What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 10: Maurice Ravel 
– Pavane pour une infante défunte
– Jeux d'eau
– Miroirs - 5 pieces for piano
– Le tombeau de Couperin
— Walter Gieseking (piano) (Documents)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Op.17/4, Op.17/5, & Op.17/6

[mikeweil]

Brandnew CD, this italianate harpsichord music (the Barrière pieces) must have sounded shocking to the French audiences at the time. Excellent peformanceand sound!

[soulpope]

59 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Brandnew CD, this italianate harpsichord music (the Barrière pieces) must have sounded shocking to the French audiences at the time. Excellent peformanceand sound!

Looks interesting ....

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

Albéniz - Suite Iberia / Granados - Piano Works (Deutsche Gramophon)

Piano: José María Pínzolas

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

!!!

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Symphony No.93

Milstein / Steinberg - Dvorak - Violin Concerto

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - Piano Quartet No.2, Op.87

Schumann - Violin Sonata No.2

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven
– Quartet for Strings No.7 in F major Op.59/1 "Razumovsky"
– Quartet for Strings No.8 in E minor Op.59/2 "Razumovsky"
Sándor Végh (violin); Sándor Zöldy (violin); Georges Janzer (viola); Paul Szabo (cello) – Végh String Quartet (Scribendum / Les Discophiles Français)

Edited April 4, 2017 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Op.74/1, Op.74/2, & Op.74/3

[soulpope]

From a superb Sibelius cycle ....

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No.1 in C major Op.15
— Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) – Cleveland Orchestra – Vladimir Ashkenazy (London / Decca)

 

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, soulpope said:

From a superb Sibelius cycle ....

Agreed!

Along with Barbirolli's, Ashkenazy's is my favorite Sibelius cycle.

[Peter Friedman]

English Suite No.4, No. 5 and No.6

[alankin]

Robert Schumann 
– Trio for Piano and Strings No.2 in F Op.80
– Fantasiestucke Op.88 for piano, violin and cello
— Menahem Pressler (piano), Isadore Cohen (violin), Peter Wiley (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips)

[soulpope]

[mikeweil]

It's nice to hear this on two harpsichords, and it is well recorded, but the two ladies lack a bit of vigor and rhythmic precision. The composer instructs both players to play the continuo part in the left hand, but I rarely hear themdo that. A certain sameness on a superficial level creeps in. Good, but indispensable only for harpsichord fanatics like me.

[Peter Friedman]

K.305, K.306, K.376, K.377

[Peter Friedman]

Milstein / Firkusny - Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24 "Spring"

Argerich / Maisky - Franck Cello Sonata  (transcription of violin sonata)