What are you listening to now?

[San Antone]

Just letting it random play. 

[André]

My dad has this Farberman account in his collection (he's the Mahler collector in the family). You're enthusiasm here has me interested. According to Amazon, Farberman has also recorded the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 10th. Have you heard any of these, Andre?

I have 2, 4, 5 and 6. Nos 5 and 6 are magnificent. Farberman is both ultra romantic and musically lucid. IOW everything is given its full musical and dramatic due, but nothing is cheap or overwrought. The 2nd is excellent if memory serves well, but I haven't heard it in a while. No 4 is a dud on account of the strange choice of soloist (a fruity mezzo) in the finale. I have not heard no 1 and do not plan to (I'm totally sold to Nézet-Séguin's recent BRSO disc and it's not my favourite Mahler symphony anyway).

[Mirror Image]

I have 2, 4, 5 and 6. Nos 5 and 6 are magnificent. Farberman is both ultra romantic and musically lucid. IOW everything is given its full musical and dramatic due, but nothing is cheap or overwrought. The 2nd is excellent if memory serves well, but I haven't heard it in a while. No 4 is a dud on account of the strange choice of soloist (a fruity mezzo) in the finale. I have not heard no 1 and do not plan to (I'm totally sold to Nézet-Séguin's recent BRSO disc and it's not my favourite Mahler symphony anyway).

Alright, thanks for the feedback. Sounds like the 5th and 6th from Farberman will be in my listening pile this week (if I can remember).

[André]

Many years ago I purchased Maazel's 5th and didn't like it much. This is my first try at revisiting his Mahler. Movement I has come to its ineffable close.

It's a very sophisticated interpretation, much different from, say, Klemperer, Ludwig, Ancerl, Walter,  Maderna, Abbado (Berlin), to name a few favourites, all of which offer a more stoic, blunt, unsentimental view of the work. It seems to inhabit the same kind of nostalgic, tragedy-filled world as Bernstein, Tennstedt, Sinopoli and Karajan.

[Daverz]

Wuorinen: Piano Concerto No. 3

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Have probably had this CD for decades, but this is the first time I can say I enjoyed listening to it.

[Mirror Image]

Now playing Sérénade Op. 30, For Flute, String Trio And Harp from this set:

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

You can get it for about $130 from Amazon Germany marketplace, shipping included.

Thanks Todd - I'll start looking around again - closer to a hundred bucks is more up my alley!  Dave

[Mirror Image]

Duo Concertant from this excellent 2-CD set:



A fun piece. I wished Stravinsky composed more chamber music, especially SQs given how much I love his Three Pieces for String Quartet.

[amw]

I guess I never noticed the frequent lapses in intonation back when I listened to the LPs..... or maybe this is just not a great transfer.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Brahms, cello sonata, op.99. Dyachkov/Saulnier. As usual with Brahms' chamber music w/ piano, the demands put on the pianist are enormous. And Saulnier acquits himself with flying colors. In fact, he darn near steals the show, except for the fact that cellist Dyachkov has his own keen abilities, which certainly don't go unnoticed. Two musicians, but a truly unified conception.

Great sound, too.

[Mirror Image]

I'll follow DD with some Brahms, too:

Now playing the Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40 from this recording -

[You did it]

Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring

Boulez

[amw]

Ok, Beethoven was a bit much right now. Time for the complete opposite of that.



(all works are first listens... not that I expect to be able to tell the difference between them, but lol)

[Que]

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[Christo]

The thoroughly enjoyable 'Village Fiddler' violin concerto (1910):

[eljr]

Andrew Manze / The English Concert
Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis

Release Date September 5, 2005
Duration01:17:25
Genre
Classical
Styles
Choral
Chamber Music

[cilgwyn]

On now. Robert Stolz's few 'complete' operetta sets are underrated,imho. I've enjoyed all of them;but it's quite hard to find any reviews or anything much about them on the internet. So far,I've enjoyed all the sets I've collected. I wish he could have done more;but he was getting on a bit,at the time,as you can see here! But still another eleven years to go! This Die Fledermaus is one of the best I've heard,with a wonderful vintage cast. Stolz met Strauss (Johann) of course,and has a real feel for the score.......as do the soloists! His Der Zigeunerbaron,is excellent,too. Incidentally,Renate Holm is a bit underrated. What a lovely pretty voice she had. I love her operetta recordings.

   

[You did it]

Again...

[Karl Henning]

Wuorinen: Piano Concerto No. 3



Have probably had this CD for decades, but this is the first time I can say I enjoyed listening to it.

I am glad!