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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:54 am
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:
It couldn´t start better with a white-hot, impassioned Act 1. Frank van Aken and Eva-Maria Westbroek are husband and wife in real life, and the lust and passion they communicate is just what Wagner calls for. These incestuous, adulterous twins mean business, and they deliver. The betrayed husband, Hunding, is sung, by believe it or not, a basso called Ain Anger! what a wonderful name for a Hunding!
You certainly make a compelling case for that recording Pepe!
You seem to have enjoyed it.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:20 am
by fergus
Not something that everyone would be interested in for sure but I have most of Brahms’ music in other genres. I really liked it I must say. The singing was of a high quality and was also beautifully sensitive and I also found the music itself interesting.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:25 am
by Seán
I listened to this on CD Review this morning and I was very taken with it, the playng on the Concerto is wonderful:
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102; Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94; Jurgen Ellensohn (trumpet), George Vatchnadze (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) PAN CLASSICS PC10261 (CD)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:30 am
by Ciaran
Seán wrote:I listened to this on CD Review this morning and I was very taken with it, the playng on the Concerto is wonderful:
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102; Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94; Jurgen Ellensohn (trumpet), George Vatchnadze (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) PAN CLASSICS PC10261 (CD)
Me too, and indeed anything with Toradze is a priority: his Prokofiev concertos with Gergiev have been reissued at bargain price
and are an essential recording.
They were comparing with
SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet - Concert Suite from incidental music, Op. 32a (original version); Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102;
Valentina Igoshina (piano), Thomas Hammes (trumpet), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Lavard Skou-Larsen (conductor)
CPO 7777502 (CD)
which they liked, but not as much as Toradze.
Andrew McGregor also mentioned the recent Melnikov/Currentzis recording of the Shostakovich piano concertos which I have and which is excellent!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:57 am
by DaveF
Widor's Symphony No.8, the longest organ symphony he wrote I believe. Almost an hour of exquisite French Organ music on a Cavaille-Coll instrument. I'm sure your all eager pick up this recording so...
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:27 pm
by bombasticDarren
Stravinsky -
La sacre du printemps (Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Channel Classics)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:29 pm
by bombasticDarren
fergus wrote:
Not something that everyone would be interested in for sure but I have most of Brahms’ music in other genres. I really liked it I must say. The singing was of a high quality and was also beautifully sensitive and I also found the music itself interesting.
That looks interesting Fergus. I haven't wholly absorbed Brahm's choral output as yet; do you have this charming disc?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:53 pm
by DaveF
CD 1
Horn Concerto No.1&2
Oboe Concerto
Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:19 pm
by DaveF
Symphonies 2 & 3
Really starting to like Prokofiev's symphonies. Plenty of drama and fire!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:38 pm
by fergus
bombasticDarren wrote: I haven't wholly absorbed Brahm's choral output as yet; do you have this charming disc?
No Darren, I do not have that one.....