What are you listening two?

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nothing disconcerting about this one... a lovely disk!
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Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde Sanderling....


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It has been a while since I have listened to this particular version but it is one that I have always really liked. The two soloists are, to me, excellent and the playing is also top rate. It is a very fine interpretation.
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Lovely music!
Yes, Mozart is hard to beat IMHO.
This is quite an old recording (1953) but very well remastered and good sound quality. It does have the slightly dull/flat surface, lacking the more airy and brilliant quality of modern recordings. But the quality of playing easily overcomes these minor issues.

It's music I can always return to while wandering off into 20th century (Mompou is one not that well known and should be listened to more often) or Baroque.

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fergus wrote:Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde Sanderling....


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It has been a while since I have listened to this particular version but it is one that I have always really liked. The two soloists are, to me, excellent and the playing is also top rate. It is a very fine interpretation.
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fergus wrote:Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde Sanderling....


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It has been a while since I have listened to this particular version but it is one that I have always really liked. The two soloists are, to me, excellent and the playing is also top rate. It is a very fine interpretation.
Oh, I have heard very good reports of that recording, I didn't realise that you have a copy. Perhaps I should get it too.
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Seán wrote:
fergus wrote:Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde Sanderling....


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It has been a while since I have listened to this particular version but it is one that I have always really liked. The two soloists are, to me, excellent and the playing is also top rate. It is a very fine interpretation.
Oh, I have heard very good reports of that recording, I didn't realise that you have a copy. Perhaps I should get it too.
As indicated earlier Seán I find it a very fine interpretation; one that is just that little bit different - and in a good way. I would recommend it.
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Beethoven: Violin concerto....


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Bought this some time ago on the recommendation of Darren and I have liked it since I first heard it.
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For some inexplicable reason it took me a long time to come to terms with Beethoven's Violin Concerto. I do not know why that was; perhaps it was that long rambling introduction in the first movement. Now it is one of my favourite works! This version by Nathan Milstein (coupled with a wonderful version of the Brahms Violin Concerto) is a beuatiful version to listen to; such a wonderful tone from his instrument!


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^^ Fergus, the LVB & Brahms VCs are my favourite two, by some considerable way ahead of all other comers. The Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Bruch & Elgar are all wonderful and would be in the next batch, but the former are magnificent edifices of Romanticism...
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Just to let you 'baroquies' and 'classicos' get to know some great 20c music too :-))
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