Elisabeth Valletti - Innocenti [cd]
Thanks to Jerry for this one. Most excellent!
http://www.takticmusic.com/artistes/...20Inn00001.jpg
Printable View
Elisabeth Valletti - Innocenti [cd]
Thanks to Jerry for this one. Most excellent!
http://www.takticmusic.com/artistes/...20Inn00001.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y21ai3T_EV...600/folder.jpg
No, not Howard Shore - but excellent and fun!
Currently playing for the 3rd time in as many days -- but today on my new silver disc spinner :yay:
http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225....jpg[/url]
-- this really is very fine Schubert playing. Good recording, too.
Up tonight are:
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10, Petrenko, RLPO [cd]
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13, Masur, NYPO [cd]
http://images.bluebeat.com/an/5/7/6/9/l9675.jpg
Ah - Petrenko Shosty 10 - I shall await your verdict with bated breath, Martin!
Good grief - talk about row A stalls! The orchestra are flattened and practically on top of you. There is no depth perception between the cellos and the brass, except that the brass are not nearly raspy enough for this music. The sound is crisp and immediate, but this presentation is not to my taste. I feel the need to lean back all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
The tempo seems very four-square. If Shostakovich had written music for Thunderbirds, this is what it would be like. You can almost see the big machines taking off.
I don't think it'll be bothering the Jarvi or Previn much.
Haha! - yes, you may recall me posting I was not at all impressed with Petrenko. :) His 8th is just the same - be told! :eyebrows:
Martin - Have you given this a listen yet, on the Jarvi Shosti 10 CD?Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Just playing it now, Jerry. It's rather good, isn't it, and not really like a ballet suite.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqV,!l8...QYT(Q~~_35.JPG
Beethoven 4th piano concerto, with Paul Badura-Skoda on an interesting sounding fortepiano.
LP again - lovely!
Arrived yesterday to play on my new SACD spinner :drool: ....
http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/8b/74/0021748b_medium.jpeg
What a disappointment!
Flaccid performance - mediocre sound quality. :(
Oh boy, after that dreary disc, I had to revitalise my musical pallette with a truly great performance and recording .... :thumbsup:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
SACD?
Pah!
My experience of LSO live is that the recordings are not great, on either CD or SACD. It isn't the format, Jerry, it's the way the live concerts are mic'd up and mixed.
Yep, I know. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Shame about that Haitink performance, though, it got great user reviews on Amazon. :rolleyes:
A bit like those Petrenko Shostakovich CDs - how those discs won awards I will never understand!
Perhaps the reviewers now use iPods?
Hmm, probably -- but the performances are so lacklustre.
As in the Petrenko Shosty 10 - "very four square" as you said. The musical notes were there, but the spirit of Shostakovich was AWOL.
Indeed, but those Thunderbirds were rolling along the ramp and taking off into their next adventure :rfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/albu...fe/3695511.jpg
SACD. Arrived yesterday. Decent performance, but sq is a bit over-bloomy and unfocussedv... and the piano is placed left of centre - I hate that! :steam: - makes the whole sound image seem skewed. :rolleyes:
Ah - this is how it should go! Great performances, great sound quality :thumbsup: ..... CD .....
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
I have just been listening to Leif Ove Andsnes playing Grieg Lyric pieces. This is a really lovely, thoughtful and atmospheric performance, rendered utterly beguiling by being played via my Quad ESL-57s. This CD is definitely one to get:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grieg-Pieces...1347861&sr=8-1
Hugo - his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto is also excellent.
Zoopah!
-- my first SACD success ... on the Linn label ...
http://i.prs.to/t_200/harmoniamundickd252.jpg
Performances; gorgeous. Sound quality; excellent.
Not sure about this one - I'm trying to find a recording of Dvorak's 1st symphony that is as impressive as I suspect the music is ....
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
I've tried a few so far, I suspect that the quest continues ....
I've not heard Jarvi or Kertesz yet ....
I'm auditioning new speakers at the moment, so quite a few discs are being dug out of the deeper archeological strata of my collection. This one emerged into the light yestreday evening:
http://www.warnerclassics.com/ugc-1/...2545_large.jpg
Wonderfully uplifting stuff!
Picked up a pile of (minty) second-hand vinyl in Swordfish Records in Brum:
Ravel - L'Heure Espagnole with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Suzanne Danco (Soprano), Paul Derenne (Tenor), Michel Hamel (Tenor), Heinz Rehfuss (Baritone), Andre Vessieres (Bass), conducted by Ernest Ansermet, on Decca Eclipse, from 1963.
Shostakovich - Symphony No5 with The Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, on World Record Club Records, from 1963.
Shostakovich - Symphony No4, with The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, on CBS, from 1963.
