What are you listening to now?

[listener]

a lot of chorales and Requiems today, I don't feel quite so out of it with
SCHUBERT:  Hymns  -  solo, part-song, choral
Peter Schreier, tenor and other soloists, Berlin Rundfunkchor, Berliner Solisten,
Berlin Radio Symphony Orch,     Dieter Knothe, cond.
BILLINGS: Anthems and Fuging Tunes
His Majesties's Clerkes,   Paul Hillier, cond.
Those who find Biber interesting for his waywardness and want to hear where Ives may have got some inspiration should try Billings. 

[springrite]

Verdi - La Traviata
Moffo, Tucker, Merrill
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Fernando Previtali

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Love that recording! Wish I still have it. Moffo was my introduction to opera (in the LP & cassette days). I only have La Boheme now on CD.

[Harry]

Very nice indeed!


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[Karl Henning]

For my students as part of the countdown to Christmas: the Sanctus from the Missa Prolationum by Ockeghem...

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...and from the Requiem by Franz von Suppe

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Tomorrow the Sanctus from the Mass #3 by Bruckner!

Impeccable taste!

[Brian]

The voices twerk sexily around each other.

Do WHAT now?

[Karl Henning]

Well, there's a post to which I did not impute impeccable taste.

[TheGSMoeller]

Prokofiev: Cantata for the Twentieth Ann. of the October Revolution

Would love to see this piece performed more often. The movement "The Philosophers", and the fifth movement "Interlude" is some hair-raising stuff.


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[Wakefield]

One of the very few Bachs on modern piano that I enjoy unreservedly:

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[SonicMan46]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - some 'windy' music this afternoon; Sabrina Frey on recorders & Sergio Azzolini on Baroque bassoon & Christian Leitherer on chalumeau -   Dave



 

[Fafner]

Love that recording! Wish I still have it. Moffo was my introduction to opera (in the LP & cassette days). I only have La Boheme now on CD.

I am listening to it for the first time and it is awesome!

I own another Moffo recording (a live La Scala performance from 1964 with Cioni, Sereni and Karajan) -- actually one of my very first CD purchases. It is an almost identical interpretation from Moffo, but this is obviously in much better sound.

[TheGSMoeller]

One of the very few Bachs on modern piano that I enjoy unreservedly:

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+1
I just purchased this disc over the summer and love it.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Cantata for the Twentieth Ann. of the October Revolution

Would love to see this piece performed more often. The movement "The Philosophers", and the fifth movement "Interlude" is some hair-raising stuff.

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What a blast!  Nearly as wild a ride (in its way) as the Schnittke First

[TheGSMoeller]

What a blast! 

I know! Accordions! Rozhdestvensky! Sirens! It's got it all!

[Fafner]

Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Simonov

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Earlier I was listening to the incidental music to Snow Maiden from this set and it left me quite cold (pun intended). This is much better.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alfred Schnittke
Peer Gynt

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Second part

[mc ukrneal]

Balakirev, Mily (1837-1910) - Piano Music - culling out & expanding my collection of these works w/ the discs below - all performances by the British pianist, Nicholas Walker who seems to have made the composer his specialty.  ASV CDs recorded in the late 1990s; the other new (2012) and I assume will be an ongoing project?  Dave

   

I was very pleased to see the new disc as I rather enjoyed the earlier ASV dics. It may not be ground breaking music, but it suits my evening moods quite often.

[North Star]

Hard for me to imagine Rameau on a modern piano . . . but that may be insufficiently imaginative of me  0:)

Have you listened to any, instead of just imagining, Karl? I'm all for HIP, barely tolerating Classical era music on modern instruments (I'll have Schoonderwoerd's OVPP  LVB PC set over any others, and don't mind Bach choruses sung one/two per part ), but I have no problems with this disc, or the other ones in Tharaud's Baroque series on HM (F. Couperin & Bach). Of course, I can't say I didn't like Celine Frisch's recording on Spotify even more (listened to that before Tharaud today), but I liked both a lot. 

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[Karl Henning]

Have you listened to any, instead of just imagining, Karl?

Not yet, which is why I am grateful to you for the alert. I enjoy that my ears grow ever larger

[Wakefield]

Not yet, which is why I am grateful to you for the alert. I enjoy that my ears grow ever larger

Then here you have your new avatar, Karl:

[SonicMan46]

I was very pleased to see the new disc as I rather enjoyed the earlier ASV dics. It may not be ground breaking music, but it suits my evening moods quite often.

Hi Neal - I like the pianist & his commitment to Balakirev seems to enhance the interpretations of the music; interestingly, the 'sound levels' on the newer CD are lower than on the older ASV recordings, so volume adjustment is needed.  I'll be curious on newer releases from this performer.  Dave