What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[T.D.]

Have always been a fan of Grumiaux, even though my violin tastes have drifted to the HIP end of the spectrum.

[T.D.]

Since it came up earlier:

[JSngry]

32 minutes ago, T.D. said:

Since it came up earlier:

Love the sound of those. Very evocative and "of its time". To say nothing of the playing itself!

[T.D.]

Yes on all counts.

To continue an earlier discussion, the Cuarteto Casals Beethoven cycle is a modern one I'd really like to hear, but I'm not going to spend the money [Added: OMG, it's on Youtube]. The old Hungarian Quartet Erato reissue (at $18.95 on Amazon) would be far more likely.

Edited January 3 by T.D.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, T.D. said:

To continue an earlier discussion, the Cuarteto Casals Beethoven cycle is a modern one I'd really like to hear, but I'm not going to spend the money [Added: OMG, it's on Youtube]. The old Hungarian Quartet Erato reissue (at $18.95 on Amazon) would be far more likely.

Heard the Cuarteto Casals in concert quite some time ago without lasting impressions .... probably will give their Beethoven a try as available on YT ....

[Peter Friedman]

Op.12  and  Op.13

[mjzee]

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 20.

[Peter Friedman]

[T.D.]

14 hours ago, soulpope said:

Heard the Cuarteto Casals in concert quite some time ago without lasting impressions .... probably will give their Beethoven a try as available on YT ....

Sign of old age, but I recall making the same comments about Cuarteto Casals quite a while ago (a year or more? too lazy to search). You may even have had the same reply. But at that time their whole Beethoven series was not yet on Youtube, only 1 or 2 of the 3 underlying 3-CD releases. Sadly, I promptly forgot about the project.

I am really going to listen to the whole Casals cycle on Youtube soon. Honest. 😁

[HutchFan]

André Jolivet (composer and conductor) with the Orchestre Philharmonique de l'O.R.T.F.:  
- Concerto For Ondes Martenot (with Jeanne Loriod)
- Concerto For Harp (with Lily Laskine)

 

Originally released on Erato in 1970, as shown below:

[T.D.]

Been revisiting some old LvB collections

[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Artur Rodziński - New York Philharmonic, The Complete Columbia Album Collection, disc 4.

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

A shattering performance. . . A desert-island DSCH disc. 

 

[HutchFan]

More late Shostakovich:

[gvopedz]

Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor, Fourth Movement, here is one performance:

 

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

Been listening to two dozen ciaconas and chaconnes from as many 17th century composers during the last few hours, to prepare a lecture on this type of "dance" .....

[HutchFan]

Now listening to Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, as heard in this 2-LP set:

Like the DSCH albums above, this music originally was recorded for Melodiya in the Soviet Union and then subsequently licensed for release in the U.S.