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Classic and estetic combined:
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It appears to be but the difference is instead of Das Lied von der Erde you get The Kindertotenlieder. You also donât get âMahler Rememberedâ, a taped interview with a musician who played under Mahler in New York. Both, however, may be available separately.
Do read John Fowlerâs notes at the bottom of the Amazon order page for the CD of this release.
Iâm presently listening to all of the Carnegie Hall collection in order, just finished #5, will do #6 next. Itâs impossible to fault these especially at this price.
They are classic performances and as such have been re-issued and re-packaged many times over. Tough to keep score with this many versions of he same recordings.
IN RE-READING FOWLERS NOTES / REVIEW OF THE REVISIONS IT IS THE SAME #1 THRU #9 WITH EXCEPTION OF KINDERTOTENLIEDER FOR DAS LIED
And, for some relaxing Jazz:
Bolling: Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio
Thank you for the research. Good to hear that its the same performance. Iâll be sure to give it a listen.
I just came across this thread of classical gems on Tidal.
I havenât explored it yet but they include a brief description of why they recommend the album and people seem sincere in their postings.
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I have been very impressed by this. Studio-like live recording of, at least to me, a little known symphony orchestra and composer.
I saw this on a best of list somewhere (Gramaphone?) a while back and figured Id give it a try. Very glad I did and have listened a few times: dramatic, fluid, layered, well spaced, good pacing, top notch production, no weird tonality or harshness. I consider this to be a gem of a release.
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This is on Amazon HD, so Iâll try it.
Blomstedtâs recordings of the Nielsen symphonies with the San Francisco Symphony were my first eye-opening experience of classical music outside of Mozart and Beethoven, so they have a special place in my heart. Hopefully my heart has some space for some other recordings.
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Hi everyone, this is a day late but I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I wanted to thank everyone on this thread for all the great suggestions. My classical music listening had taken a backseat until I talked to you guys, but Iâve discovered that I like Mahler symphonies, Shostakovich quartets, Bach cello suites and so much more. It takes me a while to appreciate a new piece, so I canât reply immediately with my reaction to a recommendation, but it feels like weâre pen pals when talking about the music!
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Ok, Iâll admit it. When it comes to classical, Iâm a tourist. I only like / am familiar with a small selection of composers, works, pieces, whatever. The stuff I like, I really like, and Iâm usually luke warm at best when it comes to new stuff. Iâm usually downright repulsed by works that sound way off tempo or have instruments in places Iâm not expecting them to be. (Like pachelbelâs canon. You can take that harpsichord and shove it until you choke on it, I donât like it in that piece, whether itâs supposed to be there or not. Nuff said.)
With that out of the wayâŠ
Can anyone recommend a good Vivaldi, Four Seasons, winter, whatever else like allegro is supposed to be in the name along with a F in Rev 295643 minor, or something?
I had a copy of it that I liked and I donât know where the hell it went.
Tidal and Qobuz are failing me. This is one of better ones Iâve found, and it still sounds a little off to me. Am I just being strange?
https://open.qobuz.com/track/6423370. / https://tidal.com/track/16587996
Thanks in advance.
I donât have a recommendation for the Vivaldi but I can say that youâre not alone in liking some conductors/orchestras/performances of a piece and hate others of the same piece.
Itâs surprising how different the same piece can be. Some folks spend lots of time listening to many different performances of a piece to find the one(s) they like.
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Big Band or Chamber orchestra? I highly recommend a Chesky recording for Chamber Orchestra.
But only if you can do downloadable music, its currently out of stock and at Amazon but some enterprising thief is offering it on CD for 
I wonder where the 2.81 is about? Postage? LOL!
Unfortunately I canât even find it on Cheskyâs website, donât know if available to stream anywhere. And, of course, spectacular recording in every way.
So, some others to try (By the way, Iâd recommend this first one with Joshua Bell, He did a terrific Beethoven 4th and 7th on Sony with this same ensemble and I likeâem a lot so I just ordered a copy of this 4 Seasons for myself)
Big Band:
These are from Archivâs site, read the reviews
Telarc: a decent version
You may also be able to source these recordings from Amazon as well and they are usually cheaper especially if you have Amazon Prime.
Happy Hunting.
