I actually have her Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas recordings in that Scribendum box. She was a good Beethoven pianist as well though I only focus on her JS Bach recordings ...
CD 2. Dvorak. Kertesz/London SO My Home: Overture The Noonday Witch Othello: Overture The Golden Spinning Wheel In Nature’s Realm: Overture
Now playing from my Boulez Mahler Box. Symphony no. 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Recording: Chicago Medina Temple 12/1995. Original Release 1998 Very clear sound and many details in this performance of Boulez, mayby lacking in some emotions and grittiness. But overall a great performance and great playing of CSO.
Continuing my traversal of Blomstedt's Sibelius cycle: Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52 San Francisco SO Blomstedt
I used to be rather ambivalent about Boulez's Mahler, but now this isn't the case at all. I find him to be absolutely first-rate in every symphony. I'm still in the process of going through this cycle. I'm also going through Solti's Mahler (both with the LSO and CSO) and enjoying the performances immensely.
NP: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1 Ashkenazy LSO Previn For this listener, this is still the Rachmaninov PC cycle to beat. Thrilling performances and the remastered sound is first-rate.
I just read an interesting quote from Tolstoy: “Chopin’s greatness consists in the fact that, however simple he may be, he is never empty, and in his most complicated works he is never a mere virtuoso.” -from “Talks with Tolstoy”, A.B. Goldenweizer, ( page 35). Translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.
The Lark Ascending was the work that really put Iona Brown on the map in the early 60's. I attended a concert by the ASMIF when she conducted from the violin at Carnegie Hall in the early 80's and she brought the house down. Unfortunately, she lived a bit before the youtube age and there are not many of her performances online. But here is one ...
Yes, i also find this a great cycle, it is different than most of the other Mahler conductors/performances but that is what i like about Boulez his interpretations of Mahlers symphonies. While it is undeniable that his interpretation is controversial, it is not without merit in my opinion.
New acquisition. I've lived with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano cycle for some time (which I greatly enjoy), but my first impression is that this is a nicely played and recorded project in repertoire that unfortunately doesn't offer many alternatives. Villa-Lobos: String Quartets 1, 8 & 13 Danubius Quartet Marco Polo
I'd second (or third?) this opinion, Boulez' Mahler certainly is a departure from say, Bernstein and the like, but Mahler's music can withstand a wide range of interpretations, and Boulez offers a nice counterpoint to the common tendency to wring as much emotion as possible from the score. Boulez is more analytical and cool in his approach, instead opting to highlight the architectural qualities of the music to good effect, and he gets wonderful playing from the various orchestras he conducts across cycle. A set I am glad to own.
Spinning in the CD player: A recent acquisition based on someone here recommending it. Brahms, Stephen Hough – The Final Piano Pieces Hyperion – CDA68116
That might have been me. Now playing: György Ligeti - Keyboard Works (Ligeti Edition 6) - Irina Kataeva; Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Elisabeth Chojnacka; Zsigmond Szathmáry - recorded 1995
Listening to "The Mirror of Narcissus - Songs by Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)" performed by Gothic Voices led by Christopher Page on Hyperion.
First listen to CD 4 from "Alexis Weissenberg - The Complete RCA Album Collection". Weissenberg plays Debussy
Now playing: Frederick Delius - A Mass Of Life - Janice Watson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Andrew Kennedy, Alan Opie, Bach Choir, Bournemouth SO, David Hill - recorded 2011
