Spinning Today (Classical version)

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Nice, Barry. This is the version I own on heavyweight vinyl (on Lyrique Records):

Marco.

I do like an orchestral spectacular! I've got Scheherazade on a Decca "World of" LP with the LSO and Pierre Monteux which I think started life as an RCA Living Stereo (and is very rare in that form). Wonderful, "solid" orchestral sound and properly brassy brass (if you know what I mean) - wondering if I can get it on a Spotify for the train home.

The Mackerras/Telarc on CD is nice as well - much more "see-through" textures than the Monteux.

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Spotify /iPad / Sennheiser Momentum on-ear, sat on the concourse at Birmingham New Street waiting for my train home.

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^^ That was Rimsky-Korsakov's Scehehrazade (image seems to be missing)...

Right now:
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti

Vinyl, from The Decca Sound - The Analogue Years box.

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[jandl100]

What a superb performance of the Beethoven concerto! - really surprised by this. Delicacy as well as a wonderfully fluid solo line.

She's not a bad skier, either! .....>

[jandl100]

The Stabat Mater is yummy!

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Vinyl. One word. Wow.

[jandl100]

3 CD boxset.
Absurdly cheap on Amazon.
"Vintage" recordings from the 40s and 50s but which still sound very listenable.

Astonishingly good pianism.
The later stereo recordings on Decca show Curzon well past his best, clearly concentrating on just getting the notes right, imo - back in the day of this boxset he was in his prime and could let the notes look after themselves whilst his mind was perfecting the interpretations - very exciting, lucid, tempestuous.
One of the great pianists, imo.

Included: concertos by Mozart and Brahms and Grieg, and the 2 Mozart piano quartets with members of the Amadeus Qt.

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3 CD boxset.
Absurdly cheap on Amazon.
"Vintage" recordings from the 40s and 50s but which still sound very listenable.

Astonishingly good pianism.
The later stereo recordings on Decca show Curzon well past his best, clearly concentrating on just getting the notes right - back in the day of this boxset he was in his prime and could let the notes look after themselves whilst his mind was perfecting the interpretations - very exciting, lucid, tempestuous.
One of the great pianists, imo.

Included: concertos by Mozart and Brahms and Grieg.

Interesting - the only Clifford Curzon I have is the Mozart with Benjamin Britten conducting, which strikes me as a beautiful thing - very special. Although it was of course not issued until both he and Britten were dead as I understand it, so presumably someone wasn't happy. Tend to turn to Brendel myself as a default (love his Beethoven concertos with Haitink and the LPO) and I tend to enjoy Uchida, Ashkenazy, Pires, Andsnes and Richter (his supercharged LP of the Liszt concertos is amazing).

[jandl100]

Ah - tastes differ! - I have that Mozart / Britten recording - no.s 20 & 27. Great conducting from Britten, but I find Curzon a bit humdrum; over-careful it seems to me. The Mozart 23 and 24 in the boxset are very different - you may not like them, quite fast and flowing.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Brendel except some of his very last work.

tastes differ