What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

Schubert Piano Trio in E Flat. Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch and Hermann Busch recorded by HMV in 1935. Though hardly a significant consideration the EMI transfer leaves the recording sounding as fresh as a daizy, the performance is of such sweep and power that the recording is the last thing you will be left thinking about! What is amazing is that this poweful reading is never forced along or brutalised by false projection, but finds an inevitable inner logic, that makes this at once a deeply emotional reading, but also quite classical on the surface. The music and this performance really exist below the immediate surface. Indeed the surface can seem just a little forbidding!

I always think the slow movement has a sort emotional realationship Schubert's song, "The Wanderer" and I reckon the coda of the Finale has been phenomenally prepared for by Schubert over the preceding half an hour, and this comes out fully in the Serkin Busch pertnership, where it become a semi-optimistic farewell to considerable probing of deep thoughts contained up to that point! It amounts to a noble sublimation of sadness...

Then come the charming Violin Fantasy in C where Busch and Serkin team up for less serious fair!

ATB from George

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Originally posted by mtuttleb:
Thanks Haim. I'll stick it on the list.

The Elgar & Walton CD in my previous post is very good. Cello to die for....

Regards
Mark

Thanks Mark.

I will check the Elgar. Here is cello music of kodaly that might interest you. The playing by the French Phillips brothers is very good.

Regards,
Haim

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Originally posted by sjust:
So far, the Haydn, only. After a short listen on JPC, I have ordered the Alkan, as well. Doesn't seem to be the right stuff for the Halloween night (which finally arrived in Germany, too. Sigh...)

Stefan,

The right stuff here for Halloween, that is if you really want to be scary, is to wave your home adjustable mortgage....

Regards,
Haim

Patti Austin-That Secret Place

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Thanks Mark.

I will check the Elgar. Here is cello music of kodaly that might interest you. The playing by the French Phillips brothers is very good.

Regards,
Haim

Thanks Haim.

I finally picked up the following after first hearing it at the 555 debut at a Naim dealer in Frankfurt.



The Prokofiev is very good.

Regards
Mark

"Listen My Friends: The Best of Moby Grape".
Bought last week in the US - they were a very fine band.

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
"Listen My Friends: The Best of Moby Grape".
Bought last week in the US - they were a very fine band.

You should get their first album Chris. It's considered to be the finest album to come out o the San Francisco hippy period.

Love, Warmth and Compassion, niiiicceee sentiments.


Paul Dunmall Quartet - Love, Warmth and Compassion






Dean......

Allison Moorer - Show

Earlier...

Beecham Lolipops: Starting with "The Arrival Of The Queen Of Shebe" by Handel, and ending with the Polovtsian Dances of Borodin. Good old racket that is too!

ATB from George

Gill Scott-Herron: Secrets

Malher Symphony No.9 Sir John Barbirolli,Berliner Philharmoniker

Led Zeppelin II. Loudly.

Could this just be the best hard-rock album ever?

Beth Orton-Central Reservation