The classical what are you listening to now ? thread.

[windhoek]

Yeah, it's for chamber orchestra. And I think you've hit the nail on the head as to why it's so good: you hear more from less. I don't whether it's the transcription or the performance that makes it so delicate and easy on the ears but either way, it's a winner from start to finish

 

[Barrymagrec]

I find a similar effect between listening to the orchestral version of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky and the original Piano version, the stark clarity of the Piano cuts through to the core of the piece. I still like the Ravel orchestration though.

 

[BrianPK]

Haydn Harpsichord Concertos...Ton Koopman. . . Philips.
Very enjoyabe


https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000041CY/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[TheDecameron]

Bach Well Tempered Book 1: Andras Schiff.

 

[windhoek]

Last night I was listening to The Glass Effect (The Music of Philip Glass & Others) by Lavinia Meijer. It's good. Very good. It's so good I could go on and on in praise of her playing but I don't want to harp on about it. Okay, I'll get my coat...

 

[TheDecameron]

Bach Cantatas 161-163: Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000000SB3/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

I bought this set on a trip to Amsterdam in 1988, from C&A which had a fantastic music dept. It’s been with me through so many hifis in 30 years, not listened for several years, now through a Devialet it sounds magnificent. A beautiful reading collides with fine audio engineering- Teldec.

You can get it on Amazon s/h for 77 pence!

 

[BrianPK]

Haydn Piano Concertos . . . wonderful listening.
I’ve always liked the Cologne Chamber Orch. conducted by the late lamented Helmut Müller- Brühl...a great loss.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000RGOCII/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[TheDecameron]

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. Furtwängler, The Philharmonia. The mono recording was made 66 years ago this month at the Kingsway Hall by Legge and the SQ is superb.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000002RXM/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[mjw]

Mahler 8 Gergiev and LSO live in St Paul’s. Some of the balance and sound generally is wonky (because of the venue I guess) but what a performance - electrifying from start to finish.

 

[flatpopely]

Scheherazade on Decca SXL2268.

What a superb piece of music.
Beautifully played, recorded, mastered and put onto vinyl.

In 1961.

 

[BrianPK]

I had a great urge, yesterday,to listen to some of Haydn’s string quartets.Naxos has done a splendid job with the Haydn and Beethoven quartets ...wonderful playing and SQ ...but the Mozart SQ is very disappointing (too distant and reverberant).
I’m currently listening to this Haydn op.mixture.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00002606W/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[Brian S]

Haydn! - totally reliable. If in doubt, play Haydn.

 

[herb]

Haydn string quartets playing here as well.... Takacs Quartet, 6 cheap ones

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0002U9G8K/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[TheDecameron]

Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00000IP61/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[Barrymagrec]

Very soon - Boito - Mefistofele opening of the Met Radio season on R3

 

[TheDecameron]

Very soon - Boito - Mefistofele opening of the Met Radio season on R3

Oh, I listened to some of it- fantastic. I’ve friends who go to the Met regularly and will have to ask them if they say it. It looked amazing too.

 

[TheDecameron]

Allegri: Misereri. Peter Philips and The Tallis Scholars

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079J5D5PS/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[PsB]

Schubert violin/piano sonatinas. Grumiaux/Castagnone 1955 and Boskovsky/Kraus, 1957.

 

[alanbeeb]

Beethoven op.106 Hammerklavier sonata...Grigory Sokolov live.

 

[BrianPK]

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake . . . Bonynge conducting Nat.Phil.Orch.. . . Wonderful sound stage.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000066SBD/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21