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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostEarlier I heard the first movt of Mozart’s Haffner Serenade Stuttgart/Norrington - got to say it is probably the most drab and cheerless performance I have heard of the work in a long while!
Listen to Die Kölner Akademie in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. Subscription from £10.83/month
One of my top favourites in a work I'm very fond of....
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Originally posted by ZucchiniWe heard her play this last year with Mirga G-T egging her on. Yes, it seemed they were doing it for a bet!
Absolutely electrifying.
(Very unusual for me - I even kept the programme)
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
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Bruckner: Symphony No 5
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lorin Maazel
This was the first recording of the Bruckner 5 I bought back in 1975 and I've recently replaced those LPs with the Decca Eloquence CD having not heard the recording for very many years. One never hears much about this recording but it's terrific with the VPO in outstanding form and in vintage 1970s Decca Sofiensaal sound. 76 minutes that flew by!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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My Qobuz listening has been rather similar to yours. Barenboim's new Beethoven is very disappointing (sluggish tempi, no sparkle); I liked Lugansky's op 101, but found his 109 unpleasantly over-forceful. But what about Tom Beghin's exploration of Beethoven and the French Piano? Fascinating, unexpected, challenging... And a booklet essay that's almost book-length!
This week's Beethoven highlight for me is that Bonet/Visovan violin sonatas recording. I've only really heard Bonet in baroque repertoire (her Corelli op 5 is magnificent), and I've so far only dipped into the Beethoven, but am very much looking forward to a proper listen.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostSifting through all sorts of Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Barenboim, Lugansky, Bloch, Huvé again) and instrumental music of which there has been an outpouring late in the Autumn....
As for my new passion, the Violin Sonatas...amazing new releases.....watch this space!
Yesterday’s listening.Carrying on with my Sir Simon Rattle Season.
Lutoslawski Piano Concerto
Symphony No.2
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op.35
L’uba Orgonásova (soprano)
Dmytro Popov (tenor)
Mikhail Petrenko (baritone)
Rundfunks Chor, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Berliner Philharmoniker
Dvorak
The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op.109
The Wood Dove, Op.110
The Noon Witch, Op.108
The Water Goblin, Op.107
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Today
Mahler
Symphony No.9 in D major.
Britten
An American Overture
(CBSO)
Ballad for Heroes, Op.14
(Robert Tear, tenor, CBSO & Chorus)
Diversions for Left Hand
(Peter Donohoe, piano, CBSO)
The Building of the House Overture
(CBSO)
Suite on English Folk Tunes
(CBSO)
Canadian Carnival
Debussy
Prélude á l’après midi d’un faune
La Mer
La boîte à joujoux(orch Caplet)
Préludes Livre II
No.7 Ce que le vent d’ouest
No.2 Feuilles mortes
No.12 Feux d’artifice
Berliner Philharmoniker
All conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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Run wild, run free!
These two wild-haired young creatures take Beethoven by-the-scruff, to sonic and emotionaL extremes. So the Op.47 Kreutzer goes from the fiercest anger and energy to an irresistible carefree joy. And Yet… and yet they still find that serene philosophical balance-of-probability in the Variations… one of Beethoven’s greatest slow movements, and a personal icon of mine. Utterly wonderful here. The vibrato-less purity of that last high note!
The so lovable Op. 96 is no less remarkable. Playing Now..... And again, and for all time....how it sings and dances through its fantasies, rejoices in its very existence...
It’s not just the freedom of phrase and tempo though. They find a marvellous range of colour in their instruments too, and offer much praise to those who designed and created them.
Everyone should try to hear this, if only once…you won’t forget it howsoever you respond…
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Beethoven: Sonatina Lunatica (Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 & 10)
Lina Tur Bonet & Aurelia Vişovan
- Released on 20/11/2020 by Passacaiile
- QOBUZ 24/96
violin
by Carlo Tononi, Venice, 1724;
historical bow by John Dodd, Cramer model, c. 1780
fortepiano
by Robert Brown, copy after Jakob Bertsche
the newest Bärenreiter Edition 2020 was used for this recording
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JLW, WOW!
Mahler
Symphony No.6 in A minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Neglected Treasures
Gilbert Vinter
Symphony of Marches
Wilfred Heaton
Partita for Band
Henze
Ragtimes & Habeneras
Elgar Howarth
Fireworks *
Morgan Jones (narrator) *
Cory Band
Philip Harper.Last edited by BBMmk2; 22-11-20, 10:11.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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