What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Christo]

The frustrating thing is that the reissue of Japanischer Frühling (which I own) contains different couplings to the cover Christo links, meaning I haven't heard the symphony everybody has been banging on about Still, something to look forward to.

Since about a week I own that reissue too. The positive news being (for me at least) that it contains the famous Passacaglia. Quite a piece indeed. I played it in the car, this week, and am just beginning to understand it really fits into the same category as the symphony. 

The older issue with the symphony was in my possession since long, for some reason (can't remember when and where I bought it) but I only started listening to it, after being urged to do so by a nocturnal posting by an overwhelmed Colin (Dundonnell), a few weeks ago. It's alway great to discover to be owning some piece of special music, without being conscious of it.   0:)

Ah, yes, another forgotten Northerner, Kallstenius ... will see what I can do about it. 

[karlhenning]

Great performance.  I bought all the volumes on Nimbus a few years ago, though they are now available on BC ...

I do indeed like all these!

Thread duty:

Haydn
Symphony № 14 in A Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer

[bhodges]

Scriabin: Prometheus, the Poem of Fire (Vladimir Krainev, piano/Dmitri Kitaenko/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, on YouTube) - Excellent live performance, not sure where it was recorded. 

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

And? 

Oh, I like this a great deal.  I do love the Schumann original on its own merits, of course;  the fusion of sound-worlds is a rich delight to this listener's ears.

[karlhenning]

Haydn
Symphony № 15 in D Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer

Oh, how sweetly this one opens!

[George]

That sounds pretty unambiguous. I must look into it what happened to those non-SET named sonatas. Thanks for the persistence. Kept me from promulgating Kempffian-non-truth. 

Persistence is my middle name. 

[Drasko]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Good morning everyone 

Starting Sunday morning with some Bach.

Disc.1.

[mahler10th]

The first movement opens with a feeling that one is being chased by a formiddable monster across the Yorkshire Moors of England sometime after dusk.  

An amazing rendition.  

[karlhenning]

Haydn
Symphony № 16 in B-flat Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer

[SonicMan46]

Garth, John (1721-1810) - Cello Concertos w/ Richard Tunnicliffe & the Avison Ensemble on period instruments; 2-CD set nicely packaged in a single-size jewel case; this long lived English composer, a student of Charles Avison, apparently wrote a lot of music but virtually little has been recorded; these compositions are considered some of the earliest English cello concertos - MusicWeb Review HERE - 

[karlhenning]

Haydn
Symphony № 17 in F Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer

[Bogey]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 1
Karajan/BPO
Recorded 1985
DG

My favorite recording of the No. 1.  Herbert did a fabulous job of making this Haydn-esque piece sound, well, more Beethovenish.

[karlhenning]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 1
Karajan/BPO
Recorded 1985
DG

Heard the finale to this symphony while driving back from the airport this afternoon.

Thread duty:

Haydn
Symphony № 18 in G Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer

[Dundonnell]

These pretzels are making me thirsty. (google it if you don't know it)

By which I mean - this Irgens Jensen is starting to interest me.

You mean that I forgot to copy you in to the 'nocturnal posting'(as Christo refers to it) when I started "banging on"(as Lethe so kindly puts it) about the Jensen? Sorry....

[Bogey]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 1
Karajan/BPO
Recorded 1985
DG

My favorite recording of the No. 1.  Herbert did a fabulous job of making this Haydn-esque piece sound, well, more Beethovenish.

Come to think of it, HvK made Haydn's own works sound more Beethovenish as well.

[Wanderer]

Played my recently smuggled  0:) Rudolf Simonsen cd with his first two symphonies a couple of times, today, and listened with half an ear. As far as the half of my ear could discern, I like the Second (1921, `Hellas') more than the First (1920, `Zion'), so far. After all, the Second won the composer a bronze medal during the Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games  , so I feel very responsible.

         

This looks promising (interesting samples at jpc.de). Even for geography reasons, I might give this a try in the near future.

[Bogey]

Brahms
Sonata in G Major, Op. 78
Adolf Busch and Mr. Serkin
Recorded 1931
Pearl

[Que]

Brahms
Sonata in G Major, Op. 78
Adolf Busch and Mr. Serkin
Recorded 1931

Brahms doesn't come better than that, Bill!

Q

[Bogey]

'Tis awfully good, Que.