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[Bachtoven]

Disc 5 today. A fine recording and quite a bargain!

 

[Bachtoven]

A selection of Preludes and Fugues from both composers' complete sets. His playing is great, and the sound is demonstration-worthy, but I wish he had included Shostakovich's monumental 24th P&F.

 

[microstrip]

Just went through more than two hours of great music and a great voyage through the life of Columbus using ancient music, recitatives and text:

Jordi Savall / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Montserrat Figueras / Hespèrion XXI - Christophorus Columbus: Paraísos Perdidos - Lost Paradises

 

[Bachtoven]

 

[Zachybinx]

Listening to the beethoven symphonies conducted by bernstein. love the liberties he takes.

 

[andolink]

Johannes Brahms: Sonata for piano and cello in E minor, Op. 38

 

[Bachtoven]

A recording I made in 1989 when I was a recording engineer of Alexei Sultanov and the Sacramento Symphony playing Chopin's Concerto No.2. The concert was one of Sultanov's prizes for winning the Van Cliburn Competition that year. Such a fine player and what a loss to the music world when he died at age 35 in 2005 from a stroke.

 

[Bachtoven]

Listening to another recording I made in the 80s, this time the Melos String Quartet playing Ravel's Quartet. Wow, amazing playing, and they sound as if they are in my living room!

 

[Folsom]

 

[Bachtoven]

 

[andolink]

Poul Ruders: Piano Concerto (1994)

 

[andolink]

Desert Island material if ever there was any--

F. J. Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 no. 3

 

[Jazzhead]

Andolink .... You keep coming up with these off the cuff labels and performances . Are these CD's or downloads ? Most interesting , keep them coming . Thanks !

 

[Jazzhead]

 

[andolink]

Andolink .... You keep coming up with these off the cuff labels and performances . Are these CD's or downloads ? Most interesting , keep them coming . Thanks !

Not sure what you mean by "off the cuff" here. Quatuor Mosaïques have been setting the standard for HIP of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven for many decades and Naive (from France), likewise for many decades, have been releasing benchmark recordings of a wide variety of standard and not so standard repertoire.

The Da Capo label (see the Ruders Piano Concerto post above) has been the dominant independent record label in Denmark since the early 1980's.

I've had many of the Quatuor Mosaïques' recordings of the Haydn quartets in my CD collection for over 20 years and the ones I was missing I now have as downloads.

For the last several years most of what I've been buying is downloads in flac format just because of the convenience but my CD collection numbers around 5,500 discs so a lot of the music I post here is drawn from that.

Glad you're appreciating the stuff I'm posting about here. I'm very passionate about music and the recordings I post on various websites including this one are all ones that are special to me.

 

[Bachtoven]

For the last several years most of what I've been buying is downloads in flac format just because of the convinience but my CD collection numbers around 5,500 discs so a lot of the music I post here is drawn from that.

Great--I can use this post to prove to my wife that my 3,000 CDs are not excessive!

 

[Jazzhead]

Not sure what you mean by "off the cuff" here. Quatuor Mosaïques have been setting the standard for HIP of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven for many decades and Naive (from France), likewise for many decades, have been releasing benchmark recordings of a wide variety of standard and not so standard repertoire.

The Da Capo label (see the Ruders Piano Concerto post above) has been the dominant independent record label in Denmark since the early 1980's.

I've had many of the Quatuor Mosaïques' recordings of the Haydn quartets in my CD collection for over 20 years and the ones I was missing I now have as downloads.

For the last several years most of what I've been buying is downloads in flac format just because of the convinience but my CD collection numbers around 5,500 discs so a lot of the music I post here is drawn from that.

Glad you're appreciating the stuff I'm posting about here. I'm very passionate about music and the recordings I post on various websites including this one are all ones that are special to me.

Maybe "off the cuff" was a wrong term , meant off tangent . The Majority of labels and performances you post are not mainstream classical , or at least not for me . Thanks again for posting , look forward to more .

 

[Bachtoven]

In honor of his birthday.

 

[andolink]

The Majority of labels and performances you post are not mainstream classical , or at least not for me .

Yup, I'm definitely not mainstream

 

[Bachtoven]

Disc 1--stunning playing, so-so mono sound.