What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Larry Kart]

On 3/1/2018 at 0:54 PM, HutchFan said:

Oh yes. I like that one too.  Walter's DLvdE with Ferrier is the recording that most folks rave about, but I actually like the Hafliger/Miller version just as much.

That said, Kubelik's live recording with Janet Baker and Waldemar Kmentt is my "desert-island" choice.

 

For whatever reason, Klemperer's Mahler -- including the Wunderlich/Ludwig DLvdE that you mention -- has never really grabbed me.  I like Klemps in other repertoire, but not so much in Mahler.

Just ordered the Kubelik. Thanks for the recommendation.

Now I've listened to it. Thanks again.

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

For whatever reason, Klemperer's Mahler -- including the Wunderlich/Ludwig DLvdE that you mention -- has never really grabbed me.  I like Klemps in other repertoire, but not so much in Mahler.

Although him not being my Mahler "go to conductor" this late Klemperer Mahler 2 from 1965 in Munich is a gem .... with the tempi slowed down a few notches this performance unfolds the sheer beauty of this euvre with both Heather Harper and Janet Baker in excellent shape ....

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[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

10 hours ago, soulpope said:

Although him not being my Mahler "go to conductor" this late Klemperer Mahler 2 from 1965 in Munich is a gem .... with the tempi slowed down a few notches this performance unfolds the sheer beauty of this euvre with both Heather Harper and Janet Baker in excellent shape ....

O.K.  I'm listening to it right now via YT.

I know Klemperer's studio M2 with the Philharmonia, Schwarzkopf & Rössl-Majdan -- but I've never heard this live version before.

 

 

15 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Just ordered the Kubelik. Thanks for the recommendation.

You won't regret it!  

 

Edited March 2, 2018 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

[Balladeer]

Robert Fürstenthal - Songs of Life an Passing (Toccata Classics)
Rafael Fingerlos (baritone) & Sascha El Mouissi (piano)

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[paul secor]

5 hours ago, soulpope said:

  My classical collection is small compared to most here, but I love the Quatuor Mosaiques Haydn recordings.

[Peter Friedman]

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[Tom 1960]

Symphony #1

[mandrill]

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[Peter Friedman]

Op.50/1 & Op.50/2

[paul secor]

18 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Op.50/1 & Op.50/2

Peter, you are THE Haydn Quartets fanatic on this Board. (That's meant in a positive sense.)

[Peter Friedman]

Paul, yes I do love Haydn's String Quartets. I have multiple versions of all from Op.20 quartets on through the Op.77 quartets.

 

 

[soulpope]

Thereof „Années De Pèlerinage: Switzerland“ .... stupendous performance by Boris Bloch ....

[HutchFan]

Brahms: Complete Variations for Solo Piano / Garrick Ohlsson (Hyperion)
Disc 1: 
- Theme and variations for piano in D minor (after sextet for strings, Op. 18)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, for piano, in B flat major, Op. 24
- Variations on an Original Theme in D major for piano, Op. 21/1
- Variations on a Hungarian song for piano in D major, Op. 21/2

[Peter Friedman]

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