attunement Posted February 15 Posted February 15 FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 - 1828) “TROUT” QUINTET THE AMADEUS QUARTET with HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN (1920 - 1981) ℗ 1959 by His Master’s Voice 4
padde23 Posted February 15 Posted February 15 8 hours ago, Keith_W said: Tidal blessed me this morning by playing this after the album I requested finished: Maria Joao Pires, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21. I normally don't like Tidal auto-playing something and I will go and switch it. But I was quite taken by her dainty and delicate touch. Listen to those trills! I have never heard her play before and I love her. I will listen more, so far I like her more than either Marta Argerich and Mitsuko Uchida which are my normal go-to pianists for Mozart. I also like Nelson Freire but he has a different style. That's a big call. She is amazing, I especially love this Schubert disc. I still prefer Mitsuko Uchida for the Mozart piano sonatas, but I haven't compared with the concertos. 5 1
Dilettanteque Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations - Biber: Missa Bruxellensis 4 2
Dilettanteque Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet< BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier - Bavouzet plays Debussy, Ravel, Massenet 3
Steff Posted February 17 Posted February 17 (edited) Starts with a great medieval "droning" hurdy gurdy - I'm very fond of that sound - the low octave recorder sets a beautiful glum introspective tone to the album's opening. Quite cinematic. The contemporary compositions (track 2-4, e.g.) do grate a bit against the more coherent "traditional" pieces (track 4) This WDR3 CD is in my collection, not often played. Unfairly. @Keith_W Edited February 17 by Steff 6
Dilettanteque Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Onutė Gražinytė, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra Arvo Part, Modestas Pitrėnas - Pärt: Lamentate & Piano Works 4
Steff Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Another CD from the stack I hadn't listened to (recording date 2007) - with the romantics I always like the poetry better than the music even if here the poem is from the preromantic "sentimentalist" era - Schubert mirrors the poem's ostensible* movement from fear to unexpected optimism by shifting the piece from d-minor to d-major. * ostensible because I would contend that the "optimistic" interpretation seems quite forced if not unwarranted. 5
lemarquis Posted February 19 Posted February 19 Beethoven - Violin Concerto Op. 61 · Dvořák - Violin Concerto Op. 53 (Josef Suk, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Konwitschny, Karel Ančerl) (Tower Records TWSA-1065) - 1960-1962/2019 Another great remaster. The CPO is a superb outfit and the Supraphon recordings are pristine as always. I came for the Beethoven and stayed for the Dvořák. 6
Dilettanteque Posted February 20 Posted February 20 20 hours ago, padde23 said: On a Brendel Schubert bender thanks to @lemarquis I love this series! 1 2
Dilettanteque Posted February 20 Posted February 20 Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 5 1
jazzdog@groovemasters Posted February 21 Posted February 21 Claude Debussy - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – Préludes · Volume 2. 6
Steff Posted February 21 Posted February 21 (edited) The cover art visualises what the opening track sounds like Edited February 21 by Steff 5
Steff Posted February 21 Posted February 21 (edited) There's been lots of Schubert piano comparison in the #classical music chat group lately - Brendel seems to be liked by everyone. Edited February 21 by Steff 1
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