Album of the Evening

[accwai]

Handel: Rinaldo

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, et al.

 

[Guidof]

 

Carmen McRae: Woman Talk, Live at the Village Gate.

 

The sound: She is in my room. (A CD rip).

[Booster MPS]

New Walter Smith III - Twio

 

Available for lossless download here:  http://music.whirlwindrecordings.com/album/twio

 

 

[EuroChamp]

8 hours ago, Booster MPS said:

New Walter Smith III - Twio

 

Available for lossless download here:  http://music.whirlwindrecordings.com/album/twio

 

 

 

Thank you for recommendation and for the link. It really seems to be a great album. What about their pricing? They want 10 USD "or more". Could you explain.

 

reg.,

Bernhard

[EuroChamp]

Murray Perahia

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas [24/96]

Qobuz

 

Brand new release. Listen for the first time. Well worth the money.

 

[Musicophile]

18 minutes ago, EuroChamp said:

Murray Perahia

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas [24/96]

Qobuz

 

Brand new release. Listen for the first time. Well worth the money.

 

Agree, just bought it yesterday as well. A review is in the making.

[firedog]

44 minutes ago, EuroChamp said:

 

Thank you for recommendation and for the link. It really seems to be a great album. What about their pricing? They want 10 USD "or more". Could you explain.

 

reg.,

Bernhard

You can get it for the stated price or give the artist more money. The stated price is a minimum.

[EuroChamp]

40 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

Agree, just bought it yesterday as well. A review is in the making.

 

Great. I for myself of course have my references of these well known Beethoven sonatas. And I am interested about your's.

[WAM]

+1. I am a great admirer of Perahia's Bach. So I am curious to hear about his Beethoven (my favorite Beethoven cycles: Kempff, Gilels).

 

Perhaps not 'album of the evening' , but track of the evening: now listening to Bach's BWV 848, comparing the eight versions I own. Richter and Tureck rule... But Pollini, Janssen and Fellner are also good. And what's wrong with Hewitt? Just avoid Gould... 

 

Happy listening, cheers! (Pint of the evening: Chimay blue).

[Hugo9000]

Howard Shelley/Bryden Thomson/Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 4 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

 

from this 2-CD set:

[Hugo9000]

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 1

Osmo Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra

 

Current favorite recording of this symphony, although that changes, I have 6 other recordings I also love, and they each have something wonderful that the others don't quite match.

[PorkChop]

I can't get off side one of this album:

https://www.amazon.com/Afriki-Habib-Koite-Bamada/dp/B000SKJR3S

 

Recording SQ is great (especially if your system reproduces deep buttery bass).  Usually, an ensemble of "all-star" musicians makes the music feel generisized, but these songs sound so authentic and are quite beautiful.

[rando]

[tapasr_567783583008b]

 

Love this album!

 

[austinpop]

4 hours ago, Hugo9000 said:

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 1

Osmo Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra

 

Current favorite recording of this symphony, although that changes, I have 6 other recordings I also love, and they each have something wonderful that the others don't quite match.

 

My favorite recording of these symphonies as well!

[Nikhil]

 

Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At The Village Gate!
Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges

 

[Melvin]

GoGo Penguin's latest:

 

 

Via Deezer. You’re going to want to crank it up boys!

[Musicophile]

 

Alexander Melnikov’s latest release. Four composers on four different pianos. Both beautiful and insightful. 

 

Streaming from Qobuz 

[elcorso]

23 hours ago, PorkChop said:

I can't get off side one of this album:

https://www.amazon.com/Afriki-Habib-Koite-Bamada/dp/B000SKJR3S

 

Recording SQ is great (especially if your system reproduces deep buttery bass).  Usually, an ensemble of "all-star" musicians makes the music feel generisized, but these songs sound so authentic and are quite beautiful.

 

https://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/afriki-habib-koite/0890846001053

 

Roch

[accwai]

On 2/10/2018 at 5:10 PM, WAM said:

[...] Perhaps not 'album of the evening' , but track of the evening: now listening to Bach's BWV 848, [...]

 

Yup, that's a fun one. Had it for Song of the Day Dec 19, 2017, but Prelude only. So BWV 848/1 would be more appropriate. Now Album of the Evening yesterday and today:

 

Vivaldi: Farnace

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, et al.

 

[BacHolz]

On 2/10/2018 at 2:10 PM, WAM said:

Perhaps not 'album of the evening' , but track of the evening: now listening to Bach's BWV 848, comparing the eight versions I own.

 

And speaking of Bach's BWV 848, this could be promising. I would anticipate it less coming from a lesser artist. This title will be released on March 9, 2018.

 

After Bach

Brad Mehldau

 

[masch]

7 hours ago, Musicophile said:

 

Alexander Melnikov’s latest release. Four composers on four different pianos. Both beautiful and insightful. 

 

Streaming from Qobuz 

I do like Melnikov and all of these composers but this one leaves me untouched, don't know why. Very good sound though but I just don't understand why he picked those pieces of music. But then again, I am no musician and mostly do not grasp the intellectual aspects of classical music. Music has to touch my heart and this one does not. But that's only me.

[masch]

On ‎2018‎-‎02‎-‎11 at 1:25 AM, Hugo9000 said:

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 1

Osmo Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra

 

Current favorite recording of this symphony, although that changes, I have 6 other recordings I also love, and they each have something wonderful that the others don't quite match.

Oh yes, absolutely +1

And don't forget the other two recordings in the series.

 

[masch]

On ‎2018‎-‎02‎-‎10 at 1:45 PM, Musicophile said:

Agree, just bought it yesterday as well. A review is in the making.

Often I value your reviews and insights but not in this case  Why? because I have already made up my mind. This one is just beautiful. I have both Kempff on DG and Brautigam on BIS (all of Beethoven's sonatas) and really like most of them very very much. Kempff may be considered by some as being just a little bit too restrained but there is something about his playing that just keeps me listening and Brautigam perhaps just the opposite of Kempff, very vivid and sometimes furious. Some might say slightly over the edge but oh so captivating.

BUT Perahia OMG - to my ears the best Mondschein I've ever heard and the Hammerklavier quite convincing as well. A must have! 

[Hugo9000]

4 hours ago, masch said:

Oh yes, absolutely +1

And don't forget the other two recordings in the series.

 

Yes, I have those as well.  Also purchased The Essential Sibelius boxed set from BIS which has Vänskä's full symphony cycle with the Lahti Symphony.  Overall, I think I prefer the newer cycle with Minnesota, but I enjoy whichever I'm listening to at the moment.

 

I also have Neeme Järvi's two sets with the Gothenburg Symphony, the first one on BIS, and the second on DG, along with his set of tone poems for DG.  And I have Paavo Berglund's first two complete sets of the symphonies (couldn't pass them up on Amazon, they were around $10 for each boxed set lol), and a boxed set of Eugene Ormandy's Sibelius recordings for RCA, with the glorious Philadelphia Orchestra.