What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

[rando]

 

[rando]

 

[Manesp2]

 

[CKKeung]

The violin of Josef Suk is warm and silk-like :

 

[rando]

 

[Manesp2]

Heifetz...Heifetz...Heifetz...etc.

 

[accwai]

Concertos pour alto
Gérard Caussé, Les Solistes de Montpellier-Moscou



Viola concertos by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Joseph Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber

 

[rando]

 

[Manesp2]

Arrived early a.m. from New Taipei City

 

[Abbinormal]

 

[rando]

Believably a lithe and athletic performance on the first album. Disc two on the following album is taken from latter stages of the live Honens contest winning performance featuring multiple collaborators showing the piano in best light. Starting off with Isabel Bayrakdarian singing two more works by Viardot.

 

[Abbinormal]

This is an outstanding recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 by a truly gifted artist. The album also contains performances of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango and Oblivion as arranged by the artist for Cello and Orchestra and Cello Concerto by Bruce Wolosoff. This composition was written by Wolosoff specifically for Ms. Sant' Ambrogio. The performance of the Elgar piece in particular is a tour de force. Highly recommended.

 

[accwai]

Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 4
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste

 

[daytona600]

ERC mono reissue
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[accwai]

Britten, Krenek, Doráti: oboe - solo and accompanied
Helén Jahren, Elisabeth Westenholz

 

[rando]

Britten, Krenek, Doráti: oboe - solo and accompanied
Helén Jahren, Elisabeth Westenholz

At least for me your linked cover art from AllMusic is not being displayed since roughly two weeks ago. On the odd occasion when I scroll upwards days later it will be there.

Your album above has frustrated me for at least a few years, including an attempted listen moments ago. Arrived at the decision it must be her R E E D(s) or the instrument itself that turn me away in the first few notes of Britten's 'Temporal Variations.'

 

[Manesp2]

Concertos pour alto
Gérard Caussé, Les Solistes de Montpellier-Moscou



Viola concertos by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Joseph Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber

Note to self: more Hoffmeister.

 

[rando]

 

[asiufy]

That Sant'Ambrogio Elgar album is extraordinary! I love that piece, and this one really hits the spot for me. It's on Qobuz (hi-res).

 

[accwai]

Bloch: Suites for Solo Cello
Dallapiccola: Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio
Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Cello
Natalie Clein

At least for me your linked cover art from AllMusic is not being displayed since roughly two weeks ago. On the odd occasion when I scroll upwards days later it will be there.

Yes, this happens on my tablet. Computer based browsers work fine though. Might have something to do with allmusic fiddling with their Cross-Origin Resource Sharing configuration. But those images also carry link to the corresponding album entry on allmusic, so I figure using their album images here is fair game. Just for today, I have sourced the image above from Amazon. The linked album entry is still on allmusic and AWS object store is partly charged by traffic. So in a way this isn't fair to Amazon retail. Another possibility would be to copy the images to this site. Don't like the copyrights implication though...

Your album above has frustrated me for at least a few years, including an attempted listen moments ago. Arrived at the decision it must be her R E E D(s) or the instrument itself that turn me away in the first few notes of Britten's 'Temporal Variations.'

I would assume you mean the first few notes in the Theme movement. What about them turns you away? Any comment on the 5th Metamorphoses where the color switches back and forth? I'm curious about any oboe recording that has the same breadth or color, pitch and dynamics that you're happy with. Any suggestions?

Note to self: more Hoffmeister.

Like this?

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/thre...ntly-listening-to-classical.19654/post-622805

His symphonies from the Chandos Contempories of Mozart series is very good too:

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN 10351

I've been posting entries from this series here for a while. They're uniformly good. Don't have this particular one though. Will make a note to get it soon...