What are you listening to? (Vol VII)

For a rainy afternoon.

Cheers,

EJ

Cheers,

EJ

Top modern prog



steve

By the way EJ, I'm very tempted by the Trpceski and Kovacevich.  I suspect both of those are fine recordings?

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

der Getreue Music-Meister

Edith Mathis sopran
Hertha Topper alt
Ernst Haefliger tenor
Gerhard Unger tenor
Barry McDaniel bariton

Sebastian Kelber blockflote
Hans-Martin Linde traversflote
Alfred Sous barock-oboe und oboe d'amore
Walter Stiffner barock-fagott
Edward Tarr clarin-trompete
Eduard Melkus violine
Otto Buchner violine
Rudolf Nel viola und viola pomposa
Josef Ulsamer diskat- und bass-gambe
Wolfgang Boettcher violoncello
Michael Schaffer laute und barock-theorbe
Elza van der Ven cembalo, clavichord und Positiv -u.a.

Wurzburger Bach-Chor ~ Gunter Jena

Direction Josef Ulsamer

Recordings from 1966/67

DG Achiv Produktion 5 x LP box-set © 1967

not all the musicians are listed above... but a star studded field none the less.
The picture is not quite the same as the one on this box-set but the best i could find.

The music is sublime, one of my favourite sets : )

Debs

Hi Doug,

Kovacevich' 960 and 959 are one of a kind recordings, I was floored when I first heard them and they are partly why I hold K. in such high esteem. Trpceski is not yet in the same league IMO, but he seems borne to play Debussy - the colours and clarity he extracts from this music are quite extraordinary.



EJ

The band that makes mere mortals run and hide, the awesome.....



















Dean...

hi Haim,

i don't have this in my praga digital collection and being rather fond of Dmitri's piano quintet op.57  i'm very tempted.

The cover picture is weird... seems a strange place to play golf!  

Debs

Excellent jazz quartet album, with Gwilym Simcock on piano.

Keeping the musical standard up, next its .......





















Dean...

Where to start?  Right in the middle...
CD 18: Frank - Quintet, Faure - Quartet
CD 16: Ravel -Gaspard de la nuit, Sonatine, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ma Mere l'Oye
CD 20: Debussy - Preludes Book 1 & 2

Debs,
This is a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, Winterlandschaft (1811), Schwerin, Staatliches Museum.  It is a well know fact that Friedrich was obsessed with finding out why determined golfers insisted on chasing a ball no matter where it lays and even if this meant playing through Winter.  As seen in this painting, many trees did not stand a chance when the frustrated golfer took his anger out on the surrounding trees with his 7 iron.

 An even more famous painting in the golfing series is Der Golferer über dem Nebelmeer:
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Sadly, most of the golfers eventually ended up here in the “Cloister Graveyard for Golfers in the Snow”:


I was amazed that you saw all this in the painting and almost answered this just with your own foresight, cleverness and curiosity.  I hope this information has helped clarify this all for you 
(a very nice recording by the way too, IMHO...)
Doug

Doug, thanks for the explanation. It all makes sense now, and i see they have an afterlife too...

Listening to Pollini will never be the same again

EJ

Bought this today. First listen on a decent system.

Cheers
Flett