Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

On the turntable:

The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble* & Manuela Wiesler Play Music By Jolivet, Harrison, Cage & Sandström – The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble & Manuela Wiesler, Flute, Play Music By Jolivet, Harrison, Cage & Sandström
BIS – LP-272

 

I think it might only be Celi's Bruckner I listen to.

I tried some Brahms, Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade from the The Munich box I have of his and they didn't really work for me. I did enjoy the slower Scheherazade in the past, but not any more.

 

Same here, didn't like LL's performance either - it didn't make it to my collection of 50+ versions of GV.
OTOH I really like little known organ version:

 

@Jamsterdammer, Speaking of Sweelinck recordings, I also have the following box ...







Looks like NM Classics is a Dutch label ...

 

Thanks for checking. I guess I’ll have to pick one up one of these days.



EDIT: Funny, after days of searching, I suddenly find a CD version 30 mins after posting above. My lucky day.

 

Now playing the following CD from my Handel collection ...

 

I have a small Sweelinck collection as well.

 

Now playing: Hans Gál; Hans Krása - Complete String Trios - Ensemble Epomeo - recorded 2011

 

Listening to "Handel - Gloria / Dixit Dominus" on BIS.

Gloria performed by Emma Kirkby with the Royal Academy of Ancient Music Baroque Orchestra led by Laurence Cummings.

Dixit Dominus performed by Hillevi Martinpelto and Anne Sophie von Otter with the Stockholm Bach Choir and the Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble led by Anders Ohrwall.

 

Now playing the following CD from my Handel collection ...

 

Listening to "Mendelssohn - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5" performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur on Teldec.

1990

 

Vinyl tonight.

 

Edmund Rubbra
Symphony #4

Just stirring.

 

What's the consensus on the Jahrhundertring? (Boulez/Chéreau Ring cycle)
I saw a copy of the DVD set on Wonder Book for a decent price.

 

Now playing the following CD from my early music collection ...

 

I've listened to about half of it and I like it a lot. It's not as eccentric as I feared! Excellent sound, too.

 

I just finished listening to this--it's very good.

 

They are included in the Clara Haskil Edition (on Decca).

 

Dvorak - Symphony #3
Kubelik/Berlin Philharmoniker

Not as individual as his big 3 (nos. 7 - 9), but surprisingly full of Romantic sweep.

 

I only have the following 9-LP box as I never bought the CD set ...

 

Siegfried, from the 1955 performances at Bayreuth under Keilberth on Testament. This is an absolutely amazing performance from all standpoints, especially the UFB sound from a 67 year-old live performance. I know the Decca Solti cycle is coming, can this be bested?

 

Now playing CD1 from the following trio for a second listen ...

 

Listening to CD 2 from "Takemitsu - Orchestral Works" performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra led by Hiroshi Wakasugi on Brilliant.

 

Brahms -- Hungarian Dances (Masur)