Album of the Evening

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Gorgeous Wesendonck Lieder

 

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4 hours ago, Jud said:

My all time favorite of his. Really beautiful.

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Wonderful recording made 35 years ago in Prague. 

 

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Bardo, the gap between past and future incarnation in the manifested world in an unexpectedly effective narrative from Laurie Anderson.

 

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No excessive complexity, easy and to the point.

 

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It is rather lamentable that arranging large orchestral works for a small chamber ensemble to perform at home is no longer en vogue. Mozart's famous pieces arranged by Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

 

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Cataclysmic. In order to hear and recognize why Furtwängler was and remains un-rivaled. The 1944 live recording for Deutsche Rundfunk on an early Magnetofon transmits everything.

 

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8 hours ago, kumakuma said:

 

Absolutely wonderful!

 

Do you have any other recordings like this that you recommend?

 

Fumiko Shiraga has recorded several fine albums with chamber arrangements of works by Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. 

 

Johann Nepomuk Hummel made quite a few arrangements in his time, he was commissioned for this purpose by publishing houses. Before the advent of gramophone recording, this was very practical - large scale works became suitable for home performance and listening.

 

 

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After a series of rather bland and very unimpressive recordings as the new Chefdirigent of Berliner Philharmoniker, Petrenko finally got closer with a recording of Mahler's 6th. There is no value in direct comparison with the best available interpretations, but it is perfectly listenable on its own.

 

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Tyshawn Sorey is amazing.

 

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19 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

Just a word of warning: this is basically the background music for a documentary. It may work well with the images by Sebastien Salgado (I'd love to see that) but as a standalone album I don't think it's worth exploring much further.

 

No problem, 99% of all albums don't need to be explored much further 🙂

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12 hours ago, Norton said:

Not  just a performance but performance  art! Gieseking playing the Emperor Concerto amid a ruined Berlin and collapsing third reich, during an air raid in January 1945 (yes those are AA guns in the background), in stereo...

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It is generally believed that this stereo recording of Emperor concerto on early AEG-Telefunken Magnetophone was made in the autumn of 1944. 

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Breathtakingly beautiful singing.

 

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Unmatched recording of the Schubert’s cycle was made at the Reichsrundfunk in Berlin in February and March 1945. Tape recording sound quality is quite remarkable.

 

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Prokofiev's first violin concerto in a mesmerizing performance of Kyung Wha Chung. This piece was completed in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1917. What do you usually do in the year that crushed the world, between the Tsar's abdication and the Bolsheviks coup? Perhaps, write music of overwhelming beauty?

 

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One of the last examples of the passing art of great musicianship. Excellent.

 

 

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Raphaël Imbert probably listens to David Murray often. An enjoyable new album from French saxophonist.

 

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6 hours ago, jiminlogansquare said:

As a big fan of David Murray, I think that is an apt comparison! Thanks for this excellent recommendation.

 

You welcome.

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Another much treasured performance of Winterreise. Great Hans Hotter accompanied by Michael Raucheisen in wartime Berlin. Hotter and Raucheisen recorded the cycle twice during the war, in 1942/43 for DG and in 1943 for radio. M&A released the former, the sound is preferable to that in the cleaned up DG reissue.

 

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Song of the morning

 

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Impeccable

 

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Mahler's 9th, Bernard Haitink with Berliner Philharmoniker (Dec 2017). The sixth and apparently final recording of the symphony by the great maestro. Glorious.

 

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Yes, the world is falling apart, and it is hopeless. And yet, it can be beautiful.

 

Qobuz didn't show it was a Billie Eilish album.