What are you listening two?

[Jose Echenique]

13 CDs and 1 DVD [a complete Mahler 4]. I have heard so far the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and a Rachmaninov 2nd. Indecently gorgeous playing.

Oh Pepe, now you have my attention.

Happy Father´s Day to all the daddies in the forum.

As a happy and proud father of two may I say thank you Pepe.

There's also a Mahler 7th Seán, but haven't heard it yet. Today it was Prokofiev's Fifth, Martinu's second violin concerto with Frank Peter Zimmerman, Bartok' Music for Strings, Percussions and Celesta and Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances from the Death with Ferruccio Furlanetto. All formidable performances.

[Seán]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Solti....





A somewhat dark and forlorn, even foreboding interpretation but an excellent one nonetheless.

As one has come to expect from the marvellous Mahlerite: Georg Solti

[Seán]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 33 & 35
Collegium Aureum
Franzjosef Maier
These are very enjoyable performances of these two lovely works. These recordings date back to the seventies and early eighties and sound a bit dated and would have benefitted from remastering. The Collegium Aureum were probably one of the first ensembles to use period instruments so these might have been ground breaking performances when they were first issued (or am I talking through my hat?) They are well worth having and are available at a good price.

[fergus]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 33 & 35
Collegium Aureum
Franzjosef Maier
These are very enjoyable performances of these two lovely works. These recordings date back to the seventies and early eighties and sound a bit dated and would have benefitted from remastering. The Collegium Aureum were probably one of the first ensembles to use period instruments so these might have been ground breaking performances when they were first issued (or am I talking through my hat?) They are well worth having and are available at a good price.

Cheers for that Seán. Collegium Aureum were indeed one of the earlier HIP ensembles that became very respected. I should have some Mozart performed bt them......

[fergus]

Wagner: Die Walkure / Solti....

[Jose Echenique]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 33 & 35
Collegium Aureum
Franzjosef Maier
These are very enjoyable performances of these two lovely works. These recordings date back to the seventies and early eighties and sound a bit dated and would have benefitted from remastering. The Collegium Aureum were probably one of the first ensembles to use period instruments so these might have been ground breaking performances when they were first issued (or am I talking through my hat?) They are well worth having and are available at a good price.

Pioneers like Harnoncourt and Leonhardt, but while these masters were busy discovering the XVII Century and early XVIII Century, the Collegium Aureum was already investigating the Classical period. If you ask yourself who were the first to record a Mozart symphony: Collegium Aureum, a Haydn symphony: Collegium Aureum a Beethoven symphony: Collegium Aureum.

[fergus]

I have now worked my way through this set....





I really enjoyed the set. I thought that the performances were taut and meaty without being too assertive and I particularly liked the brass in these performances.

[Seán]

I have now worked my way through this set....





I really enjoyed the set. I thought that the performances were taut and meaty without being too assertive and I particularly liked the brass in these performances.

Yes and the baying horns are beautiful.

[markof]

Beautiful new version, includes vocalisations.

[fergus]

Beautiful new version, includes vocalisations.

I have to be honest Mark, I just did not "get" that music when I bought it fairly recently.