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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:26 pm
by Seán
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Lewis - Piano
Jiří Bělohlávek conducting.


This is a throughly wonderful performance of Beethoven's Fifth, Lewis playing is delicate, powerful and sumptuous throughout and the BBC SO are magnificent, this performance is second only to Murray Perahia's with Haitink and the RCO in my affections; even those not enamored with the sound of the piano will love this. ;)

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:44 pm
by Seán
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Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in C minor, op 51 No. 1
Amadeus Quartet

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:13 pm
by fergus
Well Pepe, what do you think of Price and Domingo in Aida....



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Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:19 pm
by Diapason
Allegri for the day that's in it. Tallis Scholars obviously.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:32 am
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:Well Pepe, what do you think of Price and Domingo in Aida....



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That´s Verdi singing you just can´t find these days. Leontyne Price recorded Aida some 7 years before with Solti and Jon Vickers. If forced to choose I would prefer her first recording because if anything, the voice was even more resplendent and ravishing (in the early 60´s), but even in her second outing she outshines any other soprano of her generation. The real quibble in Erich Leinsdorf´s conducting, he was never very idiomatic on Verdi.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:18 am
by Jose Echenique
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It´s Ash Wednesday and it´s time to start listening to Passion music. Since this year the great Niccoló Jommelli will turn 300 years old, let´s start with his superb setting of the Lamentationes. An extraordinary recording with Gérard Lesne and Veronique Gens. Superb music gloriously sung and played.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:34 am
by Jose Echenique
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Another exquisite Gérard Lesne recording.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:01 pm
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote:Well Pepe, what do you think of Price and Domingo in Aida....



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That´s Verdi singing you just can´t find these days. Leontyne Price recorded Aida some 7 years before with Solti and Jon Vickers. If forced to choose I would prefer her first recording because if anything, the voice was even more resplendent and ravishing (in the early 60´s), but even in her second outing she outshines any other soprano of her generation. The real quibble in Erich Leinsdorf´s conducting, he was never very idiomatic on Verdi.

I am no expert Pepe as you know but I have to admit that I certainly did hear a difference here for the better over the von Karajan version.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:03 pm
by fergus
Finishing off a version of Der Rosenkavalier by E. Kleiber this evening....


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....I really like this work I must say.

Re: What are you listening two?

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 12:45 am
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:
Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote:Well Pepe, what do you think of Price and Domingo in Aida....



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That´s Verdi singing you just can´t find these days. Leontyne Price recorded Aida some 7 years before with Solti and Jon Vickers. If forced to choose I would prefer her first recording because if anything, the voice was even more resplendent and ravishing (in the early 60´s), but even in her second outing she outshines any other soprano of her generation. The real quibble in Erich Leinsdorf´s conducting, he was never very idiomatic on Verdi.
Of course there´s a difference with the Karajan dear Fergus. Karajan uses Mirella Freni, really a light lyric soprano, too light for Aida, and Carreras was also too light for Radames.


I am no expert Pepe as you know but I have to admit that I certainly did hear a difference here for the better over the von Karajan version.