Album of the Evening

[Qhwoeprktiyns]

4 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Don’t ruin this thread. 

 

By providing useful content, or by reacting to a personal attack? 

Stop obsessing and get off my back please...

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, hopkins said:

 

By provibd useful content, or by reacting to a personal attack? 

Get off my back please... 

To you, it’s all a personal attack and you must have the last word. Can’t you just post an album in the album of the evening thread? Nobody is keeping score. You can let some posts go. 

[MarkusBarkus]

[kumakuma]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

To you, it’s all a personal attack and you must have the last word. Can’t you just post an album in the album of the evening thread? Nobody is keeping score. You can let some posts go. 

 

Chris, sorry for my part in taking this thread off topic.

[Qhwoeprktiyns]

6 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

To you, it’s all a personal attack and you must have the last word. Can’t you just post an album in the album of the evening thread? Nobody is keeping score. You can let some posts go. 

 

Funny you say this when you seem to make it a point to upvote these types of comments. 

You can have your last word now. 

 

I have posted many albums in this thread. 

[WAM]

Now listening to this wonderful album

 

 

[Iving]

Don't think this has been posted recently. At this time I have 2 different CDs only. No vinyl - notwithstanding thorough recent research.

 

[AnotherSpin]

Re-listened Martha Argerich's version of Rachmaninov 3rd. Wow, it is superb!

 

 

[Jud]

1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

Would love to hear Yuja Wang here.

 

Ditto, for Rach 3 or anything else.

[sphinxsix]

52 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

Re-listened Martha Argerich's version of Rachmaninov 3rd. Wow, it is superb!

 

 

IMO there is no better way to end a discussion about Rachmaninov performances 😊

[austinpop]

[austinpop]

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[The Computer Audiophile]

[pas]

[AnotherSpin]

9 hours ago, Jud said:

 

Ditto, for Rach 3 or anything else.

 

It seems Rachmaninov 3rd and Yuja Wang are just perfect for each other. Not so sure about the music of Bach or Haydn, though. But in any case, everything she does is interesting. Too bad I don't listen to a lot of contemporary music, many people say that Juja is just incomparable here.

[flkin]

A 30min explanation of Rach3 by Garrick Ohlsson (ex Warsaw Chopin Competition winner). Helps to understand the ways pianists approach it.

 

https://youtu.be/owfrXIaIwz4

 

But if you want how it was played during Rachmaninov's time, one has to go back to the past and hear some of the 1930-40s Vladimir Horowitz's versions when they were contemporaries. It's played much faster than by today's pianists. 

[AnotherSpin]

2 hours ago, flkin said:

A 30min explanation of Rach3 by Garrick Ohlsson (ex Warsaw Chopin Competition winner). Helps to understand the ways pianists approach it.

 

https://youtu.be/owfrXIaIwz4

 

But if you want how it was played during Rachmaninov's time, one has to go back to the past and hear some of the 1930-40s Vladimir Horowitz's versions when they were contemporaries. It's played much faster than by today's pianists. 

 

If we want to know how Rachmaninov's 3rd Concerto "should" be played, we need not ask Horowitz, who himself, among other things, has never been known as a follower of orders or rules. There are recordings of Rachmaninov playing his own concertos. Oddly enough, few people see them as reference performances.

[Allan F]

[WAM]

The fourth installment is released, listening to no. II at the moment. Bought the albums (the deluxe lp-version ($ 170) is already sold out before the release, so I settled for the 24/192 Qobuz release 🙃). " Black gold" has a different meaning these days...

 

 

[Musicophile]

Another Rach 2&3 I find very enjoyable. 
 

 

[pas]

[firedog]

On 8/25/2022 at 11:05 PM, Iving said:

Don't think this has been posted recently. At this time I have 2 different CDs only. No vinyl - notwithstanding thorough recent research.

 

Try the hi-res mono from 2013 (I think that's the year) I've recently re-evaluated and decided I like that one the best. 

[austinpop]

22 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Good find, Chris. Only came live on Qubuz US today as 24/96 stereo, and I had a listen. Very nice! There are so many fine Mahler 4th's out there that I'm not going to try to put this in any context other than it's a very enjoyable performance. Tempos are on the brisk side. Sabine Devieilhe's singing in the last movement is excellent.

[austinpop]

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[MarkusBarkus]