What are you listening to?

[Ciaran]

Heard the first movement in the car on the way home, had to listen to it in the comfort of the man cave:

That's interesting. I didn't really like Harnoncourt's Haydn or Schubert recordings with the RCO, perhaps he fared better with Dvorak? The Ninth is a lovely work.

I haven't got anything to compare and contrast with, but I think it's a very fine performance indeed. It sounds fresh but simultaneously moving.

I must dig that out and listen to it again. I remember enjoying it a lot when I got it!

[Jose Echenique]

Harnoncourt definitely has a special affinity for Dvorak, his set of the Slavic Dances is the most dazzling since Szell´s, and his Stabat Mater is quite simply glorious. In the symphonies he has far more competition, but his recordings are so fine that they can stand comparison with the very best.

[DonKC]

I have so missed a forum thread like this... it always inspired me to dig out recordings I had not listened to in a while. So the Dvorak discussion inspired me to listen to one of my favorite works by the Dvorak master Sir Charles Mackerras Symphonic Variations Czech Philharmonic Supraphon.

[fergus]

I have so missed a forum thread like this... it always inspired me to dig out recordings I had not listened to in a while. So the Dvorak discussion inspired me to listen to one of my favorite works by the Dvorak master Sir Charles Mackerras Symphonic Variations Czech Philharmonic Supraphon.

Nice that you have already gained something from your short time here Don.

[fergus]

Another 1812....





....and another good one, this time from the previously mentioned Mackerras.

[fergus]

More Tchaikovsky, this time with one of the great pianists playing another work that I have been listening to for a very long time....





It has always fascinated me how a composer could essentially discard such a strong and powerful theme such as the the one that opens this work and not revisit it.

[Jared]

I have not visited this thread because I have spent all week on the same box-set... again Dvorak:



I'm on the 5th complete listen through to this Box Set, and the structure of the SQs are starting to take shape.. they are actually a very enjoyable body of work.

[DonKC]

Some lesser performed and recorded Hindemith

Concerto for Orchestra 1925 his first major orchestral work
Sinfonietta in E 1949 a Louisville Symphony commission
Pittsburgh Symphony 1958 a commission from the city of Pittsburgh and his last titled symphony

Melbourne SO Werner Andreas Albert

CPO

[Seán]

Some lesser performed and recorded Hindemith

Concerto for Orchestra 1925 his first major orchestral work
Sinfonietta in E 1949 a Louisville Symphony commission
Pittsburgh Symphony 1958 a commission from the city of Pittsburgh and his last titled symphony

Melbourne SO Werner Andreas Albert

CPO

I haven't listened to Hindemith in a long time, I must blow the diust off my EMI CDs. I only have the one 3 CD set with Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in his orchestral works

[Jose Echenique]

Giuliano Carmignola is a relatively recent convert to the period violin, having had already an important career in the modern violin before, but since he took the baroque fiddle he became a recording star and got a contract with Archiv, hell, he must be the last artist recording for that label!
His playing is elegant and cultivated, perhaps he only misses that little extra that made Fabio Biondi famous years before Carmignola even contemplated gut strings, but now his Mediterranean, velvety sound is a pleasure in itself. In this new recording he is enormously helped by the sensational Accademia Bizantina and his superb music director, harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone, who raise the temperature 10 degrees.
His previous Vivaldi recordings were made with the modest Baroque Venice Orchestra, but now with the Accademia Bizantina he is driving a red Ferrari.
Warmly recommended!