Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Back to the Ormandy box this morning. By the way-the number of releases in a year was quite high( by today’s standards certainly). In 1955 it seems like there was a release about every 6 weeks or so.

 

Got a new computer keyboard today, so I thought I'd start with something keyboard related:




Joseph Haydn - Piano Trios XV/13, 14, 2 & 39 - Van Swieten Trio

A splendid set, but I wish the booklet wasn't in Dutch! Does anyone here have the Brilliant Haydn edition, which includes this set? I'm wondering if the CD with the libretti also has a PDF of the booklet for these discs, with English translation. I guess I could try and email Brilliant, now I think of it...

 

One more CD.

 

Anyway, following that up by cherry-picking a few symphonies from this box:



WA Mozart - Symphonies 25 ("Little G Minor") & 31 ("Paris") - Pinnock/English Concert

 

Fair enough. That's what's great about multi interpretations, we can listen and have favorites.

 

new find

Mozart* / Andreas Staier ‎– Piano Sonatas K.330, 331 "Alla Turca", 332
Label:
Harmonia Mundi ‎– HMC 901856
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
France
Released:
2005

 

Speaking of Barshai...



PI Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto #1 - Barshai/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Peter Donohoe, 1989

 

Starting the morning off with some Debussy

 

Yes, she is an exceptional musician. Her recordings of the Prokofiev Violin Sonatas (w/ Steven Osborne) and the Szymanowski works for violin and piano (w/ Cédric Tiberghien) on Hyperion are also two of my favorite recordings that she’s done. I’d love to hear her in some Czech repertoire like Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů.

 

The performances are first-rate without a doubt. I find his performances of the 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th and 14th to be some of the best on record or, at least, some of the best I’ve heard in these symphonies. I also like the recordings he did of The Golden Age and The Bolt on Chandos. His Prokofiev, Glazunov and Schnittke are also top-notch.

 

Really enjoying this.

 

NP for the first time and I like what I hear (24-48)

 

I have this and the Mozart BBC Music Magazine CD from your previous post...love them both! I think the Vogel is especially great. Sure does take me back to the mid-1990's!

 

I agree wholeheartedly. We had the immense pleasure of attending a performance of Stravinsky’s “Persephone” performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rozhdestvensky. It was a magnificent performance. I have not a heard a recorded performance on CD which comes close to what he and the BSO, etc accomplished. Edit:I am also a fan of his Sibelius cycle.

 

Playing Vol 2 Mazeppa, Hamlet and Hungaria from this great set, on vinyl.

 

Hard to go wrong with Vivaldi.

Spotify link:
Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos

 

I listened to No.1-3--excellent!

 

Listening to "Taverner / Browne / Carver - Masterworks From Late Medieval England And Scotland" performed by the Taverner Choir conducted by Andrew Parrott on EMI Reflexe.

 

I didn't know Tchaikovsky wrote 2 piano sonatas (I've only heard the G Major one before). I don't think either is a great work, but Kholodenko does what he can with them. Qobuz.

 

CD 6. Holst: Symphony in F, etc.

 

Listening to "Michael Hersch - End Stages / Violin Concerto" performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on New Focus Recordings.

 

Now playing CD6 from the following box for a first listen ...