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Thatâs why I spend so much of my home listening time comparing the same works by different conductors, orchestras, labels, etc. No one can be best or perfect at all repertoire and composers, and searching for the ultimate performance / recording of a work is not that different from searching for the best audio reproduction system. Throw in personal likes and dislikes with regard to tempos and dynamics, recording quality (for example with music) and the sonic subtletyâs of a collection of boxes and wires and sources and transducers (transparency, dynamic and detailing capabilities, frequency response variations, etc. (with music reproducing systems), and searching for that all around perfection is a very, very complicated endeavor. Further complicating things; we all like what we like (or donât) and we all hear it differently.
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Itâs funny, a piece of music can be played to death and then years later, out of nowhere, you can hear it again, out of context, and appreciate it in an entirely new way.
My dad and I tuned into BBC Radio 3 a few years ago (this is the BBCâs classical music station) when I was visiting my folks. The piece of music being played was familiar but neither of us could identify it (weâd tuned in part of the way through). And it was exhilarating, something that was simultaneously recognizable and yet also exciting and new. At the end the presenter of the program announced that weâd just heard the Four Seasons (I forget which one, exactly), and my father and I both laughed - we should have recognized it and were pleasantly surprised to have found ourselves so engrossed by it. All the more surprising was the fact that this was the famous old Nigel Kennedy version. The Four Seasons had been played to death, and in 80s Britain, Kennedy became one of those tiresomely ubiquitous celebrity musicians, so weâd tuned out both the Four Seasons and him. The whole faux punk marketing schtick with Kennedy grew tiresome pretty quickly, which was a shame - I suspect all the celebrity exposure and nonsense had detracted from what a strong performer Kennedy was.
Sorry, this is more a case of me remembering something fun about the Four Seasons, less a case of me recommending Kennedyâs performance. Iâm not acquainted well enough with the Four Seasons to be able offer a recommendation. I wonder if his interpretation has stood the test of time?
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Archiv lists 185 recorded versions of the 4 Seasons available.
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Seems like the focus of this thread is on symphonic music but Iâd love to put in a plug for my favorite discovery this year: Spektral Quartet, from Chicago. The latest album Experiments in Living is a really fun and bracing juxtaposition of radically different composers across centuries: Brahms, Schoenberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and contemporaries Anthony Cheung, Sam Pluta, Charmaine Lee and George Lewis. I got a âcopyâ (itâs a download) with a set of âTarotâ cards, with artwork by an amazing Danish artist ojeRUM that can be used in conjunction with little word cards (shades of Brian Enoâs Oblique Strategies) to turn the albumâs 40 tracks into an kind of exqusite corpse experiment. (I havenât tried it yet but I have had the album on heavy rotation since it came out).
Anyway, the performances and the music are thrilling. The group also has regular Zoom events with a lot of terrific guests, if you sign up on the website youâll get notificatons etc.
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Was there anything about the album cover that you recall? I can run through the album covers on primephonic and see if I can find something similar. I can screenshot anything that seems like it could be what you are looking for. Not sure if you can scroll through it all without being a member, maybe you can.
One of my favourites is a Janine Jansen one which I have posted about before, small band, mostly her family. What music have you been listening to this past week? - #1388 by perogie
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How come I didnt know he did that Vivaldi with this group! Thats on my list now. I was very impressed with your 4th and 7th recommendation of him wth this ensemble so I should have looked to see what else the have done, foolish of me.
The Janine Jansen Four Seasons is one of my favourites too. Itâs almost like listening to a string quartet. Itâs a shame sheâs marketed as a sex symbol, because it takes away from the fact that sheâs very talented and inventive. Marketing can backfire. As @Tchoupitoulas (who appears to be an alternative universe version of me) mentioned, Nigel Kennedy had a huge marketing machine backing him in the UK in the late 80s, and I was so sick of him that Iâve never listened to anything by him since that time. It also took me a few decades to listen to Vivaldi again.
If you want an orchestra a little bigger than the Jansen ensemble, I also like Giuliano Carmignola, Andrea Marcon & The Venice Baroque Orchestra. The playing is superb and very exciting, but I find the recording a little bright sometimes, so if I want something similar in style but where the strings are a little mellower in tone, I reach for Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert.
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I have the Pinnock and I like it, but not everyone likes the sound of period instruments.
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