What are you listening to?

[Jared]

Hello there again,

And thank you kindly for the warm welcome. Indeed this seems a much friendlier place. I cast a last glance at the threads in the CMG and still fail to understand the rumpus. Glad to be out of there and equally glad to accept Seán's invitation to join.

Until we speak again...
:)

let me add my belated welcome to those above... I'm not sure whether we have spoken previously over on CMG because I don't recognise the name 'Dane', but a warm welcome all the same... ;-)

I have been working my way slowly through the last 4 disks in this boxset: Secular Choral Works. They are growing on me with repeated listens, but don't hold me enthralled in the way his lieder does...

[Jared]

these are very powerful works... it is interesting that when I was initially played Winterreise, over 4 years ago now, I simply couldn't get a handle on it at all. Now, I think it's the very finest of lieder and am delighted to have a fine version such as this in my collection.

[fergus]

these are very powerful works... it is interesting that when I was initially played Winterreise, over 4 years ago now, I simply couldn't get a handle on it at all. Now, I think it's the very finest of lieder and am delighted to have a fine version such as this in my collection.

It always amazes me how one's understanding and perceptions of the same work can vary over time. I am glad to read that you got to grips with that one Jared.

[Jared]

It always amazes me how one's understanding and perceptions of the same work can vary over time. I am glad to read that you got to grips with that one Jared.

I think it was just a simple case of being given a lieder disk, too early in my appreciation and understanding of classical music.. I'd have been better off borrowing a Brahms Symphony at the time...

[bombasticDarren]

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 (Martha Argerich/Kirill Kondrashin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philips)

[bombasticDarren]

Stravinsky - Violin Concerto (Hilary Hahn/Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sony Classical)

[bombasticDarren]

Parry - Piano Concerto (Piers Lane/Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hyperion)

[fergus]

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 (Martha Argerich/Kirill Kondrashin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philips)

I would definitely like to hear that Tchaikovsky 1!!

[fergus]

On vinyl....








....a very good version of Beethoven's 6th!

[Jose Echenique]

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 (Martha Argerich/Kirill Kondrashin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philips)

I would definitely like to hear that Tchaikovsky 1!!

The Tchaikovsky is superb of course, but there´s an even finer Argerich version with Abbado and the BPO in DG. But it´s the Rachmaninov 3 that stands out in that cd, it´s a miraculous performance, where Argerich raises above her rivals like a "dea-ex-machina", solving the unsolvable, bringing light, wisdom and incomparable technique to that much dreaded concerto.