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No1 (Op.35)/Piano Concerto No2 (Op.102), with Andre Previn and Leonard Bernstein, on CBS, from 1974.
Shostakovich - Symphony No13, with The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Male Chorus, with Vitaly Gromadsky (Bass), conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, on Everest Records, from 1967.
Scarlatti - 6 Sinfonias, with The Paris Instrumental Ensemble, conducted by Charles Ravier, on EMI, from 1972.
Scarlatti - Sinfonias Nos 6-11 Cantilena, conducted by Adrian Shepherd, on RCA, from 1979.
Brahms - Piano Quintet in F Minor, with The Virtuoso Ensemble. Piano: Wilfrid Parry. Violins: David Martin, Patrick Halling. Viola - Gwynne Edwards. Cello: Willem de Mont, on RMC Records, from 1968.
Bruch - Concerto in G Minor. Mendelssohn - Concerto in E Minor, with Josef Suk (violin), with The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karel Ancerl, on Supraphon Records, from 1964.
Smetana - Piano Trio in G Minor, with the Suk Trio. Josef Suk: violin. Josef Chuchro: cello. Jan Panenka: piano, on Supraphon Records, from 1968.
Joachim Raff - Fifth Symphony 'Lenore', with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Herrmann, on Unicorn Records, from 1970.
Not a bad wee haul for £25 :cool:
Marco.
Oooo - lots of Shosty - well done, Marco!
Spinning yesterday --
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x...63/1084763.jpg
Telemann sonatas for 2 violins - very reverberant recording, but once acclimatised to, this is a great CD. Both violin parts recorded by the same violinist and overdubbed. Works well!
And some more Telemann
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
An interesting concept - 4 short cantatas, with a different vocal soloist in each (soprano, contralto, tenor & bass), but forming a unifying whole, with a fine and quite long orchestral intro.
Marco cleaned up the Shossy before the rest of us could get a look-in :lol:
Hehehe... Del spied the Shossy, pulled it out of the rack, and alerted me to it. So as it was just sitting there winking at me.... :eyebrows:
TBH, if I'd had more time, I'd have hoovered up a lot more of the classical stuff, as it was well priced and minty mint! :exactly:
Let me know what you think of that box set you got, when you give it a spin :)
Marco.
I will do, probably tonight. It was Brahms - A German Requiem conducted by Haitink.
Meanwhile, the Santana The Third Album I spied cleaned up beautifully and sounds great, like another Abraxas.
Btw, I'm currently listening to this:Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Apart from it sounding stunning, I also noticed this little snippet of information on the back of the album cover:Quote:
Shostakovich - Symphony No13, with The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Male Chorus, with Vitaly Gromadsky (Bass), conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, on Everest Records, from 1967.
It's a big YES to that last bit, but I'm also wondering if the former (in blue) is of any significance, in terms of rarity? :)Quote:
The performance of the Shostakovich 13th symphony is the actual live performance recorded in Moscow on November 20, 1965, therefore please allow for audience noises. Since that time the Russian government has banned the performance and you will surely be captivated with the sincerity and poignancy of the music.
Marco.
Shostakovich - Symphony No13, with The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Male Chorus, with Vitaly Gromadsky (Bass), conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, on Everest Records, from 1967.
:violin:
I'm fairly sure they (the Russian government) have relented now but I'll check. Certainly Stalin, whom Shostakovich greatly feared, had died by the time of the 10th performance, but he didn't write all the symphonies in order. The controversy with this is that the Babi Yar poem suggests that only jews suffered whereas of course there was suffering across all ethnic groups. I believe that Shotakovich changed some of the wording to make it more acceptable to the powers that be.
Interesting, Martin. Thanks for that. Either way, the recording certainly has a series of mind-blowing performances. Maybe Jerry has some thoughts on the matter? :)
Marco.
In the Store and Fears are quite exceptional movements, even across all of Shossy's canon.
Well, I think part of Stalin's (and subsequent Soviet government's) problems with the 13th were that in the great socialist motherland, where all men were brothers (and presumably all women were sisters) it was not well thought of to publicise the terrible truth of gross injustice, government sponsored mass murder and attempted genocide.
Shosty really was risking his life with works like the 13th symphony, in a taken away and bullet in the back of the head, kind of way. That happened to many of his friends and colleagues.
Anyhoo - on to happier things -- No Shosty for me today!
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/...d/dut07265.jpg
http://content.answcdn.com/main/cont...68046xplfh.jpg
Went to Shrewsbury today with Snapper, toured around a few charity shops (before having lunch at our favourite pub/hotel: http://www.thelionhotelshrewsbury.com/), and found these on vinyl (all in minty condition):
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet (scenes from the Ballet), with The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karel Ancerl, on Supraphon Records, from 1962.
