What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

[Manesp]

Chopin: Concerto No. 2, Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante
Artur Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Alfred Wallenstein



Grand polonaise here is the full, with orchestra version

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Chopin: Concerto No. 2, Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante
Artur Rubinstein, Symphony of the Air, Alfred Wallenstein



Grand polonaise here is the full, with orchestra version

Accwai ...you got a Grand Slam for the obvious ...
And your Comment gets it done for this remarkable WTB Forum. Well done.

 

[rando]

 

[accwai]

György Ligeti: Mechanical Music
Pierre Charial, Françoise Terrioux, Jürgen Hocker



Franz Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a, c. 1885
Leslie Howard



An atonal piece to break the monotony...

Accwai ...you got a Grand Slam for the obvious ...
And your Comment gets it done for this remarkable WTB Forum. Well done.

Thanks! About that comment, these days it's actually more common to carry piano solo from Andante Spianato through to Grande Polonaise Brillante than having the orchestra join the second part. Like this:

And speaking of Chopin Competition, when Yundi Li was in Toronto not long after he started touring, he made a last minute juggle to delete Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante from his program. This freed the piece up for encore which brought the house down big time. A very calculated maneuver...

 

[the sound of Tao]

I have struggled to take the oboe quite as seriously since Peter Cook made the infamous Shirley plays the pink oboe joke.

That said the reed instruments are amongst the most seductive of all.



Alexei Ogrintchouk is an extraordinary oboist. Both of his BIS albums of Bach and Mozart Oboe concertos are just full of the joy of life. Highly recommended. Currently listening to the Mozart. Just sublimely musical. No thinking, just feeling.

 

[howiebrou]

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Alexei Ogrintchouk is an extraordinary oboist. Both of his BIS albums of Bach and Mozart Oboe concertos are just full of the joy of life. Highly recommended. Currently listening to the Mozart. Just sublimely musical. No thinking, just feeling.

This one is fabulous:

 

[accwai]

[...] Alexei Ogrintchouk is an extraordinary oboist. Both of his BIS albums of Bach and Mozart Oboe concertos are just full of the joy of life. Highly recommended. Currently listening to the Mozart. Just sublimely musical. No thinking, just feeling.

Bach oboe concertos are musicologically rather dubious. So there would be some thinking in addition to just the feelings In any case, currently doing a bit of comparison between Bach's reconstructed oboe concertos against the extant sources, e.g.:

Bach: Oboe Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059R/1 - Allegro
Céline Moinet, l'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt

Bach: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35/1 - Concerto
Juan de la Rubia, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz

 

[rando]

A rather unexpectedly well promoted student choir from the University of Oslo. This self released album celebrating 150 years in existence features soloists who are alumni that went on to form professional careers.

 

[Manesp]

This turned up Monday.

My KYO CD Player is more patient than I am ...

 

[Manesp]

A rather unexpectedly well promoted student choir from the University of Oslo. This self released album celebrating 150 years in existence features soloists who are alumni that went on to form professional careers.

"Much in demand on the concert platform, Yngve (Soberg) recently performed Fauré’s Requiem with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Carmina Burana with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra."

Gabriel Faure is one of my cherished composers...must have been special (for the lucky ones...) to have witnessed Yngve Soberg"s baritone delivery in Latin.

( I watched two UTUBBIES of Soberg doing his thing...Bravo ...all I can say.)

Living in North America makes Opera a challenge for me: languages...my German is weak ( but improving, I like to convince myself)...and learning Italian? ( who cares ...not gonna happen).

Cover Art piece (above) is OK too, BTW.

 

[andolink]

Back to Beethoven the past couple of days:

Symphonies 3, 5, and 6

 

[howiebrou]

 

[andolink]

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682-1732)

 

[andolink]

Starting my Christmas listening early because this is just too good to wait - -

 

[NorthStar]

Hey, that record label...my trademark. ...Must be a very nice album ...

 

[andolink]

Hey, that record label...my trademark. ...Must be a very nice album ...

Indeed, Northstar Recordings always have spectacular sonics. https://www.northstarconsult.nl/

 

[NorthStar]

It's a nice classical presentation site ...

And you can sample each song of each album from their music artists repertoire.
? https://www.spiritofturtle.com/shop/dcs-presents-the-spirit-of-turtle-download/?v=3e8d115eb4b3

They have various high resolutions: 352.8 kHz / 192 / 96 / DSD+ / SACD || 2-ch stereo & 5.1 multich.
The even tell you which gear they use to record.

It seems that after spring 2017 their repertoire stopped?

 

[Manesp]

Nothing is immortal ...right?

Maybe my Uncle ( long gone...) knew something back in '52 or '53 when he bought this LP at Sears. Who knows ?

The record plays (...at least on my two best tables) like Day One! Cover is a small fraction below Near Mint.

ALL parts of the "piece" (love that word...) are there.

H.Arthur Brown ...what a lucky lad...Nadia Boulanger ...as an instructor.

I can't even fathom that...

 

[Kal Rubinson]

It seems that after spring 2017 their repertoire stopped?

The Mendelssohn recordings were done in 2018 and released on Decca in 2019. Others too, I believe.

 

[NorthStar]

The Mendelssohn recordings were done in 2018 and released on Decca in 2019. Others too, I believe.

Ok, tanks Kal for dat. I was looking @ the "Archive" section and it stopped after March 2017 ...
? https://www.northstarconsult.nl/news

It's probably because they don't update their website regularly on all sections...or ...

But you are certainly right ...
1. https://www.spiritofturtle.com/product-category/download/?v=3e8d115eb4b3

2. https://www.spiritofturtle.com/shop/mendelssohn-concertos-for-two-pianos-download/?v=3e8d115eb4b3

3. https://www.highresaudio.com/en/alb...lssohn-concertos-for-two-pianos-mwv-o-5-and-6
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And the two selections beside the first ...
• https://www.challengerecords.com/products/15682981665185
• https://www.prestomusic.com/classic...t-no-1-op-25-academic-festival-overture-op-80

November 2019