What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

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Finished the rest of the disc.  The Op 14 sonatas are better than Op 7, but they are a bit too intense.  Op 22, like Op 7, is played too fast, though it is not as bad.  Pollini's earlier recording is better.  This is hands down the worst of Pollini's Beethoven recordings, and a chink in the otherwise formidable armor of his otherwise thoroughly excellent cycle to date. 

[Willow Pattern]

Some more Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 24, Gran Partita Serenade and Requiem:

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection". This is still my favorite performance of this awe-inspiring symphony.

[North Star]

Revisiting this favourite after a while.
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15
Jansons & LPO
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[Mandryka]

Op 22, adagio.

This is an astonishing, amazing performance. Quiet, confidential, as if he's whispering his love. This  gentle inwardness  is maintained throughout, there's not one iota of bluster. It's an excellent antedote to Jean-Bernard Pommier's more muscular extrovert  performance, which I also like.

Premont thought that later digital cycle has "got an air of an old man's wisdom". I listened to how he plays this movement there, and premont may be right, it's hard to say, it seemed less intimate, more conventionally forceful, more dynamic contrasts, less brooding. I dunno. The later performance reminded me of Pommier, the earlier one didn't. I'll try to listen to Pommier tonight to see of there's anything in that.

[North Star]

Wonderful playing!
Beethoven
Piano Sonatas nos. 16-18, Op. 31
FF Guy
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[Que]

New in.



Q

[Wakefield]

Johann Pachelbel - Hexachordum Apollinis
John Butt, organ
HM France



Via Deezer.

Lovely collection by a composer that I usually consider quite boring.

[Willow Pattern]

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4

[Sergeant Rock]

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Why is Kremer's grin so nightmarish? Did they all take turns with one pair of glasses? I almost preferred those two albums without the artwork at this point

I prefer the Siamese alternative:




Who needs Kremer? 


Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven 7




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven 2




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Good morning 

Just finished more LvB / Kempff mono delight with sonatas No.12 (Op.26) and No.13 (Op.27/1).

Now :

Haydn - Symphony No.82 (The Bear), No.83 (The Hen), No.84
Bernstein / NYPO (from the Symphony Edition)

[Sergeant Rock]

And the verdict is?

This is only my second time through this box (Melartin symphonies) and I'm enjoying it as much as the first time. Love the strong Bruckner influence I hear in the First.


Sarge

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8

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This is only my second time through this box (Melartin symphonies) and I'm enjoying it as much as the first time. Love the strong Bruckner influence I hear in the First.

+1

[Sergeant Rock]

I noticed a used copy of the ROTT Symphony in E at my local supplier and have now heard this odd offspring from Bruckner's favourite pupil.   He seems to have been traumatized when passing a fire hall

  ....ah, yes. Rott Symphony in E flat "Das Triangel" 

Your Segerstam performance gives the triangle the most prominence. His last movement drives me crazy; it's like a bad case of tinnitus. My favorite version (Weigle/Munich Rundfunk) tends to play it down, even burying it at times...to good effect, I think.

Sarge

[Que]

The chalumeau is such a beautiful instrument!

If you're into unusual instruments or Baroque woodwind music in general, this disc will not disappoint.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony #21 (1963)




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Schubert - 8th / 9th - Still from the Bernstein symphony Edition

[Karl Henning]

Careful, Karl! Don't want to get a Haydn hangover!

It's easy to listen to much more Haydn than I had planned . . . but "Papa's" music never does my brain cells any injury!