What classical music you listening to, luv?

aragon63 · « **Reply #340 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 11:29 pm »

Paavo Järvi/Orchestre de Paris -- Bizet : Symphony In C, Jeux D'enfants, Roma

etcarroll · « **Reply #341 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 12:02 am »

flac via SBDuet

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etcarroll · « **Reply #342 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 03:01 am »

Have a Niteshade pre on loan, putting it through it's paces with some symphonic music;

Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' / Furtwängler, Schwarzkopf, Höngen, Hopf, Edelmann

Dave G · « **Reply #343 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 01:37 pm »

Arvo Pärt - Te Deum

Feanor · « **Reply #344 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 02:28 am »

A famous classic, and very fine, recording ...

etcarroll · « **Reply #345 on:** 25 Oct 2010, 04:36 pm »

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 & No. 5 "Emperor"

Quite nicely played, especially in the In the fifth piano concerto, O'Conor conveys all the grand sweep of line, color, gesture, and sheer musical size of this work.

etcarroll · « **Reply #346 on:** 28 Oct 2010, 03:58 pm »

Handel: Orchestral Works
Iona Brown( Violin) Directing Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields & Celia Nicklin( Oboe)/ George Frideric Handel: Orchestral Works( 3 Oboe Concertos, 2 Sonatas, Overture in B Flat/ B- Dur, Hornpipe in D/ D- Dur

A vinyl rarity I grabbed on Agon.

Dave G · « **Reply #347 on:** 28 Oct 2010, 05:15 pm »

JS Bach 4 Suites for Lute - Göran Söllscher

JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 -- Andras Schiff

etcarroll · « **Reply #348 on:** 28 Oct 2010, 08:00 pm »

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music [Original recording remastered]
George Frederick Handel (Composer), Karl Münchinger (Conductor), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Performer) | Format: vinyl

Another Handel vinyl find from Agon.

canzld · « **Reply #349 on:** 28 Oct 2010, 09:36 pm »

Quote from: Dave G on 28 Oct 2010, 05:15 pm

JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 -- Andras Schiff

Did you like it? I usually find Schiff pretty, but rather boring - or was that pretty boring

- I think Hewitt, Tureck and a few others generally bring much to the table...even Gould

Dave G · « **Reply #350 on:** 28 Oct 2010, 09:47 pm »

Quote from: canzld on 28 Oct 2010, 09:36 pm

Did you like it? I usually find Schiff pretty, but rather boring - or was that pretty boring - I think Hewitt, Tureck and a few others generally bring much to the table...even Gould

Yes, I did like it, and I like Schiff, too. He does play beautifully, but to me he is not boring at all.

Cheers, Dave

canzld · « **Reply #351 on:** 29 Oct 2010, 02:32 pm »

Quote from: Dave G on 28 Oct 2010, 09:47 pm

Yes, I did like it, and I like Schiff, too. He does play beautifully, but to me he is not boring at all.

Cheers, Dave

Glad you enjoyed it. I must add the corollary that my experience relates mostly to his earlier recordings such as this - I haven't listened to anything he has done recently. I think part of my feeling stems from his use of a very mellow sounding instrument on the recordings I heard, which tends to sublimate dynamics and tonal contrast giving a kind of 'one noteness' to his playing in my ears - although it is nitpicking, as there is no doubt he is a great pianist. That said, I am not a fan of the limited amount of Beethoven I have heard him play - from an interpretative point of view.
Just for fun I popped on

last night. Can't say I care much for his preferred tonal palate (very dry), I can only guess he was trying to emulate a harpsichord type sound - and despite his eccentricities I still find this significantly more engaging than Schiff, due, I think, to a greater sense of forward momentum and rhythmic liveliness

on a completely different note - finished the evening with

excellent playing from the Berlin Phil and very good recording too

etcarroll · « **Reply #352 on:** 1 Nov 2010, 12:23 am »

Haydn: Symphony No. 94, the Surprise and Symphony No. 100, Military [Lp Record]

I would of thought the 100th to be very good, if not for the fact the first time I heard it, live, was just before the 1st time I heard Mahler's 5th, also live.

Still, between 'trick or treaters', I'm listening to this to give the 100th a chance to grow on me.

canzld · « **Reply #353 on:** 2 Nov 2010, 02:43 pm »

Solti certainly wouldn't have been my first choice either in Haydn.

After reading much about Jeno Jando, I was quite disappointed with this - I found the interpretation uninspired and plodding at times. One reviewer said majestic with grandeur - I couldn't feel it. Immediately after playing this disc I switched to

talk about night and day. The recorded sound may be pretty bad - still better than my set of LPs of the same - but Schnabel is just so much more involving and interesting than Jando. No comparison in my book, of course as always, YMMV.

etcarroll · « **Reply #354 on:** 3 Nov 2010, 12:54 am »

Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Artist), Felix Mendelssohn (Artist), Lang Lang (Artist), Daniel Barenboim (Artist), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Artist) | Format: SACD

etcarroll · « **Reply #355 on:** 3 Nov 2010, 03:09 pm »

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Prelude to Khovanshchina - Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), Charles Mackerras (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), Robin McCabe (Performer) | Format: Super Audio CD

This is an excellant sounding recording, being SACD is just extra. The Prelude, though sounding good, is just filler.

Dave G · « **Reply #356 on:** 3 Nov 2010, 05:54 pm »

Mozart Piano Sonatas - Eschenbach

Ronm1 · « **Reply #357 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 03:31 am »

Beethoven: The Late String Quartets - Tokyo String Quartet RCA Red Seal 3cds

Tyson · « **Reply #358 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 03:35 am »

Latest acquisition - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 and 4, Andsnes and Papano with the LSO:

Tyson · « **Reply #359 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 03:38 am »

Quote from: canzld on 2 Nov 2010, 02:43 pm

Solti certainly wouldn't have been my first choice either in Haydn.

After reading much about Jeno Jando, I was quite disappointed with this - I found the interpretation uninspired and plodding at times. One reviewer said majestic with grandeur - I couldn't feel it. Immediately after playing this disc I switched to

talk about night and day. The recorded sound may be pretty bad - still better than my set of LPs of the same - but Schnabel is just so much more involving and interesting than Jando. No comparison in my book, of course as always, YMMV.

Majestic with grandeur? Try Pollini or Gilels instead.