What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Schnittke

String Quartets 3-1 & 2

[LKB]

While the early digital sound does glare a bit, it's certainly a classic.

B4 plays in my head a lot, and I'll go for long periods without feeling any desire to hear a recording. But when I do want to listen, it's either the Kleiber or von Karajan's 1964 recording for DGG.

[VonStupp]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony 3

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati SO - Jesús López-Cobos

I can't not hear I'll Be Seeing You (...in all the old familiar places) in the final movement. Makes it a little more schmaltzy for me.

Telarc and their bass drums; love 'em.
VS

[Traverso]

Elgar


This is by far my favorite Elgar recording

[Karl Henning]

Now I'm expected to look up which quarter is in f# minor?

Sorry, 7.

[DavidW]

I'm a third of the way through this box. I OFTEN struggle to enjoy Harpsichord and "hardcore" HIP stuff, but not in this case. For old Gustav, I've moved from big fan to True Believer.

Yes, Leonhardt was the one that opened the door to solo harpsichord music for me!

Thread duty:


This is an odd choice for morning listen, further compounded by the fact that I had a dream that I was listening to Rampal perform Telemann for some reason (where did that come from?)!

[LKB]

Yes, Leonhardt was the one that opened the door to solo harpsichord music for me!

Thread duty:


This is an odd choice for morning listen, further compounded by the fact that I had a dream that I was listening to Rampal perform Telemann for some reason (where did that come from?)!

Now you've done it, Shostakovich will be joining me for breakfast.

[SonicMan46]

Yesterday and this morning, I'm finishing up my Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) collection w/ the recordings below (note the flute/guitar recording has 4 CDs) - David Starobin has two volumes on the Bridge label, mostly solo guitar + some violin and piano chamber.

Also, reading an inexpensive Kindle purchase Mauro Giuliani - A Live for the Guitar by Thomas F. Heck, PhD (1943-2021) which has gone through a number of editions and based on his extensive research on the composer for his doctoral thesis from Yale, 1970 ("The birth of the classic guitar and its cultivation in Vienna, reflected in the career and compositions of Mauro Giuliani (d.1829)"; a nice summary bio HERE.  Dave

     

 

[Traverso]

Yes, Leonhardt was the one that opened the door to solo harpsichord music for me!

Well,you are not alone in this..🙂

[brewski]

Scriabin: Le poème de l'extase (Esa-Pekka Salonen / NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, recorded at the Hamburg International Music Festival on 12 May 2023).

Glorious.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

On 18 March 2016, Orlando Cela and Wei Zhao performed a piece of mine for two flutes:

[NumberSix]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Maurizio Pollini
Böhm, Vienna

[NumberSix]

Chopin: Nocturnes
Daniel Barenboim

[Daverz]

Fernandez: Symphony No. 1

You may know Fernandez's popular Batuque (also on the disc), which often shows up on programs of Latin American lollipops.

Herrmann: Jane Eyre selections, a Phase-4 stereo spectacular:

Wow! 

Also listened to some of the original sountrack to The Ghost and Mrs Muir.  The 1940s sound is close-up studio sound, but has good frequency range and is very listenable.  Much beautiful music here.  Unfortunately the short musical segments and repetition of a "raw" soundtrack recording tends to pall for me, so I didn't make it very far through the 60+ minutes of music.

[Roasted Swan]

Fernandez: Symphony No. 1

You may know Fernandez's popular Batuque (also on the disc), which often shows up on programs of Latin American lollipops.

Herrmann: Jane Eyre selections, a Phase-4 stereo spectacular:

Wow! 

Also listened to some of the original sountrack to The Ghost and Mrs Muir.  The 1940s sound is close-up studio sound, but has good frequency range and is very listenable.  Much beautiful music here.  Unfortunately the short musical segments and repetition of a "raw" soundtrack recording tends to pall for me, so I didn't make it very far through the 60+ minutes of music.

Those Decca Phase 4 recordings have really not stood the test of time technically.  I get that they were a way of making the early home music centres and stereos sound as impressive as possible but the degree of artificial spotlighting was really rather crude.....

[AnotherSpin]

   Trying with different speakers. More lively and fun and than I remembered.

Remarcable recording.

[Daverz]

Those Decca Phase 4 recordings have really not stood the test of time technically.  I get that they were a way of making the early home music centres and stereos sound as impressive as possible but the degree of artificial spotlighting was really rather crude.....

Technical schmechnical.  I refuse to let that get in the way of my enjoyment of the performances. 

Now playing: Tchaikovsky, Winter Dreams.  I'm tired of Summer already.

[Roasted Swan]

Technical schmechnical.  I refuse to let that get in the way of my enjoyment of the performances. 

Now playing: Tchaikovsky, Winter Dreams.  I'm tired of Summer already.

So not getting schmechnical which Phase 4 recordings do you rate....?

[Daverz]

So not getting schmechnical which Phase 4 recordings do you rate....?

At least the Stokowski and Bernard Herrmann boxes.

[Roasted Swan]

At least the Stokowski and Bernard Herrmann boxes.

Fair enough - I think the Herrmann discs suit the style of his film music and the original soundtrack recordings were never intended to reflect any kind of "natural" sound so why not.  I understand why Stokowski was interested in the potential of stereo too.  I find it interesting though that Decca were producing some of the finest 2 track recordings (Solti Ring / Britten conducts Britten etc) at the same time that they were producing these highly stylised (technically) recordings.  As I said in the previous post I understand the motivation - which was essentially commercial - but for me the aural legacy of these recordings limit my ability to enjoy them from a musical perspective.