Spinning Today (Classical version)

[JJack]

Listening to the Ravel G major concerto on MHS vinyl, Daniele Dechenne conducted by Zinman, Hague Phil. Stunning music for late-night listening.

[morris_minor]

This afternoon it's

Respighi - The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome: Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos/New Philharmonia (Columbia Studio 2)

[MartinT]

Respighi - The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome

Ooh nice. My preferred recording is Lane/Atlanta SO on Telarc but I have several.

[morris_minor]

Ooh nice. My preferred recording is Lane/Atlanta SO on Telarc but I have several.

This is my only one. It's kind of like Vivaldi's Four Seasons or Beethoven's 5th - every collection should have one (at least). I was looking up who else has recorded it - every man and his dog it seems. The Gramophone over the years have rated Muti quite highly for his OTT approach, and Batiz on Naxos gets mentioned in dispatches. I hadn't come across your Atlanta version . . .

[Marco]

Found a superb little book shop in Shrewsbury today that also specialises in sales of new classical CDs.

Unfortunately, I was with my parents, and so it would've been unfair of me to spend hours browsing through the stock, not to mention totally impractical, but I did head straight for the Shostakovich section and grabbed a double CD of 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano Op, 87, with Tatiana Nikolayeva, on the Hyperion label.

I haven't played it yet, but apparently it is a, quote: "Gramophone Award Winner Classic CD Top 100 CDs of All Time". I love solo piano music

So, looking forward to spinning it later!

Marco.

[jandl100]

Congrats, Marco - that is an utterly superb pair of CDs, far & away my fave version of the music.
And the music is fantastic, too.

[BTH K10A]

Mahler's 7th tonight

[JJack]

Mahler's 7th tonight

I recently bought the Zinman Mahler 7 but haven't had time to listen yet. I'm afraid I've never heard the whole piece, so I'm excited to block off some time to hear it.

At my demo day at the Harbeth dealer today I pulled out a $1 CBS LP of David Oistrach playing the Sibelius concerto. Only one of the 5 other guys likes classical but their jaws were dropping at his cadenza. As I say to my daughter; "um, don't you thing HE practised his scales every day?"

[jandl100]

Of late:

Jola Braga Santos symphonies 1,2, 4 & 5. On Naxos CD (1 & 5) and Marco Polo CDs (2 & 4). Very very fine large scale post-romantic symphonic music, nicely recorded. 2 & 4 are particularly wonderful.

Vaughan Williams symphonies 2 & 8. Handley on EMI CD. I thought I'd try Handley again - previously I'd not really got on with his VW symphonies. Whoa - kind of bowled over by his 2nd especially, although the 8th is very good. Have now ordered more from Handley's cycle. My tastes definitely change as tme goes by.

Malipiero string quartets. On an ASV 2 CD set. I've been impressed by some orchestral works I've invested in, so thought I'd try some chamber. Must admit, I'm having trouble getting to grips with this. They seem kind of amorphous and unstructured on first listen - MLR - more listening required!

Dussek fortepiano sonatas on DHM CD. Interesting music, but these are played by Andreas Staier, who I have never really come in tune with. Good technique (well, OK, superb technique!) but a bit soulless.

[vinylspinner]

Prokofiev on vinyl,

Alexander Nevsky, conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra on RCA Red Seal

Found it in a charity shop yesterday, 99p...mint and stunning sound.

Nigel