What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

First listen. Wow, this is actually very good!


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[Karl Henning]

Charles Turner
Send Me an Angel
The 9th Ear

[Jay F]

Chopin's Nocturnes by Arrau.

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[North Star]

Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
Heinrich Schiff, Max Shostakovich & BRSO
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Earlier:

Prokofiev
Cinderella, Op. 87
Le Pas d'Acier, Op. 41
L'enfant prodigue, Op. 46
Jurowski & WDR SO Köln
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[Harry]

Could not find a good image on Amazon, so it has to do without. The music is however top notch.

August Klughardt, Orchestral works, on the Sterling label,

1) Concert overture, opus 45.
2) Concert piece for Oboe and orchestra, opus 18.
3) Concerto for Cello and orchestra, opus 59.
4) On the Tramp, Suite for orchestra.

[Mandryka]

I'm still waiting for the reissue, though there is a super duper expensive Japanese issue....

Q

I had no idea it was hard to obtain. I'll try to upload it onto symphonyshare this weekend if that's any use to you.

[Harry]

First listen.

Bernard Zweers.
Symphony No. 3.
Het residentie Orkest, Den Haag, Hans Vonk.
Sterling records.

[pi2000]

Gitlis fro here:
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[Que]

I had no idea it was hard to obtain. I'll try to upload it onto symphonyshare this weekend if that's any use to you.

Thank you very much for the kind offer.

A very good friend already provided me with an upload of the entire set, I'm just one of those people who prefer physical discs....

Q

[North Star]

Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 2
Heinrich Schiff, Max Shostakovich & BRSO
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[Pat B]

I had no idea it was hard to obtain. I'll try to upload it onto symphonyshare this weekend if that's any use to you.

Like Que, I'm hoping for a reissue. Unlike Que, I don't have a digital copy yet. I would appreciate this greatly.

Thread duty:
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Michelangeli from the early 1940s.

[Jay F]

Back to my more usual music:

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[toledobass]

Helene Grimaud in the Brahms Concerti.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Daphnis et Chloe. Overall, an excellent account and certainly one of my top performances of Daphnis, but what has kept this performance from downgrading my all-time favorite, Dutoit/MSO, is the fact that that there seems to be quite a bit of restraint during the sunrise scene when this slow climatic buildup absolutely demands the conductor and orchestra to give it their all. It's almost like an emotional release and I don't think Boulez, or any conductor for that matter, has bettered Dutoit. Anyway, still, a gorgeous recording that I never fail to be moved by in some way.

[Todd]

Some Scarlatti and Mozart.

[Brian]

The Natalie Dessay contribution on the finale track is not enjoyable, but everything else about this piano recital is extraordinary:

[Brian]

The Natalie Dessay contribution on the finale track is not enjoyable, but everything else about this piano recital is extraordinary:

Update: I'm almost certain this will be one of my 2014 Recordings of the Year. Shani Diluka is a poet, simple as that, and her playing is exceptional in music as diverse as Alberto Ginastera, Bill Evans, and John Cage. Her reading of Gershwin's "I loves you, Porgy" might have made me a little embarrassingly emotional. Despite Natalie Dessay's awkward presence on the final track, the highest possible recommendation.

[Que]

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Christoph Graupner's harpsichord music is always a join to return to. 

Q

[listener]

Nino ROTA: The Florentine Straw Hat  (after the French farce by Labiche and Michel
live production by the UBC Music Department
very stylish production, and performances.  The score echoes Offenbach, zarzuela, Gilbert & Sullivan, American popular song, and more.

[Florestan]

The Natalie Dessay contribution on the finale track is not enjoyable, but everything else about this piano recital is extraordinary:

Does she play the piano with her legs?