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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:05 pm
by markof
Great collection of contemporary music including Adams, Richter, Penderecki, Ligeti, Cage and more.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:11 pm
by Dane
Just the Quartet tonight. The musicians are well known.
William Pleeth, mostly known as one of Jaqueline Dupré’s teachers and a member of the Allegri Quartet.
Gervase de Peyer was a founder member of the Melos Ensemble.
Béroff was on his way up, working in Paris with Yvonne Loriod, won a few prizes and went on to record works for EMI and returning to conducting of late.
Erich Gruenberg, violinist, has long been a soloist and was a founder member of what was once the London (string) Quartet. Apparently he was commandeered to play on a Beatles track!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:37 pm
by fergus
Vinyl....
....the best Sibelius 2 that I have heard!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:48 pm
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:Vinyl....
....the best Sibelius 2 that I have heard!
Have you heard the Barbirolli Fergus? It´s also one of the top contenders.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:02 pm
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:fergus wrote:Vinyl....
....the best Sibelius 2 that I have heard!
Have you heard the Barbirolli Fergus? It´s also one of the top contenders.
No Pepe, groan!!!! Just when I have almost completed purchasing my Wish List you come along yet again and add to it LOL!!!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:48 am
by fergus
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:39 pm
by fergus
Vinyl....
This is Beethoven's only Oratorio and not a very popular work but I really like it I must say.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:15 pm
by fergus
On CD....
....I think that it would be an interesting exercise to compare in detail this work to the Purcell in Simon's Listening Project thread; at the moment I would favour the Purcell.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:20 pm
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:On CD....
....I think that it would be an interesting exercise to compare in detail this work to the Purcell in Simon's Listening Project thread; at the moment I would favour the Purcell.
I love both settings very much and refuse to choose between them. I think both represent different eras and stages of development. I love the Pinnock recording, especially for Dame Felicity Lott´s amazing dueling with the trumpet in "A trumpet shall be heard on high".
Anthony Rolfe Johnson is wonderful too, but he can be heard in best voice in the slightly earlier Harnoncourt version.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:36 pm
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:fergus wrote:On CD....
....I think that it would be an interesting exercise to compare in detail this work to the Purcell in Simon's Listening Project thread; at the moment I would favour the Purcell.
I love both settings very much and refuse to choose between them.
I think both represent different eras and stages of development. I love the Pinnock recording, especially for Dame Felicity Lott´s amazing dueling with the trumpet in "A trumpet shall be heard on high".
Anthony Rolfe Johnson is wonderful too, but he can be heard in best voice in the slightly earlier Harnoncourt version.
I agree Pepe and that is why I would like to do a direct comparison between the two. I don't know why I did not do it at the time when Simon was discussing the Purcell....a senior moment I fear!
