Recent Purchases
Re: Recent Purchases
Jared wrote:
I did ponder that set for a while; the cellist Janos Starker being the attraction there. Let me know how you get on with it when you eventually get to listen to it Jared.
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
Re: Recent Purchases
^^ Julius Katchen is the principle attraction for me... he is a superb Brahms pianist.. do you own this?
along with Josef Suk, these are still my favourite versions of the Violin Sonatas... there is a wonderful fluidity to them, no doubt built on years of understanding through playing together...
along with Josef Suk, these are still my favourite versions of the Violin Sonatas... there is a wonderful fluidity to them, no doubt built on years of understanding through playing together...
Re: Recent Purchases
I struggle with that music: it bores me to tears.Jared wrote:
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
Re: Recent Purchases
^^ I didn't buy it for the Slavonic Dances actually because although I quite like them, I am happy enough with the Kubelik version I already own. I wanted a decent version of the Czech Suite (which I like) and the American Suite (which I've never heard) and at £4, I couldn't argue, being as the Dorati is top of the admittedly rather slim field when it comes to recordings.
Re: Recent Purchases
funnily enough, I much prefer Dvorak's Slavonic Dances to Brahms' Hungarian Dances, which I wouldn't really mind if I never heard again... Brahms for me, was a genius at most things he touched, but his HD are nothing more than re-hashed, mushy romantic idealism of a series of Hungarian folk tunes, viewed through a heavily Germanic prism... I really rather wished he hadn't bothered. At least Dvorak's works contain more than an element of authenticity...
Re: Recent Purchases
Jared wrote:^^ Julius Katchen is the principle attraction for me... he is a superb Brahms pianist.. do you own this?
along with Josef Suk, these are still my favourite versions of the Violin Sonatas... there is a wonderful fluidity to them, no doubt built on years of understanding through playing together...
No I don't Jared....you make a compelling case. Are you endeavouring to keep my Wish List alive?!?!
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
Re: Recent Purchases
^^ only with quality, benchmark recordings Fergus... and that is certainly one, imho..
-
bombasticDarren
- Posts: 1370
- Joined: Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:04 pm
Re: Recent Purchases
That recommendation is a good call by Jared, but I fell in love with the Brahms sonatas via this disc:-fergus wrote:Jared wrote:^^ Julius Katchen is the principle attraction for me... he is a superb Brahms pianist.. do you own this?
along with Josef Suk, these are still my favourite versions of the Violin Sonatas... there is a wonderful fluidity to them, no doubt built on years of understanding through playing together...
No I don't Jared....you make a compelling case. Are you endeavouring to keep my Wish List alive?!?!
I'd recommend it to anyone
Note: I was ushering last night at the local arthouse cinema and struvk up a conversation with a fellow usher re: Brahms. She is just now dipping her toe into the classical minefield (!) and has started with Brahms. I have offered to lend her one of my orchestral compilation sets: I think Abbado or Harnoncourt, don't you? ;-)