[Manxfeeder]

Mozart, Symphony No. 40

Well done, especially for a period-instrument ensemble. Pinnock doesn't sacrifice nuance for "authenticity."

 

[Dimace]

It is time again for some vacations. (after two years, I went nowhere, because of the pandemie.) It will be short - 10 days - but it is better than nothing. Of course, I will read you but it will be difficult to write texts, upload images etc. with my cell phone. Till the moment I will be back, a very nice neo - classical CD with Eugene and his notorious Philadelphia Orchestra playing Bartok and Hindemith.

(I will certainly come back with some collectibles or rarities. I hope to have some worthy for presentations / suggestions.)

 

[Knorf]

J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25
Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78
Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17
Malin Hartelius, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

I missed these last Sunday. I'm not religious at all, so no big deal, but I normally listen to Bach's cantatas on the appropriate day as a means to pace myself through my second round of listening to all of them.

 

[starthrower]

NP:

K. A. Hartmann
Symphony No. 6
Bavarian RSO
Kubelik

For me, this is still the set to beat. There's a spirit in the performances that can't be matched. The Metzmacher on EMI always seemed to be interpretatively uninteresting. Like he's getting the orchestra to play the notes, but that's it. There's no thrust or inner life in his performances. They're all faceless. I haven't done enough listening of the newer Challenge Classics set to make a direct comparison with the Wergo, but I should revisit that set.

I think Metzmacher conducts one or two symphonies on the Challenge set. I bought it a few years ago but I need to revisit as well.

 

[HenryPenfold]

Mozart, Symphony No. 40

Well done, especially for a period-instrument ensemble. Pinnock doesn't sacrifice nuance for "authenticity."

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I love that set.

Your "doesn't sacrifice nuance for authenticity" is most apt ............

 

[Knorf]

W. A. Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 "Jupiter"
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

I just performed this myself, and was thinking I wanted to listen to this recording, which, yes, is fantastic.

K. 550 on this disc is also really great.

 

[Malx]

Is this Simon Rattle's finest recording (to date)?
I am of the opinion that this is an exceptionally fine Rheingold and the one I find myself reaching for first these days. Karajan and Barenboim plus Haitink aren't too far behind for me - I'm not really into all the live Bayreuth recordings from the fifities although I do enjoy Krauss on Orfeo.

Wagner, Das Rheingold - Michael Volle (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Burkhard Ulrich (Loge), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Peter Rose (Fasolt), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Annette Dasch (Freia), Janina Baechle (Erda), Christian van Horn (Donner), Benjamin Bruns (Froh), Mirella Hagen (Woglinde), Stefanie Irányi (Wellgunde), Eva Vogel (Flosshilde), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Simon Rattle.

 

[SanAntone]

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Remastered)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer

 

[Knorf]

W. A. Mozart: String Quartets No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 and 20 in D major "Hoffmeister"
Quatuor Mosaïques

 

[Merl]

My final Janacek SQ 1 for today is also my last one to review. Needless to say it will feature in the final reckoning.

 

[RockyIII]

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Arie di bravura

Diana Damrau, soprano
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, direction

2007

 

[mparta]

On my mind for some reason and this recording was at hand. It's quite good, maybe not the last word but quite good.

I'm thinking about the Jurowski to come, and then the LA phil/Dudamel, out for download but no physical disc yet

 

[Knorf]

Olivier Messiaen: L'ascension: Quatre méditations symphoniques
Olivier Latry

Although originally for orchestra, Messiaen's own transcription for organ (with a new third movement) is very effective.

 

[SanAntone]

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Christian Gerhaher, Magdalena Kozená, Pierre Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra

 

[Rogerx]

Schubert: Winterreise D911

1994 (DVD)
with Julius Drake (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor)

From last night watching.

 

[Rogerx]

Youri Egorov disc 4

 

[Neo Romanza]

NP:

 

[Rogerx]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 & Grosse Fuge in B flat
major/Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130

Guarneri Quartet

 

[SanAntone]

Berg: Lulu: Suite
Boulez, New York Philharmonic

 

[Gothos]

Disc 5

Sacred Singing in Moscow
Kastalsky/Gretchaninov/Kalinnikov/Chesnokov
Karetnikov/Kalistratov/Burakovsky

Rybin Male Choir