What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Ah yes, Delius. The perfect antidote to Straussian bombast! I'll need to get that recording, because On Hearing.... hasn't worked its magic on me yet.

Considering you have many On Hearing... already, I highly doubt that it will work it's magic on you even if you owned this recording, Kyle. That's just my point-of-view. To be even more honest and remembering what performance made the work click for me, it was actually Vernon Handley's On Hearing... on Chandos that opened my ears to the work and not Del Mar's, so I was wrong there. But I still feel that Del Mar's Summer Night on the River is finer than Handley's. Go figure.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Respighi's Feste romane. Smoldering performance from Maazel and the Clevelanders.

[kyjo]

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Listening to Respighi's Feste romane. Smoldering performance from Maazel and the Clevelanders.

Now, Respighi sure knew how to make substance and great orchestration exist side-by-side!

[Brian]

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Listening to Respighi's Feste romane. Smoldering performance from Maazel and the Clevelanders.

Hey, I have this and have never unwrapped it. Guess I know what's next!

[Mirror Image]

Now, Respighi sure knew how to make substance and great orchestration exist side-by-side!

Absolutely, Kyle, but I suppose a lot of it, too, is I just love Respighi's harmonic sense. Strauss, on the other hand, doesn't engage me harmonically.

[Mirror Image]

Hey, I have this and have never unwrapped it. Guess I know what's next!

Yes! Listen to it, Brian. You'll enjoy it I think, but I don't know what Respighi you've heard/not heard.

[Mirror Image]

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One of the most magnificent recordings in my collection. No joke! It doesn't get much better than this for the classical music lover IMHO.

[listener]

radio via internet
Spokane Symphony of Nov 16 & 17
Jon Nakamatsu, piano, Eckart Preu, conducting
Anna Clyne: Night Ferry, Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto No. 3, Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber
The Clyne piece, written for the Chicago Symphony, is rather like waiting for the ferry to arrive in a fog.   Nakamatsu was terrific, I think, in the concerto, string balances are a bit off (violas and cellos close to missing) but live orchestral broadcasts are so rare I'll not complain.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to A Colour Symphony. Such a great work.

[jlaurson]

F. Schubert,  Winterreise
Thomas Bauer, Jos van Immerseel
zigzag
German link - UK link

[Wanderer]

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[Karl Henning]

Ah yes, Delius. The perfect antidote to Straussian bombast!

There.  I'm not even answering that, there's certainly no need to.  Just capturing a snapshot of the low-hanging fruit.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Piano Trio G major Hob.XV:41 and Piano Trio F major Hob.XV:37 performed by the Trio 1790 (despite the Hoboken numbers these are  early works and played here on a harpsichord)




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Thread-Duty, and a first listen:

Malipiero
Symphony № 7 « Delle canzoni » (1948)

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[Karl Henning]

Another first listen:

Моисей Самуилович [ Moisei Samuilovich (Vainberg) ]
The Banners of Peace, Op.143 (1985)
St Petersburg State Symphony
Vladimir Lande

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Forget about Stockhausen, you've got Weinberg - The Anti-James

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn, the Military and London, Hogwood conducting the AAM




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Another first listen!

Моисей Самуилович [ Moisey Samuilovich (Weinberg, or Vainberg) ]
String Quartet № 13, Op.118
Quatuor Danel

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Forget about Stockhausen, you've got Weinberg - The Anti-James

[TheGSMoeller]

Clean and crisp, just like most of Cleveland/Dohnanyi recordings.

[Karl Henning]

Hmm, not sure I've listened to this one yet . . . .

Моисей Самуилович [ Moisey Samuilovich (Weinberg, or Vainberg) ]
Symphony № 20, Op.150 (1988)
Gothenburg Symphony
Thord Svedlund

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Forget about Stockhausen, you've got Weinberg - The Anti-James

[North Star]

Good day, Karl & Greg!

First listen:
Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Dausgaard & Danish Radio SO
http://www.youtube.com/v/8iDTZfzuDFM