What are you listening to now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Camille Saint-Saens, Danse Macabre

https://www.youtube.com/v/dN3wiO5hqaU

[andolink]

J. S. Bach: 'Gott ist unsre Zuversicht' BWV 197
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Damien Guillon, counter-tenor
Gerd Türk, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass
Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki

George Enescu: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 26 no. 2
Valentin Radutiu, cello
Per Rundberg, piano

[Mookalafalas]

Bach here, too.

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[nico1616]

Brahms - 6 Klavierstücke opus 118
Radu Lupu on Decca

[Artem]

My first Lou Harrison CD.

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[Sergeant Rock]

Schoenberg, the Chamber Symphonies, Gielen conducting the SWF SO Baden-Baden




Sarge

[EigenUser]

Schoenberg, the Chamber Symphonies, Gielen conducting the SWF SO Baden-Baden




Sarge

+1. What do you think of the PC?

[Mirror Image]

Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony No. 1". Again. As I said in the Schoenberg thread, I feel like this has been the kind of hyper-romantic music that I've been looking for my entire musical life (among other things, of course). The constantly searching tonality, the hugely-expressive string writing, the stacked fourths... And it's short!
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A fantastic work and disc. One of my favorites from Schoenberg.

[Sergeant Rock]

+1. What do you think of the PC?

Love the PC but prefer the Uchida/Boulez performance. More Romantically indulged...and with the Cleveland, of course 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphonies 76, 77 and 78 "The Stumbling Goat"




Sarge

[SonicMan46]

Back home from the mountains - for the afternoon:

Boccherini - String Trios, Op. 54 w/ La Real Cámara (Enrico Gatti, Emilio Moreno, & Wouter Möller)

Graupner - A Christmas Oratorio - not really, but a collection of 9 cantatas from the Lent & Christmas seasons - Dave

 

[Todd]

Comparatively better than the disc with concertos three and four, but hardly close to the best available in either work.

[nico1616]

Haydn Symphonies 76, 77 and 78 "The Stumbling Goat"

Sarge

And where exactly, does the goat stumble? 

[Sergeant Rock]

And where exactly, does the goat stumble? 

The very beginning. Lethe thought the first subject sounded, to her, like that 

Sarge

[Mandryka]

Never heard Alberia before. 

Your description of Loriod's playing makes me think of Querol's, which is really not what I'm after.  I guess I may like my Albeniz trashier.

Let me know if you want the FLACs for Michel Block's - that one's very kitsch. I have Querol, but I can't remember much about it.

Now, I think I've just discovered something very interesting on spotify. Craig Sheppard playing Debussy's Etudes. Don should try this one, he even makes the music sound interesting from the point of view of voicing. A live recording, exciting, spontaneous sounding.

[Moonfish]

Telemann: Concertos      Ricercar Consort

Fantastic music-making!!!

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[Moonfish]

Todd, I would love to hear your impressions of Ugorskaja's performance?

[Moonfish]

BTW, this recalls me the best collection of Telemann's music, I have acquired the last years:

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It would be a 5-star box, even if it had only included Der getreue Music-Meister.

Gordo,
I completely agree with you. The DHM set kept surprising me in a very positive manner. I thought the Music Meister recordings were a delight (a bit different for sure with the spoken sections).

[Todd]

Let me know if you want the FLACs for Michel Block's - that one's very kitsch.

Now, I think I've just discovered something very interesting on spotify. Craig Sheppard playing Debussy's Etudes.

I've got Block's on disc.  I disagree about it being kitsch.  It is superb start to finish, and on the same level as Sanchez, and Block's style perfectly brings out Albeniz's coloristic effects.

The Sheppard might be interesting.  His take on the Preludes seemed too "hard" for my tastes, but his approach strikes me as better suited to the Etudes.

Todd, I would love to hear your impressions of Ugorskaja's performance?

It's superb.  Ugorskaja is very pianistic in her approach, and seems to meld elements romanticism and modernism, if you will, and if her rhythmic sense isn't as brisk and snappy as Ragna Schirmer (my current preferred recording, trumping even Heidsieck), her beautiful tone and usually smooth legato more than compensates.  I hope she records the rest of the suites, let me put it that way.

[nico1616]

The very beginning. Lethe thought the first subject sounded, to her, like that 

Sarge

Now listening to Haydn's symphony n°78, trying to hear a falling goat