What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

J

This album Beethoven Symphony No. 1 & Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 from Dresdner Philharmonie / Michael Sanderling are top rank!

Cool!

Just listened to the concert from The Tate Modern! Gawd! Quite something!

[mahlerei]

Franz LISZT
Transcendental Studies
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Rec. 2015, Siemens-Villa, Berlin-Lankwitz
MYRIOS CLASSICS SACD MYR019

IMHO Gerstein trounces Trifonov at every turn here. Fabulous piano sound, too. A must for pianophiles in general and Lisztians in particular.

A DSD128 download from NativeDSD

[Bryn]

Franz LISZT
Transcendental Studies
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Rec. 2015, Siemens-Villa, Berlin-Lankwitz
MYRIOS CLASSICS SACD MYR019

IMHO Gerstein trounces Trifonov at every turn here. Fabulous piano sound, too. A must for pianophiles in general and Lisztians in particular.

A DSD128 download from NativeDSD

The 192/24 download is but £7.99 for QOBUZ Sublime subscribers. I will be making do with 44.1/16 since I only have a QOBUZ HiFi sub.

[Stanfordian]

June Anderson ~ Airs d'opéras français et italiens
Bizet, Gounod, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Thomas, Verdi
June Anderson (soprano)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse conducted by Michel Plasson
Recorded 1989 Toulouse, France
EMI Classics

Franck
String Quartet
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle, for mezzo-soprano, piano and string quartet, Op. 37
Quatuor Zaïde
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Jonas Vitaud (piano)
Recorded 2016/17 Salle de concert Arsenal, Metz
NoMadMusic – recent release – The Franck string quartet is a real discovery!

[BBMmk2]

[B]

Franck
String Quartet
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle, for mezzo-soprano, piano and string quartet, Op. 37
Quatuor Zaïde
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Jonas Vitaud (piano)
Recorded 2016/17 Salle de concert Arsenal, Metz
NoMadMusic – recent release – The Franck string quartet is a real discovery!

I know neither Stan!

Beethoven
Symphony No.1
Piano Concerto No.1
Marthe Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

[Stanfordian]

I know neither Stan!

Beethoven
Symphony No.1
Piano Concerto No.1
Marthe Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Those French works are certainly worth getting to know.

[Stanfordian]

‘Charles Koechlin – Orchestral Works’
La Méditation de Purun Bhagat, op. 159
Les heures persanes, op. 65 (orchestral version)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR / Heinz Holliger
Recorded 2004 (op. 159) & 2007 (op. 65) Stadthalle Sindelfingen
SWR Music – from box set Edition Charles Koechlin

Pierné
Piano Quintet
Vierne
String Quartet
Goldner String Quartet
with Piers Lane (piano)
Recorded 2013 Potton Hall, Suffolk
Hyperion

[Joseph K]

Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano - Kavafian - Violin/McDermott - Piano.

[Joseph K]

Debussy - Sonata for Cello and Piano - Hoffman - Cello/Golub - Piano.

Xenakis - Phlegra

[Bryn]

Boulez: Éclat (Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle), this to try out my retirement gift to myself, an OPPO UDP-203. It's the aac playback facility via USB stick I first wanted to assess. Seems very fine. Next up the stereo version of last Saturday's Gruppen, then a 192/24 FLAC or two. Later I will test its CD-R playback quality. The main reason for getting a new deck was the recently emerged failure of my not that old Cambridge azur 650BD deck, which was/is severely resticted in its codec playback range (basically mp3 and that's it!).

[jayne lee wilson]

Boulez: Éclat (Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle), this to try out my retirement gift to myself, an OPPO UDP-203. It's the aac playback facility via USB stick I first wanted to assess. Seems very fine. Next up the stereo version of last Saturday's Gruppen, then a 192/24 FLAC or two. Later I will test its CD-R playback quality. The main reason for getting a new deck was the recently emerged failure of my not that old Cambridge azur 650BD deck, which was/is severely resticted in its codec playback range (basically mp3 and that's it!).

Hope it all goes well, Bryn ... always a tingle with a new bit of high-grade hifi, isn't there? And so much to try out nowadays....
Have fun!

[Joseph K]

Boulez: Éclat (Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle), this to try out my retirement gift to myself, an OPPO UDP-203. It's the aac playback facility via USB stick I first wanted to assess. Seems very fine. Next up the stereo version of last Saturday's Gruppen, then a 192/24 FLAC or two. Later I will test its CD-R playback quality. The main reason for getting a new deck was the recently emerged failure of my not that old Cambridge azur 650BD deck, which was/is severely resticted in its codec playback range (basically mp3 and that's it!).

Can I have some money now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuslWRCnbyA

[mahlerei]

Boulez: Éclat (Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle), this to try out my retirement gift to myself, an OPPO UDP-203. It's the aac playback facility via USB stick I first wanted to assess. Seems very fine. Next up the stereo version of last Saturday's Gruppen, then a 192/24 FLAC or two. Later I will test its CD-R playback quality. The main reason for getting a new deck was the recently emerged failure of my not that old Cambridge azur 650BD deck, which was/is severely resticted in its codec playback range (basically mp3 and that's it!).

Wot, no Liszt...?

[Bryn]

Hope it all goes well, Bryn ... always a tingle with a new bit of high-grade hifi, isn't there? And so much to try out nowadays....
Have fun!

Oh, I am! Currently, it's Liszt: Transcendental Studies, as recommended by mahlerei of this parish (88.2/24 FLACs). I should have made it clear that the main problem which emerged of late with the Cambridge unit was that while it has no problem with pressed Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-A, CD or SACD, it can no longer handles CDA CD-Rs. It's not the discs. They play perfectly well on all other players I have (old and less old). I wonder whether the considerably over-burned CD-Rs (up to 96 minutes on a single CD-R) I have sometimes played on it in the past may have damaged it in some way? It showed not objection at the time though. It's only in the past couple of months it has started to 'snap, crackle and pop' its way through CD-Rs.

[Bryn]

Wot, no Liszt...?

Currently, it's Number 7 'Eroica', which sounds much too busy for its 4'33" duration.