What are you listening to now?

[mahler10th]

This.

[mahler10th]

Shostakovich
Symphony 11
Haitink - RCO
From this:



Amazing piece of work.  Amazing.  I've turned it up rather rudely. Waiting for the terrible massacre to gather pace, then I'll be forced to turn it down again, such is the dynamic range going on.  MI John put me on to this set some time back, and although I have since etched a preference for Barshais set, the 11th doesn't get any bolder than this.

[North Star]

First-listen Thursday

Martinů
Špalíček, H.214
Jílek
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[Karl Henning]

Chopin
Études, Op.10
Freddy Kempff

[milk]

Stayed home tonight. Listened to:
Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas - 3 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet/Angela Yoffe & Vadim Gluzman
Cras: L'œuvre complete pour violon et piano/Jean-Pierre Ferey & Marie-Annick Nicolas
Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, op. 119: I. Andante grave/David Finckel & Wu Han
and rounded out the night with some of
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues/Alexander Melnikov

[Mirror Image]

Shostakovich
Symphony 11
Haitink - RCO
From this:



Amazing piece of work.  Amazing.  I've turned it up rather rudely. Waiting for the terrible massacre to gather pace, then I'll be forced to turn it down again, such is the dynamic range going on.  MI John put me on to this set some time back, and although I have since etched a preference for Barshais set, the 11th doesn't get any bolder than this.

Pounds the table! Excellent set, Johnny Boy!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks for the corrigendum, Annie.

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
Piano Trio in g minor, Hob. XV/1
Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV/5
Van Swieten Trio

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[Sergeant Rock]

Brahms Piano Concerto #2 B flat, Hélène Grimaud, pianist, Andris Nelsons conducting the Vienna Phil




Sarge

[listener]

Oooooh! What do you think of Sonata No. 30?

Recording sounds quite close, tempo faster than usual, and I think there's more 'classical' structure than heard here.  I prefer Kempff or Backhaus who don't remind me of xylophones.

DUPRÉ: Organ Concerto op. 30   Organ Symphony op. 25   Poème héroïque op. 33  Cortège et Litainie op.19/2     ,,,,, all for organ and orchestra
Daniel Jay McKinley, organ (Aeolian-Skinner, 1942)     Columbus Indiana Philharmonic,  David Bowden, cond.
JANACEK:  The Eternal Gospel,  The Ballad of Blanik,  The Fiddler's Child,    Mr. Brouček Suite
BBC Scottish S.O.    Edinburgh Festival Chorus     Ilan Volkov, cond.

[Wanderer]

Brahms Piano Concerto #2 B flat, Hélène Grimaud, pianist, Andris Nelsons conducting the Vienna Phil




Sarge

Impressions so far?

[SonicMan46]

Well after spending several days w/ Wolfie's Complete SQs w/ Quartetto Italiano - initial hearings of the first 13 'teenage' works, onto:

Beethoven, LV - String Quartets, Op. 18 w/ Alexander SQ (their 2nd 'go around' w/ these works) - also own the performances of the Takacs Quartet (All) & Quatuor Mosaiques (Op. 18) - probably don't need another set but some other relatively 'inexpensive' boxes of these works are available on Amazon, e.g. Emersons & Tokyo SQ - Dave

[HIPster]

J.S. Bach - Sinfonias:
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[North Star]

First-listen Thursday

Martinů
The Spectre's Bride
Belohlávek
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Hartmann
Symphony No. 1 (Essay Towards a Requiem, after Whitman)
Doris Soffel (alto), Fritz Rieger & BRSO

[Que]

J.S. Bach - Sinfonias:
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Didn't know that one, interesting.


Listening:

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Staier is kind of a Richter, with the most erratic recording habits ever. 

But I guess we''l have to take the good with the bad... Sterling performance of D845.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Impressions so far?

She's aging well. Still very attractive 

Or did you mean the recording? 

Sarge

[HIPster]

Didn't know that one, interesting.
Q

Q - it's a good one! 

Thread duty:
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CD 2

[Lisztianwagner]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol

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[The new erato]

My second listen to this disc, and no doubt it is one of the most significant discs in La Vecchia's Naxos' series yet.

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[kishnevi]

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Is that worth adding to my already existing gaggle of Vivaldi?

In reference to the Lindsays playing Haydn, have you ever heard this set?
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Thread duty
Verdi: Rigoletto.
Alagna/Bruson/Rost
La Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti
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Very much a blood and thunder presentation,  which fits my mood (we're in what is, G-d willing, the last day of a long streak of thunderstormy days here in SoFla)   An Amazon review says Muti conducted it "with passion and energy";  I guess that's another way of putting it.

This is the issue I have,  which I got in a used CD shop for $9.99; there is at least one, marginally cheaper, newer re-issue listed on Amazon.  Mine has a libretto book;  I think the reissue does not.