What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Heifetz - Pennario - Piatigorsky - Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No.2, Op.66   &   Beethoven - String Quartet Op.18/4

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[Chuck Nessa]

[mikeweil]

Got these two today. I was not in the mood for any baroque or classical music for almost a year, but Reinhard Goebel always makes me curious, and listening to some samples convinced me. Five of the pieces of the Bach Family are world premiere recordings and all shed new light of the way the Bach Sons et al. helped shape the classical symphony as a genre - because this was a field where Bach père had not contibuted and they were free to develop their ideas beyond his traditional methods. Peter Wollny, director of the Leipzig Bach Archive, contributed the enlightening liner notes.

The Mozart CD has another commentary by Goebel himself, who has no kind words about how the classical mainstream treats the "hits" of the repertoire, including Mozart's "little night music", almost always played in completely wrong tempos and with  wrong instrumentation, which Mozart unarbitrarily notated. This is a brilliant disc.

Edited March 9, 2022 by mikeweil

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[Referentzhunter]

thrift store find

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - Piano Concerto Op.33     &     Haydn - Op.76/4 "Sunrise"

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[Peter Friedman]

Fischer/Helmchen - Schubert - Rondo Brillant D.895     &     Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4, Op.58 

[HutchFan]

Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Fantasia in B minor / Igor Zhukov (Angel/Melodiya) 

 

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3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Fantasia in B minor / Igor Zhukov (Angel/Melodiya) 

Superb ....

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[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Cello Concerto in C Major     &       Brahms - Violin Sonata No.2, Op.100

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[Peter Friedman]

[Larry Kart]

Civil did an earlier recording with Klemperer, right? IIRC, I preferred that one.