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Current Listening Vol VII

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Current Listening Vol VII

A new thread for the same subject matter.

The previous thread, Current Listening Vol VI has become another huge file and slow to load. Since this particular thread is the most popular one on the site, we have created this new volume to continue posting.

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Links to previous Current Listening threads:
Current Listening Vol I
Current Listening Vol II
Current Listening Vol III
Current Listening Vol IV
Current Listening Vol V
Current Listening Vol VI
 
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I've been monitoring all the used CD sites for the past six months. Some day someone will slip up and offer that set at the wrong price, and I'm ready to pounce.
I was lucky that i got these when they first came out.
I would think a re release might be in order now.
 
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I was lucky that i got these when they first came out.
I would think a re release might be in order now.
Its still available on Amazon UK & Presto UK in fact the price on Amazon today is very decent:

Edit - my post was being written as stathrowers appeared the price in the UK is the same when exchange rate is considered as the US price.

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Bruckner, Symphony No 7 - Berlin PO, Wilhem Furtwangler (Berlin 1949).
A disc I burned from a Pristine Classical download.

 
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Stefan Vladar with the Wiener Kammer Orchestra on Capriccio

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The first disc from a fine 4 CD set of Beethoven Concertos.

I'm a big fan of the Piano Concert No. 1 (which was composed after the Piano Concerto No. 2). Such joyous music with a great sense of fun. The second concerto rather pales in comparison, and I believe Beethoven didn't think one of his best.
 
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I think Enthusiast posted this record a while back. Unbelievably awesome. It is amazing to me how clearly Holliger establishes relations with the Machaut works (which are absolutely beautiful), and then takes them even further, what is hinted in Machaut is exploited by Holliger, a great example of that are the Hoquetus Davids and the Triple Hoquet. Fantastic!

 
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 'Emperor' Martin Helmchen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Andrew Manze on Alpha

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Nice accounts of these works.

Ive already listened to the second piano concerto earlier in the evening and suggested even Beethoven didn't think it one his best works. I'm sure he felt the Emperor was one of his best, but strangely I have always had reservations with it, as I much prefer the 4th Piano Concerto.
 
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