What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartet K.387     and     Brahms - Piano Trio in A, Op.posth.

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

Nocturnes

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Rhapsodies Hongroises

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartet No,2, Op.35  &  Piano Quintet Op.51

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

Originally released on the Hispavox label in Spain.

Entrancing.

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Kubelik, Bavarian RSO (Audite)
This live recording from 1981 is my desert-island Mahler 5th. 

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Kubelik has never convinced me as a Mahler conductor.

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Kubelik has never convinced me as a Mahler conductor.

Proof that we all hear music differently.   

I love Walter and Horenstein and Bernstein and Barbirolli for Mahler.  But if I were forced to choose just one, it would be Kubelik.  

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Seems so middling to me.

 

[Larry Kart]

15 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Kubelik has never convinced me as a Mahler conductor.

I'd make a big exception for his Das Lied with Waldemar Kmentt, Janet Baker and the Bavarian Radio Symphony.

[HutchFan]

36 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Seems so middling to me.

Sure. I can understand why people might level that criticism. Horenstein is more taut and forceful than Kubelik. Bernstein is more glittering and angst-ridden. Walter nails the heavenly stuff and Gemütlichkeit thing. Barbirolli's Mahler is more humane. 

But this is what I like about Kubelik: To my ears, nobody has a better grasp of Mahler's "symphonic line."  When I listen to Kubelik's Mahler, the music has a coherence that I don't hear from anyone else.  Rather than jumping from episode to episode, there's a kind of through-line, a path.  Not that I'm reading the score. I'm talking about the vibe, the feeling of having traveled from one place in the beginning to another place in the end -- a sense of meaningful movement, of procession and continuity.  ... That's one reason why I love Kubelik's Mahler so much, probably the biggest one.

 

35 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

I'd make a big exception for his Das Lied with Waldemar Kmett, Janet Baker and the Bavarian Radio Symphony.

Absolutely!  For me, that's another desert-island Mahler disc.

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Now:

Disc 2 - Opp. 109, 110 and 111

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Kubelik, Bavarian RSO (Audite)
This live recording from 1981 is my desert-island Mahler 5th. 

Would share this desert island for/with Mahler ....

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[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Quartet No.1, K.478     and       Dvorak - String Quartet No.9, Op.34

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Op.18/3      and     Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 (arr. for piano and string quintet)

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[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

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[HutchFan]

Now on my 'table:

Claudio Arrau spielt/plays/joue Schumann (Philips)
LP sides 9 & 10: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 and Nachtstücke, Op. 23