What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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Franz Schubert – Quartet for Strings No.14 in D minor D.810 "Death and the Maiden"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet for Strings No.11 in F minor Op.95 "Serioso"
— Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon)
   
 

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Now playing, CD 89:
Arthur Rubinstein – A French Program (RCA Victor Red Seal Dynagroove Recording / Sony Music)
Maurice Ravel 
– Valses nobles et sentimentales
– Miroirs: La vallée des cloches
Francis Poulenc 
– Mouvements perpétuels (3)
– 3 Intermezzi for Piano: No.2 in D flat major
– 3 Intermezzi for Piano: No.3 in A flat major
Gabriel Fauré 
– Nocturne for Piano No.3 in A flat major Op.33/3
Emmanuel Chabrier 
– Pièces pittoresques (10) for Piano: No.10 Scherzo-valse
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) 

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Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.1 Op.68, Academic Festival Overture Op.80
— Cleveland Orchestra – Christoph Von Dohnányi (Teldec Classics)

 

[mikeweil]

Edited August 30, 2017 by mikeweil

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Good one ....

[mikeweil]

More music on Cristofori instruments - simply great in all respects:

The original instruments are no longer playable, but Kerstin Schwarz makes meticulous reconstructions of every detail - see her website for information: http://www.animus-cristofori.com/en/

This is the type of recording that makes me ask myself "who the hell wrote this piece" - and the answers are always a surprise.The history of keyboard music in the 17th and 18th centuries is much more complex and varified as most people think, and full of fascinating discoveries, especially among the composers coined as "pre-classical" - a totally unapropriate label. 

Edited August 30, 2017 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

And now, the first recording of a type of instrument that had to be reconstructed from the surviving two copies Cristofori built, combining the string length of two 8" harpsichord  registers with the compact build of a spinet - a beautiful looking and unique sounding instrument!

Edited August 30, 2017 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

Selections from the "Darmstadt Harpsichord Book, played on a great sounding copy of a Mietke harpsichord. Soly delivers a much more convincing picture of Handel the virtuoso as most of her colleagues.

[mikeweil]

JPC was selling several Praga SACDs for a buck a piece ..... Sounds great, and some of the best Debussy orchestral works rendition I have, very detailed, but not as analytical as Boulez.

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Selections from the "Darmstadt Harpsichord Book, played on a great sounding copy of a Mietke harpsichord. Soly delivers a much more convincing picture of Handel the virtuoso as most of her colleagues.

Love her recordings of Graupner.

[mikeweil]

Me, too, just got the last two volumes missing in my collection along with the Handel disc.

This is the kind of project that makes me wonder how little German harpsichordists care for the legacy of their own country. During the last twenty years, the majority of neglected German keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries was recorded by Italian or American harpsichordists.

Edited September 1, 2017 by mikeweil

[soulpope]

My go to Chopin Nocturnes performances ....

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

My go to Chopin Nocturnes performances ....

Oh yes.  Magical performances.

[mikeweil]

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[T.D.]

Hadn't listened to Renaissance polyphony for quite a while, so spun

    

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

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[soulpope]

Wonderful little gem ....

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[Chuck Nessa]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

Wonderful stuff - I have all these recordings in other packages.

[jeffcrom]

Stockhausen - Opus 1970 (Deutsche Grammophon LP). This is basically a version of Stockhausen's "Kurzwellen," a piece in which the performers respond to random short-wave radio signals. Here, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, the radios have been replaced by tapes of Beethoven, prepared by Stockhausen to sound "short-wavy." It actually works pretty well, in my opinion, but I guess Stockhausen later rejected the idea, since he never reissued the recording in his Stockhausen Edition CD series.

[soulpope]