What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Chuck Nessa]

14 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Münch, Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux (Erato)

A favorite since the '70s.

[HutchFan]

Now listening to this opera:

Prokofiev: War and Peace / Melik-Pashayev, Kibkalo, Vishnevskaya, Petrov, et al (Melodiya, rec. 1959)

Years ago, after buying it used, I discovered that the first CD in this set is defective.    So today I began with Scene 8 -- the first of the "war scenes" that make up the second half of the opera -- on disc 2.

 

 

48 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

A favorite since the '70s.

  Yes, both Münch and Roussel are terrific.

 

Edited June 14, 2024 by HutchFan

[Ron S]

Now making my way through this box:

Beethoven, The Complete String Quartets

Alban Berg Quartett (Warner/EMI)

[HutchFan]

I'm listening to a couple different interpretations of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10:

 

and 

It's probably unfair to compare Peter Rösel with Emil Gilels.  (It's probably unfair to compare any pianist with Gilels. )  But Rösel holds his own.  He doesn't quite plumb the depths that Gilels does.  Rösel's reading is much more "middle of the road"; even so, it's still very impressive.  Gilels, on the other hand, is much more mercurial.  His recording modulates outward and inward by turns, sometimes imperious & extroverted and other times intensely lyrical & inner-focused. 

Maybe I'll listen to Michelangeli and Rubinstein next. 

 

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I'm listening to a couple different interpretations of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10:

 

and 

It's probably unfair to compare Peter Rösel with Emil Gilels.  (It's probably unfair to compare any pianist with Gilels. )  But Rösel holds his own.  He doesn't quite plumb the depths that Gilels does.  Rösel's reading is much more "middle of the road"; even so, it's still very impressive.  Gilels, on the other hand, is much more mercurial.  His recording modulates outward and inward by turns, sometimes imperious & extroverted and other times intensely lyrical & inner-focused. 

Maybe I'll listen to Michelangeli and Rubinstein next. 

Rösel has consistently a level-headed approach, which works fine with Brahms ....  Gilels a magician off course ....

[HutchFan]

Continuing with my little exploration of Brahms' Op. 10:

 

and

 

 

38 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Rösel has consistently a level-headed approach, which works fine with Brahms ....

Yes. "Level-headed" is a good description.  It's very effective indeed.

 

Edited June 14, 2024 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

More Brahms.  But different works:

Disc 2

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Horn Concerto K.407 (Barry Tuckwell)

Mozart - Piano Quartet No.2, K.493 (John Browning)

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 59.

[mjzee]

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 46.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Thereof Symphony 7 ..... recorded @ Herkulessaal München on May 25th, 1977 .... Rafael Kubelik`s Dvorak studio recordings (with the BPO on DG) are excellent, but the 70`s "live" recordings with the BRSO (consisting in parts of CPO musicians who fled from their home country in 1968) are more intense and they focus on the dark aspects of Dvorak`s later symphonies ....

[soulpope]

Reminded by "HutchFan" .... wrote about this performance here before, highly recommended ....

[Referentzhunter]

15 hours ago, mjzee said:

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 59.

Dvorak Violin Concerto is fantastic ! Sound quality as is the performance. Love this disc.

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

56 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Dvorak Violin Concerto is fantastic ! Sound quality as is the performance. Love this disc.

Young Maxim Vengerov was brilliant ....

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

Tracks from these:

[Chuck Nessa]

rummaging through this set

[HutchFan]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" with Bruno Walter, the NYPO, et al -- as heard in this set:

 

A special recording.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Ron S]

Mozart, String Quintets Nos. 1-6

Auryn Quartet, Nobuko Imai (viola) (Tacet)

[Chuck Nessa]