What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013
With 2013 upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
On CD:-
Extra Chilly Winter Wind.
Well Kuma, do tell? Two very contrasting albums. I have both these on Vinyl and CD too and as you are probably hinting at, the difference in interpretation is night & day or better yet warm(er) vs. cold(er) temperament (ie. Lang Lang to Pollini). What do you think of the Sony vinyl?
For something like the Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise how would you compare Lang Lang's take to say Ingolf Wunder?
Thanks,
Doug
I vote for the Lang Lang version..
Pollini all the way!
EJ
Ter Linden has given us a rather good set of cello suites, but it is the simpler gamba sonatas where this cellist - this time on viola da gamba - shines. His sound is not as cultivated as Pandolfo or Savall, both of whom also excellent in these works, but this performance has an autumnal quality all of its own.
Cheers,
EJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgcUEGEZv4
Sound quality is brilliant - otherwise not really good music/performance; overhyped a lot.
Rather the original collection:
Excellent choice. My favourite.
Highly recommended.
Next step - on clavichord.
Ashkenazy is not the most imaginative or best sounding Chopin player, but I find myself often returning to this set. Behind the rather pedestrian and bland surface (compared to Arrau, Pires, Pollini), there is a sort of low-key charm and pulse.
Cheers,
EJ
Hi EJ,
This set brings a lot of sentiment and memories to me as well when looking back. Firstly, it marked the transition for me of when vinyl was being killed off by marketing execs and CD players were introduced as the next best thing since sliced bread.
In the first year after buying a CD player I started with a goal of wanting to hear all my favourite composers complete (and I'm still working on this 30 years later but this endeavour has since mushroomed to different levels). While this is only the solo works my first target was Chopin and it took me one whole year to complete. These 13 cd's came in 9 albums and then the concertos and chamber music etc. for one album per month. The only details I remember were that the Etudes came the first followed by the Preludes, Waltzes, and Mazurkas. Those were exciting times in my life while hearing a vast new world of music for the first time and experiencing the goosebumps and the music's effect in a way I could never have imagined. These experiences have shaped my entire life.
I think I experience music differently today. Nothing is new anymore and and the goalposts keep getting wider through hearing every extreme as well as everything in between to right down the center. The problem with experiencing highs is that you can never beat the first ones. You spend your whole life trying but you never can get higher without running after more and more in a never ending race....
Cheers,
Doug
Keep running, Doug! I'm nowhere near the completionist you are, but I'm convinced behind every new corner could lurk a performance that rekindles that goosebump. I agree with you that familiarity dulls the senses, but equally I have found there are performances that do it for me every time no matter how often I hear them. Just one of many examples: Pires' Chopin Nocturnes. And on that topic: I'm looking forward to hearing her new Schubert disc - although I'm saving it for later as I am a bit tired of the B-flat at the moment.
EJ
Excellent choice. My favourite.
Highly recommended.
Next step - on clavichord.
Chords, that is the oldest and the least played version. Ragna Schirmer (Berlin Classic) and Lisa Smirnova (ECM) are more popular here. What I should get myself is a harpsichord recording of the suites.
Vinyl.
Excellent choice. My favourite.
Highly recommended.
Next step - on clavichord.
Chords, that is the oldest and the least played version. Ragna Schirmer (Berlin Classic) and Lisa Smirnova (ECM) are more popular here. What I should get myself is a harpsichord recording of the suites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYW0oenhzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYLrH6QtT5A
Haim,
there are several good clavichord/Handel CDs.
She is my favourite.
Please note,
it's an another approach and instrument; theoretically similar to Jarret's one. Quite dry playing; keeps the strict rules; exact tempo and no namby-pamby romantic feeling as many pianists do; you will cry not because of pianist's 'artificial-forced-high-emotion' you will cry because of pure music; OUTSTANDING ornaments; but not acrobatic; emotions are somewhere inside but in very high level. She let music to flow; no taking herself into the centre. So 'heavenly harmonies' can work well.
Listening on good set - Naim here very OK - music and sound will shake your mind I am sure.
Need to wind up the neighbours just a touch - now where is that remote control?
If you have not heard this guy. Give him a go, You might be presently surprised.
Poet Wind David Munyon Format: CD 'Stockfisch'
Listen to the track 'In India' Poet Wind is up there with the best of Dylan, Cohen. A hidden CD treasure.
I agree. great cd - and amazing sound quality too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYW0oenhzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYLrH6QtT5A
Haim,
there are several good clavichord/Handel CDs.
She is my favourite.
Please note,
it's an another approach and instrument; theoretically similar to Jarret's one. Quite dry playing; keeps the strict rules; exact tempo and no namby-pamby romantic feeling as many pianists do; you will cry not because of pianist's 'artificial-forced-high-emotion' you will cry because of pure music; OUTSTANDING ornaments; but not acrobatic; emotions are somewhere inside but in very high level. She let music to flow; no taking herself into the centre. So 'heavenly harmonies' can work well.
Listening on good set - Naim here very OK - music and sound will shake your mind I am sure.
Chords, thanks a lot. She sounds wonderful. I will soon go with one of her non 'namby-pamby' discs.
Deep fascinating music if you can ever get over the first wave of strangeness:
+1
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
Soo-Jin Hong (violin)
Soo_Kyung Hong (Cello)
Jens Elvek jaer (Piano)
Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 49
Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn: The Nash Ensemble
Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Paul Watkins (Cello)
Ian Brown (Piano)
Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 49
Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Variations Concertantes for Cello and Piano, Op. 17
Ludwig van Beethoven: Zimmermann Trio
Antoine Tamestit (Viola)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (Violin)
Christian Poltera (Cello)
Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello no 3 in G major, Op. 9 no 1
Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello no 4 in D major, Op. 9 no 2
Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello no 5 in C minor, Op. 9 no 3
