What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

Disc 3.  One of the best Liszt PC 2s I've heard.  Petri plays everything with ease and his playing sounds like a fantasia superimposed on fiery, garish orchestral support.  The Tchaikovsky PC 1 is also easily dispatched by the pianist, but it is hard for me to be too excited about any new (for me) recording of this work.  The Brahms Handel Variations are very fine. 

[Mirror Image]

Gorecki's 4th. I find it uneven, and a long way below the composer's best, but not negligible.

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I didn't think much of it at all. Certainly one of the worse symphonies I've heard in a long time.

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Listening to Martin's Cello Concerto. Amazing work.

[knight66]

Where did you get it from in the end, Mike?

Greg, I got it from Operadepot.com

I also ordered Dernesch/Cahill/Kleiber Rosenkavalier and Dernesch Scot Opera Fidelio. I have yet to hear them.

Mike

[Tsaraslondon]

Greg, I got it from Operadepot.com

I also ordered Dernesch/Cahill/Kleiber Rosenkavalier and Dernesch Scot Opera Fidelio. I have yet to hear them.

Mike

I've been toying with those myself.

[Tsaraslondon]

If you have a sweet tooth, and when better to indulge it than on a Sunday afternoon, then this disc is a good one to go for. Gorgeous performances from Stokowski with Anna Moffo. She can be a bit apt to scoop and croon, but, in this music, nobody's going to complain, and the voice itself sounds sensuously dreamy.

[EigenUser]

Schubert -- a composer who I have unfortunately left neglected for too long. Various songs.
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[Tsaraslondon]

Symphony no 8

The consensus has it that Karajan's later VPO version of the 8th is the one to have. I'm not really a Brucknerian and I haven't heard it, but I was advised by a friend(you know who you are) to go for the Berlin version, and I haven't been disappointed. I find I could eventually come round to Bruckner.

[EigenUser]

Qigang Chen's Wu Xing ("The Elements")
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[SimonNZ]

Duarte Lobo's Requiem - Jeremy Summerly, cond.

[SonicMan46]

Mancini, Francesco (1672-1737) - Recorder Sonatas w/ the PI group 'Ensemble Tripla Concordia' - Brilliant has more recently released this composer's Recorder Concertos w/ another group, which I've ordered based on some discussion earlier in this thread (also left a PDF attachment in one of my posts of reviews of both recordings).  Dave

 

[aligreto]

 

That one is now on my List.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Mass No. 5 ....

[Camphy]

Symphonies 3 & 4

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Listening to On the Dnieper. Such a great ballet and performance.

[ritter]

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Listening to On the Dnieper. Such a great ballet and performance.

Agreed! I was listening to Prokofiev's Parisian ballets (Sur le Borysthène, Le Pas d'acier, L'Enfant prodigue) recently, and they are very attractive...stll have to listen to Chout, though..

[Mirror Image]

Agreed! I was listening to Prokofiev's Parisian ballets (Sur le Borysthène, Le Pas d'acier, L'Enfant prodigue) recently, and they are very attractive...stll have to listen to Chout, though..

Those are all wonderful ballets, ritter. I need to get my head around Chout as it's been too long since I've heard it. Glad to see another admirer of the balletic side of Prokofiev.

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Listening to Symphony No. 1. I haven't heard this symphony in ages. As good as I remember it being. Maybe not 'mature' Honegger, but still very much worth a listen.

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich Piano Trios Nos.1 C minor & 2 E minor, played by Trio Wanderer




Sarge

[aligreto]

Mozart: Mass KV257 "Credo Mass"....

[Drasko]