What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Gade - Violin Sonata No.3, Op.59

Ries - Piano Quartet  Op.17

[Balladeer]

Robert Fürstenthal - Songs and Ballads of Life and Passing (Toccata)

[soulpope]

  On 5/19/2018 at 5:35 PM, Balladeer said:

Robert Fürstenthal - Songs and Ballads of Life and Passing (Toccata)

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Great singing by Rafael Fingerlos ....

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony in F Major "Urbs Roma" and Symphony No.3 "Organ"

[HutchFan]

  On 5/11/2018 at 6:56 PM, soulpope said:

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That looks interesting!

 

 

NP:

Brahms: Lieder / Margaret Price, James Lockhart (Orfeo)
Exquisite in every way.

[HutchFan]

Now spinning this LP, prompted by soulpope's Géza Anda records earlier in this thread:

I love the absolute directness of Anda's Chopin playing. No perfume, no fussiness. "Manly" Chopin.

Not that other approaches to this music are off-track. It's just that Anda draws out aspects of this music that others sometimes overlook -- a sort of pithy strength.

Edited May 20, 2018 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

  On 5/20/2018 at 12:05 AM, HutchFan said:

Now spinning this LP, prompted by soulpope's Géza Anda records earlier in this thread:

I love the absolute directness of Anda's Chopin playing. No perfume, no fussiness. "Manly" Chopin.

Not that other approaches to this music are off-track. It's just that Anda draws out aspects of this music that others sometimes overlook -- a sort of pithy strength.

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Geza Anda superb with Chopin .... btw he ain't no slouch with Schumann and Schubert either ....

[soulpope]

Also his Beethoven + Brahms a revelation ....

[soulpope]

  On 5/19/2018 at 11:08 PM, HutchFan said:

NP:

Brahms: Lieder / Margaret Price, James Lockhart (Orfeo)
Exquisite in every way.

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To me one of the best female "Lieder" performers ever ...

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D.894

Saint-Saens - Piano Concert No.2, Op.22

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Symphony No.6 "Pastoral"

[soulpope]

Schubert Piano Sonata D 960 Richard Goode (Nonesuch) 1985 .... very good ....

[soulpope]

Rachmaninov Etudes Opus 39 Boris Giltburg (Naxos) 2016

[HutchFan]

  On 5/20/2018 at 10:24 AM, soulpope said:

To me one of the best female "Lieder" performers ever ...

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Yes. I agree. It's a desert-island disc for me as well.

[Peter Friedman]

Op.55 /1, Op.55/2, Op.55/3

[soulpope]

  On 5/21/2018 at 2:31 PM, Peter Friedman said:

Op.55 /1, Op.55/2, Op.55/3

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Outstanding Haydn String Quartet performances ....

[HutchFan]

I'm now listening to Hermann Scherchen & the London SO perform Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique:

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.27, K.595

Schubert - Symphony No.4, D.417 "Tragic"

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[soulpope]

S-U-P-E-R-B ....

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - 4 Impromptus D.935

Chopin - Piano Concerto No.2, Op.21

[HutchFan]

Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 / New Budapest String Quartet
Lovely.

[HutchFan]

  On 5/21/2018 at 6:50 PM, soulpope said:

S-U-P-E-R-B ....

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Listening to this now via Spotify. Wow. I'm going to have to get this CD!   

[soulpope]

  On 5/22/2018 at 1:53 AM, HutchFan said:

Listening to this now via Spotify. Wow. I'm going to have to get this CD!   

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Stumbled over this just recently - so glad I did  ....