What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

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[Peter Friedman]

Piano Sonatas No.16, Op.31/1 and No.17, Op.31/2

[EKE BBB]

Elgar & Barber Cello Concertos - Anne Gastinel & City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Symphony No.104 - Jochum

Beethoven - Triple Concerto - Oistrakh, Oborin, Knushevitsky - Sargent

 

[Alexander Hawkins]

WTC II

[Д.Д.]

On 3/21/2019 at 1:37 PM, mikeweil said:

 

Stunning and beautiful music excellently performed. The level of knowledge about the music of the 16th century has increased considerably in the last twenty years. Any notion that the instruments of that era were not highly developped is put ad absurdum by such recordings.

Bought the two at bargain price which the label offers whenever a new release is out:

http://www.encelade.net/index.php/en/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing-2/product/25828-mottetti-e-canzoni-virtuose-by-the-guild-of-the-mercenaries

Listened to this one on Spotify. Beautiful indeed! 

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

10 hours ago, Alexander Hawkins said:

WTC II

👍👍👍!!!

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Really love Lupu's view in Schubert ....

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[Referentzhunter]

Symphonies 1. Tremendous in a purest form

Edited March 26, 2019 by Referentzhunter

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Very good reading though not as exemplary as their Mendelssohn performances ....

[Referentzhunter]

2 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Very good reading though not as exemplary as their Mendelssohn performances ....

Doesn't do it for me either... I hear Schubert but it is lacking air, understanding etc.

[soulpope]

16 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Doesn't do it for me either... I hear Schubert but it is lacking air, understanding etc.

Being rather picky regarding Schubert and never found 100% satiesfactory Quartet recordings .... witnessed the lucid flow paired with immanent pain only via live concerts by the Viennese Alban Berg Quartett during the 1990's .... unfortunately - at this stage - the ensemble was not recorded (properly) .... profound memories remain....

[Referentzhunter]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Being rather picky regarding Schubert and never found 100% satiesfactory Quartet recordings .... witnessed the lucid flow paired with immanent pain only via live concerts by the Viennese Alban Berg Quartett during the 1990's .... unfortunately - at this stage - the ensemble was not recorded (properly) .... profound memories remain....

Wow, thank you for this golden tip. Maybe this can warm your heart... So much better than the Borodin string quartet version.

 

[soulpope]

10 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Wow, thank you for this golden tip. Maybe this can warm your heart... So much better than the Borodin string quartet version.

 

Thnx .... will give it a listen post-work ....

[HutchFan]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

Really love Lupu's view in Schubert ....

I agree! Their temperaments align and balance so well.

 

NP:

Desert-island recordings.

[HutchFan]

 

[Peter Friedman]

Disc one - String Quartet in A minor and String Quartet in D minor

[Referentzhunter]

 

Symphony No. 2, 3 & 4

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[HutchFan]

Berlioz: Harold in Italy (w/ William Lincer); La mort de Cléopâtre (w/ Jennie Tourel) / Bernstein, NYPO (Sony)

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Wow, thank you for this golden tip. Maybe this can warm your heart... So much better than the Borodin string quartet version.

 

This is the sumptuous Bruno Monsaingeon directed document from the mid 90`s - how could I forget .... the tension, the nuances, the playfulness, the frenzy and the translucent grief - its all in there ....