Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:44 am
Op 130 (incorporating the Grosse Fugue Op. 133)
Op 130 (incorporating the Grosse Fugue Op. 133)
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Op 130 (incorporating the Grosse Fugue Op. 133)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:59 am
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:03 pm
You might also wanna check out the Takacs Quartet one too Seán. Hyperion released it again on the cheap. I must also look at this Quartetto Italiano version as I was very impressed with Beethoven and Mozart works.Seán wrote:
Franz Schubert
Death and the Maiden &
Rosamunde
Quartetto Italiano
I got these cds late last week and I have been listening to them every day ever since. This music is entirely new to me, I love it and the performances by the Quartetto Italiano are magnificent.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:14 pm
Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 [Kubelik]....
I love this work and Kubelik does a wonderful job with it! There is great drive in there along with wonderful snarling brass without anything being rushed or over aggressive. The hushed strings of the slow movement are wonderful too, taken at a lovely pace which allows the music to linger. Overall it is a wonderful hard-nosed and assertive account. This is a different approach to the sometimes devotional approach sometimes taken with Bruckner and the performance is all the more interesting for it.
I love this work and Kubelik does a wonderful job with it! There is great drive in there along with wonderful snarling brass without anything being rushed or over aggressive. The hushed strings of the slow movement are wonderful too, taken at a lovely pace which allows the music to linger. Overall it is a wonderful hard-nosed and assertive account. This is a different approach to the sometimes devotional approach sometimes taken with Bruckner and the performance is all the more interesting for it.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:30 pm
Thanks for that Dave, the Takács cd is in the bag/basket.DaveF wrote:You might also wanna check out the Takacs Quartet one too Seán. Hyperion released it again on the cheap. I must also look at this Quartetto Italiano version as I was very impressed with Beethoven and Mozart works.Seán wrote:
Franz Schubert
Death and the Maiden &
Rosamunde
Quartetto Italiano
I got these cds late last week and I have been listening to them every day ever since. This music is entirely new to me, I love it and the performances by the Quartetto Italiano are magnificent.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:54 pm
Careful! Once you get the Alkan bug there's no going back!DaveF wrote:
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:02 pm
I think you may be right Ciaran. Piano music generally doesnt do much for me but that Alkan recording was superb. I think there is one or two more Alkan LPs there too which I'll get around to very soon.Ciaran wrote:Careful! Once you get the Alkan bug there's no going back!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:23 pm
Mendelssohn – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4....
These are wonderful performances of these two works which readily lend themselves to Szell’s ebullient style.
These are wonderful performances of these two works which readily lend themselves to Szell’s ebullient style.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:26 pm
Concerto No.25 & 26 from this mammoth 13LP boxset. Fine performances they were too!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:18 pm
It's great music-making, and on LP too, WOW, you lucky man.DaveF wrote:Concerto No.25 & 26 from this mammoth 13LP boxset. Fine performances they were too!