What are you listening to now?

[Marc]

Jan Jongepier playing the Müller organ of the Grote/Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden, NL.

From Bach to Hendrik Andriessen.
Great music, great organ.

[ChopinBroccoli]

Two wonderful pieces performed in the early 1960s by the late Alicia de Larrocha ... sound on her later recordings of this music is a little better but her playing here is of superior clarity and precision... Evocative, lyrical music; really gorgeous

[Traverso]

Disc 7:

Wanderer-Fantasie in C major D 760
Six Moments Musicaux D 780
Twelve Deutsche Taenze D 790

What can go wrong.....Schubert....Brendel,one of the classics I still love and admire

[Traverso]

Two wonderful pieces performed in the early 1960s by the late Alicia de Larrocha ... sound on her later recordings of this music is a little better but her playing here is of superior clarity and precision... Evocative, lyrical music; really gorgeous

Larrocha is exemplary in this music,I really like her.

[Karl Henning]

Tchaikovsky
String Quartets & Souvenir de Florence
Endellion Quartet [plus]

[ChopinBroccoli]

Larrocha is exemplary in this music,I really like her.

Agree; she just "gets" it

[Florestan]

What can go wrong.....Schubert....Brendel,one of the classics I still love and admire

Indeedie... Brendel and Schubert, a match made in Heaven.

[Kontrapunctus]

[Brian]

Dvorak
Piano Trio no 3 in f minor Op 65
Franck
Piano Quintet in f minor*
L. Pinnario piano
J. Heifetz violin
G. Piatigorsky cello
I. Baker violin*
W. Primrose viola*

Jeez, what an all-star lineup. Wonder when we'll get a Primrose box.

Barenboim - Mendelssohn
Songs Without Words

[SymphonicAddict]

Tchaikovsky
String Quartets & Souvenir de Florence
Endellion Quartet [plus]

My go-to on these works is the Borodin Quartet (Teldec label). Their sound is bold but not too much, accurate and utterly expressive. It's like they breath that music.

[Roasted Swan]

My go-to on these works is the Borodin Quartet (Teldec label). Their sound is bold but not too much, accurate and utterly expressive. It's like they breath that music.

+1

[Madiel]

....and another "Phantasy". The list gets ever longer.

Bridge wrote 3. I think there might only have been 3 of the Phantasy competitions.

Edit: No there were only 2. Bridge got 3rd place in the first one, and won the second. After that Cobbett commissioned some composers to write further works.

Second edit: Another source is suggesting there were 5 competitions in total. 

Third and I swear final edit: Right. First 2 competitions, then a bit of a gap during which Cobbett commissioned around a dozen works (including Bridge's 3rd effort), then 3 more competitions later on. Phantasies abound as a result.

There's a chance I'll listen to all 3 of Bridge's Phantasies after all this.

[André]

And? 

I bought it but it's still in wraps in one of the piles...

[listener]

An afternoon of BLISS:  Checkmate and  Adam Zero  ballet music
Meditations on a Theme of John Blow*
City of Birmingham S.O.*, Royal Liverpool S.O.   Vernon Handley cond.

Evening:  GRAUN:  Montezuma   (on DVD) libretto by Frederick II and Gianpietro Tagliazucchi
1982 production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hans Hilsdorf, cond.
Stage directed by Herbert Wernicke
finally unwrapped and seen for the first time

[SymphonicAddict]

The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms: A first listen. Cool, epic, and indigenous-sounding-like. If you know Antill's Corroboree, you can make an idea about it.

La Coronela - Ballet (unfinished): The Revueltas-sounding world on this piece is almost purely neorromantic/neoclassic Mexicanily speaking. A very fun piece, and his unfinished masterwork. If you asked me, I'd include him in the list of composers I wish had lived longer. For those who are unfamiliar with this composer, his style is like a Mexican Stravinsky (also a bit of Roussel).

[vers la flamme]

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, op.122. Pacifica Quartet.

[Karl Henning]

Kempff playing the Hammerklavier

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, op.122. Pacifica Quartet.

Excellent!

[SymphonicAddict]

Symphony No. 2 Prélude à la Nouvelle Journée: Appealing modernism captured into a symphonic form. Even sounds exotic and ancient (hear around min. 5:00). I like this very much.

[Kontrapunctus]