What are you listening to now?

[kishnevi]

I bet Thielmann demanded that glare for the photo. What a diva. 

But is it not Always Sunny In Philadelphia?

[Moonfish]

Dvorak: Symphony No 9
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos 1 & 2

Royal PO/Rodzinski


I realized that I have neglected Grieg over the last few years.

[HIPster]

L'Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi
Ensemble Elyma/Garrido
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On a first listen to this and it is a really fine performance and recording. 

This group - Ensemble Elyma - continues to impress with each release I sample.  Many appear to be OOP, which is unfortunate!

[Todd]

Starting in on the Kraus box not with the familiar Mozart sonatas, but with the unfamiliar Mozart Piano Trios.  I rarely listen to these works, and have relied on the BAT up to this point, and this new set offers a welcome addition to my collection.  The transfers sound fine, the playing more than that.  Elegant and vibrant, it is mid-20th Century chamber music making of a very high caliber.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Apart from the big opening of the first movement, made famous by K-Tel, I am mostly unfamiliar with Tchaikovsky's PC1.

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Tchaikovsky's first PC definitely lives up to the hype of its grand intro (kinda like Beethoven's fifth). It's a dynamite piece.

[Mirror Image]

RVW
Partita for double string orchestra (1948)
LSO
Bryden Thomson

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Pounds the table! Love the Concerto Grosso as well.

[Mirror Image]

And it will not surprise any who have heard my piece, that the final chorale of Out in the Sun is essentially a nod to the Stravinsky.

That's certainly a jovial, and fun, work. I dig the sunny optimism of the work. I'm not sure what your mood was when it was conceived, but definitely one of my favorites from you, Karl.

[Mirror Image]

Inspired by all these Alpine discussions I also took a walk up the mountain. Sublime. Especially as I was driving and could play it very loud. Sometimes commuting is a place of solace. Still, not the same as the complete focused listening at home. After all I want to survive the commute! This must be the archetype of a tone poem, don't you think?

R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie           Staatskapelle Dresden/Kempe


from:
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Wagner:Parsifal         Kollo/Frick/Fischer-Dieskau/Ludwig/Kelemen/Hotter/Vienna Philharmonic/Solti

Had this set forever.        *deep sigh*
I never get tired of entering the realm of Parsifal. Thank you guys here at GMG for reminding me of the joys of listening to this gem

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Pounds the table! Love it all! Great stuff!

[Mirror Image]

Jumping on the Wagnerian bandwagon with this:



Listening to Tristan und Isolde Prelude. Superb music and performance.

[kishnevi]

Two and a half  movements and so far definitely a winner....Petrenko may have saved his best for last in this cycle.

[Ken B]

Monkey Phil, Symphony 8

[listener]

Grace WILLIAMS:  Choral Suite: The Dancers, Ave Maris Stella, Six Gerald Manley Hopkins Poems, Harp Song of the Dane Women, Mariners' Song
City of London Sinfonia and String Sextet, Richard Hickox Singers,
Richard Hickox, cond.
ROUSSEL:  The Spider's Feast  (Le festin de l'araignée) op. 17
Piano Concerto op. 36
Claude Helffer, piano    'Cento Soli Orchestra of Paris'    Rudolf Albert, Serge Baudo
are the respective conductors
recorded when French orchestras sounded 'French'

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Britten, Diversions, for piano left hand and orchestra. Katchen/Britten with the London Symphony.

Either Katchen has seven fingers on is left hand or he's sneaking his right hand in when we're not looking. Can't be any other explanation for the hijinks here. 

And what a work to be first in line to be plucked out of obscurity! Never in my lifetime, though...




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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the Violin Concerto. Outstanding performance from Tetzlaff. I'm really coming around to this concerto the older I get.

[Que]

Morning listening, a continuation of this newly acquired set:

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I have had an extremely fortunate hand in recent purchases! 

Q

[Mookalafalas]

Super fabuloso.

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[The new erato]

Morning listening, a continuation of this newly acquired set:

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I have had an extremely fortunate hand in recent purchases! 

Q

Just listen to the right critics.....

[Que]

Super fabuloso.

Biber is one of those unearthed treasures. Add some of his amazing chamber music to your collection, and you are good to go..

Just listen to the right critics.....

 

After some time one gains valuable insight in whose tastes alignes with your own. Your positive feedback and a glowing Amazon review by Giordano Bruno was more than sufficient to win me over. In  this case the fact that the latter shares my reservations on British ensembles in Franco-Flemish repertoire but strongly recommended this nonetheless, was very reassuring.

When I put the Regis set on the shelves, this disc caught my eye. I decided to play it, to hear this ensemble again. And indeed their singing is absolutely breathtaking! The fact that the coompositions are pretty straightforward (but very nice) does not detract of the experience. 

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http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Christophorus_CHR77331.html

Q

[king ubu]

Celebrating my full return to normal life (did my University degree in the past few months, which accounted for my absence for several months and only occasional presence in the past few weeks) - I'm playing some Verdi, bad sound, but it's Callas:



VERDI: Nabucco
Maria Callas, Gino Bechi, Gino Sinimberghi, Luciano Neroni, Amalia Pini
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo, Vittorio Gui (1949)

EDIT: the missus is complaining: "awful" it is ... have to turn it down

[andolink]

Robert Schumann: 8 Noveletten, Op. 21
Piet Kuijken, fortepiano

L. van Beethoven: String Quartets from Op. 18-- No. 2 in G major and No. 3 in D major
Quatuor Mosaïques

Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Matthias Kirschnereit, piano