What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - String Quartet No.5      and      Mozart - Piano Concerto N.9

[Larry Kart]

Smetana -- Polkas and Czech Dances, Jan Novatny (Supraphon, 2 LPs)

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Thereof Brahms ....

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Thereof Dvorak ....

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Radu Lupu plays Schubert 4 Impromptus D. 935  live 2012 ....

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Superb Bruckner 5 ....

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Symphonies Nos.2,3,4 'Variations on a theme by Haydn', Tragic Ouverture'

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[Larry Kart]

Roussel, Symphony No. 2, Martinon -- Very dense, somewhat enigmatic work, hard to imagine what a French audience made of it in the '20s (in fact they didn't like it).

 Elliot Carter's String Quartet No. 1, Pacifica Quartet -- surprisingly not that hard to follow this time, fine sounding recording, clear, vivid

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Thereof Symphony 1 ....

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Piano Trio Op.18  and   Septet Op.65

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Tatrai Quartet - Haydn Op.42   and   Royal Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble - Haydn Op.76/3

[Larry Kart]

What a find!

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1, Dezso Ranki (1980, Hungaraton, 3 lps) Sublime performances of these works from the then young Ranki. There doesn't seem to be a Vol. 2 from Ranki. Looks like the ball was picked up by the late Zoltan Kocsis, who certainly wasn't chopped liver. I'll try to investigate. (Amazon says that the Kocsis set is "currently unavailable.")

Here's Ranki in the slow movement of K. 280:
 

 

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Disc 4  -  K.481, K.378, K.306

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