What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.VIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2011
With 2012 almost 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 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
Days Between Stations on CD
Ideal music to listen on headphones -> http://www.daysbetweenstations.com/
Glazunov / Kabalevsky Violin Concertos: Gil Shaham / Mikhail Pletnev
Doug
Harasiewicz is my favourite Chopin interpreter for just all those reasons.
Are you familiar with his Decca 10 CD box of the complete works of Chopin?
only $28.50 on amazon market place
Thanks Aleg, on my Wish List now...
Do you know if the Decca set is the same recordings as the Philips recordings?
Eventually I'm eyeing the complete Fryderyk Chopin Society recordings which include a host of pianists like Harasiewicz, Wunder etc.
Doug
i'm not familiar with the Philips releases, but just so you can check against your duo disc
10 polonaises are from 1968 & 1972
6 polonaises posth are from 1972
14 walzes are from 1966
2 walzes posth are from 1966 & 1970
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aleg
Aleg: I'm still not sure. I bet they are the same as he wouldn't have had two things going on between Philips and Decca?
The Philips was recorded in the Netherlands. The Polonaises (1-7) were recorded 9/1967 and (8-16) on 1/1970. The Waltzes (No. 15) on 4/1965, the rest 8/1965. Actually, it seems a lot of mistakes as they don't include Waltz No. 1 or No. 16. so someone didn't really proof this well.
The above were the recorded dates. The P copyright dates for Philips Classics are listed as 1966, 1968, 1970, & 1972 which match your dates.
J. S. Bach: Isabelle Faust - Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001-1003
On the original Black!
Rebel: Les éléments / Vivaldi: le quattro stagioni / Midori Seiler (2010)
Rebel's music starts ominous, you might think it was modern atonal music, but it then settles into stylish baroque but quite distinctive music from this contemporary of Vivaldi. It is followed by Vivaldi's Four Seasons, played with great imagination by Midori Seiler. She never reaches the extreme speeds of Biondi (in his recording for Virgin), but she plucks, croons, and pulls and pushes tempo and volume to almost improvisatory levels. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is one of today's few ensembles that don't confuse intensity with speed, a very good thing IMO, but on the the other hand they have a thin, edgy sound that just isn't very beautiful.
Cheers,
EJ
Debussy, Poulenc: cello sonatas / Queyras, Tharaud (2008)
Cheers,
EJ
On CD:-
This as to be my favourite Mazzy Star album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPErUJdk-gU
It would have been better with a really early keyboard instrument instead of this prepared clavichord.
Otherwise - excellent record.
on CD.
Cocset at his best, inspired by Chords.
on vinyl.
This as to be my favourite Mazzy Star album.
Ahhhhhh... Miss Sandoval's Voice!
First listen.
Disc 1 - Psalm Cantatas Nos. 42,95,98,114,&115
On Vinyl.
Why? Because I haven't played it for ages.
This as to be my favourite Mazzy Star album.
Ahhhhhh... Miss Sandoval's Voice!
Yes indeed, just sublime.
Outstanding