What are you listening to?

[Seán]

Inspired by Dave I decided to listen to my favourite version of Mahler's Second:

Intrigued by the last couple of posts on Solti's M1 & M2 I went to my shelf convinced that I had this sitting there....



....and I just discovered that I do not actually own it....a major Senior Moment!!!!

Snap! I cannot find my copy of the Solti/CSO recording of Mahler's Second.......very strange indeed.

[DaveF]

Mahlers Symphony 1. Few performances can touch this one imho.

Try the Solti/LSO recording then, it is magnificent, I have it on vinyl.

I also have that one Seán and the M2 with the LSO that you posted above. To be honest I prefer the CSO versions of both Symphonies as I feel that they are better recorded and have a far beefier sound. This was my conclusion from last year when I listened to several M2's before last years performance at the NCH(which was in the month of May if I remember correctly).

[fergus]

Snap! I cannot find my copy of the Solti/CSO recording of Mahler's Second.......very strange indeed.

Strange indeed....what is going on with the M2s?!?!

[fergus]

Bruch - Concerto for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra....



....really lovely music!

[mcq]

I began today with three recordings of music by Heinrich Schutz and his Ars Nova Copenhagen ensemble on Da Capo: Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz & Johannes-Passion, Weihnachts-Historie & Auferstehungshistorie and St Luke Passion. Exceptional performances and a new benchmark for the delightful Weihnachts-Historie. The two Passion settings are new to me and are intensely and dramatically performed.

Then, I listened to three recordings of mediaeval music on Arcana: Corps Femenin: L’avant-Garde De Jean Duc De Berry, (performed by the Ferrara Ensemble and directed by Crawford Young), D'Amor Ragionando: Ballate NeoStilnoviste en Italia 1380-1415 (as performed by Mala Punica and directed by Pedro Memelsdorff), Carmina Burana: Sacri Sarcasmi and Historia Sancti Eadmundi (the latter two recordings performed by La Reverdie). This is beautiful music from the 13th and 14th centuries, mostly consisting of secular songs interspersed with a number of instrumental tracks.

And last night I listened to Noelle Spieth's spellbinding selection of Rameau's Pieces de Clavecin en concerts (Eloquentia) and then the wonderfully idiosyncratic Patricia Petibon's new album of Italian baroque arias, Rosso (DG), with Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. The Handel arias in particular are excellent but the whole album is a pleasure to listen to.

Here is the incomparable Petibon in Offenbach, Gluck, Rameau, Poulenc and Sondheim:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gaOxTG ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-W1rpaQ5m8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVs5FxXAHD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZbM0ayW4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyMaRzL-2Q

[Ciaran]

How about that: SNAP! Two of your choices are in the post on their way to me at the moment! Both were very enthusiastically reviewed in the most recent International Record Review. I'd been looking for more Schütz after enjoying Herreweghe in the Musikalische Exequien

I began today with three recordings of music by Heinrich Schutz and his Ars Nova Copenhagen ensemble on Da Capo: Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz & Johannes-Passion, Weihnachts-Historie & Auferstehungshistorie and St Luke Passion. Exceptional performances and a new benchmark for the delightful Weihnachts-Historie. The two Passion settings are new to me and are intensely and dramatically performed.

and then the wonderfully idiosyncratic Patricia Petibon's new album of Italian baroque arias, Rosso (DG), with Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra.

and I just don't understand why I haven't any CDs of this charming redhead already! Well, not solo ones anyway.

[Ciaran]

Snap! I cannot find my copy of the Solti/CSO recording of Mahler's Second.......very strange indeed.

Strange indeed....what is going on with the M2s?!?!

I should have stolen Seán's copy when it visited my house, but... I didn't. Honest!! (Note to self: must get one though!)

[fergus]

What a beguiling image!!

[fergus]

JSB – Two versions of Cantata BWV176 for Trinity Sunday....

[Seán]

Snap! I cannot find my copy of the Solti/CSO recording of Mahler's Second.......very strange indeed.

Strange indeed....what is going on with the M2s?!?!

I should have stolen Seán's copy when it visited my house, but... I didn't. Honest!! (Note to self: must get one though!)

Nah, I don't think that you had the opportunity to do so as I am sure that it was the Solti/LSO and not the Solti/CSO recording that adorned your system.