What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[HutchFan]

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Symphony No.31 "Paris"

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2

[EKE BBB]

Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony #10

 

[EKE BBB]

Beethoven - Piano concerto #5

[Referentzhunter]

[Referentzhunter]

cd 7 + 8

cd 8 pianoconcerto for left hand = very boring. nothing virtuoso at all. No fire from Martinon.... nothing.

 Most boring cd of this set and i stopped listening to it. Tzigane wil get another try.

After a first listen i think this is a decent set for a nice price and i like Martinon's 'Debussy' the most. Powerful, moving and above all he doesn't lose the picture.

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[soulpope]

Beethoven Piano Concerto 3 Pollini Böhm VPO (DG)      1978 ....

[Referentzhunter]

Cd 5 includes Bach suites No. 1 + 2

Cd 2 includes Dvorak celloconcerto, reference recording

SO GOOD !!!

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[Referentzhunter]

9 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Beethoven Piano Concerto 3 Pollini Böhm VPO (DG)      1978 ....

 One of the better series of beethoven pianoconcerto's in my opinion and the first pianoconcerto with Eugen Jochum as conductor is majestic from what i can remember. What do you think of Pollini playing Beethoven and this serie in general ?

Bye the way, time for another listen i would say.  I have the serie complete on lp exept for the fourth. Still looking.

[Alexander Hawkins]

5 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

 One of the better series of beethoven pianoconcerto's in my opinion and the first pianoconcerto with Eugen Jochum as conductor is majestic from what i can remember. What do you think of Pollini playing Beethoven and this serie in general ?

Bye the way, time for another listen i would say.  I have the serie complete on lp exept for the fourth. Still looking.

I think Pollini is a genius (even with all the provisos for this being an overused word) in Beethoven concerti (and the sonatas and Diabellis, FWIW). I also find this recording, of him playing some when very young, fascinating: 

And this document is also very special: 

 

[Referentzhunter]

23 minutes ago, Alexander Hawkins said:

I think Pollini is a genius (even with all the provisos for this being an overused word) in Beethoven concerti (and the sonatas and Diabellis, FWIW). I also find this recording, of him playing some when very young, fascinating: 

 

I have to give them another listen, the pianoconcerto'. I am not totally familiar with Pollini and Beethoven but i read good things about them. Maybe it was more suggestive than claiming what i said.  But i enjoyed them when i listened to them (never boring), fast and dynamic. You are a Pollini fan ?

[Alexander Hawkins]

11 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

I have to give them another listen, the pianoconcerto'. I am not totally familiar with Pollini and Beethoven but i read good things about them. Maybe it was more suggestive than claiming what i said.  But i enjoyed them when i listened to them (never boring), fast and dynamic. You are a Pollini fan ?

Very much so...desert island stuff in practically everything he plays, for my tastes at least!

[Referentzhunter]

Halina Czerny- Stefanska plays Chopin. Winner international Chopin contest Warschau 1949. She studied under Alfred Cortot.

NP

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

 One of the better series of beethoven pianoconcerto's in my opinion and the first pianoconcerto with Eugen Jochum as conductor is majestic from what i can remember. What do you think of Pollini playing Beethoven and this serie in general ?

Bye the way, time for another listen i would say.  I have the serie complete on lp exept for the fourth. Still looking.

I'm not overly fond of Beethoven's Piano Concertos overall, but believe Pollini executes a credible performance (btw better than his later effort with Abbado) .... 

[Referentzhunter]

Barenboim is one of my least favorite conductors and pianists.

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[Peter Friedman]

I have heard all the Beethoven Piano Concertos by Pollini. Enjoyable, but there are some others I prefer. My favorite versions are probably by  Rudolf Serkin. I also like Buchbinder, & Fleisher.  Freire on Concerto No.5 is marvelous. 

 

[Alexander Hawkins]

8 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

I have heard all the Beethoven Piano Concertos by Pollini. Enjoyable, but there are some others I prefer. My favorite versions are probably by  Rudolf Serkin. I also like Buchbinder, & Fleisher.  Freire on Concerto No.5 is marvelous. 

 

Was revisiting the Stephen Kovacevich recordings recently...also wonderful IMHO!

[Alexander Hawkins]

Now playing:

[Referentzhunter]

Hindemith, hell yes....

 Ormandy, i love the man's 'conducting'... Szell also a master. Love this reissue series for what they presenting: pretty decent versions (often older recordings) and sometimes really good performances (Ormandy/Oistrach- Sibelius or Ormandy/Entremont-Rachmaninov REFERENCE). I find them from time to time in thriftstores.

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[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Quartet Op.18/4 - Suske Quartet

Schubert - Piano Trio No.1, D.898 - Oistrakh, Oborin, Knushevitsky

[Referentzhunter]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

I'm not overly fond of Beethoven's Piano Concertos overall, but believe Pollini executes a credible performance (btw better than his later effort with Abbado) .... 

I am also not overly fond of Beethoven's pianoconcerto's ( i can say that by now, pretty cold as more of his music is from time to time). Don't know the Abbado version. The Japan version Eduard Von Beinum/Mitropoulos-Casadesus is pretty entertaining and has something that the other recordings i heard didn't have. I can't really say what it is... maybe some sort of virtuoso.

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[Alexander Hawkins]

[Referentzhunter]

excellent performances

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[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

I'm suppose César Franck's Piano Quintet is more well-known, but his String Quartet is another excellent composition.