What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

11 minutes ago, T.D. said:

[Suzuki KdF]

New release that got significant praise and I enjoy . I auditioned the whole thing on Youtube, liked approach and sound quality so ordered. But I haven't heard many KdF recordings, or Bach harpsichord recordings in general, so can't meaningfully rate it vs. the many alternatives.

Thnx for your feedback/impressions ....

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

[Chuck Nessa]

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart- Piano Concerto No.13 - Annerose Schmidt

Rheinberger - Nonet Op.139 - Stuttgart Nonet

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée (et Eurydice)  / Louis de Froment, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicolai Gedda, Janine Micheau, Liliane Berton (La Voix de Son Maître, FR)

Recorded in Aix-en-Provence in 1955

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane [Suites Nos. 1 & 2] / Martinon, Orchestre National de L'O.R.T.F. (Erato, rec. 1968)

Lovely.

 

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Brahms' Third Symphony, performed by Eugen Jochum and the LPO, as heard in this set:

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 43.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Brahms' Third Symphony, performed by Eugen Jochum and the LPO, as heard in this set:

Excellent ....

[soulpope]

Melita Lorkovic plays  an outstanding "Kreisleriana" in 1981 ....

[soulpope]

Grigory Guzman plays Bach in 2005 .... wondeful indeed ....

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Cantata based on Music for the Eisenstein Film), Op. 78 / André Previn, LSO & Chorus, Anna Reynolds (Angel, 1972)

 

EDIT
After listening to this Alexander Nevsky and being impressed, I've been doing some digging on Discogs.  Turns out that Previn recorded a lot of Prokofiev during his eleven-year run as the principal conductor of the LSO:

- The Piano Concertos - with Ashkenazy
- The Violin Concertos - with Kyung-Wha Chung
- Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
- Symphony No. 5
- Symphony No. 6
- Symphony No. 7
- Cinderella (complete ballet)
- Romeo & Juliet (complete ballet)
- Peter & the Wolf - with Mia Farrow
- Alexander Nevsky (cantata)
- Lieutenant Kijé (suite)

I had no idea that Previn had made so many Prokofiev recordings!  (Perhaps because many of them are no longer available?)  Along with his Nevsky, I only know Previn's Romeo & Juliet and his piano concertos with Ashkenazy.

I'm now streaming Previn's recording of Prokofiev's Fifth Sym.  It's startlingly good.  . . . I'm going to need to dive into this stuff more deeply.  Seems like Previn had a very convincing handle on Sergei Prokofiev!

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Now this:

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

.... Previn's recording of Prokofiev's Fifth Sym.  It's startlingly good.  . . . I'm going to need to dive into this stuff more deeply.  Seems like Previn had a very convincing handle on Sergei Prokofiev!

If you appreciate Previn and Prokofiev go for the two Violin Concertos with Kyung Wha Chung ....

[HutchFan]

28 minutes ago, soulpope said:

If you appreciate Previn and Prokofiev go for the two Violin Concertos with Kyung Wha Chung ....

Thanks for the heads-up.  I'll investigate.  

 

Continuing the theme with:

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by HutchFan

[mikeweil]

Absolutely fantastic recording! It reinforces my opinion that Mozart is best heard on period instruments, because on modern painos all those wonderful colors are lost: What a pity that the label is defunct and the CD has become so hard to find - I had to buy it from a Californian seller.

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Now listening to this LP:

Elizabeth Suderburg (sop) & David Starobin (gtr) - Spanish Music for Voice & Guitar (Turnabout, 1980)

 

[mjzee]

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 29.

[soulpope]

Recorded @ Teldec Studio Berlin in October 1988 .... pure and almost weightless ....