What are you listening to now?

[HIPster]

I hadn't seen this disc never before. It looks enticing. I like her attitude of bad girl. 

I don't know anything about her "bad girl" attitude - please post pictures if you've got them.

Great disc imo, Gordon!  I like such programatic excerpts and highlights compilations, however. . . 

Carmignola sounds really sweet on this too.

[Sergeant Rock]

George Lloyd Cello Concerto



Sarge

[Opus106]

Magdalena Cinderella sings Bach

http://www.youtube.com/v/Sr1mZ98RiJo

[Wakefield]

Viktoria Mullova & friends playing "La cucaracha":

http://www.youtube.com/v/twQbrmuCtOo

[Opus106]

Viktoria Mullova & friends playing "La cucaracha":

http://www.youtube.com/v/twQbrmuCtOo

In the spirit of off-beat performances, I came here just after this old favourite got over.

Philippe 'Jazz' Jarrousky sings Monteverdi:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EzB62rYOI1Q

[SonicMan46]

...........It was a most joyful birthday celebration with precious, gifted, entertaining old friends.  0:)

Congratulations Kaergaard - sounds like you had a great time, both aurally & otherwise!  BTW, my MIL turned 92 y/o in January - we're planning a trip to see her in September (lives in Montauk, LI w/ her son) - and btw,  MANY HAPPY RETURNS!  Dave

[SonicMan46]

Last few days, some new arrivals but replacements:

Dvorak - Symphonic Poems w/ Mackerras & the Czech PO.

Respighi - Ancient Airs & Dances and Symphonic Poems w/ the performers shown below - Dave

   

[TheGSMoeller]

In the spirit of off-beat performances, I came here just after this old favourite got over.

Philippe 'Jazz' Jarrousky sings Monteverdi:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EzB62rYOI1Q

Was just listening to this disc in my car, I loves me some jazzy-Monteverdi. 

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Martinů
String Quartet № 1, H.117 (1918)
Stamitz Quartet

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[listener]

Ein Liederabend mit  INGEBORG HALLSTEIN
Erik Werba, piano
something by nearly everyone you'd expect
and songs by SCHUBERT and MAHLER  sung by Jessye Norman, with Irwin Gage, piano
REGER: Organ Sonata no.1 in f# op. 33  and a batch of short pieces including two for organ and violin (Largo op.93 &Aria op.103a)
Heinz Wünderlich, organ  Kemper organ, St.Jacobi, Hamburg
with Nelly Söregi, violin

[kishnevi]

and songs by SCHUBERT and MAHLER  sung by Jessye Norman, with Irwin Gage, piano

I loved her Kindertotenlieder with Ozawa and the BSO.   How is she on this recording?

[Parsifal]

First-Listen Fridays!

Martinů
String Quartet № 1, H.117 (1918)
Stamitz Quartet

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Now for the first time I regret having gotten this:

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[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Dvořák
String Quartet № 3 in D (B.18)
Stamitz Quartet

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[Papy Oli]

Good evening ! Another run of China Gates and Road Movies

John Adams

Phrygian Gates (for solo piano 1977)
Hallelujah Junction (for two pianos 1996)
China Gates (for solo piano 1977)
Road Movies (for violin and piano 1995)

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[Parsifal]

First-Listen Fridays!

Dvořák
String Quartet № 3 in D (B.18)
Stamitz Quartet

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Note to downloaders, the entire 16CD set is available as an MP3 set for $8.99.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Malipiero
Symphony № 11 « Delle cornamuse (Bagpipes) » (1969)
Moscow Symphony
Antonio de Almeida

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[Sammy]

Now for the first time I regret having gotten this:

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Sorry you're in the "regret" phase.  Please keep in mind that the new and enlarged set comes ten years after the Dvorak only set.  That's a long time to wait for a larger set that might not ever have been released.  Put another way, a person could easily die during that ten years and end up with neither set.

[Parsifal]

Sorry you're in the "regret" phase.  Please keep in mind that the new and enlarged set comes ten years after the Dvorak only set.  That's a long time to wait for a larger set that might not ever have been released.  Put another way, a person could easily die during that ten years and end up with neither set.

That's true, and I have actually listened to a fair bit of the Dvorak set over that time.   Now that I think of it, I already have the Martinu part of the big box in its oiginal Beyer release.  If I manage to score the Janacek disc I'll be a happy camper.

[listener]

I loved her Kindertotenlieder with Ozawa and the BSO.   How is she on this recording?

This recording is c.1971.   She sounds as if she's being really careful with her German and holding back emotionally.  But careful and accurate is preferable to hysterical approximation.
Duty posting for the evening listen:  MILHAUD: La Création du Monde and HONEGGER: Le Roi David
Utah Symphony, Utah University Chorus Maurice Abravanel, cond.

[TheGSMoeller]

Vivaldi: Concerto for Bassoon in G minor, RV 495
Performer:  Sergio Azzolini (Bassoon)
Orchestra/Ensemble:  L'Aura Soave

This concerto shocks me, with its fierce compositional structure and virtuoso part for the bassoon. The opening Presto immediately jumps out of the gate with an impressive back and forth between the soloist and accompaniment. A sweetly lyrical Largo is followed by another bold movement in the Allegro that continues with the same fire that opened the concerto. There are lines in the finale performed by Azzolini that will make your head spin. The entire disc is excellent, but RV 495 stands out as the cream of the crop. 



It's also part of this 6-disc set from Naive, which I do own and is worth every penny.