What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Schumann Violin Sonata No.1 A minor op.105, Hélène Grimaud, piano, Gidon Kremer, violin




Sarge

Cool!  Is their technical perfection resulting in emotional non-involvement? 

[EigenUser]

Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen.
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[Karl Henning]

yw

Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen.
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[North Star]

Brahms
Piano Quintet
Piers Lane & New Budapest Quartet

Ligeti
Violin Concerto
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Asko Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw
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[Karl Henning]

Brahms
Paganini Variations (Book I), Op.35
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy

[listener]

LITOLFF: Concertos Symphoniques  no. 2 in b, op. 22, no. 4 in d op.102
Peter Donohoe, piano    Bournemouth S.O.   Andrew Litton, cond.
No. 4 has the familiar Scherzo used as a 'filler' on several other discs
RAVEL:  5 Cantatas,  DEBUSSY:  Le Printemps   CAPLET: Myrrha, Tout est lumière
(Cantatas written for the Prix de Rome competitions)
Chorus & Orch. de Paris-Sorbonne   Jacques Grimbert, cond.
for the complete collectors.
ERNST: 6 Polyphonic Studies for Solo Violin     2 Romances op. 15
Fantasias on 'The Last Rose of Summer' and a March from Rossini's 'Otello'
Transcription of Schuberts' 'Erlkönig' op. 26
Ingolf Turban, violin      Giovanni Bria, piano

[Ken B]

Onslow, Quintets, Archibudelli from the Bylsma chamber box.

[amw]

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in C, "The Ninth"

Schubert Symphony No. 6 1/2 in E D. 729



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[Ken B]

Schubert Symphony No. 6 1/2 in E D. 729



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Eight, then nine, now ten.

To lose one symphony is a tragedy; to lose two begins to look like carelessness.

[amw]

Brian Newbould also discovered part of an 11th symphony, consisting of 80 blank sheets of manuscript paper. "He wouldn't have had that much music paper lying around if he didn't intend to use it for a new symphony," Newbould argued in the influential Neue Zeitschrift für Musik journal, and is currently in the process of trying to reconstruct the symphony from the faint indentations made in these blank sheets by Schubert's pen on other sheets of music paper (now presumed lost) that lay on top of them. Heinz Rögner has expressed an interest in recording the results.

[Drasko]

[North Star]

Brian Newbould also discovered part of an 11th symphony, consisting of 80 blank sheets of manuscript paper. "He wouldn't have had that much music paper lying around if he didn't intend to use it for a new symphony," Newbould argued in the influential Neue Zeitschrift für Musik journal, and is currently in the process of trying to reconstruct the symphony from the faint indentations made in these blank sheets by Schubert's pen on other sheets of music paper (now presumed lost) that lay on top of them. Heinz Rögner has expressed an interest in recording the results.

   


Thread duty

Prokofiev
Toccata, Op. 11
Piano Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 14
Raekallio

[André]

For the first time in my life I have actually enjoyed and found respect for a recording by The Curly One: Simon Rattle's Bruckner 9th with the BP cannot be impeached. 95% of the merit belongs to the orchestra, at long last deconstipated from decades of abbadoist decibellic diffidence. The remaining 5% is earned by Rattle's willingness not to impede the proceedings by any untoward adjustments of dynamics or rythm.

In a word: sensational.

Erwin Schulhoff: violin and piano sonata; sonata for solo violin. SShould be better known

[kishnevi]

O, you should know that my friend, because I talked about them a great deal, especially the first of Bush, and the fabulous Symphony of Moeran.
Top shelf works. Moeran is a academic composer, it needs apart from a emotional insight also an intellectual approach.
No pun intended though!

Let me add my endorsement of the Bush symphony.  I got extremely enthusiastic about, if you dig through my posts.
Thread duty
Beethoven. Violin Concerto
Arthur Schoonderwoerd fortepiano
Cristofori Ensemble
Aka PC 6 Op. 61a

[Moonfish]

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4         London SO/ Anthony Collins

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[HIPster]

Hello GMGers!   

Settling in with a few new arrivals for the evening:

Vivaldi - Dresden Concertos
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Monteverdi - Fifth Book of Madrigals
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[Mirror Image]

I have discussed so many composers with you, and many have a "before" and "after" and "I changed my mind again" that it is hard to remember where you are with whom when... 

Yeah, I know what you mean, Paul. Sometimes I confuse myself.

[Mirror Image]

Ligeti
Violin Concerto
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Asko Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw
[asin]B0016A8E1K[/asin]

Great work, Karlo! Cheers!

[Todd]

Disc 1.  As expected from the Pacifica, extremely well played.  Sound is a little drier than I expected, but is excellent.  Perhaps a shoot-out with my preferred modern (ie, 21st Century) version by the Danel might be a good idea after I digest the whole set.

Incidentally, the box consists of four cutouts (holes through the barcodes in mine) thrown in a flimsy outer box, not that it makes any difference.

[Mirror Image]

Disc 1.  As expected from the Pacifica, extremely well played.  Sound is a little drier than I expected, but is excellent.  Perhaps a shoot-out with my preferred modern (ie, 21st Century) version by the Danel might be a good idea after I digest the whole set.

Incidentally, the box consists of four cutouts (holes through the barcodes in mine) thrown in a flimsy outer box, not that it makes any difference.

Who did you buy the box set from, Todd? There's already a 1-star review on Amazon about the packaging. I haven't received mine yet.