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21, with The Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Geza Anda (also on piano), on RCA, from 1976.
Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel. John Shirley-Quirk (baritone). Viola Tunnard (piano), on Saga Records, from 1963.
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No5 "Emperor", with The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Friedrich Gulda (piano), conducted by Horst Stein, on Decca Jubilee Series, from 1971.
Handel - Water Music Suite/Music for the Royal Fireworks, with The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rafel Kubelik, on Deutsche Grammophon, from 1963.
Michael Praetorius - Christmas Music, with The Westminster Cathedral Choir (The Parley of Instruments), conducted by David Hill, on Hyperion Records, from 1986.
Also, Carreras/Domingo/Pavarotti in Concert, conducted by Zubin Mehta, on Decca, from 1984.
Furthermore, I picked up a couple of new CDs from my favourite little music/book shop in Shrewsbury:
Canteloube - Chants D'Auvergne, with The Orchestre National de Lille and Véronique Gens (soprano), conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus, on Naxos, from 2004.
Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto, with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Ashley Wass (piano), conducted by James Judd, on Naxos, from 2009.
Not a bad wee haul - lots to listen to! :cool:
Marco.
:drool: One of my very fave LPs. Very special.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Nice to know, Jerry. I'll clean that one first then and have a listen. Not bad for a £1, I suppose? :)
Marco.
Bought and played yesterday, in a charity shop £1/LP spree ...
http://www.classicrecords.co.uk/photos/ASD2618.JPG
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3377/3...df88ebce_z.jpg
and CD received in the post ...
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
Rachel Podger is a tremendous baroque violinist; pretty much anything that she records is worth a listen. In particular, her recording of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas is amongst the best. These have been keeing me company today:
http://www.channelclassics.com/media...1/212198_2.jpg
http://www.channelclassics.com/media...1/214498_2.jpg
Very nice, Marco.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Those are good performances, Jerry.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Ye-e-e-essss (he agrees hesitantly) ... the sq is excellent - I find the pianism a bit steely and aloof and emotionally detached. I think I prefer Bronfman on Sony overall, even if the Sony sq is not as good as the EMI.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Churz, matey. That's also what I was thinking when I played it earlier :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Went into LLangollen today with David, popped into a charity shop we were passing (I can't resist them now, lol) and left with the following, all on minty vinyl:
Bruch - Violin Concerto No1, Scottish Fantasy, with The Scottish National Orchestra and Maurice Hasson (violin), conducted by Alexander Gibson, on EMI, from 1976.
Beethoven - Symphony No5, with The Symphony Orchestra of the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, conducted by Josef Krips. Schubert - 'Unfinished Symphony', conducted by Paul Kletzki, on Synchro Concert Hall Records, from 1966.
Wagner - Overtures: The Flying Dutchman/Rienzi, with The Munich State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Franz Konwitschny. Die Meistersinger, with The Saxon State Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Kempe. Tannhäuser, with The Munich State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Robert Heger, on ARC Records, from 1963.
Debussy/Ravel/Hahn/Fauré - Melodies. Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano) and Gonzalo Soriano (piano), on EMI 'His Master's Voice', from 1967.
Gabrieli/Frescobaldi - Music for Organ and Brass, with The Boston Brass Ensemble and E. Power Biggs (organ), conducted by Richard Burgin, on CBS, from 1960.
Bach - Christmas Oratorio, with The Choir of King's College, Cambridge Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Soloists: Elly Ameling (soprano), Janet Baker (alto), Robert Tear (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), conducted by Philip Ledger, on EMI 'His Master's Voice', from 1977. 3-LP box set.
All for £5 :cool:
Marco.
Chopin Noctures with Vlado Perlemuter.
Plato
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto, Mozart: Horn Concerto No.4 ('Gateway to the Classics' LP 1, another 9 to go)
Mozart Horn Concertos - Dennis Brain.
P
Now Bach, Brandenburg on R3.
P
Rather a nice charity shop haul in Abergavenny yesterday ....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSCF8224.jpg
All 50p or £1 each. Oh, the 2 LP Beethoven string quartet set was 50p. Have so far played Walton 2nd symphony and Vivaldi Gloria RV588 - both excellent! :)
Nice little collection there, Jerry! :cool:
I remember buying the Walton when it came out :wheniwasaboy: Was the first time I heard the Hindemith Variations, which has become one of my favourite Walton pieces. I believe the only other recording was Tod Handley's, coupled with the First Symphony on EMI.
Jerry, are those for sale (as usual) or are you keeping them for yourself? :)
Marco.
Mine - all mine - :)
... although I might consider selling on behalf of charity for a suitable sum .... you fancy any of 'em?