dwbasement Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 Having digital this arvo, will spin some black disc later... 3
Esoterica Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 As per my recent post in another thread, I'm looking to learn more about the classical scene. So I started reading the wiki on it and was surprised to find, that it started long before the well-known composers. The middle ages in fact. So that's where I've gone for my current listening session. Hildegard von Bingen - born in the high middle ages (1098 AD). From Wikipedia: She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history.[3] She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.[4] She sounds like quite the incredible woman. Pretty wonderful to be able to listen to music and chanting from over a millenia ago! Sorry, no pics. Cameras weren't invented yet 2
dwbasement Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 Fournier - a faster tempo recording than Rostropovich. 4
Dilettanteque Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne - Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas & Five Melodies 3
Dilettanteque Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov, Freibuger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado - Beethoven: Triple Concerto This is worth returning to again swiftly after a recent first listen. Well recorded and an exuberant performance. 4
Dilettanteque Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 (edited) Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas The first recording I heard, and owned, of these works, so a sentimental favourite (and Perlman delivers sentimentality in spades). Edited September 5, 2021 by Dilettanteque 2
Dilettanteque Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 Janos Starker - Kodaly: Cello Sonata and Duo for Violin and Cello 3
Dilettanteque Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 Guarneri Quartet - Borodin & Dohnanyi: String Quartets 3
Dilettanteque Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 Alfred Brendel - Liszt: Variations, Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, etc. 5
att23 Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 Just arrived. Vikingur Olafsson playing Mozart and Contemporaries 4
dwbasement Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 First time I hear this Mahler 2 in Columbia setting on the new phono, sounds fantastic. 3 1
Dilettanteque Posted September 5, 2021 Posted September 5, 2021 Steven Isserlis & Robert Levin - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas 5
Dilettanteque Posted September 6, 2021 Posted September 6, 2021 Steven Isserlis & Peter Evans - Martinu: Cello Sonatas 3
att23 Posted September 6, 2021 Posted September 6, 2021 Stale Kleiberg- Treble & bass Violin concerto and Double bass concerto played by Trondheim Symphony Orchestra 1
Dilettanteque Posted September 6, 2021 Posted September 6, 2021 (edited) Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Rosamunde Quartett - Silvestrov: Leggiero, Pesante Edited September 6, 2021 by Dilettanteque 1
lemarquis Posted September 6, 2021 Posted September 6, 2021 Emma Kirkby - Complete L'Oiseau-Lyre Recitals (2015) 2
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