What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Beloved performance, which was the initial ignition of my life-long admiration for the work of Valery Afanassiev ....

[mjzee]

The Decca Sound - The Piano Edition, disc 41.

[HutchFan]

BRAHMS

Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Nos. 1-3 / Rubinstein with Henryk Szeryng

and

Piano Concerto No. 1 / Gilels, Jochum, BPO

 

Both of these recordings are close to my heart.

 

[soulpope]

41 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

BRAHMS

Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Nos. 1-3 / Rubinstein with Henryk Szeryng

and

Piano Concerto No. 1 / Gilels, Jochum, BPO

Both of these recordings are close to my heart.

Understandable 😍 ....

[soulpope]

Lazar Berman plays Chopin 6 Polonaises "live" in the 1980's ....

[soulpope]

Cool toned Gidon Kremer melts well with the lightness of Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ....

[soulpope]

Stick to Bach but Glenn Gould off course tells a different story ....

[soulpope]

Unspectacular nevertheless profound performances recorded in May 1979 ....

[mikeweil]

[HutchFan]

Brahms: String Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 / Brandis Quartett, Brett Dean (Brilliant Classics, rec. 1996)

These works have the profundity and depth one expects of a symphony, but it's somehow distilled to just five players.  Gorgeous!

 

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

32 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

👍

Part of Reinhard Goebel's indispensable campaign to promote Mozart's and Beethoven's neglected conremporaries.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

5 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent ....

[soulpope]

Lazar Berman plays Rachmaninov "live" @ Lugano in 1989 ....

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn String Quartets Op.74

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Marilyn Horne & Leonard Bernstein perform Falla's El Amor Brujo [with the NYPO] and Ravel's Schéhérazade [with the ON de France] (Columbia Masterworks, 1978)

First listen to a new-to-me LP that I picked up a few weeks ago.

Initial impressions: I think the Ravel is a more persuasive than the Falla.  When it comes to El Amor Brujo, Stokowki & Shirley Verrett with the Philadelphia O are still tops in my book. 

Edited January 29, 2024 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Another LP recently pulled from a shop's dollar bin.  Lovely music.

 

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 31.

[HutchFan]

Now:

Copland: Music for the Theatre; Music for Movies; Quiet City; Clarinet Concerto (William Blount, clarinet) / Dennis Russell Davies, Orchestra of St. Luke's (Musicmasters, 1988)

 

[Ron S]

Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 50, Nos. 1-6

Auryn Quartet (Tacet)

[HutchFan]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathetique - with the LSO

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Marilyn Horne & Leonard Bernstein perform Falla's El Amor Brujo [with the NYPO] and Ravel's Schéhérazade [with the ON de France] (Columbia Masterworks, 1978)

First listen to a new-to-me LP that I picked up a few weeks ago.

Initial impressions: I think the Ravel is a more persuasive than the Falla.  When it comes to El Amor Brujo, Stokowki & Shirley Verrett with the Philadelphia O are still tops in my book. 

Not too convinced about "El Amor Brujo" overall .... btw but the performance by Charles Dutoit + OSDM on Decca from the early 1980's at least worth a try ...

[soulpope]

Obviously I`m collecting great performances of this Haydn euvre, but this emotional recording by the Borodin Quartet tops it all ....