What classical music you listening to, luv?

Tyson · « **Reply #320 on:** 29 Sep 2010, 12:13 am »

A little spice in the early evening, Anda and Fricsay assaying Bartok:

etcarroll · « **Reply #321 on:** 29 Sep 2010, 12:21 am »

Tyson - getting any new 'audio shadings' with the V2s of things you thought you already knew the sound of?

Tyson · « **Reply #322 on:** 29 Sep 2010, 12:27 am »

etcarroll,
I can say this, the V2s do classical music better than anything I've owned, and that's saying something!

Feanor · « **Reply #323 on:** 29 Sep 2010, 01:25 pm »

Quote from: Randy on 28 Sep 2010, 11:14 pm

Alright, I'm getting suspicious here. Maybe your Christian faith isn't what it ought to be.
I assume you are joking, or at least I hope you are. I like the piece of music pretty well and have a couple other recordings of it. Wobbly, matronly sounding female choruses like you get here are not to my taste.

Yeah, I wuz joking.

The reason I like that Reference Recordings disc, (RR-57CD), is for the sound quality, not the performance or nor the music for that matter. This is the only Rutter Requiem I've got, and it's all I want.

BTW, there is no question about my religious faith: I'm an atheist.

aragon63 · « **Reply #324 on:** 30 Sep 2010, 01:04 am »

etcarroll · « **Reply #325 on:** 30 Sep 2010, 05:01 pm »

Sitting in ORL airport waiting to start trip back to mid-atlantic, my arthritis in rt. knee is killing me, listening to this, plus 6 Aleves, to deal with the aggravation;

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3; Andante & Finale, Op. 79
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer

etcarroll · « **Reply #326 on:** 30 Sep 2010, 07:18 pm »

Still sitting, but Mozart and Aleve getting the job done.

canzld · « **Reply #327 on:** 30 Sep 2010, 07:19 pm »

last night

the ultimate -sublime. to have heard her live....

etcarroll · « **Reply #328 on:** 9 Oct 2010, 08:31 pm »

So shopping at second hand store - Double Decker Records - grabbed about 10 items, many on the DG label, got this for .50 cents as a test record for a manual record cleaning system P-man lent me, the cover was all sorts of banged up.

Well, it's in beautiful shape, and Richter is a superb pianist, I had never heard him before.

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 5, Etc / Sviatoslav Richter
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter
Conductor: Witold Rowicki
Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

etcarroll · « **Reply #329 on:** 9 Oct 2010, 11:12 pm »

Another $1 flea market special, I never thought I'd dig trumpet in a classical setting;

The Pachelbel Canon and Two Suites for Strings Fasch Two Sinfonias and Concerto for Trumpet
Format: Vinyl

Randy · « **Reply #330 on:** 9 Oct 2010, 11:33 pm »

"I never thought I'd dig trumpet in a classical setting."

Are you kidding? Try this one on the cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/Telemann-Trumpet-Burns/dp/B000001Q79/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1286666479&sr=1-4

or these

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Works-Trumpet-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B000CNEO1G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1286667063&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Caprice-Alison-Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/dp/B000HKD7OY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1286666820&sr=1-4

http://www.amazon.com/Die-Goldene-Trompete-Antonio-Vivaldi/dp/B00000I18B/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1286667694&sr=1-6

etcarroll · « **Reply #331 on:** 9 Oct 2010, 11:46 pm »

Thanks Randy, I'll look for those my next shopping trip.

etcarroll · « **Reply #332 on:** 10 Oct 2010, 11:34 pm »

Roberto Michelucci & I Musici - Vivaldi Four Seasons LP

Very different sounding from the cd copy I have by Itzhak Perlman, Antonio Vivaldi, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

canzld · « **Reply #333 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 05:58 pm »

etcarroll · « **Reply #334 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 05:40 pm »

Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (1-9)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Bohm - DG 8 albums

Complete boxed set of the 150th anniversary pressing from 1970, great shape, and fantastic audio quality, this is the best sounding collection of LVB symphonies I've acquired to date. Now have to listen a few more times, then cross listen against Klemperer, (cd), and Solti, (lps), to see which is my favorite. Thanks to Pumpkinman for this gift.

Ronm1 · « **Reply #335 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 04:56 pm »

Bach| Brandenburg Concertos Egarr Academy of Ancient Music Harmonia Mundi Sacd
Bach | Complete Orchestral Suites Pearlman Boston Baroque Telarc Sacd

canzld · « **Reply #336 on:** 15 Oct 2010, 02:42 pm »

Sibelius Violin Concerto
Shostakovich #4

Henning Kraggerud
Toronto Symyphony Orchestra - Jukka-Pekka Saraste

live

beautiful violin tone and playing from Mr Kraggerud
highly enjoyed the #4 too with its waves of sound crashing back and forward across the orchestra like a strom at sea

etcarroll · « **Reply #337 on:** 15 Oct 2010, 04:37 pm »

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony Nr. 14 • - Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

I agree with the reviewer who characterized this as somber and desolate.

"The recording was made in 1980 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the vocal 'couple' Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, using the version with the poems in their original languages. A chilling performance of one of the most sombre and desolate of Shostakovich symphonies."

etcarroll · « **Reply #338 on:** 16 Oct 2010, 05:06 pm »

Going to Philly Symphony Orchestra tomorrow to hear Brahms 2nd and 4th Symphonies, listening to 2nd this morning over coffee, now the 4th as a refresher.

Brahms: The Four Symphonies
Johannes Brahms (Artist), Sir Charles Mackerras (Artist), Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

john1970 · « **Reply #339 on:** 16 Oct 2010, 10:55 pm »