[fidshimmer]

I heard the Kocian Quartet a few days ago, while looking for some recordings of the Martinu string quartets, and felt in love with their sound. And then discovered they have a massive discography…somehow I missed them completely for so many years. It happened the same thing with the Prazak Quartet. There really is something magical about the Czech quartets

Thanks for this posting. Both the Kocian Quartet and the Praga Digitals label are new to me.

This morning I found this gem. It has been on repeat for hours.

Listen to the release Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Quintet for Piano and Winds, String Sextet by Prague Wind Quintet on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/album/f371ewgajya4a

 

[realmassy]

Same here! There is a lot of interesting music from that label, mostly Czech composers, but not only. I never heard that quintet before (in fact no chamber at all from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov) and is quite nice! I also recommend the Borodin quartets by the same ensemble

 

[Luis Mad]

Albrecht Mayer & Vital Julian Frey – Bach: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 (Adap. by Frey)​

 

[fidshimmer]

Same here! There is a lot of interesting music from that label, mostly Czech composers, but not only. I never heard that quintet before (in fact no chamber at all from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov) and is quite nice! I also recommend the Borodin quartets by the same ensemble

The only other recording I had heard of the Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet Is this one that I had purchased as digital download a few years ago on the hyperion/helios label.

 

[fidshimmer]

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[Light - Man]

Removed inadvertent double posting

 

[Luis Mad]

Last few of days listening to this, recomended in another thread.
Schumann Symphonies by Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Beautifuf sound and amazing strings. This is a new release recorded last year and extremely well recorded it seems to me.

 

[Luis Mad]

Concierto para violín y orquesta - J. Sibelius - Leonidas Kavakos (violín) - Dir. Leif Segerstam​

 

[fidshimmer]

20 fingers on 88 keys. This is magic

http://open.qobuz.com/album/0885470005881

 

[Arum16]

Last few of days listening to this, recomended in another thread.
Schumann Symphonies by Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Beautifuf sound and amazing strings. This is a new release recorded last year and extremely well recorded it seems to me.

Hello Luis, thank you for your posting. Nice tip.
Just curious, which do you have? The CD+Blu-ray release, or the digital? I've looked it up, and found both on Prestomusic

 

[Luis Mad]

Hello Luis, thank you for your posting. Nice tip.
Just curious, which do you have? The CD+Blu-ray release, or the digital? I've looked it up, and found both on Prestomusic

Hi Arum16, I have it in Apple Music 24-96 and also (for the moment in a temporary free subscription) in Qobuz also 24-96. I do not hear a difference between the two.

 

[realmassy]

More from Praga Digitals label
Not sure about the ‘Degenerate Music’ title…English is not my first language As for the music, I can hear some Bartok influences (mainly for the folk roots) and even Jazz, but it’s quite a personal style. More info on the composer and his music here https://www.earsense.org/article/Schulhoff-Five-Pieces-for-String-Quartet/

 

[Luis Mad]

Degenerate music was the way Nazis described music they considered corrupt and decadent like that of, among many others Mensdessohn, Mahler, Korngold … coming from Jewish composers.

 

[fidshimmer]

Degenerate music was the way Nazis described music they considered corrupt and decadent like that of, among many others Mensdessohn, Mahler, Korngold … coming from Jewish composers.

Took me a while to find it but I did have a woodwind trio by Schulhoff in my library. It is worth listening too.

http://open.qobuz.com/album/cwl3hmdo2x21b

 

[realmassy]

Degenerate music was the way Nazis described music they considered corrupt and decadent like that of, among many others Mensdessohn, Mahler, Korngold … coming from Jewish composers.

Brilliant, thanks, I should have looked ‘harder’! so, it’s degenerate from the Nazis point of view, got it

It is worth listening too

I will, thanks for the suggestion!