What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

14 hours ago, soulpope said:

The 6th - missing from our faves - is a sort of monolith ....

Have to listen again

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[soulpope]

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Blew me into my chair ! Found a very good + copy at the thriftstore.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Deutsche Grammophon 111 - The Violin, disc 2.

I didn't find this as involving as the prior Paganini disc.  It sounds a little too polite.  But I wonder if some of my reaction is due to the low mastering volume; if it were louder, I might have been more drawn into it.  But the volume is a quality that's hard to pinpoint.

Edited January 20, 2023 by mjzee

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[mjzee]

13 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Have to listen again

Funny, this talk about Bruckner's Sixth.  I'm now reading the September 2022 issue of BBC Music Magazine.  In the regular feature "Music to my ears: What the classical world has been listening to this month," under the "Critic's Choice" column, Michael Smith of Stamford wrote: "It was quite a canny move by the Proms controller to couple James MacMillan's Viola Concerto with Bruckner's Sixth - a perpetually underrated instrument and the composer's most unfairly overlooked symphony - in one concert by the BBC Philharmonic.  Let's hear it for the little guys!"

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Symphonies No.27, No.28, No.30

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

Andrés Segovia - A Centenary Celebration (MCA Classics)
Disc 2: Works by Albéniz, Tárrega, Granados, Moreno Torroba, Ponce, Lauro, and Pedrell

 

[HutchFan]

Disc 7:
- Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 - with  H. Szeryng & P. Fournier
- Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 - with the Guarneri Quartet

Edited January 22, 2023 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

50 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 7:
- Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 - with  H. Szeryng & P. Fournier
- Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 - with the Guarneri Quartet

Great performances. I had most of this on lp back in the day, replaced them with early cd editons and currently have them in the BIG box.

After the Brahms, I tend to gravitate to the Schubert trios.

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by Chuck Nessa

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

Op.50/1,  Op.50/2,  Op.50/3

[HutchFan]

19 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Great performances. I had most of this on lp back in the day, replaced them with early cd editons and currently have them in the BIG box.

Yes, totally agree. Rubinstein's Brahms is wonderful.

19 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

After the Brahms, I tend to gravitate to the Schubert trios.

I'll have to investigate. Never heard any of Rubinstein's Schubert recordings.

[mjzee]

Ricci American Decca box, disc 8.  I think I feel sorry for the guy.  While obviously talented and hard-working, he wasn't very attractive.  So I think he was pidgeon-holed as a "shredder" - someone who could play really fast, like a classical Eddie Van Halen.  It's very possible he could also play slowly and movingly, but wasn't called on to do that.  So this album seems like an endless procession of 32nd notes.  

[mjzee]

Rafael Kubelik - Complete Decca Recordings box, disc 6.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, mjzee said:

Rafael Kubelik - Complete Decca Recordings box, disc 6.

Outstanding ....

[soulpope]

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