Listening to CD 3 from "Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas" performed by Melodie Zhao on Claves. Sonatas 7, 8 & 9
Received this 'oldie' (1980) yesterday to fill a hole in my Hogwood collection. Also features Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson and Nigel Rogers on vocal duties. Lovely stuff. Not sure what's up with the black lines in the cover image; needless to say, they're not in the original, but were on every web image of this that I found...
First listen to CD 4 from "The Spanish Guitar" performed by Jose Miguel Moreno on Glossa. 'La Guitarra Espanola I'
While I have most Hogwood's recordings on L'Oiseau-Lyre, I generally prefer single composer recording ...
Now playing: Nikolai Medtner - Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5; Zwei Märchen, Op. 8; Sonaten-Triade, Op. 11 - Marc-André Hamelin - recorded 1996, 1998 CD1 from the following 4CD set:
Now playing CD21 from the following box for a first listen ... I don't have the foggiest idea as to why a Sony Classical recording ended up in this box.
That's an odd one. I have seen occasional licencing deals in career-based boxes but not in these sort of label-based ones.
WarnerMusic probably licensed this recording from Sony for this Rampal box. I have 2 out of 3 Rampal Erato boxes so far ...
Apparently. I was just noting it's odd to licence a disc when the box is meant to be his Erato recordings rather than all his recordings in that period.
Even the original jacket claim for this box is in spirit only, as Erato (or WarnerMusic) actually had added additional tracks that were not in the original recording to offer us consumers better values - to have more music per disc ... But I am not complaining.
I have the EMI Chicago box too but DG also have a Chicago box (with different recording), so I got the DG Chicago box as well. I can never have too much Giulini! Since we just talked it up, I am currently listening to Disc#2, Schubert Symphony No. 9 "The Great," and Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 "Classical."
1st listen Scarlatti Sonatas, Maria Tipo, Disc #2 Vox CD: After our discussion of Domenico Scarlatti on this thread, I stopped by my local record shop on my way home last night and found this Vox Two-fer of Maria Tipo playing Scarlatti sonatas (on Disc #2). I really enjoyed her playing (and the Scarlatti selections she played). This is my first Maria Tipo disc (not to mention my first Scarlatti disc) and I was impressed! I did not know that both Maria Tipo and Domenico Scarlatti were born in Naples, Italy. She plays this (selection) for her hometown hero! Hurray for the Neopolitans! I am so happy to have discovered Domenico Scarlatti's music (after hearing selections played on a Sirius XM program monday). I am equally enthused about discovering Maria Tipo. I also ordered the Horowitz disc (of Scarlatti selections) which I hope to get next week. Thank you all for guiding me in the right direction!
Now playing: Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 6; Rosamunde Incidental Music - Swedish Chamber Orch., Thomas Dausgaard - recorded 2012
Mahler: Symphony No.9 Concertgebouw Orchestra & Riccardo Chailly Decca Barber: Complete Solo Piano Music John Browning, piano MusicMasters And currently, from the EMI Gilels box: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 Cleveland Orchestra & George Szell Emil Gilels, piano EMI
Now playing: Hans Abrahamsen - Zählen un Erzählen (Counting and Recounting) - Tamara Stefanovich, WDR SO Cologne, Jonathan Stockhammer - recorded 2011-2014
CD spinning now from the Richard Stoltzman Complete RCA Album Collection box (it's also in the Stravinsky Complete Columbia Album box):
Playing a DG LP this morning. The Karajan Schubert Symphony 7(9). Berliner Philharmoniker. 139 043 Stereo. SLPM. From 1968. Perhaps, Karajan’s best version.
Now playing this LP. Issued in 1968 in USA. Part of Melodiya/Angel “cultural exchange”. In any event, a fine performance of this piece of music. Rozhdestvensky was relatively known to music lovers in the USA at that time, having appeared as early as 1959. Melodiya/Angel had already released several USSR recordings of his in USA.
