For me, this partly comes down to the question of whether I am looking for new repertory or new performances of what I already have - it's a bit of a balance.
I'm always forever for something new and I hope I always will be, let's hope my hearing lasts!
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- Thu May 02, 2024 5:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where do we draw the line?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 358
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:23 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mahler Song Cycles: Kindertotenlieder
- Replies: 3
- Views: 320
Re: Mahler Song Cycles: Kindertotenlieder
Coincidentally Kindertotenlieder was the work reviewed last week by the BBC's Record Review. Marjana Lipovsek with Abbado was selected as the 'library choice'.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Szell and Cleveland LIVE in 1966, Dvorak Symphony No.8
- Replies: 4
- Views: 456
Re: Szell and Cleveland LIVE in 1966, Dvorak Symphony No.8
Yes, I've just picked up a sampler called 'The Reiner Sound' simply because they're recordings I didn't have. It's all from the 1950s in remarkably good sound and, of course, marvellous performances.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 382
Re: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Hi Lance,
Hadelich is a top class violinist and well worth looking our for.
Hadelich is a top class violinist and well worth looking our for.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Orchestre Lamoureux
- Replies: 4
- Views: 338
Re: Orchestre Lamoureux
Grumiaux recorded a few things with them under Manual Rosenthal and Jean Fournet and Victoria de Los Angeles recorded her Chants d'Auvergne with them. I also have quite a lot of operetta including Gressier and Markevitch's Offenbach. In addition to Oistrakh's Stravinsky, Henri Merkel recorded Jean H...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pronunciation question: Dame Ethel SMYTH [and her music]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1008
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 349
Re: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
Looking at British near contemporaries, I always preferred Robert Tear and Stuart Burrows.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 349
Re: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
I simply don't like his voice and I find it rather whining and strained, though he's certainly not the only singer I don't like.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
- Replies: 15
- Views: 740
Re: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
I completely agree about Suk, what a fine musician he was.
Lance, your list has so many older performances but there have been some very fine recent recordings too, quite a few of the current generation of players are performing it and rightly so.
Lance, your list has so many older performances but there have been some very fine recent recordings too, quite a few of the current generation of players are performing it and rightly so.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 349
Re: Where does Peter Pears stand in the lineup of tenors?
Definitely a taste I have never acquired. As we say in the UK, a Marmite singer, you love it or hate it.....
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
- Replies: 15
- Views: 740
Re: Dvorak Violin Concerto - Veriko Tchumburidze
Poor Dvořák ... he gave us only one each of the piano, cello and violin concertos. Everyone of them is a gem. I have over 30 readings of the violin concerto, recent and historical violinists. That number probably dwarfs those I have of both the Tchaikovsky and Brahms Violin Concertos, but I would n...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor
- Replies: 2
- Views: 166
Re: Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor
Hi both, Oistrakh recorded it too with Kondrashin in 1948 but it wasn't easily available for many years. The complete set by Mezzena offers a more 'modern' performance and there's Perlman's recording on his 'concertos from my childhood' CD and I also have an LP version by Lola Bobesco. Stern made a ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Elgar Symphony No. 1: Sir Adrian Boult
- Replies: 5
- Views: 320
Re: Elgar Symphony No. 1: Sir Adrian Boult
This has long been my favourite performance of a work I love dearly. Boult captures the nature of the piece perfectly.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Jessye Norman - R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
- Replies: 3
- Views: 388
Re: Jessye Norman - R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Norman doesn't work for me in the Letzte Lieder either but it's all personal taste, I've recently been re-listening to the songs and della Casa is still a real favourite along with Schwartkopf /Szell, a real Marmite choice.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Frank Peter Zimmermann, violinist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 946
Re: Frank Peter Zimmermann, violinist
I heard him play the Elgar concerto last night, magnificent playing and a fine interpretation. Definitely a player to follow.
This afternoon it's Vadim Gluzman in Shostakovich 2nd concerto. We live in great times for violinists.
This afternoon it's Vadim Gluzman in Shostakovich 2nd concerto. We live in great times for violinists.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Once again, record magazines aren't giving ME much!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 848
Re: Once again, record magazines aren't giving ME much!
I guess it's a consequence of getting older. We recently moved house and I have now set up my main Hifi system. On Saturday I spent an evening listening to favourite CDs and realised that there were no recent ones. However there are areas where old favourites no longer hold their allure, especially ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2212
Re: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
Oh dear, it rather confirms what I thought when I heard her. I'll try to listen to some tracks before buying.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2212
Re: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
I've belatedly read a review in Gramophone that rates her new Operetta CD very highly so I'll have to get it, the unusual repertoire is quite a draw.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:23 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2212
Re: Diana Damrau (soprano) in a new operetta CD!
A couple of years since I heard her in recital and her voice was certainly not as fresh as when she was younger, a disappointing concert and I agree about her Christmas album.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano - a new song album (Simax)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1173
Re: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano - a new song album (Simax)
I heard her live a couple of weeks ago in an opera gala and very sadly, she was barely a shadow of her former self.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Comments on pianist IDIL BIRET?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1491
Re: Comments on pianist IDIL BIRET?
I acquired lots of her recordings, mainly Chopin and Rachmaninov, and I haven't listened to much of it yet. Her Mazurkas are very good but not Rubinstein....
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Maestro Accused of Striking Singer at Performance Apologizes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1201
Re: Maestro Accused of Striking Singer at Performance Apologizes
I haven't seen anything new written about this situation. I'm curious to know what is going on with Mr. Gardiner. The article quoted Mr. Gardiner as having apologized to Mr. Thomas personally as well as to those who witnessed the incident. He also mentioned that he was going to see his doctor. It's...
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:41 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Wolfgang Schneiderhan: Complete DGG recordings, 34 CDs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1142
Re: Wolfgang Schneiderhan: Complete DGG recordings, 34 CDs
I first came across him in the '60s when I bought his recording of the Four Seasons, not often played in those days, it's really excellent.
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:31 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Zlata Conchieva at Wigmore Hall: 2019 Recital
- Replies: 2
- Views: 341
Re: Zlata Conchieva at Wigmore Hall: 2019 Recital
Agreed, her recordings of the Chopin Etudes and Rachmaninov are excellent but I haven't heard her live yet.
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I discovered about Toscanini's recordings ...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 737
Re: What I discovered about Toscanini's recordings ...
Yes, thought of that ... am doing the live Act 4 of Rigoletto (never enought time for a complete opera!), but looking for orchestral pieces that might run 2-4 minutes needed for a fill-in for time, not finding those! That last act of Rigoletto was the LP that convinced me, as a teenager, that I lik...
- Thu May 18, 2023 3:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Here's an odd question for you!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1074
Re: Here's an odd question for you!
My favourite artist, Oistrakh, appears on my labels like Richter and, as a result, I have 126 CDs that include him (plus LPs and his chamber recordings), but there are lots of duplicates in the total of 119 hours. It's much easier to asses, for instance, Heifetz (RCA) or Grumiaux (Universal) whose w...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Doreen Carwithen: Concerto for Piano & Strings (1948)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 373
Re: Doreen Carwithen: Concerto for Piano & Strings (1948)
I recently played her Bishop Rock overture, very much of its time and well worth listening to.
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Adrian Boult, conductor - The Decca Recordings Complete
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1744
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Any views on violinist Leonidas Kavakos?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 713
Re: Any views on violinist Leonidas Kavakos?
He's fabulous, live or on CD. He has a fabulous technique, right up with Heifetz and Hilary Hahn (and one or two others) and he's a fine musician too. He's recorded plenty of CDs with a lot of virtuoso and chamber music and relatively few violin concertos. I'd love to hear him in recital with Yuja W...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What mega-boxes do you hope to see in 2023?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1895
Re: What mega-boxes do you hope to see in 2023?
Leonid Kogan, some of his CDs fetch ridiculous prices... The Warner 15CD set issued in the far east (but not in Europe as far as I know) would be a good start.
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Isaac Stern Plays Bloch Violin Sonata No. 1 with Score
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1466
Re: Isaac Stern Plays Bloch Violin Sonata No. 1 with Score
Fully agree, Stern was not one of my favourites but his Bloch recordings with Zakin are superlative.
- Wed Sep 14, 2022 5:09 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ginsburg's Rossini Fantasy (!)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 489
Re: Ginsburg's Rossini Fantasy (!)
I'm sure it's excellent but I won't be listening as he is much too close to Putin.
- Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:36 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninoff Études-Tableaux Complete (Full Album) played by Zlata Chochieva
- Replies: 4
- Views: 985
Re: Rachmaninoff Études-Tableaux Complete (Full Album) played by Zlata Chochieva
I agree about her Rachmaninoff, her Chopin etudes are excellent too.
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mediocre Heifetz
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3091
Re: Mediocre Heifetz
Have I downloaded the same thing twice? They are remarkably similar!
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shostakovich's 2nd Violin Concerto
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1345
Re: Shostakovich's 2nd Violin Concerto
Just picked up this thread; there is also a stunning DVD of the Oistrakh world premiere
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Daniel Hope, British violinist ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 800
Re: Daniel Hope, British violinist ...
CDs ordered, thanks both.
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Lang Lang's new "classical" cd
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1541
Re: Lang Lang's new "classical" cd
82 years ago, getting close to a century, amazing when you think of it.Modernistfan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 4:30 pmOther than "Fantasia," which was more than half a century ago, Disney and classical music absolutely do not mix.
