What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

[hb22]

 

[jmpsmash]

Challenge Classics has some really great recordings.

Beethoven Piano Concerto 4 & 5. Hannes Minnaar / Jan Willem de Vriend

 

[jmpsmash]

My homework before attending SF Symphony Prokofiev 5 last Saturday, conducted by James Gaffigan as well. This is way at the very top in terms of recording. Every instrument is clearly recorded in their place, with great dynamic, tonal balance, texture, sound stage. Very well done. Highly recommended.

 

[A-Line]

 

[Jim Treanor]

Leonard Slatkin conducts robust performances of William Schuman's American Festival Overture and New England Triptych and a reflective Symphony No. 10.

 

[Jim Treanor]

My homework before attending SF Symphony Prokofiev 5 last Saturday, conducted by James Gaffigan as well. This is way at the very top in terms of recording. Every instrument is clearly recorded in their place, with great dynamic, tonal balance, texture, sound stage. Very well done. Highly recommended.

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Agreed on both the recording quality and the performance, particularly of the 5th. Not surprised if Gaffigan is among the top candidates for the SFSO position..

 

[ssfas]

An innovative program from Samson Tsoy. This was recorded by Linn a couple of years ago at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, before he moved over to Harmonia Mundi, and has just been released. The Muziekgebouw is rarely used for recordings, but it is produced and engineered by Peter Hobbs, who's amongst the best in the business. Samson and his partner Pavel moved their Ragged Music Festival from London to the Muziekgebouw in 2023. We didn't go (we went to the first two festivals) because we were in Amsterdam a few weeks earlier, but they obviously liked the venue.

 

[Bloomie]

I just couldn't decide, I love/adore piano transcriptions so much, that I figured, how about all three of them?

Dvořák's Slavonic Dances
Tchaikovsky's COMPLETE Nutcracker Ballet
Brahms' 4th and 1st Symphonies

This should fill your dance cards for a while. A good long while.
Now, where's my deerstalker cap? There's a mystery afoot.

 

[meistersinger57]

WHY IN A HURRY, MRS. HAHN?
" FASTISSIMO" ...

 

[daytona600]

 

[godofwealth]

Sibelius Symphony 3 with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle. Great symphony but this high res recording on Roon fails to excite me as much as some versions I’ve heard on classic vinyl. It sounds a bit too compressed.

 

[Gregm]

Thoroughly recommended 20th century music. Jazzy!
Good recording, the mastering also spares some dynamics

 

[Bloomie]

At first glance, oh no, yet another recording of Bach's Cello Suites, but then on closer inspection, these have been arranged for the trumpet. This puts a whole new spin on things. Well worth a listen or six