What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Haydn Piano Sonatas, No.40, 41, 50, A Flat Major

Good one ....

[soulpope]

Recorded in late April 1988 .... this might one of the best performances by Gerard Lesne .... his crystal clear voice is heavenly ....

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

Steadily growing to my heart .... was a recommendation from the forum ("mikeweil" ?), I believe ....

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

Last night -

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

The Decca Sound - The Piano Edition, disc 42.  Also includes the Britten Piano Concerto from this:

Odd pairing on the disc (Messiaen and Britten, Ogden and Richter), but whatever.

Edited February 4, 2024 by mjzee

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 32.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 17.

[Ron S]

Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 55, Nos. 1-3

Auryn Quartet (Tacet)

[soulpope]

Dezso Ranki plays Liszt @ Budapest in 1990 ....

[soulpope]

Recorded in 1994 .... a candidate for the best performance of this Schubert euvre ....

[soulpope]

Earlier .... :

Recorded @ Rudolfinum Praha on June 18th June 1959 .... one of the last great recordings by Karel Šejna, who - after the departure of Vaclav Kubelik  - was co-leading the CPO with Václav Neumann .... when the orchestra’s players were asked to elect Kubelik’s successor, the vast majority of votes was given to Karel Šejna, but the Czech regime  installed Karel Ančerl .... going into the 1960`s  Šejna remained as deputy but his recording activity decreased sharply .... 

[Peter Friedman]

K.458   &  K.499

[Peter Friedman]

Violin Sonatas No.5  and  No.6

[Ron S]

Martinu, Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5

Arthur Fagen, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Naxos)

[HutchFan]

Disc 1 - Tragic Overture; Symphony No. 1

 

11 hours ago, soulpope said:

Recorded @ Rudolfinum Praha on June 18th June 1959 .... one of the last great recordings by Karel Šejna, who - after the departure of Vaclav Kubelik  - was co-leading the CPO with Václav Neumann .... when the orchestra’s players were asked to elect Kubelik’s successor, the vast majority of votes was given to Karel Šejna, but the Czech regime  installed Karel Ančerl .... going into the 1960`s  Šejna remained as deputy but his recording activity decreased sharply .... 

Do we have any insight into why the decision-makers preferred Ančerl?  Was it for extra-musical reasons?  Or was it a musical thing?

Just curious. 

 

Edited February 6, 2024 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

First listen. Started with El amor brujo -- with mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin. Loving it, so far. 

 

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Do we have any insight into why the decision-makers preferred Ančerl?  Was it for extra-musical reasons?  Or was it a musical thing?

Just curious. 

It is said that more than 80% of the CPO members voted for Sejna .... but the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within the orchestra and installed Ancerl .... it's a sort of destiny, that Ancerl + CPO managed a fruitful co-operation nevertheless .... 

[soulpope]

Recorded @ Praha on June 8th 28 & August 31 and October 26th, 1972 .... at said year Václav Neumann was heading the CPO again, seemingly being "politically inconspicuous" enough at his tough times Czechoslovakia .... puting these aspects aside these are outstanding perfromaces ....

[Д.Д.]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

It is said that more than 80% of the CPO members voted for Sejna .... but the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within the orchestra and installed Ancerl .... it's a sort of destiny, that Ancerl + CPO managed a fruitful co-operation nevertheless .... 

Well, Ancerl could not have been a purely political communist party appointee, right? He defected to Canada after 1968 Prague spring after all... Coincidentally, I just listened to Ancerl / CPO Shostakovich Symphony 10 yesterday - the energy and precision (and speed!) are just scary. Is this the greatest recorded version of this work or what?! And I don't even like Shostakovich...    

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

48 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

Well, Ancerl could not have been a purely political communist party appointee, right? He defected to Canada after 1968 Prague spring after all... Coincidentally, I just listened to Ancerl / CPO Shostakovich Symphony 10 yesterday - the energy and precision (and speed!) are just scary. Is this the greatest recorded version of this work or what?! And I don't even like Shostakovich...    

As mentioned the Czech Communistic regime aimed to spread discord within society, as distrust and envy makes people better controllable for absolustic systems .... and just to mention : a lot of Communists defected in 1968 - but those were people, who supported/lived with the bit loose(r) form of Communism from the mid60`s onwards (the time of Dubcek/Novotny) until the end of the "Prague Spring" but didn`t want to stay under hardcore communistic opression .... Was Ancerl a communist/sympathizer ? Well we (or at least I) don`t know for sure ....