What are you listening to now?

[Willow Pattern]

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30

Listening to a new recording for the first time - sounds fantastic so far

[Madiel]

Well, I'm listening to the crystalline neo-Baroque wonders of Ravel's final masterpiece for solo piano.

[EigenUser]

Well, I'm listening to the crystalline neo-Baroque wonders of Ravel's final masterpiece for solo piano.

I take it that this is "Le Tombeau de Couperin"  . Wonderful piece indeed.

[North Star]

Beethoven
String Quartets Op. 18, Op. 59/I
Endellions
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[Madiel]

Just started my first ever listen to this work.

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EDIT: Can I just say one thing, not about the music or the performance (which so far I'm enjoying a great deal), but about the liner notes. It says that it's not possible to work out the specific action for each number because the original programme hasn't survived. But it then prints a synopsis from a handbill.

It takes no skill whatsoever to figure out which numbers in Act II of the ballet relate to the sequential events and characters mentioned in the second half of the synopsis.  Honestly, if you can't work out that Orpheus is associated with the number including harp (which the notes mention as an unusual feature for Beethoven), and that Melpomene and Thalia teaching tragedy and comedy are going to be represented by the following Grave and Allegro/Presto that I haven't even heard yet, and that the Pastoral Dance taught by Pan is going to be (wait for it) the movement marked 'Pastorale'... you really shouldn't be writing CD liner notes for a living.

[Harry]

First listen. Another masterwork. See review,

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/02/lloyd-george-1913-1998-symphony-no-5.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

A box to treasure

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Indeed!

Now:



A new acquisition. Listening to Concerto for Orchestra from this quite rare, OOP box set. Damn, this is a really great performance from Dorati/LSO. Very fortunate to have stumbled upon this set via Amazon MP for $34, which is a steal considering the price other MP sellers are asking for it.

And another!  One of the first boxes ever I snaffled.

[Karl Henning]

You have the whole box that they did for Warner/Erato (I think - box not in front of me)? It's one of the boxes I return to often. The singing is so good!

Yes, a wonderful compendium!

[North Star]

Not that you're buying CDs anytime soon, but if I had to choose one of my three, it would probably be the Ivashkin.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

Thread duty

Beethoven
String Quartet Op. 59/II
Endellions
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[Karl Henning]

Thread duty

Beethoven
String Quartet Op. 59/II
Endellions
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Ooh, how do you find that, Karlo?

[Brahmsian]

Just started my first ever listen to this work.

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Since my first discovery of this work last year (the complete work), and this performance, it has become my most often listened to Beethoven work.  A great piece!

[Karl Henning]

Good morning, Ray!

Thread duty:

Listening to the samples of Karlo's Endellion Beethoven quartet set.

[Madiel]

Since my first discovery of this work last year (the complete work), and this performance, it has become my most often listened to Beethoven work.  A great piece!

It's highly enjoyable. At this stage I'd say it's light music rather than deeply serious, but it's very good light music full of very listenable and infectious dances. We don't always listen to Beethoven enjoying himself.

[Brahmsian]

Good morning, Ray!

Thread duty:

Listening to the samples of Karlo's Endellion Beethoven quartet set.

Good day, Karl! 

[Brahmsian]

It's highly enjoyable. At this stage I'd say it's light music rather than deeply serious, but it's very good light music full of very listenable and infectious dances. We don't always listen to Beethoven enjoying himself.

I don't think of it as overly light, but agree, not deeply serious.  Clearly has the feel of a mid-period Beethoven work.  Eroica Light! 

[Cato]

Just started my first ever listen to this work.

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Since my first discovery of this work last year (the complete work), and this performance, it has become my most often listened to Beethoven work.  A great piece!

Somewhere, Peter Schickele recorded one of  P. D. Q. Bach's works:

The Preachers of Crometheus.

[Ken B]

Ooh, how do you find that, Karlo?

I like it a lot. Good sonority, good sound, a tight quartet.

[North Star]

Ooh, how do you find that, Karlo?

Thread duty:

Listening to the samples of Karlo's Endellion Beethoven quartet set.

I like the set very much indeed - I got this back in 2010, it's the only complete cycle I have (I do have a couple of discs of Tokyo SQ and ABQ's Beethoven).

Did you see the review I linked earlier?

[Karl Henning]

I like the set very much indeed - I got this back in 2010, it's the only complete cycle I have (I do have a couple of discs of Tokyo SQ and ABQ's Beethoven).

Did you see the review I linked earlier?

I had not! Will check it out later, thanks!

[Sergeant Rock]

Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin orchestrated by Zoltan Kocsis and the composer




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