Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Chill out after arriving back Thursday.

Dvorak, A. Violin Concerto, Czech Suite +2 Scottish Chamber Orchestra cond. and violin Joseph Swensen 2005 Linn CKD 241 stereo/m'channel sacd (HDCD on redbook too)
Those marvellous Scottish Chamber people play this plus Nocturne for strings and Waltz No.1 from Two Waltzes extremely well and its the sound is most believable.
A musicMagpie £4.99 used buy that just needed some finger prints wiping off it.

 

Rebecca Saunders: ensemble works
musikFabrik/Stefan Asbury

 

A trip around the Gallery

Mussorgsky, Modest. Pictures at an Exhibition with Night on a Bare Mountain. Russian National Orchestra cons Carlo Ponti 2008 PentaTone 332 stereo/multichannel sacd
File under Shallow's just opened mail this is a delightful account in excellent modern digital multichannel recorded in Moscow, Russia.

 

Wolfgang Schneiderhan plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto under Furtwängler • from the Furtwängler In Memoriam 7LP set from 1963, MONO

Holy moly, this is a magnificent live recording from 1953. First time hearing it. Good sound, too.

P.S. An aeroplane can be heard during the cadenza in the 1st Movement

 

Welcome back.

 

First ever listen to Harnoncourt’s classic recording of L’Incoronazione di Poppea, after the records had sat sealed for more than 40 years.

Below is the photo I took this very morning of the original Caravaggio painting on the cover:

 

I just listened to this yesterday while cooking dinner.

 

Was the photo taken at the Berlin Museum?

 

I love that it says "Newly recorded" on the cover.

 

Yes, you are right. He recorded the Manfred symphony and three of the four Suites for orchestra. They ar collected on a Japanese double CD and I recommend it warmly. He also recorded excellent versions of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

 

The Gemäldegalerie.

 

Gemäldegalerie: Home

 

The Capitol/Angel hype machine was running on all cylinders.

 

Spotify Premium.

 

And I last bought an Angel recording no later than 1987 ...

 

I was lucky enough in the 80s to find someone in New Jersey who imported English EMI (HMV) records.

 

Back to the old tapes... Playing the Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos No.2 and No.4.
Philippe Entremont, piano, with The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Released in 1966.
This is my favorite performance of these works; the recording is also quite good.

 

And you bought truckload of EMI LP's at wholesale prices?

 

Playing portions of Peter Hill's cycle of these remarkable, challenging Messiaen pieces, which I first collected on Unicorn CDs. PentaTone will shortly release Pierre-Laurent Aimard's version (on PCM-sourced SACD), and we'll see if he can displace Hill's as the reference recording of these works. Hill's really stupendous in his grasp of this music's far-flung architecture.

 

@Wes H, So your tape deck is actually 4-channel?

 

Not wholesale. The guy sold them in his drug store and charged about what I paid for DG or Philips imports at the time.

 

I don't recall the price differentials between DG, London, Philips and EMI LP's. DG, London and Philips had the same prices ...

 

Now listening to "The Virgin & the Temple - Dufay: Chant & Motets" performed by Pomerium on Archiv.

 

Great performance - I really like Casadesus with Bernstein also.