What are you listening to now - I ?

[EdgeleyRob]

Brahms: Four Piano Pieces: op.119, Murray Perahia

To die for.

Mendelssohn Songs Without Words / Ilse Von Alpenheim.

[Petrushka]

Thought the performances of both we're superb, Jurowski's done a smashing job with the LPO, asked Petrushka if she had the Manfred with the same combination, I've got 1 & 6 which is also excellent. I had the Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic recording's of Tchaikovsky's 4th & 5th, but this recording surpasses that I reckon

Sorry, Mahler's 3rd, been at work all day hence the delayed response. Yes, I do have the LPO/Jurowski Manfred recording and while not, perhaps, as good as if they were recording it now (it dates from 2004) I can certainly recommend it.

By the way, I was male last time I looked as indeed was Stravinsky's eponymous puppet. FHG, I've been called many names over the years, not all them complimentary, but never knowingly been called a cracker before.

[teamsaint]

You Jammy Dodger!!!

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I had to try to explain to the lady in the shop why it was such a good find.
I failed. !!

[richardfinegold]

I'm tempted by both this disc and their second - excellent versions in fine sound, with the added bonus of some quartets by composers new to me (Myaskovsky/Prokofiev). How do you think these versions hold up with more famous accounts: Borodin Q./Fitzwilliam Q./ and Eder Quartet on Naxos. I only ask as I don't yet possess all the quartets on disc, but have sampled Pacfica and the other three I mention on Qobuz, along with a few others (Mandelring - pricey and sometimes a bit wonky tempo (e.g. the gorgeous 'lento' movement of No. 6 clocks in at 3.52, whereas Fitzwilliam's more emotional reading is 6.43.) I've read negative
comments about the Emerson Q. in these works, too.

I really intensely disliked the Emersons Beethoven, and found myself only mildly disliking their Shostakovich. Fortunately, the library of the town that I was living in during the time of both releases had these recordings to loan, and I didn't waste any money on them. I still think that their Bartok cycle is one of the greatest sets of anything ever recorded, so I continue to be puzzled by their failures in these two composers.
In Shostakovich, I still find that as a complete set, the Fitzwilliams are tough to beat. I have many recordings by the Borodin and Beethoven Quartets, and various one offs by the Mandelring, Brodsky, and assorted other Quartets, but the Fitzwilliam usually trumps them all.

[richardfinegold]

By the way, I was male last time I looked as indeed was Stravinsky's eponymous puppet. FHG, I've been called many names over the years, not all them complimentary, but never knowingly been called a cracker before.

Thank goodness, I was getting confused. you never know what might happen under those puppet's clothes.

[richardfinegold]

Mahler/1, Zinman/Tonhalle A well played, tidy account of music that should be anything but.

Mozart, Clarinet Quintet/Concerto Pay/Hogwood/AAM My favorite recordings of this wonderful music.

[gurnemanz]

Arrived today: Karine Polwart - Traces (excellent album)
Max Reger: Eine romantische Suite für Orchester nach Gedichten von Joseph vonvEichendorff - new to me, rather appealing
Hindemith: Viola Sonata
Nicolai Gedda: Debussy - Beau Soir and other French songs (Icon Box)
Brahms Clarinet Sonatas

[Thropplenoggin]

I really intensely disliked the Emersons Beethoven, and found myself only mildly disliking their Shostakovich. Fortunately, the library of the town that I was living in during the time of both releases had these recordings to loan, and I didn't waste any money on them. I still think that their Bartok cycle is one of the greatest sets of anything ever recorded, so I continue to be puzzled by their failures in these two composers.
In Shostakovich, I still find that as a complete set, the Emersons are tough to beat. I have many recordings by the Borodin and Beethoven Quartets, and various one offs by the Mandelring, Brodsky, and assorted other Quartets, but the Fitzwilliam usually trumps them all.

Thanks for that, Richard. The Fitzwilliam Q. is also one of the more affordable box sets, too. I'd definitely recommend checking out the Eder Quartet on Naxos, and Pacifica Quartet (Americans, I believe).

[verismissimo]

I really intensely disliked the Emersons Beethoven...

Many years ago I went to hear the Emersons in New York playing Beethoven. Left at the interval...

[Mahler's3rd]

Hi Petrushka, thanks for the reply, the term Cracker was indeed a complimentary remark about the recording Though I Dare Say Your a decent chap also

I guess The same combo will do Tchaikovsky 2 & 3 in due course. Do you have the RLPO/Petrenko Manfred Symphony and if so which of the two do you prefer?
Thanks Ian, Male Also I think

[Beef Oven]

The more I play this CD, the better is seems to get.

[Stanfordian]

Francois Couperin:
Exultent superi - Motets Choisis
Collegium Novum; Jonty Ward (dessus); Inigo Jones (dessus); Guy Cutting (haute-contre); Nick Pritchard (basse-taille); George Coltart (basse); Tom Edwards (basse); Duncan Saunderson (basse); Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom
Recorded 2011 St. Michael and All Angels Church, Oxford
On Novum.

Felix Mendelssohn:
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827)
String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Fanny Mendelssohn:
String Quartet in E flat major (1834)
Quatuor Ebène
Recorded 2012 La Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, France
On Virgin Classics

[Bryn]

The more I play this CD, the better is seems to get.


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Which edition of the 8th do they use?

[Beef Oven]

Which edition of the 8th do they use?

1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas 1939

[BBMmk2]

From my playing list, I had'nt had time to play the Sibelius Symphonies 1 andf 4(Halle/Barbiirolli) but making up for lost time now!!)