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[mSpot]

I'm listening to Szell/Cleveland playing the finale of #95 in C minor and this performance is probably the best of all

Szell is my favorite conductor of Haydn symphonies, but unfortunately he didn't record many — only 92-98 and older mono recordings of 88 and 104. I also like Beecham and Bernstein.

 

[Rednaxela]

Classical Net Review - Graun - Trios for Two Violins & Basso

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Most lovely indeed!

 

[Scytales]

I am in awe for this disc :

Pierre Boulez, Livre pour Quatuor révisé (Book for Quartet revised).

Revised, in this instance, means that Pierre Boulez has worked closely with the member of the Diotima Quartet to... make his early work, composed when he was at the age 23, even playable!

A fascinating musical journey, a deep exploration of the ranges of expressiveness of the four instruments. Not for all ears, perhaps, but I for myself have a good time.

Good written liner notes, with interviews with the member of the quartet, Guillaume Latour (violin), Young Peng Zhao (violin), Franck Chevalier (viola) and Pierre Morlet (cello).

The recording is top notch. The best recorded quartet I have ever heard in more than 25 years of interest for Hi-fi! Just two omnidirectional microphones in an ideal acoustic. The belief to be there, in front of the musicians, has never been better. The balance, the dynamic range are incredible, yet all fall in place so easily and naturally it's almost witchcraft!

Megadisc Classics: MDC 7796.

 

[olieb]

Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens".
Recording from the 60s, not great but not bad either.
And Leibowitz hits Beethoven's tone like few others. 100sec of pure Beethoven.

 

[Lukasjr]

 

[dualazmak]

Very much enjoyable, thank you for sharing this YouTube link!

You are cordially invited to my hosting thread;
- Lute Music and Other Early Music: Stunning Recordings We Love
- https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...arly-music-stunning-recordings-we-love.21247/

 

[Elkerton]

Lovely. I almost never watch a performance through, but just did.

 

[olieb]

I come back to this recording of the First again and again.

 

[Sernyl]

Thank you.
I had never heard of Arpad Joo !

 

[Kal Rubinson]

"Early in the 1980s, money from a Calgary oilman allowed Joó to make several successful recordings in Hungary, with Hungarian orchestras, of works by Bartók and Kodaly using newly developed digital technology. "

These were wonderful performances in outstandingly good sound. I still enjoy them. His Wagner and R. Strauss only a bit less.

 

[Sernyl]

From another Kodaly's pupil (not sure, but he married his daughter).
'Ud is not so far from Lute :

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/9032500-Munir-Bashir-Irak-LArt-Du-%C3%9Bd-The-Art-Of-The-%C3%9Bd

 

[Winemaker]

Valentina Lisitsa QOR Records Official channel

youtube.com

 

[Flippo63]

 

[Titurel]

I come back to this recording of the First again and again.

Thanks for posting this. I actually knew Joo (slightly) in university, back several billion years.
ago.

 

[Nabussan]

This weekend, I calibrated my ears at a very successful performance of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at our opera house in Bonn, Germany.
I highly recommend it.
The piece is about the snake oil salesman Dr. Dulcamara who manages to make the ASR objectivist Adina fall in love with the romantic subjectivist Nemorino, much to the detriment of the live music lover Belcore.
No, it doesn't make fun of Wagner's sound magic in Tristan, it was released already in in 1832.

 

[bevok]

Perhaps not the most innovative and trendy release of the year but this popped up in my new releases and is such a joy.

Part of an ongoing remastering of David Oistrakh’s recordings.

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, Sinfonia concertante & Concertone for Two Violins (Remastered) | Warner Classics

www.warnerclassics.com

Mozart - Violin Concertos 2 & 4
David Oistrakh & the Berlin Philharmonic

David Oistrakh - Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, Sinfonia concertante & Concertone for Two Violins

Listen to Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, Sinfonia concertante & Concertone for Two Violins on your streaming service

tidal.com

 

[Andolink]

Very well done recording of some rare mid-Baroque German chamber music here. If you’re at all into this kind of thing, check it out!

Johann Philipp KRIEGER (1649-1725)
12 Trio Sonatas Op 2
Echo du Danube
rec. 2014 at the Refektorium Heilsbronn, Germany
CPO 555 333-2 [91:44]

 

[Mark617]

 

[Andolink]

This has been in my CD collection for 34 years and still provides tons of enjoyment. If your not familiar with these works and are curious seek out this set.

 

[Andolink]

This is another magnificent Corelli sonatas recording I'm working my way through; not to be missed!