What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

53 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

This looks very interesting .... your impressions ?

[mikeweil]

12 minutes ago, soulpope said:

This looks very interesting .... your impressions ?

The playing would get 8 out of ten points from me. I think the singers overdo it a little bit. Only if you are deeply into 17th century Roman baroque. Stradella e.g. is the more compelling composer.

Edited June 13, 2024 by mikeweil

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

The playing would get 8 out of ten points from me. I think the singers overdo it a little bit. Only if you are deeply into 17th century Roman baroque. Stradella e.g. is the more compelling composer.

Thnx .... as this is a budget release will give it a try .... 

[HutchFan]

9 hours ago, soulpope said:

Wunderlich singt wunderbar 😇 ....

Ja sicher!

 

[soulpope]

3 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Ja sicher!

😃😇😃 ....

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[Ron S]

Schumann, Piano Quintet / Piano Quartet / Piano Trios Nos. 1-3

Beaux Arts Trio, Samuel Rhodes (viola, Quintet and Quartet), Dolf Bettelheim (violin, Quintet) (Philips)

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

[Chuck Nessa]

[mikeweil]

[HutchFan]

Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Münch, Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux (Erato)

[Chuck Nessa]

14 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Münch, Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux (Erato)

A favorite since the '70s.

[HutchFan]

Now listening to this opera:

Prokofiev: War and Peace / Melik-Pashayev, Kibkalo, Vishnevskaya, Petrov, et al (Melodiya, rec. 1959)

Years ago, after buying it used, I discovered that the first CD in this set is defective.    So today I began with Scene 8 -- the first of the "war scenes" that make up the second half of the opera -- on disc 2.

 

 

48 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

A favorite since the '70s.

  Yes, both Münch and Roussel are terrific.

 

Edited June 14, 2024 by HutchFan

[Ron S]

Now making my way through this box:

Beethoven, The Complete String Quartets

Alban Berg Quartett (Warner/EMI)

[HutchFan]

I'm listening to a couple different interpretations of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10:

 

and 

It's probably unfair to compare Peter Rösel with Emil Gilels.  (It's probably unfair to compare any pianist with Gilels. )  But Rösel holds his own.  He doesn't quite plumb the depths that Gilels does.  Rösel's reading is much more "middle of the road"; even so, it's still very impressive.  Gilels, on the other hand, is much more mercurial.  His recording modulates outward and inward by turns, sometimes imperious & extroverted and other times intensely lyrical & inner-focused. 

Maybe I'll listen to Michelangeli and Rubinstein next. 

 

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I'm listening to a couple different interpretations of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10:

 

and 

It's probably unfair to compare Peter Rösel with Emil Gilels.  (It's probably unfair to compare any pianist with Gilels. )  But Rösel holds his own.  He doesn't quite plumb the depths that Gilels does.  Rösel's reading is much more "middle of the road"; even so, it's still very impressive.  Gilels, on the other hand, is much more mercurial.  His recording modulates outward and inward by turns, sometimes imperious & extroverted and other times intensely lyrical & inner-focused. 

Maybe I'll listen to Michelangeli and Rubinstein next. 

Rösel has consistently a level-headed approach, which works fine with Brahms ....  Gilels a magician off course ....

[HutchFan]

Continuing with my little exploration of Brahms' Op. 10:

 

and

 

 

38 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Rösel has consistently a level-headed approach, which works fine with Brahms ....

Yes. "Level-headed" is a good description.  It's very effective indeed.

 

Edited June 14, 2024 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

More Brahms.  But different works:

Disc 2

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Horn Concerto K.407 (Barry Tuckwell)

Mozart - Piano Quartet No.2, K.493 (John Browning)

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 59.