What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[alankin]

Now playing:

Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet for Strings No.1 in F major Op.18/1

— Sándor Végh (violin); Sándor Zöldy (violin); Georges Janzer (viola); Paul Szabo (cello) – Végh String Quartet (Scribendum / Les Discophiles Français)

 

[soulpope]

[StarThrower]

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, StarThrower said:

An old favorite - first on a US Columbia set and eventually the cds pictured. Have not listened in a long time.

Edited February 8, 2017 by Chuck Nessa
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[StarThrower]

47 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

An old favorite - first on a US Columbia set and eventually the ads pictured. Have not listened in a long time.

I'm watching the performance on YouTube now. Music is fantastic! Just ordered the CD.

[T.D.]

[MomsMobley]

Malipiero whoa!

 

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Op.18/6

Brahms - Double Concerto Op.102

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 19:
Ludwig van Beethoven 
– Quartet for Strings No.1 in F major Op. 18/1 
– Quartet for Strings No.2 in G major Op.18/2
— Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music)

 
 

Edited February 8, 2017 by alankin

[soulpope]

Sterling Mendelssohn perfomances from the german Bartholdy Quartett (Joshua Epstein 1. Violine + Max Speermann 2. Violine + Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn Viola + Annemarie Dengler Violoncello) from 1973/74 which (IMO) remained state of art until today .... beautufully recorded too and the 4CD reissue via Acanta/Membran costs a pittance ....

Edited February 8, 2017 by soulpope

[l p]

 

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Quintet D.667 "Trout"

[alankin]

Gabriel Faure – Elegie Op.24, Cello Sonata No.1 Op.109, Romance Op.69, Papillon Op.77, Cello Sonata No.2 Op.117 ,Sicilienne Op.78, Apres un reve (transc. by Casals)
— Ophelie Gaillard, cello, Bruno Fontaine, piano (Naïve / Ambroisie)

 

Edited February 8, 2017 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Concertante in D Major K.56

Dvorak - No.9, Op.34

[l p]

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/10/a-beautiful-friendship/

review of strauss's 'Enoch Arden', performed by Glenn Gould and Claude Rains (the invisible man). if you haven't heard it, check it out. 

[StarThrower]

Disc One:

Lichtbogen
Grammaire des reves
Du Cristal

[Peter Friedman]

[T.D.]

Interesting 2-disc set I hadn't listened to recently. Along with composers including Nancarrow, Carter, Adams,Rzewski and Wuorinen, Julius Hemphill and Anthony Davis are also represented!

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 20:
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique Op.14
— Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)

   

I recognized the cover image as being an illustration by Richard Powers who is best known for his dozens of covers for science fiction paperbacks and magazines in the 1950s and 1960s.
 

[alankin]

Now playing:
Ludwig van Beethoven 
– Quartet for Strings No.2 in G major Op.18/2
– Quartet for Strings No.3 in D major Op.18/3
Sándor Végh (violin); Sándor Zöldy (violin); Georges Janzer (viola); Paul Szabo (cello) – Végh String Quartet (Scribendum / Les Discophiles Français)

 
 

Edited February 9, 2017 by alankin

[soulpope]

36 minutes ago, alankin said:

Now playing:
Ludwig van Beethoven 
– Quartet for Strings No.2 in G major Op.18/2
– Quartet for Strings No.3 in D major Op.18/3
— Sándor Végh (violin); Sándor Zöldy (violin); Georges Janzer (viola); Paul Szabo (cello) – Végh String Quartet (Scribendum / Les Discophiles Français)

 
 

Tremendous performances ....

[alankin]

Johann Sebastian Bach 
– Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D major BWV 850
– Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903
– Italian Concerto BWV 971
– Toccata in C minor BWV 911
– Toccata in D major BWV 912
— Artur Schnabel (piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C major BWV 1061
— Artur Schnabel (piano), Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano) – London Symphony Orchestra – Sir Adrian Boult (EMI Classics)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Op.33/3 and Op.33/4

Mozart- Symphony No.35

[alankin]

Robert Schumann – Trio for Piano and Strings No.1 in D minor Op.63
— Menahem Pressler (piano), Isadore Cohen (violin), Peter Wiley (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips), from: