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- Tue May 14, 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3184
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Re: What I listened to today
You are right-on, Sir! That's a fabulous performance of the Fauré Quintet . I don't believe Testament ever issued that on CD; it should have been. It was originally an A. Charlin LP [CL-12]. It's getting a very high price for the LP, around $75 with shipping. Thyssens-Valentin's four Fauré CDs on T...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3184
- Views: 2342872
Re: What I listened to today
The tribute to your mother was beautiful and heartfelt. You and I are both so fortunate to have parents that provided and imparted the really 'good things in life' to us an early age. Indeed, in the sunset of our lives made all the richer for what happened years ago. Sviatoslav Richter, an antholog...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Lars Vogt's mega-box from Warner [27 CDs]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 58
Re: Pianist Lars Vogt's mega-box from Warner [27 CDs]
I fully understand about "room." But, I am weak-minded sometimes, and impulsive about music. This set arrived Sunday via Prime (reasonably priced) and I am in awe of what I have extracted thus far. Lars Vogt was more a pianist and artist than I ever knew totally. After hearing the Tchaikovsky Piano ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19
Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
When one collects by ARTISTS , there is bound be multiple performances in your collections. In looking back at what has been accumulated, one scratches one's head! This also applies to compositions as well. Among the "Masses/Requiems" - among my two personal favorites are those by Verdi and Brahms. ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Babayan playing Mendelssohn & Schubert/Liszt early on
- Replies: 2
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Babayan playing Mendelssohn & Schubert/Liszt early on
Among the pianists with whom I have developed a fascination with lately is Sergei Babayan . Apparently the great Martha Argerich thought enough of him to include him in her Lugano recitals. And the big surprise was the DGG "Rachmaninoff for Two," album with Igor Levit, which I find to be one of the ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
- Replies: 3
- Views: 51
Re: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
I'm curious. Approximately, how far is it from your home to the Sydney Opera House in therms of miles? This is one place I hope to see one day, indeed I would love see all you great people of Australia. I'm less than three hours away from the Big Apple [New York City] but these days rarely go. No da...
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
- Replies: 3
- Views: 51
Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
ROBY LAKATOS & ENSEMBLE Yeah - I get into some of this "other" music - some of it is great stuff. Around 2012, Avanti Classics issued a two-CD set called "La Passion." The Hungarian, Roby Lakatos, born in 1965, is what we might call a super-virtuoso violinist of the music he plays. His group has a ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3184
- Views: 2342872
Re: What I listened to today
Curzon - great for the ears. Wonderful work of Herr Schumann as well.
Belle wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 1:38 amClifford Curzon, 1968, Schumann's Kinderszenen. Strength and tenderness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdms6u7fXF8
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Georg Telemann "Tafelmusik" (Complete)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 43
Re: Georg Telemann "Tafelmusik" (Complete)
While I have a lot of Telemann on disc, I don't think I have the complete Tafelmusik on CD (maybe on LP). You're right: it takes a big time commitment to hear the whole thing. While I enjoy "table music," I'd have to be at the table for a long time and would be as long as there was enough great food...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The 19th Century Saxophone
- Replies: 6
- Views: 123
Re: The 19th Century Saxophone
Believe-it-or-not, I have two recordings of the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto on CD. I can't remember the last time I heard it. One is on the Olympia label [165] with Lev Mikhailov playing the sax, which I bought in Ithaca, NY in 2001 . The other is a Glazunov Edition on EMI/Warner [56514], an 8-CD se...
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Lars Vogt's mega-box from Warner [27 CDs]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 58
Pianist Lars Vogt's mega-box from Warner [27 CDs]
The late pianist, Lars Vogt , who died in 2022 not quite 52, was a well known pianist, having performed and recorded prolifically for EMI/Warner, Ars Production, Ondine, and Berlin Classics. I didn't get too many of his recordings, just a few EMIs of solo performances and mostly chamber music on EMI...
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 118
Re: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
I, too, have had the András Schiff disc since 2010 of his 15 Scarlatti sonatas [Decca 475 7729], though I haven't heard it in a long time and I can't recall the impression he made on me. Sometimes Schiff is really "on" - and I don't mind music being "romanticised" as long as it leaves a deep musical...
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 118
Re: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
I should have mentioned Dubravka Tomsic . I do have that recording of 13 sonatas on the Pilz label [160106]. Artur Rubinstein had high opinions of Tomsic enough for me to go after almost 25 of her recordings over many years. One doesn't hear much about her these days, which is too bad as she was a t...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 118
Re: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
Can definitely understand your preference for D. Scarlatti on the harpsichord. I have plenty of that, too, with artists such Landowska (on her big Pleyel instrument), Baumont, Leonardt, Ruzickova and a few others though I have not concentrated on Scarlatti on the harpsichord as much as for the piano...
- Sat May 11, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang Recital at Carnegie Hall
- Replies: 2
- Views: 75
Re: Yuja Wang Recital at Carnegie Hall
Your thoughts on the Carnegie Hall recital were about the same as mine for her new DGG "The Vienna Recital." I was disappointed as well outside of the more contemporary repertoire. Concert-goers are just wild about Yuga!
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 118
Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
Listening recently to Sergei Babayan 's 1995 Pro Piano recording [224506] produced by Ricard de la Rosa, owner of Pro Piano in New York City who provides the Hamburg Steinway piano to artists who record for the label. de la Rosa has a reputation for providing pianos that are maintained to the highes...
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Israeli conductor, Gary Bertini [1927-2005]
- Replies: 0
- Views: 68
The Israeli conductor, Gary Bertini [1927-2005]
Gary Bertini is a conductor's name most of us probably know. He was born in Israel as Shloyme Golergant . He has worked with many orchestras in the US, Israel, and Europe in general over the years. I have about ten or so CD recordings where his name appears, mostly in collaborations with people suc...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Imagine a Schumann "Dichterliebe" with Cello & Piano
- Replies: 1
- Views: 71
Re: Imagine a Schumann "Dichterliebe" with Cello & Piano
Having listened to the Dichterliebe today, while, as beautiful as the playing by both artists was, I missed the voice . The cello takes the vocal line of the cycle and here the cellist displays the subtleties of the vocal line superbly well. The cello can be made to not only sing, but to cry as well...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: No shrimp for the barbie ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 82
Re: No shrimp for the barbie ?
It was hard to believe that Australia would have these conditions in their far-removed areas. For a few moments while reading your post, I put myself in their position. What would it be like, where I live (for anyone lives what e deem a normal or close-to-normal life), if no one could get in for a v...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3184
- Views: 2342872
Re: What I listened to today
Could not concur with you more regarding Emanuel Ax ... who produced three Sony recordings of Haydn's sonatas giving us Nos. 58, 38, 60, 33, 32, 47, 53, 59, 29, 31, 34, 35, and 39 recorded in the early 2000s. Agreed, he plays them more in the Romantic-period vein. Marc-André Hamelin 's three volumes...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Hopkins to play Handel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 66
Re: Hopkins to play Handel
Wish I could view this. I'm a big fan of Anthony Hopkins! Remarkable actor.
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 139
Re: Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
I certainly hope administrators will wake up and give Marin Alsop the chance she is seeking. The Met is a big step to even more. She has done wonders for Baltimore, and the recording industry. Get her while you can is the way I see it.
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Concerti di Venezia" - fabulous music!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 58
"Concerti di Venezia" - fabulous music!
Coming off a huge concert season (which is still going on) and trying to get my head back in place, resting and imbibing much music that might not normally come to the fore, I've been listening to a recording called "Concerti di Venezia" - music by Caldara, Marcello, Porpora, Vandini, and Vivaldi. ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Heinz Holliger, Supreme Oboist - turns 85 on May 21, 2024
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- Views: 56
Heinz Holliger, Supreme Oboist - turns 85 on May 21, 2024
For as along as I can remember, I am attracted to the oboe . It was Leon Goossens who piqued my interest initially, and Pierre Pierlot who hit the nail on the head for more. Han de Vries came along as did Robert Bloom and lately, Albrect Mayer, among others. But it was the Swiss-born Heinz Holliger ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: György Kurtág, 98, Is Composing His Second Opera
- Replies: 1
- Views: 68
Re: György Kurtág, 98, Is Composing His Second Opera
What an inspiration - after having a wife for 72 years! He must have loved her dearly. I will be interested to hear about this. 98 - still composing ... pretty phenomenal.
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Matt Haimovitz, cellist
- Replies: 0
- Views: 71
Matt Haimovitz, cellist
Born in 1970 in Israel, Matt Haimovitz , with his parents, moved from Romania to Palo Alto, California when he was five years old. Before he was 20, he had a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. At present, I have three of his DGG recordings and three that were released on his own label, Oxingdale, wh...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:44 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 162
Re: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
I wasn't able to hear it to the end, but this was a fascinating and well-studied analysis of the Passacaglia - as far as I heard it. A very nice find for me for one of my favorite symphonies! Thank you.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 521
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
I just saw an interesting quote:
"Bach's St. Matthew Passion of 1729 probably brought
religion home to many more souls than the words of
a thousand curates. At times, doctors of music have
been nearer than doctors of divinity to God."
—Owen Chadwick, History of Christianity
"Bach's St. Matthew Passion of 1729 probably brought
religion home to many more souls than the words of
a thousand curates. At times, doctors of music have
been nearer than doctors of divinity to God."
—Owen Chadwick, History of Christianity
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 118
Re: Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
Just think of what you would have missed! Well, one really does have to laugh when we hear her "singing." If I recall, Mrs. Miller's rendition of Downtown came out in 1966, when I was 12. Petulia Clark made a hit of the song the previous year. This was in that narrow window of time in my life when I...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Hermann Abendroth, conductor [1883-1956]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 126
Hermann Abendroth, conductor [1883-1956]
Among many historical recordings, I frequently find the name of Hermann Abendroth listed as a conductor. I did a search on my major label listing looking for Abendroth and not a single CD came forward . I checked my non-major labels, and 43 entries came up appearing on about 66 discs. These labels ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 118
Re: Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
Mark, you never cease to amaze me. I didn't think you would even know her name. I didn't until someone introduced me to her "art." And Florence Foster Jenkins ... another hoot! I did a radio broadcast one time featuring (with apologies) this kind of "repertoire" with these "kinds" of singers or inst...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Imagine a Schumann "Dichterliebe" with Cello & Piano
- Replies: 1
- Views: 71
Imagine a Schumann "Dichterliebe" with Cello & Piano
It's not unusual to find transcriptions of this kind, but not usually the whole cycle. Back in 2013, Sony-Germany issued a CD [89258] called "Dichterliebe." It features not only that song cycle but the Fantasiestücke , Op. 73. Cellist Jan Vogler is joined by pianist Helene Grimaud in both selections...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A composer I did not know: Ottmar Gerster
- Replies: 1
- Views: 77
A composer I did not know: Ottmar Gerster
What brought up Ottmar Gerster 's name was his Piano Concerto [1931/1955] with a pianist by the name of Siegfried Stockigt , to be found on a Hastedt CD [5311]. Here's something about Gerster: "Ottmar Gerster (29 June 1897 in Braunfels, Germany – 31 August 1969 in Borsdorf) was a German viola player...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The 19th Century Saxophone
- Replies: 6
- Views: 123
The 19th Century Saxophone
You might not think of the saxophone as a superb classical concert instrument, given its popularity in non-classical world, however it was/is. I first became more interested in the saxophone in a classical music vein after hearing a live performance of the music of Jean-Baptiste Singelée [1812-1875]...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 97
Re: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
AGREE! OMG! Cziffra - one of the very great ones! I wanted (and got) every note he recorded. The big EMI/Warner set is a treasure trove, but there is much out their recorded privately.
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
- Replies: 2
- Views: 98
Re: Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
Yes, I was surprised, too, Brian. Out of site, out of mind, I guess. During that Millenium recital with the Canadian Opera Co., [CBC Records] who placed much on that disc; they left out Heppner, but someone surprised me when I got a copy of the entire concert and now understand why. Heppner had a ba...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:32 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 118
Who remembers Mrs. Miller - remember "Downtown"
A "singer" popular in the 1960s and '70s, made recordings for Capitol Records. Her "voice" was introduced to me by a classical music singer. I could not believe my ears! It IS fun to klisten to, nonetheless. Too bad some of her LPs have not been transferred to CD by the original company. Some of her...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rattle's live Mahler 6th Symphony
- Replies: 1
- Views: 112
Re: Rattle's live Mahler 6th Symphony
Everybody's got their favs! Mine: 1, 3 ... and 2 if I had to select three. But the Kindertotenlieder and Songs of a Wayfarer are way, way up there, too! Have learned to absolutely love this composer's work.
