What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartets OP.127  and  Op.135

[soulpope]

Emotional still enormously precise performances .... this late(r) Borodin Quartet edition really got game ....

[Referentzhunter]

Symphonies Nos. 1&3

Edited 11 hours ago by Referentzhunter

[soulpope]

Was a highligt as new release in 2017 .... and definitely still is ....

[Referentzhunter]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Was a highligt as new release in 2017 .... and definitely still is ....

Beautiful, lyrical

[soulpope]

14 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Beautiful, lyrical

Indeed .... btw even more fascinating as Arcadi Volodos started his career as sort of "heavy hitter" 🧐🤔 ....

[Referentzhunter]

8 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Indeed .... btw even more fascinating as Arcadi Volodos started his career as sort of "heavy hitter" 🧐🤔 ....

Ohh ... enchanting !

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

First listen:

[soulpope]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

First listen:

Interested in your impressions ....

[HutchFan]

12 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Interested in your impressions ....

It's gorgeous music making.  I'm enjoying it!   

Planès' playing strikes me as very buttoned-up and ultra-precise -- very "French" -- but these qualities give the music a different sort of drama than I've heard in Schubert before.  It's a less Romantic sound; instead, it's an approach that seems to anticipate modernists like Debussy.  I'd say that it's an interpretation that pays attention to air and the space-between-notes as much as it does to the notes themselves -- and this isn't something I'd normally associate with a composer like Schubert.

Does that make sense?

 

[HutchFan]

For comparison's sake, I'm now listening to Ashkenazy's version of Schubert's D. 894:

Relative to Planès' reading, Ashkenazy's more traditional interpretation is equally beautiful -- but it's an entirely different sonic world.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by HutchFan

[soulpope]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

It's gorgeous music making.  I'm enjoying it!   

Planès' playing strikes me as very buttoned-up and ultra-precise -- very "French" -- but these qualities give the music a different sort of drama than I've heard in Schubert before.  It's a less Romantic sound; instead, it's an approach that seems to anticipate modernists like Debussy.  I'd say that it's an interpretation that pays attention to air and the space-between-notes as much as it does to the notes themselves -- and this isn't something I'd normally associate with a composer like Schubert.

Does that make sense?

Yes it does .... although Planès' approach lacks any romanticism, it gives away unadorned details of Schubert`s vulnerability and pain .... 

[HutchFan]

10 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Yes it does .... although Planès' approach lacks any romanticism, it gives away unadorned details of Schubert`s vulnerability and pain .... 

Yes, exactly.  I like your use of the word "unadorned."

Sometimes music that holds something back has the most powerful emotional effect on the listener.