Peter Friedman Posted February 15, 2018 Report Posted February 15, 2018 Oistrakh - Mozart - Violin Concerto No.4, K.218 Prague String Quartet -Dvorak - String Quartet No.8, Op.80 Quote
soulpope Posted February 15, 2018 Report Posted February 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Alexander Hawkins said: Absolutely! Pulled this out after hearing an incredible Beethoven op109 on the radio the other day... Likely sourced from this superb CD .... : Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted February 15, 2018 Report Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, soulpope said: Likely sourced from this superb CD .... : Could well have been! Back to Mozart: the Busoni cadenzas she plays for no.20 are SO great... Edited February 15, 2018 by Alexander Hawkins Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 16, 2018 Report Posted February 16, 2018 Never been able to make up my mind about Nancarrow. At its most extreme, his music dazzles, and yet.... Haven’t checked out the Berg coupling yet. The Boulez Schoenberg “Pelleas” with the CSO is well-played (haven't compared it to the Craft on Naxos yet) but Boulez's interpretation is (I assume quite deliberately on Boulez’s part) so full of angst and anxiety that after a while I feel exhausted and want to stop. Van Steen plays the work more calmly, and/or places a calmer emotional floor underneath the eventual turbulence; the result is that one hears all the quite remarkable music that’s there and not just gouts of “expression.” Excellent MDG recording. Quote
soulpope Posted February 17, 2018 Report Posted February 17, 2018 Moving Bach account by the late Tatiana Nikolayeva .... Quote
Tom 1960 Posted February 17, 2018 Report Posted February 17, 2018 I got this set this past week after seeing a 25% price break. I've heard many good things about this collection. Listening to disc 1 Symphony #1 Quote
Peter Friedman Posted February 17, 2018 Report Posted February 17, 2018 Mozart - Symphony No.38 Gade - Symphony No.7 Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 17, 2018 Report Posted February 17, 2018 Five Pieces for Orch. arranged by Webern, Chamber Symphonies arranged by AS himself. P.S. The album in the middle here, by an Italian piano duo, includes the the same works as the album on top, by the Prague Piano Duo, except that the arrangement of Op. 9 is not by AS but the previously unperformed one done at AS's request by Alban Berg. Berg took a long time over the task, wasn't satisfied by what he had done and/or by how the pianists (one of them Rudolf Serkin) played it in rehearsal for its premiere and cancelled the performance, after which his arrangement remained unplayed. I've ordered that album out of curiosity. The Schoenberg arrangement of Op. 9 is kind of dry, like an X-ray of the piece; I would guess that his intent was to clarify the work's structure, not to attempt to capture its instrumental colors on the keyboard. The Berg arrangement is said to be demandingly virtuosic and probably tries to do what AS's arrangement did not attempt. Also, the Webern arrangement of Five Pieces Op. 16 is fantastic -- a major work in its own right. Webern more or less invents new sorts of piano writing to reflect/capture the unprecedented nature of AS's orchestral writing. Quote
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