What are you listening to?

[markof]

Now have eight versions of the Goldbergs in the collection including 2 Goulds, Hewitt, Tureck, Ishizaka, Chen and Jarrett (Harpsichord). Listening to Schiff right now.

[Diapason]

Have eight versions of the Goldbergs in the collection including 2 Goulds, Hewitt, Tureck, Ishizaka, Chen and Jarrett (Harpsichord). Listening to the Schiff right now.

You need Hantai as well!!

[markof]

Have eight versions of the Goldbergs in the collection including 2 Goulds, Hewitt, Tureck, Ishizaka, Chen and Jarrett (Harpsichord). Listening to the Schiff right now.

You need Hantai as well!!

I think I need my head examined, more like, but I'll bear it in mind :~)

[fergus]

Have eight versions of the Goldbergs in the collection including 2 Goulds, Hewitt, Tureck, Ishizaka, Chen and Jarrett (Harpsichord). Listening to the Schiff right now.

You need Hantai as well!!

I think I need my head examined, more like, but I'll bear it in mind :~)

LOL!!!

You fit right in here so!!!

[fergus]

Double Stravinsky....

[DonKC]

Vagn Holmboe

Viola Concerto
Concerto for Orchestra
Violin Concerto # 2

Erik Heide, violin
Lars Anders Tomter, viola
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

Dacapo

Holmboe is always at least interesting if not excellent. These are dramatic, accessible and well performed.

[Jose Echenique]

Have eight versions of the Goldbergs in the collection including 2 Goulds, Hewitt, Tureck, Ishizaka, Chen and Jarrett (Harpsichord). Listening to the Schiff right now.

You need Hantai as well!!

He definitely does.

[DonKC]

Mendelssohn Symphony # 5 in D "Reformation"
Dmitri Mitropoulos "The Philharmonic Symphony of New York"

CD copy of a Philips LP recorded 1953. Coupled with the Symphony # 3 "Scottish"

Brisk and energetic, pretty good sound for the era.

I am not a big Mendelssohn fan, or of the mid 19th century Germans in general (exception is Schubert). But for some reason I kind of like the "Reformation".

[Jose Echenique]

Otto Klempere said in the last year of his life that he regretted not conducting more often 2 rarely staged operas that he especially loved: Cornelius´The Thief of Bagdad and Weber´s Euryanthe.
Euryanthe was enormously popular in the XIX Century. Victor Hugo describes in Les Mis the hunting chorus as the most beautiful music ever written (no, he was not confused with Der Freischütz, there´s also a hunting chorus in Euryanthe). So why it suddenly became a rarity? Probably because of Lohengrin, since they basically share the same story. But Euryanthe is really gorgeous, and this magnificent recording has served the opera well since 1974. There is only one other recording, a live version from Italy in the Dynamic label, but it´s not as opulently cast as this one nor as beautifully played by a vintage Dresden Staatskapelle. Klemperer was right, Euryanthe deserves a comeback.

[Seán]

Otto Klempere said in the last year of his life that he regretted not conducting more often 2 rarely staged operas that he especially loved: Cornelius´The Thief of Bagdad and Weber´s Euryanthe.
Euryanthe was enormously popular in the XIX Century. Victor Hugo describes in Les Mis the hunting chorus as the most beautiful music ever written (no, he was not confused with Der Freischütz, there´s also a hunting chorus in Euryanthe). So why it suddenly became a rarity? Probably because of Lohengrin, since they basically share the same story. But Euryanthe is really gorgeous, and this magnificent recording has served the opera well since 1974. There is only one other recording, a live version from Italy in the Dynamic label, but it´s not as opulently cast as this one nor as beautifully played by a vintage Dresden Staatskapelle. Klemperer was right, Euryanthe deserves a comeback.

Now that's a new one on me, very interesting indeed.