What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

[Referentzhunter]

17 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

 

It's a 2023 excellent-sounding Melodiya reissue (digital only), available on Spotify: 

I've now listened to it all, stupendous performances.

They are in perfect hands hear. As good as it gets. Once saw a Japan cd reissue for sale (in the three numbers range). If they reissue this i am as fast as a hurricane.

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - OP.2/5,  Op.2/6,  Op.64/6

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

Prompted by the Prokofiev Piano Sonatas post above:

Yakov Kasman is my go-to for the complete set.

Sounds like I need to check out Nikolai Petrov too.  

 

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.6

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Prompted by the Prokofiev Piano Sonatas post above:

Yakov Kasman is my go-to for the complete set.

Sounds like I need to check out Nikolai Petrov too.  

Regarding Prokofiev piano music also Ekatarina Novitskaya should be mentioned ....

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Regarding Prokofiev piano music also Ekatarina Novitskaya should be mentioned ....

Noted.  Thanks!

 

NP:

[Ron S]

12 hours ago, soulpope said:

Recorded @ Budapest in June 1991 .... in these hands expectedly wonderful ....

Coincidentally, next up in my listening pile:

Haydn, "The Seven Last Words . . . ." arranged for string quartet, Op. 51

Quatuor Mosaiques (Astree)

[soulpope]

34 minutes ago, Ron S said:

Coincidentally, next up in my listening pile:

Haydn, "The Seven Last Words . . . ." arranged for string quartet, Op. 51

Quatuor Mosaiques (Astree)

Superb 👌👍 ....

[HutchFan]

CHOPIN: Mazurkas -- as performed by Witold Malcuzynski:

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

More Chopin by Malcuzynski.  Six Polonaises.

More wonderful performances.

And how about that cover design?!?  The striking simplicity reminds me of Reid Miles, particularly the way the designer uses fonts to such powerful effect.  Not to make too much of it, but I think the design also deliberately echoes Malcuzyski's interpretive approach to Chopin.  No languid moonlight and watercolor lilies here.  Instead, these are masculine and clear-eyed readings with each note deliberately sculpted.  

 

[Ron S]

Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade / Capricio espagnol / Russian Easter Festival Overture

Kirill Kondrashin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Scheherazade)

Igor Markevitch, London Symphony Orchestra (Capricio), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Overture)

(Philps)

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

CHOPIN: Mazurkas -- as performed by Witold Malcuzynski:

Outstanding Chopin recordings ....

[soulpope]

Recorded @ American Academy of Arts and Letters New York on June 19th, 2002 .... Bach is virtually dancing here ....

[HutchFan]

Dipping into this Lazar Berman treasure trove:

Disc 4 - LISZT: Années De Pèlerinage - Troisiéme Année S. 163

Otherworldly beauty.  One of my desert-island discs.

 

[soulpope]

Recorded @ Concert Hall Wyastone Estate Monmouth in 2018 .... purified Rachmaninov .... excellent ....

[soulpope]

53 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Dipping into this Lazar Berman treasure trove:

Disc 4 - LISZT: Années De Pèlerinage - Troisiéme Année S. 163

Otherworldly beauty.  One of my desert-island discs.

Indeed ....

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Evgeny Kissin plays Rachmaninov op 39 "live" @ Musikverein Wien on March 3rd, 2023 .... I was there 😇 ....

[soulpope]

Recording @ Manhattan Center New York on April 1st, 1991 .... lovely Czech song otpourri ....

[Referentzhunter]

Criminally underrated Chopin interpretator. Give it a try ... !!!!!

 

[Referentzhunter]

Do you feel the ocean ? I do ... brilliant

 

Edited February 29, 2024 by Referentzhunter

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Piano Sonatas - No.52, 23, 43