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mikeweil Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 New arrivals during the week_ All excellent, great historical instruments - but the highlight is this one: Better, more intimate sound than on Rousset's CDs, a 1776 Dulcken harpsichord (that Rousset also played), and her best recording to date, flawless, playful, completely at ease with herself and the music. Highly recommended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 4 hours ago, HutchFan said: 👍👍👍!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 (edited) Earlier today ....: Edited August 13, 2018 by soulpope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 More Mahler from Rafael Kubelik & the Bavarian RSO: Symphony No. 3 from the DG studio cycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, HutchFan said: More Mahler from Rafael Kubelik & the Bavarian RSO: Symphony No. 3 from the DG studio cycle. Excellent reading with an especially satiesfying Adagio .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, soulpope said: Excellent reading with an especially satiesfying Adagio .... I think you can hardly go wrong with Kubelik as an interpreter of Mahler's music -- especially with regards to pacing and finding the unifying line through works that can come across as disjointed. To me, he is one of the great conductors of Mahler's music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 18 minutes ago, HutchFan said: I think you can hardly go wrong with Kubelik as an interpreter of Mahler's music .... to me, he is one of the great conductors of Mahler's music. Amen .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 Final volume of this series - this music couldn't be played better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 And now for something completely different -- Kenneth Gilbert's recording of the earlier, autograph copy of The Art of the Fugue (see explanation below), which is many respects different from the commonly performed manuscript version we all know, which Bach added to and modified after he wrote the autograph copy and that probably was tweaked some after his death by his son C.P.E. Bach, who oversaw the publication of the manuscript version. In any case, there are some fugues here that are hair-raisingly far out, harmonically and otherwise. At times you want to say, "Herr Bach, this is getting too damn weird; you're never going to make it back home from there," and sometimes he pretty much doesn't. But what a trip; in particualr, Fugue 11 in the autograph version is almost psychedelic. I have another recording of the autograph TAF by Robert Hill but haven't yet compared it with Gilbert's, which I picked up today. But I don't recall that when listening to Hill's recording that I felt that the music was being hung from sky hooks at times, as I did with Gilbert. I'll be curious to compare. Perhaps Hill's performance normalized some things, while Gilbert just let it all hang out. The Art of Fugue has been the subject of controversy for years: Was it actually Bach's final composition? Was it intended for performance? In what order are the pieces to be played? For what instrument or instruments was the cycle composed? Fortunately, the lack of definitive answers to many of these questions, especially the one about instrumentation, has resulted in many diffeent wonderful versions being recorded over the years. As to the question of when it was written, Christoph Wolf argues persuasively in the notes to Gilbert's delightful album, that Bach began writing the Art of Fugue in the early 1740s (and perhaps even earlier) and edited and augmented it toward the end of his life. Wolf's conclusions are based on comparisons of the autograph and manuscript copies that survive. Kenneth Gilbert's recording is a special one because it is derived solely from the earlier autograph score. Gilbert's playing is, as always, full and rich, aided by a well-recorded harpsichord built in 1671 in Antwerp and enlarged in Paris in 1758 and 1759. Here it is. Fugue ll begins at the 36.25 mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Mahler 6 Heinz Rögner RSOB (Eterna) 1983 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted August 16, 2018 Report Share Posted August 16, 2018 Nino Rota "Chamber Music" Kremerata Baltica (BIS) 1997 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Olie Brice Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 On 15/08/2018 at 8:52 AM, soulpope said: I love the Smetana, sometimes my favourite late Beethoven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 35 minutes ago, Olie Brice said: I love the Smetana, sometimes my favourite late Beethoven Agree, the Smetana Q was masterful .... beneath Beethoven (both "cycles") and Janacek also some excellent Dvorak, Martinu and Mozart .... we are lucky they recorded recurringly .... still wonder whether Czech Rado will open their archives as plenty of superb "live" Smetana Q recordings are said being in there .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 Brahms - Piano Quartet No.2 - Derek Han, Isabelle Faust, Bruno, Giuranna, Alain Meunier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Dvorak Op 74/105 + Janacek 1 Smetana Quartet (BBC-Legends) 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Dvorak Symphony 9 Kondrashin VPO (Decca) 1983 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Olie Brice Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Any fans of the Zehetmair Quarett here? Recent discovery for me, they're amazing, Schuman isn't someone I listen to a lot but these performances are sublime... Been listening to the first disc of their Beethoven / Bruckner / Hartmann / Holliger CD too. Not completely sure what to make of their Beethoven but quite fascinated by it! Very intense and dramatic. And the Bruckner is gorgeous. Will get to the Hatmann and Holliger tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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