What are you listening to now?

[Que]

I really enjoyed the Kleiber 4 I have, so I was not too surprised to be very pleased with this 3.  Mono sound for this '59 recording, but still packs a wallop in the sound department.

Nice!

Q

[Que]

Morning listening:

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[Harry]

Morning listening:

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Q

These are absolutely gorgeous performances.

[Que]

These are absolutely gorgeous performances.

They are!
Sergio Azzolini playing in two bassoon sonatas, Alexando Piqué in a oboe sonata,  very atmospheric recording, and last not least enchanting music.

Discovered this ensemble through your recommendations.

Q

[listener]

for the morning:
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G,  ROUSSEL: Piano Concerto op. 35
Maria Littauer, piano     Hamburg S.O.    Alois Springer, cond.
VILLA-LOBOS:  Cello Concerto no.2    GUANIERI (Camargo, not the violin maker) : Choro for cello and orch.
Aldo Parisot, cello (not Perry So the conductor)   Vienna State Opera Orch., Gustav Meier, cond.

[Wanderer]

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[Florestan]

[Florestan]

Based on Andrei's recommendation, I received the Paganini Guitar Quartets (i.e. violin, viola, cello, & guitar) today - now on the third of 5 CDs in the set and just wonderfully joyous recordings - nothing profound but charming w/ much wonderful string writing (as expected from the greatest violinist of his time) and also well integrated guitar (his second area of expertise) - certainly try to explore these works - thanks friend for the encouragement!  Dave

I'm very glad you like it, Dave. I recommend listening to them in chronological order: they get better and better and the ones from no. 9 onward are markedly darker than the earlier ones. And you know, you're quite wrong: they're profoundly beautiful.  Please, do post your thoughts when you'll have time.

[Florestan]

When it comes to comedy, nobody can hold a candle to Rossini, absolutely nobody. The other evening I watched Falstaff on Mezzo TV, from the Zurich Opera House and I tell you frankly that, had it not been for the extraordinary facial expressions of Ambrogio Maestri I wouldn't have laughed at all. The music, great as it is, is nothing comic except in very few moments. There is much more fun, musically speaking, in this one-act, less-than-an-hour-long farce of Rossini than in the whole Falstaff. 

BTW, Ambrogio Maestri looks almost like the reincarnation of Rossini. 

[EigenUser]

Struggle with cause and effect do we Nathan? 

Yeah, yeah, I know. I knew of Copland before Borodin, so I usually use that order for myself in terms of "this sounds like that" (which, by the way, I tend to say a lot -- especially when hearing a work for the first time). Was Borodin a significant influence on Copland? That would be interesting.

I haven't heard it in years, but I remember enjoying it. I don't listen to the Russian Romantics too often but when I do Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov get top billing. Lyadov is another favorite of mine from that mid to late Romantic period.

I've been enjoying Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 recently. A friend of mine recommended it highly and I like it very much now. I didn't care for the 2nd, though. The only other one of his symphonies that I've heard is the 6th, which I like.

[amw]

Berlioz & Minkowski are a pretty solid combination I have to say.

[Sadko]

Milhaud: La création du monde / Suite provençale
Poulenc: Organ concerto
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

Boston SO
Charles Munch

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

 
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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Berlioz & Minkowski are a pretty solid combination I have to say.

D'accord.

[Florestan]

And why just did the world turned topsy-turvy? Well, because women took charge of it. Those sexist mid-eighteenth century Venetians! 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

The C major Mass, and then it's back to the 20th century for a while.

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[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No.86




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

If I may suggest, Karl, stop considering and take the step! A friend of mine says something to the effect that Parsifal is a pivotal score in the history of music, as it encapsulates not only much of what came before it, but also a good deal of what came after...I think he's not wide of the mark. A miraculous, unique achievement! 

Thanks, but I'm ahead of you, or ahead of your advice, anyway:  Parsifal was one of the first things I listened to from the big Bayreuth Festival Cube (although, still, I have not listened to it straight through in one hearing).  Easily my favorite Wagner work!

[Karl Henning]

DING DING DING

GURN BLANSTON PICK UP THE RED COURTESY PHONE



Haydn Symphonies 1, 39, and 49
Gluck Don Juan (pantomime)

Under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini, the music project "Haydn2032" was created to realize a vision: to record and perform – in a unique cycle featuring concerts across Europe – all of Joseph Haydn's 107 symphonies by 2032, the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth.
www.haydn2032.com

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Judging from my listening, this cycle is getting off to a hell of a great start!!

Zowie.

[Madiel]

Haydn Symphony No.86




Sarge

Coincidence or inspiration?