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:44 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ingrid Fliter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4698
Re: Ingrid Fliter
Ingrid Fliter at Wigmore Hall,live, March 14, 2022, a refreshingly lyrical, more relaxed and introspective Schumann; and a Haydn sonata new to me I actually enjoyed.She ends the Schumann with a couple of the more quiet posthumous etudes, not the march ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015548 Hay...
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Leonard Warren, Bidu Sayao & Jussi Bjoerling sing Rigoletto at the old MET: 1945
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1863
Re: Leonard Warren, Bidu Sayao & Jussi Bjoerling sing Rigoletto at the old MET: 1945
The CDs have arrived and I enjoyed the performance but the last act really doesn't have the extraordinary emotion generated by Toscanini.
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mezzo-Sopranos
- Replies: 1
- Views: 773
Re: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mezzo-Sopranos
So many of my favourites in here and I'm loving listening to them again. Thanks for posting
- Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2835
Re: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
After listening to my new CDs I am still in awe of Ricci. In my youth, he had made the virtuoso repertoire his own and rehearing these recordings, I can see why. Nowadays when there seem to be a lot of virtuosi who can and do play these works more accurately than he did, Ricci's sheer flair puts him...
- Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Leonard Warren, Bidu Sayao & Jussi Bjoerling sing Rigoletto at the old MET: 1945
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1863
Re: Leonard Warren, Bidu Sayao & Jussi Bjoerling sing Rigoletto at the old MET: 1945
It was a battered LP of the Toscanini version of the last act that first converted me into an opera lover, Leonard Warren was the amazing Rigoletto on that. I must try to hear this Met version, thanks for the heads up.
- Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Moscow Video: David Oistrakh Plays Beethoven Violin Concerto in 1959
- Replies: 2
- Views: 852
Re: Moscow Video: David Oistrakh Plays Beethoven Violin Concerto in 1959
I did thanks, very much.
I have a DVD with Adrian Boult which I first heard on Television when it was new but this is rather different and every bit as good.
I have a DVD with Adrian Boult which I first heard on Television when it was new but this is rather different and every bit as good.
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2835
Re: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
Hi both, as I said on the Markevitch thread, I rate his Sarasate just as highly as you do. The Glory of Cremona set has never been widely issued on CD and currently sells at ridiculous prices so is very welcome and the Bravura set is new to CD. All in all, most of the 'British' Ricci box has been a...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 3:47 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2835
Re: The new Decca Ruggiero Ricci sets ...
Hi both, as I said on the Markevitch thread, I rate his Sarasate just as highly as you do. The Glory of Cremona set has never been widely issued on CD and currently sells at ridiculous prices so is very welcome and the Bravura set is new to CD. All in all, most of the 'British' Ricci box has been av...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:31 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Igor Markevitch - conductor - new compilation boxes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2170
Re: Igor Markevitch - conductor - new compilation boxes
I've got both sets, Lance - but neither has been opened yet. Also both the Ruggiero Ricci sets, ditto. I need 48-hour days. Many thanks Barney, I hadn't picked up on the Ricci issues, the American recordings in particular. I missed the CD of Glory of Cremona and it now sells for silly money, the Sa...
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7158
Re: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
Thanks for this John,
I didn't know that he played the Elgar, such a shame that he didn't re-record it later. I'll have to listen today.
I didn't know that he played the Elgar, such a shame that he didn't re-record it later. I'll have to listen today.
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7158
Re: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
Yes thanks, CharmNewton, I have the Brilliant box but they are live Russian recordings rather than his Melodiya studio recordings. A couple of the Melodiya studio tracks that particularly resonate with me are two of his favourite showpieces: Kupkovic's Souvenir and Schnittke's Stille Nacht. He recor...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:50 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7158
Re: 21-CD Gidon Kremer Box Set on Warner
The box certainly showcases Kremer's eclectic repertoire. He's also a very imaginative interpreter and highly regarded by his peers, many of who he performs with at festivals etc. I have many of the more unusual recordings so I may give this a miss unless it's priced competitively. I would, however,...
- Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grieg's 3 Violin/Piano Sonatas for Violin/Orchestra!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3512
Re: Grieg's 3 Violin/Piano Sonatas for Violin/Orchestra!
Hi Rob,
Are there 2 Dmitry Sitkovetskys? The one I know of (and have many recordings of) is the son of the late Julian Sitkovetsky and Bella Davidovich. He's also the father of soprano Julia and lives in London.
Are there 2 Dmitry Sitkovetskys? The one I know of (and have many recordings of) is the son of the late Julian Sitkovetsky and Bella Davidovich. He's also the father of soprano Julia and lives in London.