What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Robert_Anderson

I can't wait to try this proven classic on XRCD! I think Charles Munch is the benchmark version, at least for me; what I grew up listening to.

For me, the benchmark is Monteux. I grew up with his SFSO version but the CSO is even better. And that's now on SACD.

[Josquin des Prez]

Originally Posted by Robert_Anderson

I can't wait to try this proven classic on XRCD! I think Charles Munch is the benchmark version, at least for me; what I grew up listening to.

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

For me, the benchmark is Monteux. I grew up with his SFSO version but the CSO is even better. And that's now on SACD.

Tiny albums covers suck! I have no idea what you two are talking about. Maybe it's music for super-vision.

[cma29]

Originally Posted by Josquin des Prez

Tiny albums covers suck! I have no idea what you two are talking about. Maybe it's music for super-vision.

Hi, Dean. Nice to see you here again.

[Josquin des Prez]

Originally Posted by cma29

Hi, Dean. Nice to see you here again.

Hi Carlos. Funny thing about finally getting my system as I wanted it. Now I'm not listening to it as much, and lately it's mostly been jazz anyway.

I've been busy with work. On top of that of that I've taken it upon myself to get back in shape, so now some of my former listening time has been replaced with cycling time.

[AudioNut]

Originally Posted by Paret

Going to the Fort Worth Symphony tonight for the second day of their three day Festival dedicated to Van Cliburn.
All Russian music.

Your very first post and you favored us with it in the Classical Music thread - Welcome Paret. Please visit again and often.

I wish I had been in Fort Worth tonight for the Van Cliburn Festival. Hope you enjoyed it!

[Toccata]

I wonder if the 2L recording engineers have ever attended a live chamber music concert. If so, I seriously doubt that the two violins were in front of the audience and the cello and viola behind them. Well, that's the sonic perspective presented here! While it adds clarity, this arrangement is just not realistic. Thus, I have to listen to it in stereo instead of m-ch. That aside, the sound is astonishingly present, and Engegård Quartet play fantastically.

Program:
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5
Leif Solberg: String Quartet in B Minor
Edvard Grieg: String Quartet in G Minor Op. 27

[Haydn]

Listened to Mozart's Requiem on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. Well done
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Christine Schafer
Bernard Fink
Kurt Streit
Gerald Findley

SACD

[Robert_Anderson]

Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije - I have loved this performance since I was a boy.

[AudioNut]

Listening to an elderly LP . . . Famous Oboe Concertos
Leclair, Marcello, Vivaldi and Telemann

Heinz Holliger - Oboe
Members of the Dresden State Orchestra - Vittorio Negri, Conductor

Can't imagine why it is so, but the oboe has long been my favorite instrument and to my mind, no one plays it better than Heinz Holliger.

Problem with the solo oboe is that many recordings fail to reproduce the sound of the instrument properly - and make the instrument sound shrill - more like an alto recorder/flute. Fortunately Philips captured the sound in all its glory in most of their Holliger recordings.

This one is just plain magnificent. These beautiful concertos couldn't sound better! (IMHO). Excellent performances, excellent sound quality. I guess I've had this record since the 1960's and the surfaces are still clean and here I sit in total amazement at the glorious sound.

(The following picture is dedicated to our member Dean, in hopes he can see and read it)

[bart]

While running through the fields this morning (yes Dean, keep on sporting!), I heard this on the radio:



Strauss - Oboe Concerto & Metamorphosen
ChamberOrchestra of Europe, Heinz Holliger, oboe & conductor.

The oboe concerto struck me as a very nice work.
What what touched me even more deeply is that this piece, one of the last of the composer, was written in '45, for an American soldier-oboe player, who was part of the occupying forces, there in Garmisch-Partenkirchen...