnis -- Music for and with Organ. Jan Lehtola, Petri Komulainen, Jussi Vuorinen, Kaija Saarikettu, & Anna-Kaisa Pippuri. BIS

 

A Tuesday diggin’ at my local store: Arnold Schoenberg - Symphony Orchestra Of Southwest German Radio, Baden-Baden, Jascha Horenstein ‎– Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 ∙ Chamber Symphony Op. 9



edit: It came with the poem

 

Snowing hard here in Virginia for the past hour... Nice big flakes, too. Makes me think about playing more Tchaikovsky, so I reached for this 1967 London Phase 4 album to hear maestro Stokowski's rendition of the Symphony No.5 with the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

 

I have this LP box set. A very colorful musical journey.

 

Listening to CD 21 from "Aldo Ciccolini - Enregistrements EMI 1950-1991" on EMI.

Debussy - Suite bergamasque / Pour le piano / 2 Arabesques / Ballade
Saint-Saens - Etude en forme de vaise Op. 52 No. 6 / Six etudes pour la main gauche seule Op. 135

 

CD.

 

Listening to my other new arrival: Vivaldi's Stabat Mater and other works by Pergolesi and Bach. Beautiful music and only €5.99 for the SACD. Quite a contrast to the Ligeti disc.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm tempted, since both sets can be had for very reasonable prices.

 

I love this box...not halfway through because I keep repeat listening to a select handful which are astonishingly satisfying...looking forward to making more progress soon...