What are you listening to now?

[bhodges]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Giulini/Vienna) - Pretty great. Sole caveat: 1980s early digital sound can be less than ideal, but not enough to be a deal breaker.

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--Bruce

[TheGSMoeller]

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiches
Blomstedt / SFS

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Accentus, Akademie For Alte Musik Berlin, Sandrine Piau, Ruth Sandhoff, Robert Getchell
Laurence Equilbey

[Mirror Image]

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 from this spectacular recording:

[aligreto]

Telemann: Overture [Orchestral Suite] For Two Trumpets, Strings & B/continuo [Deutsche Bachsolisten] from CD 3 of this set





Energetic, engaging and exciting music, as you would expect given the scoring, that is well played.

[Wakefield]

VIVALDI: I concerti dell'addio
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded in the Abbazia di San Basilide, Badia Cavana (Italy), in June 2014

This is not the successful, lauded Vivaldi of Venice but the downcast, virtually neglected Vivaldi of Vienna, the city in which he spent his dying months.

–– Gramophone, May 2015

Expertly played, as beautiful as the Vivaldi of the sunny days. 

[aligreto]

VIVALDI: I concerti dell'addio
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded in the Abbazia di San Basilide, Badia Cavana (Italy), in June 2014

This is not the successful, lauded Vivaldi of Venice but the downcast, virtually neglected Vivaldi of Vienna, the city in which he spent his dying months.

–– Gramophone, May 2015

Expertly played, as beautiful as the Vivaldi of the sunny days. 

Intriguing quote and post. Thank you.

[Mirror Image]

Cello Concerto -

[Mahlerian]

Schoenberg: Serenade Op. 24
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, cond. Craft
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Barber: String Quartet Op. 11
Tokyo String Quartet
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[NikF]

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Vengerov /Rostropovich,/London Symphony Orchestra.

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[JBS]

I like that Vengerov.
TD
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Been going through the Naive Vivaldi series for the last few weeks.

[Wakefield]

Intriguing quote and post. Thank you.

You're welcome, aligreto!

I congratulate myself, if it turned out to be a good teaser...   

[TheGSMoeller]

Powerful stuff...

[Draško]

Delalande - Miserere, motet for voice & accompaniment, S. 87
Lully - Omnes gentes plaudite, motet for 3 voices and continuo, LWV 77/10

[aligreto]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 [Mengelberg]





This performance is not about the almost 90 year old vintage recording quality [which is very good given its age] but rather about the vintage performance and interpretation. This is a a tense, taut and exciting performance that is electrically charged and readily engages for its freshness and insight. It leaves one almost breathless in places. A magnificent performance.

[aligreto]

You're welcome, aligreto!

I congratulate myself, if it turned out to be a good teaser...   

Indeed. I have seen it over the past while but I have not paid it much attention really....until now 

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphony No. 33

[NikF]

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1 - Jablonski/Ashkenazy/Royal Philharmonic.

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[aligreto]

Mozart

Symphony No. 33

I have always liked Bohm's Mozart 

[Florestan]

Sonata in E minor op. 25 No. 2 "Night Wind"

A hauntingly beautiful hyper-Romantic one-movement work of massive proportions based on an 1836 poem by Fyodor Tyutchev.

Why moan, why wail you, wind of night,
With such despair, such frenzied madness?
Why is your voice now full of might,
Now piteous and tinged with sadness?
In tongue known to the heart, of pain
Unknown to it for ever chanting,
At times within it well-nigh frantic
Sounds you awaken and insane.

Sing not, O wind, your fearful song
Of chaos, for the hungry spirit,
Into night's world of shadows flung,
Exults in it and strains to hear it.
The bounds of mortal flesh 'twould fly
And merge with boundless ocean sweeping.
Take heed! Let slumbering tempests lie:
Beneath them chaos stirs unsleeping.

The three opening chords, which reoccur all throughout, including in the rather anti-climactic coda, will probably be stuck in my head forever.