What classical music you listening to, luv?

Ronm1 · « **Reply #721 on:** 3 Apr 2012, 03:33 pm »

Beethoven The Late String Quartets Tokyo String Quartets RCA Red Seal

aragon63 · « **Reply #722 on:** 8 Apr 2012, 03:09 am »

Play

ArthurDent · « **Reply #723 on:** 8 Apr 2012, 03:47 am »

etcarroll · « **Reply #724 on:** 10 Apr 2012, 03:13 am »

Symphony 6 " Pathetique "
Tchaikovsky (Artist), Solti (Artist), Cso (Artist) | Format: flac

S Clark · « **Reply #725 on:** 10 Apr 2012, 04:12 am »

I just picked up a very clean NM shaded dog RCA LM-2181 of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, mono recording with Artur Rubinstein and the San Francisco Sym. I've just got my mono cartridge rigged to play, and the sound is stunning for a 58 year old record... hell for any record. Stunning dynamics, and the piano is authoritative and clean. I am continually amazed at the sound quality available in the '50's and 60's. There is also a stereo version.

Scott

etcarroll · « **Reply #726 on:** 13 Apr 2012, 08:32 pm »

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta;
Hindemith: Sinfonie Mathis der Maler
Bela Bartok (Composer), Paul Hindemith (Composer), Herbert Von Karajan (Conductor), Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra) : vinyl

Heard the Bartok 2 weeks ago played by Philly Symphony, very nice.

S Clark · « **Reply #727 on:** 24 Apr 2012, 04:06 am »

Alicia de Larrocha - piano Conchita Badia- soprano
Homage to Granados on Everest 3237, a very clean recording.

etcarroll · « **Reply #728 on:** 30 Apr 2012, 01:51 am »

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Mahler (Composer), Solti (Conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

etcarroll · « **Reply #729 on:** 7 May 2012, 02:13 am »

Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6

Sonata #32

bakufu · « **Reply #730 on:** 19 May 2012, 10:32 pm »

sviridov!

some may know one of the movements of Time, Forward! from the guy maddin film, Heart of the World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JmeXXRmZg

mgsboedmisodpc2 · « **Reply #731 on:** 19 May 2012, 10:59 pm »

George Elbridge Whiting: Postlude for organ, Op 53

S Clark · « **Reply #732 on:** 20 May 2012, 01:39 am »

Salome: Dance of the 7 Veils
An older recording with Reiner and the CSO 1954

jeffreybehr · « **Reply #733 on:** 20 May 2012, 06:27 pm »

After hearing a wonderful performance of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances played by Michael Christie and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra during their Rachmaninov Festival this month*, I bought 2 SACDs of it.

One is Analogue Productions' rerelease of the decades-old Johanos/Dallas version, the other Mariss Jansons's concert performance with the Royal Concertgebouw released on RPO Live. Both are fine, emotionally involving performances as far as I can tell. The sense of space in the Johanos recording is quite small...some call it 'dry'...while the Janson recording was done in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in concert and did not suffer from too many mics or too much knob twiddling. Overall, I'll play the Jansons more often than the Johanos.

* Also heard and LOVED was Olga Kern's performances of PCs 2 and 3--the best I've ever heard among dozens--and PC4.

Randy · « **Reply #734 on:** 21 May 2012, 12:36 am »

I have many versions of the Symphonic Dances but this is the one I always return to, my favorite.

jeffreybehr · « **Reply #735 on:** 27 May 2012, 07:36 am »

Symphonies 2, 3, and 4 tonite, and #1 a few days ago, all played by the Pittsburgh conducted by Marek Janowski and all on Pentatone SACDs. They were highly satisfying and sounded fabulous in multichannel, and my system has never sounded better than it has the last few weeks. Interestingly, I noticed for the 1st time some course orchestral playing in #2.

GREAT music!

ronetna · « **Reply #736 on:** 27 May 2012, 08:01 pm »

Meneses/Wyss - Play Schumann and Schubert

bakufu · « **Reply #737 on:** 28 May 2012, 03:39 pm »

tomato soup = ketchup + water.

who knew?

Whitese · « **Reply #738 on:** 28 May 2012, 04:00 pm »

Finally I have the SACD working almost..

bakufu · « **Reply #739 on:** 29 May 2012, 05:12 pm »

i try to spread my listening of the bach keyboard works over as many interpreters as possible, keeping mainly to piano. invariably, i return to the classic cbs gould albums, and to the recordings of the WTC by samuel feinberg and valery afanasyev. but lately i've been re-exploring the few bach recordings of sergey schepkin: the goldberg variations, the WTC, and the partitas. what a remarkable pianist!

i am NOT a pianist, so i cannot hear these performances "from the inside out". i envy those who can.

to my ears, schepkin's playing has the clarity of gould, and an equally fine sensitivity to the nuances of tone and attack, but an entirely different sensibility to the ebb and flow of the musical line. my girlfriend, a rabid gould partisan whose reliable response to other interpreters is an indifferent shrug, was arrested in mid-cookery, rushing out to the listening room with spoon in hand -- "who the hell is THAT?"