What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 8 до минор, соч. 65 [ Symphony № 8 in c minor, Opus 65 (1943) ]
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Caetani

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Sarge & aukhawk had me intrigued about this.  The Largo first movement is so different a take than any with which I am familiar, I am pleased to have picked this up on that account alone.

Still listening . . . .

[Todd]

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Some Zemlinsky.  It has been a while since I listened to the Artis Quartet Wien's recordings, but at first blush, I rather think I prefer the LaSalle. 

[Moonfish]

Earlier

Mozart: Symphony No 40      LPO/Mackerras
Dvořák: Symphony No 7       LPO/Mackerras

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas  K.279, 280, 311 & 576      Pires

[Moonfish]

And one more time.....     

Enraptured....

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius         Watts/Gedda/Lloyd/John Alldis Choir/London Philharmonic Choir/New Philharmonia O/Boult (rec 1975)

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[HIPster]

This nice gem is perfect for me on this late Friday morning listen:
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The program is really interesting and the performance and sonics are excellent.   

[Wakefield]

This nice gem is perfect for me on this late Friday morning listen:
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The program is really interesting and the performance and sonics are excellent.   

Do you you still live in USA, Dave? Australia now, maybe? 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Martin:

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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all !

Continuing where I left last night. Just gorgeous.

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[Papy Oli]

Bruckner - 7th Symphony
Klemperer / Philarmonia

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[HIPster]

Do you you still live in USA, Dave? Australia now, maybe? 

lol 

Looong week (here in the States). 

[Mandryka]

Kenneth Gilbert plays Froberger. It's becoming a real favourite record, and it's helping me see just what style of playing works for me in this type of music. Calm, cool, with space and air between the gestures in the music, between the notes. For once Gilbert's well recorded too.

I keep thinking how nice it would be to have Gilbert play the Frescobaldi Capprici, for some reason listening to Gilbert has made me think of Leonhardt's recording of the Capricci.

[Moonfish]

Bruckner - 7th Symphony
Klemperer / Philarmonia

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+1

[Ken B]

Martin:

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And ...

*eagerly awaits report*

[king ubu]

Watched Verdi's La forza del destino from Munich with a glorious Anja Harteros and very fine singing by Jonas Kaufmann (Alvarez), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), as well as Vitalij Kowaljow (Leonora's father and Padre Guardiano). For Germans (and French, I assume - not for me, alas), it's on arte+7 for some more days:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/053715-001/verdi-la-forza-del-destino

Now:

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[HIPster]

Thursday afternoon listening!   
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Nuove Musiche - Rolf Lislevand Ensemble

A favorite album.  Arianna Savall has the voice of an angel on this release.

[André]

And ...

Re: Frank Martin's Le vin herbé: *eagerly awaits report*

If I may chime in... Haven't heard this one, but from what I read about it, many solo and combination of SATB interventions are taken by the chorus, thereby destroying Martin's careful blend of voices (S, A, T, B, SAB, ATB, STB, AB etc. There are 12 such  specific combinations of voices).

Victor Desarzen's older recording (with the composer on the piano) is very faithful and truly spellbinding. The work itself is a masterpiece, much more moving as a story than Wagner's bloated take on the T&I myth.

Re: Nethania Davrath: I second Zauber's appreciation: the only recording of Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne.

[Sadko]

Paul O'Dette

My favourite Dowland

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[Ken B]

This is self-published, which is worrying for such an ambitious project.



I saw it after loving his recording of Virgil Thomson.

And too, who needs another Winterreise? I think this makes 9 now; I've had more in the past. But I bought it.
So how is it?

Excellent.

Meglioranza has a lovely light voice, I am tempted to compare it to a baritone Bostridge, his German diction is excellent, and the performance is free of crooning, swift, with a classical simplicity and directness, even chasteness. He doesn't ooch the music, he lets it carry him along. And he sounds good in every register.  Reiko Uchida plays a 19th C piano and is also very fine. Clear natural sound, a very definite keeper.

[EigenUser]

Again, Feldman's Coptic Light.
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Ken, what are your thoughts on Feldman? I suspect you think it is boring . He is a minimalist, though. I have difficulty calling him a minimalist because his music sounds so different compared to, say, Reich. I think he has as much in common with Webern as he does with any minimalist (another reason why I bet you don't like him ).

[Ken B]

Again, Feldman's Coptic Light.
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Ken, what are your thoughts on Feldman? I suspect you think it is boring . He is a minimalist, though. I have difficulty calling him a minimalist because his music sounds so different compared to, say, Reich. I think he has as much in common with Webern as he does with any minimalist (another reason why I bet you don't like him ).

We've discussed this! You are too young for memory loss 
I like some of Feldman, Rothko, Madame Press for example. I have liked some of the other pieces too.
Even when I don't like it I do find his music interesting. I will probably buy some at some point, piano music I expect to start.

Of course he's a minimalist, in the good pieces at least. 
Compare him to Webern? Did he run over your pet cat or something?