What are you listening two?

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Diapason wrote:I'm so bad I've only THIS MOMENT remembered I bought that big Chopin box a while ago. I need to quit my job so I can get around to listening to this stuff.

Sean, is the sound quality on the Rubenstein recordings very much in the historical category? I know it's bad form, but I can't cope with that. I'm truly the worst kind of audiophile!
I have the 11 cd box set below. The analog tapes were digitally remastered and are very fine indeed. The majority of the recordings are from the sixties, that said a couple of the cds were recorded in the 1947-1948. To my mind, it is a wonderful, wonderful set, I wouldn't be without it

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A performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto and a Symphony with a twist from this CD set....


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On a bonus CD the Piano Concerto No. 4 is performed with a piano and a string quintet and Symphony No. 2 is performed with a piano, violin and cello and these make for very interesting listening.
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fergus wrote:A performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto and a Symphony with a twist from this CD set....


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On a bonus CD the Piano Concerto No. 4 is performed with a piano and a string quintet and Symphony No. 2 is performed with a piano, violin and cello and these make for very interesting listening.
Oh what a wonderful idea, now that does interest me.
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Thanks Sean, I may have to look that Rubinstein set up. I can manage the sound of the 60s...
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Enrico Onofri is concertmaster of Il Giardino Armonico, and after Fabio Biondi the greatest Italian baroque violinist. Far more than a display of terrific virtuosity this is rare, superb musicianship.
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Older recording style but very well played
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I like the title on that one Pepe!
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Lovely music!
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These are all wonderful performances and Ravel’s Introduction and allegro is, for me, a highlight on this CD.
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1....


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A very intense and somewhat disconcerting work.
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