What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartets OP.127  and  Op.135

[soulpope]

Emotional still enormously precise performances .... this late(r) Borodin Quartet edition really got game ....

[Referentzhunter]

Symphonies Nos. 1&3

Edited November 26, 2024 by Referentzhunter

[soulpope]

Was a highligt as new release in 2017 .... and definitely still is ....

[Referentzhunter]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Was a highligt as new release in 2017 .... and definitely still is ....

Beautiful, lyrical

[soulpope]

14 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Beautiful, lyrical

Indeed .... btw even more fascinating as Arcadi Volodos started his career as sort of "heavy hitter" 🧐🤔 ....

[Referentzhunter]

8 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Indeed .... btw even more fascinating as Arcadi Volodos started his career as sort of "heavy hitter" 🧐🤔 ....

Ohh ... enchanting !

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

First listen:

[soulpope]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

First listen:

Interested in your impressions ....

[HutchFan]

12 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Interested in your impressions ....

It's gorgeous music making.  I'm enjoying it!   

Planès' playing strikes me as very buttoned-up and ultra-precise -- very "French" -- but these qualities give the music a different sort of drama than I've heard in Schubert before.  It's a less Romantic sound; instead, it's an approach that seems to anticipate modernists like Debussy.  I'd say that it's an interpretation that pays attention to air and the space-between-notes as much as it does to the notes themselves -- and this isn't something I'd normally associate with a composer like Schubert.

Does that make sense?

 

[HutchFan]

For comparison's sake, I'm now listening to Ashkenazy's version of Schubert's D. 894:

Relative to Planès' reading, Ashkenazy's more traditional interpretation is equally beautiful -- but it's an entirely different sonic world.

 

Edited November 26, 2024 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

It's gorgeous music making.  I'm enjoying it!   

Planès' playing strikes me as very buttoned-up and ultra-precise -- very "French" -- but these qualities give the music a different sort of drama than I've heard in Schubert before.  It's a less Romantic sound; instead, it's an approach that seems to anticipate modernists like Debussy.  I'd say that it's an interpretation that pays attention to air and the space-between-notes as much as it does to the notes themselves -- and this isn't something I'd normally associate with a composer like Schubert.

Does that make sense?

Yes it does .... although Planès' approach lacks any romanticism, it gives away unadorned details of Schubert`s vulnerability and pain .... 

[HutchFan]

10 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Yes it does .... although Planès' approach lacks any romanticism, it gives away unadorned details of Schubert`s vulnerability and pain .... 

Yes, exactly.  I like your use of the word "unadorned."

Sometimes music that holds something back has the most powerful emotional effect on the listener.

 

[soulpope]

The pure voice of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson shines ....

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

4 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Excellent ....

[HutchFan]

More Lutoslawski:

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

More Lutoslawski:

Likely the best Symphony 3 stand alone performance ....

[soulpope]

Hispanic dreams .... fullfilled ....

[soulpope]

Sumptuous .... time and time again ....

[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, soulpope said:

Likely the best Symphony 3 stand alone performance ....

I've only heard two recordings of the work -- Barenboim and Salonen. 

I definitely prefer Barenboim.

 

 

NP:

❤️

 

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I've only heard two recordings of the work -- Barenboim and Salonen. 

I definitely prefer Barenboim.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2014/jun/10/symphony-guide-lutosawski-third-tom-service

Both other recordings mentioned are excellent too ...

[HutchFan]

11 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Both other recordings mentioned are excellent too ...

Thank you for the link.  Very interesting.

I figured Wit's performance might have a special something, given that he's a Pole leading a Polish orchestra.  Of course, that's not always an accurate indicator.  But sometimes . . . 

 

[HutchFan]

Now listening to Mahler's First Symphony, as heard in this set:

More from Bruno Walter's brilliant "Indian Summer" at Columbia Records.