- Sun May 05, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3184
- Views: 2342872
Re: What I listened to today
This one looks really interesting. I have only Langgaard's Symphonies 2 and 3 and am not particularly interested in having all sixteen of them though I see they available in a boxed set. On another recording issued by Dacapo, it read that Langgaard was eccentric and difficult to be around other peop...
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
- Replies: 2
- Views: 98
Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
Canadian-born tenor Ben Heppner had quite a career until he decided to conclude it. As he puts it, thanks to Wikpedia, "... announced his retirement from singing in April 2014. Heppner felt unable to be a 'part-time singer,' feeling that "No matter how often you sing, if you're going to sing at a g...
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: JS Bach's Three Cello Sonatas, BWV 1027-1028-1029
- Replies: 10
- Views: 510
Re: JS Bach's Three Cello Sonatas, BWV 1027-1028-1029
I bring up this subject again because, it's the fifth time in a matter of days that I was "compelled" to be to hear it again - and again. Listening to these two artists, and especially young Martin Stadtfeld at the piano, and the marvelous tone of Vogler's cello, this recording is a total pleaser! T...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang's new "The Vienna Recital" on DGG
- Replies: 8
- Views: 242
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: More on Australia's pianist/composer Miriam Hyde
- Replies: 0
- Views: 82
More on Australia's pianist/composer Miriam Hyde
Having been taken in with Miriam Hyde 's piano concertos, particularly No. 1, wherein she is the pianist in that recording, I wanted to hear more of her music, especially played by her. I was lucky to find an Australian disc on the Southern Cross label [1027] wherein we she plays 12 selections, inc...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 521
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
A MERCEDES! I should have thought about that for you. Great, well-built luxury cars. I understand the ones that come to the US are equipped with McIntosh sound equipment - made right here in Binghamton, New York. Perhaps the Austarlian and other country models have it as well. Like you, I'm appalled...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: No phones, please, we're British
- Replies: 2
- Views: 121
Re: No phones, please, we're British
Obvious to me that Hough has a great sense of humour!
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang's new "The Vienna Recital" on DGG
- Replies: 8
- Views: 242
Re: Yuja Wang's new "The Vienna Recital" on DGG
Hmm ... frankly, this time I was somewhat disappointed. The technique is assuredly there as we would expect. A good start with the Albéniz piece, I enjoyed the Glass Etude No. 5, the Brahms Intermezzo was way over romanticized and stretched too far, the Beethoven, her centerpiece? It's missing somet...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Did anybody get the 41-CD set of Handel's oratorios on Decca?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 121
Did anybody get the 41-CD set of Handel's oratorios on Decca?
I thought this was a super set, which I've had since 2016 [Decca 483 0142]. This is a real treasure-trove featuring many great artists: Kirby, Burrows, Auger, Partridge, von Otter, Padmore, Battle, Horne, Ramey, Aler, Gritton, J. Baker, and many others. Conductors include Gardiner, Hogwood, Pinnock,...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Simon Trpceski redux
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1542
Re: Pianist Simon Trpceski redux
I wonder why this post got 1,450 views (so far)? Is interest in the pianist drawing that many views?
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 289
Re: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
I've listened again to the whole set and cannot believe the incredible pianism displayed in these Rachmaninoff pieces. One of the best piano recordings (including sound-wise) that I've heard in a long time. Here's where two artist's musical hearts beat at the same time! Six stars for this one! (Sorr...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 413
Re: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
Many thanks for all the interesting comments and suggestions. It was and remains my aim to make our site one of the more interesting and friendly ones. We've been around now for about two decades or more, and while I felt it was "slow-going," for a while, over those years we made some great friends...