What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

On 1/16/2023 at 3:09 PM, soulpope said:

5th, 7th and 8th .... of these, if hardpressed would go for 5th ....

good choices 👌

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

good choices 👌

Whatabout your Bruckner faves .... ?

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

10 hours ago, soulpope said:

👍 Wilson is very good at playing pre-Bach harpsichord music. 

[mjzee]

Rafael Kubelik - Complete Decca Recordings box, disc 5.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

On 1/17/2023 at 8:53 PM, soulpope said:

Whatabout your Bruckner faves .... ?

at this moment, ... 5,7,8,9 (so almost the same as yours). My favorite is the eight.

[soulpope]

28 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

at this moment, ... 5,7,8,9 (so almost the same as yours). My favorite is the eight.

The 6th - missing from our faves - is a sort of monolith ....

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[Referentzhunter]

14 hours ago, soulpope said:

The 6th - missing from our faves - is a sort of monolith ....

Have to listen again

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

[Referentzhunter]

Blew me into my chair ! Found a very good + copy at the thriftstore.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Deutsche Grammophon 111 - The Violin, disc 2.

I didn't find this as involving as the prior Paganini disc.  It sounds a little too polite.  But I wonder if some of my reaction is due to the low mastering volume; if it were louder, I might have been more drawn into it.  But the volume is a quality that's hard to pinpoint.

Edited January 20, 2023 by mjzee

[Referentzhunter]

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[mjzee]

13 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Have to listen again

Funny, this talk about Bruckner's Sixth.  I'm now reading the September 2022 issue of BBC Music Magazine.  In the regular feature "Music to my ears: What the classical world has been listening to this month," under the "Critic's Choice" column, Michael Smith of Stamford wrote: "It was quite a canny move by the Proms controller to couple James MacMillan's Viola Concerto with Bruckner's Sixth - a perpetually underrated instrument and the composer's most unfairly overlooked symphony - in one concert by the BBC Philharmonic.  Let's hear it for the little guys!"

[soulpope]

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