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[stlukesguild]

Another big shift in direction

 

[Hermes2020]

That certainly takes me back in more ways than one.

 

[stlukesguild]

Fournier is one of my favorite performers of Bach’s Cello Suites (not in this set). I’m currently listening to disc 1 which includes Schumann’s cello concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Brahms’ Double Concerto. I’ve never been a big Schumann fan… but this performance really has me.

 

[brianvds]

Fournier is one of my favorite performers of Bach’s Cello Suites (not in this set). I’m currently listening to disc 1 which includes Schumann’s cello concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Brahms’ Double Concerto. I’ve never been a big Schumann fan… but this performance really has me.

Presumably, Schumann sounded too much like Brahms, and did not write enough operas to your liking.

 

[Hermes2020]

Patricia Kopatchinskaja gives an exuberant performance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto.

 

[stlukesguild]

I’ve never really thought of Schumann sounded all that much like Brahms. Schubert… or Mendelssohn strike me as closer. Brahms’ density seems much closer to Bruckner. Honestly, not many composers seem to have produced a wealth of opera as well as other works. Mozart, Handel, and Tchaikovsky immediately come to mind as exceptions… and we might add Richard Strauss and arguably Haydn to that list. None of Schubert’s operas seem to have entered the common repertoire. Beethoven had but a single opera. Bach had none… composing for the church. Operatic composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner, Offenbach, Gluck, etc… seem known for little beyond their operatic work.

 

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja gives an exuberant performance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto

Her recording of Beethoven’s violin concerto is stunning… and remains my “go to” recording.

 

[stlukesguild]

Karajan is not the conductor I initially think of for Haydn… but his troupe of singers here is unrivaled and the resulting recording is stunning.

 

[Hermes2020]

Patricia Kopatchinskaja gives an exuberant performance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto

Her recording of Beethoven’s violin concerto is stunning… and remains my “go to” recording.

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. Isn't the hunt some people call classical music exciting?