Current crazes

[Bryn]

Janacek's Intimate Letters quartet in various editions and recordings.

[Alison]

Not sure how this differs from the Currently Listening thread... but current enthusiasms borne of recent acquaintance:

Medtner Piano Sonatas. Hamish Milne (on an aptly named Brilliant Classics box set).

You're probably right Sir V. Suppose I just wanted to draw out the little seasons of listening most of us have.

I am seeking out that Medtner box today. Ideal autumn evening fayre.

[verismissimo]

Schubert's songs.
After four or five decades of sporadic collection of them on record, I decided to make a list of what I've got (and what I haven't). And listening.
Looks as though my current score is around 50% of his roughly 650. But that will go up as we approach next year's Oxford Lieder Festival, when they plan to perform the lot across three weeks.

[gurnemanz]

Schubert's songs.
After four or five decades of sporadic collection of them on record, I decided to make a list of what I've got (and what I haven't). And listening.
Looks as though my current score is around 50% of his roughly 650. But that will go up as we approach next year's Oxford Lieder Festival, when they plan to perform the lot across three weeks.

Likewise, but my collection over the same time period has not been sporadic but ongoing, so I have multiple versions of most of them. Comparison of interpretations is fascinating. One of my first classical LPs was F-D/Moore in Schöne Müllerin. I never saw the great man actually sing live but did make it to his 75th birthday talk at the Wigmore. My "current craze" is a recently acquired recital by Vesselina Kasarova and Friedrich Haider. My latest recital was on Thursday at this year's Oxford Lieder Festival - a rather exciting lunchtime concert with a young Korean counter-tenor, doing some songs from Schwanengesang.

[Dave2002]

Not sure how this differs from the Currently Listening thread... but current enthusiasms borne of recent acquaintance:

Medtner Piano Sonatas. Hamish Milne (on an aptly named Brilliant Classics box set).

I took it to be different if one had listened to the same work more than 3 times in the last few days, either in the same or different versions.

[Alison]

Mahler Resurrections from Solti (lso), Haitink (Dresden) and Zander (philharmonia) in the last few days.

The new Zander does get going after an uneventful first movement.

[Petrushka]

Mahler Resurrections from Solti (lso), Haitink (Dresden) and Zander (philharmonia) in the last few days.

The new Zander does get going after an uneventful first movement.

I haven't had a Mahler 2 craze for some time. The Zander recording is down on my wish list so was wondering what it's like. Everything ok after the first movement?

There are some works which seem to invite being a craze, among them Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony and the Elgar 2 in my experience.

[Richard Tarleton]

Those Britten SQs can be had very cheaply on Naxos played by the excellent Maggini Quartet. The Belcea Q. cycle of all three can often be had for 'a poorly octopus', too.

What's a "poorly octopus", Throps - is it cockney rhyming slang? The Belcea CD cover as illustrated on Amazon says "String Quartets, Three Divertimenti" but isn't clear about whether it's all 3...if it is, at £9.07 (when I last looked) it's cheaper than the Maggini across 2 CDs....but perhaps the Maggini are better?

Crazes - I've been playing the Smetana and Janacek quartets a lot, especially "My Life" and "Intimate Letters".

[Thropplenoggin]

What's a "poorly octopus", Throps - is it cockney rhyming slang? The Belcea CD cover as illustrated on Amazon says "String Quartets, Three Divertimenti" but isn't clear about whether it's all 3...if it is, at £9.07 (when I last looked) it's cheaper than the Maggini across 2 CDs....but perhaps the Maggini are better?

Crazes - I've been playing the Smetana and Janacek quartets a lot, especially "My Life" and "Intimate Letters".

Six quid (GBP £6.00). Sick squid.

I've seen the Magginis going for £0.34 on the Marketplace, if one doesn't mind besmirching one's paws on used goods.

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Thread duties: Ingrid Haebler playing Mozart piano variations. Haebler Mozart discs are hard to find but fortunately there is a lot of her Mozart on YouTube.

[hafod]

.....Haebler Mozart discs are hard to find but fortunately there is a lot of her Mozart on YouTube.

Not if you can afford this mortgage jobbie!

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=DN0021

[Dave2002]

Not if you can afford this mortgage jobbie!
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/sea...hString=DN0021

I'm tempted anyway! Got a while to decide.

[vinteuil]

Not if you can afford this mortgage jobbie!
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/sea...hString=DN0021

... I think these 34 discs for £128 are a bargain : £3-76 per disc surely isn't extravagant?

[hafod]

I'm tempted anyway! Got a while to decide.

Probably not a scramble to buy but it does say '31/12/2013 (while stocks last).' I've been caught by hesitating a couple of time before.

[hafod]

... I think these 34 discs for £128 are a bargain : £3-76 per disc surely isn't extravagant?

No question that it is a bargain in the sense that it is extremely good value for money, but it is the overall expenditure necessary to secure it that is surely the issue? Well, it is for me.

[Dave2002]

No question that it is a bargain in the sense that it is extremely good value for money, but it is the overall expenditure necessary to secure it that is surely the issue? Well, it is for me.

Thanks for pointing out the stock possibilities. I haven't noticed any other suppliers, which seems odd.

I have the Mozart solo piano works already - bought in Shanghai. The Schubert and the piano sonatas are on Spotify. It's the concertos which are very hard to get, and which I'd like.