What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

Mahler 1, live, BPO, Abbado

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So far an excellent box. I have never heard Abbado in most stuff, and his take is different and distinct enough to be interesting and pleasing. Good sound too.

My 2nd or 3rd favorite Mahler symphony. 7, 1, 9, and 2 are all pretty close to me, though.

[Wakefield]

Schubert - Piano Sonatas D. 958, 959, 960
Murray Perahia

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[Walt Whitman]

An early start...

[SonicMan46]

   


Yes indeed, Dave.    I got it from a local outlet store. But as Cosi bel do recently pointed out, we both missed a bargain at jpc....

First impressions: generally excellent and at times outstanding Chopin playing on period instruments, which however doesn't mean that it sounds particularly HIP.
These are "modern" pianists, playing more or less as they always played on modern instruments. I think a pianist needs more time and experience with a period instrument to get fully attuned to it and adapt his/her playing to benefit its abilities and sound to the utmost.

Nevertheless, hearing excellent Chopin playing on Érards is still an unalloyed pleasure and it gives the set definitively an added interest.

Thanks Que for the comments - believe I saw this box for about $90 USA once (should have bought then) - now $160 on Amazon USA - will wait, I guess - Dave

[Ken B]

An early start...

Howdy fellow ten Holt fan!


TD
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[TheGSMoeller]

Mozart No. 40 in G minor - Norrington/Stuttgart

[Todd]

Year 1 from Yoram Ish-Hurwitz.  First things first: I'd never even read about Turtle Records before finding this set, and as befits an audiophile label, which includes high end brand name electronics listed among recording components (Spectral, dCS, Avalon), the sound is amazingly clear and natural.  This disc offers the solo piano sonic equivalent of Reference Recordings orchestral recordings with Manfred Honeck.  And that's the CD layer.

Ish-Hurwitz's playing is in some ways a more literal version of Julian Gorus'.  The pianist excels in quieter passages, summoning lovely colors and delicately nuanced dynamic gradations.  He can and does play the more bravura passages with virtuosic flair, but he's not as fluid or individual or free as Gorus.  That's an observation rather than criticism.  This is some good stuff.

[Mirror Image]

You got two of the great ones there, love the Isokoski.

I've got many great Four Last Songs performances. I, otherwise, agree the Janowitz is one of the performances to own.

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Listening to RVW's Suite for Viola and Orchestra. Beautiful work and performance from Power/Brabbins/BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

[Artem]

My second listen to this cd and I quite like it.

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[Mirror Image]

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A new acquisition. Listening to Suite from 'Schlagobers'. Very nice work and great performance.

[Harry]

Morning music.......

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[Henk]

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Nice stuff. Definitely a good listen.

[Harry]

Some new British composers. New acquisition. First listen

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/10/new-acquisition.html?spref=tw

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Not tired of the macabre, yet.

After Earl goes wild, Mendelssohn's First Walpurgisnacht.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Some new British composers. New acquisition. First listen

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/10/new-acquisition.html?spref=tw

Harry,

The same box set is on Amazon UK for £18.  I assume those must be originals.  No company should rip cd-r's and be allowed to sell them, and if they do they certainly need to advertise the fact beforehand.

On Amazon the reviewer doesn't mention them as CD-R, perhaps he is unaware?  or maybe some sets are genuine cds?

Vaughan Williams' Job on the Everest label suffers from this too.  There are 2 versions with the same packaging on the market, one has 1 track for Job which appears as a genuine cd, the other version has 13 tracks to Job which clearly shows that the CD-R version has been ripped back to cd via mp3 causing gapping when you listen to it.  Suppose its fine if you rip to your media player, Ipod etc but this too is not fully discribed as it should.



One track = fine, but other cds have this as 12 or 13 tracks with mp3 gapping.

A fellow forum member tipped me off about the Job cd and I got it corrected, told the seller of the 13 track one what he had in stock and he fired them back to his supplier.

[Sadko]

My second listen to this cd and I quite like it.

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+1

[Mandryka]

Lang Lang and Harnoncourt and VPO do the first movement of Mozart PC 24. You can tell that something's up by the fact that he takes well over a quarter of an hour. At the start, the contrast between the very energetic and emotionally positive orchestral introduction, and the languid, limp, nuanced, fussy, soft piano playing, is totally original. As is the jolting mood change by the piano after about five minutes. It is the most puzzling performance of this music that I have ever heard- unpleasantly disorienting. If it wasn't for the fact that Harnoncourt's involved I'd forget it, but he's not going to put his name to something he hasn't thought through, or approved of.

Is he?

[Sadko]

Harry,

... which clearly shows that the CD-R version has been ripped back to cd via mp3 causing gapping when you listen to it.  Suppose its fine if you rip to your media player, Ipod etc but this too is not fully discribed as it should.

I'd say it's fraud.

EDIT: That's another risk with CD-R's, I realize now: you don't know whether the source is the original or a degraded copy.

[Sadko]

Janáček

On an overgrown path
Tema con variazioni pro klavír (Zdenčiny variace) [ Zdenka variations]

Ivan Klánský

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[The new erato]

Harry,

The same box set is on Amazon UK for £18.  I assume those must be originals.  No company should rip cd-r's and be allowed to sell them, and if they do they certainly need to advertise the fact beforehand.

No. That's the way all new Lyrita discs are produced now. This is a proper Lyrita production as produced by the Wyastone group. It os legit, and all sets you can find are the same. The fact that they doesn't tell you it is a CD R you are buying is quite another matter. If you suspect the durability of CD Rs, or dislike being misinformed, avoid (as I do), or complain to the Wyastone group and/or Lyrita. Though you will only receive some publicity blah-blah in answer telling you about the quality of their printing and avoiding the real issue, which is that the discs doesn' tell you what you are paying for.