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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:54 pm
by DaveF
Symphony No.1
A bold and assertive performance. I enjoyed it a quite a lot. Looking forward to the rest of this set.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:32 pm
by Seán
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden'
String Quartet No. 13, 'Rosamunde'
String Quartet No. 15
String Quartet No. 12, 'Quartettsatz'
Quartetto Italiano
I just can't leave this set alone, these four quartets are stunning and Death and the Maiden is sublime, I have listened to No. 14 several times every day since I got the set. I love these performances.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:55 pm
by fergus
DaveF wrote:Symphony No.1
A bold and assertive performance. I enjoyed it a quite a lot. Looking forward to the rest of this set.
I think that there are some very good performances in there Dave....I will be interested to see how you get on!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:02 pm
by DaveF
Charles-Marie Widor's only Mass, written around 1890 for a choir of Baritone voices and a mixed choir, accompanied by two organs. Here transcribed for mixed choir with a single organ, the magnificant Cavaille-Coll organ at St Sulpice. Highly Recommended.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:24 pm
by fergus
Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5....
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:29 am
by fergus
This is a lovely collection of 15th century English Christmas and Marian carols and other medieval songs.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:17 pm
by DaveF
A great performance here by Karajan and the BPO.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:31 pm
by fergus
DaveF wrote:
A great performance here by Karajan and the BPO.
von Karajan definitely had the measure of Strauss' music imho!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:35 pm
by fergus
This performance is big and bold; there is nothing subtle about it. That is not a criticism just a fact so it depends on what you way you like your Requiems (Requia?), or this one in particular; however one generally knows what to expect when one buys Solti so from that point of view it was wonderful.
Interestingly, the disc contains extracts of the actual 200th anniversary mass for Mozart.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:00 pm
by DaveF
fergus wrote:
This performance is big and bold; there is nothing subtle about it. That is not a criticism just a fact so it depends on what you way you like your Requiems (Requia?), or this one in particular; however one generally knows what to expect when one buys Solti so from that point of view it was wonderful.
Interestingly, the disc contains extracts of the actual 200th anniversary mass for Mozart.
Interesting comments Fergus. Before reading your post I wouldnt have imagined Solti being able to do this work any justice if asked.