What are you listening to now?

[listener]

Sonatas for 2 Violins and Piano
TELEMANN OP. 1/3 IN E^b   HANDEL op. 2/3 in g
MILHAUD   op.221    HONEGGER Sonatina  (no piano)
Gerald and Wilfred Beal, violins    Harriet Wingreen, piano
TELEMANN   Viola Concerto in G     K. STAMITZ  Viola Concerto in D op. 1
Heinz Wigand, viola    Pro Musica Orchestra Stuttgart     Rolf Reinhardt, cond.
1963 reissue of a 1952 recording
DELIUS  for piano four-hands  arr. Peter Heseltine aka Warlock
On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring     Dance Rhapsodies 1 & 2
North Country Sketches     Summer Night on the River     In a Summer Garden
A Song Before Sunrise
Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott, piano
arrangements which remove the colour provided by orchestration and reveal no structural novelty or much else.

[Todd]

Finished up the first round of Gaspard, and switched to Cliburn playing some Brahms, specifically the D Minor concerto.  Forget the Russian composers, Cliburn is a natural born Brahmsian.

[Brahmsian]

Again to this beauty!

Respighi

Gli uccelli

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner

EMI Classics

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphonie. A very interesting work. Great performance.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Thanks to those sipping tea over at the Veranda . . . .

RVW
Towards the Unknown Region
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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That's a nice disc there, Karl. Great 5th.

[Mirror Image]

That's a nice disc there, Karl. Great 5th.

+1

[TheGSMoeller]

Fretwork can do no wrong with my ears, even their Goldberg Variations which seems to split listeners is fantastic to me. My newest purchase from this talented group is no exception. First rate music and playing. And, this entire disc is first time listen stuff for me, so it's a double bonus of new discoveries. 


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Edit: I should also add that Birds on Fire disc features music from composers separated by centuries, as far back as the 16th Century to living composer Orlando Gough.

[huntsman]

First time listen for me and I am really enjoying it!

Disc 1, and it's beautifully opened with Winter Night...




Perfect music for relaxing after stumbling off a spinning bike at the gym this morning... 

[val]

ADRIEN WILLAERT:      Vespro della Beata Vergine                      / Capilla Flamenca

This work is one of the first Vespro performed in Venice, 60 years before the masterpiece of Monteverdi.
I prefer the Madrigals and Songs of Willaert (there is an anthology in a  delightful CD by the Ensemble La Romanesque).
Even so this Vespro are very beautiful with a splendid performance of the Capilla Flamenca.

[Fafner]

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Sergiu Celibidache

[jlaurson]

Last night:


J.S. Bach
Cantatas 34, 74, 172 (v.7, Pentecost)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

For most such Cantata recordings, however well intentioned, the choristers are the weak-point. For these (even uniquely among recordings with the Thomaners) they are the strength & selling point.



E. d'Albert
Symphony in F
Tiefland Prologue
MDR SO / J.Märkl
Naxos
German link - UK link

This Symphony gets better and better with each listening. Astonishing stuff.


J.S. Bach
Mass in B-Minor
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
U.Selbig, S.Krumbiegel, E.Wilke, M.Petzold, G.Schwarz
Leipzig Baroque Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

The Mass in B-minor has nice singing... but as a whole it isn't terribly convincing. Correct and a touch sluggish. Mah.

[Fafner]

Now:

Mozart - Symphony No. 35
Schubert - Symphony No. 5
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Sergiu Celibidache

[Karl Henning]

How is Celi's Mozart, Faf?

[North Star]

Well, I do call that a dangerous discovery . . . .

If you are even considering it, you need it, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Again:

Henning
Prelude on Kremser, Op.66 (2002)
the composer, cl
Heinrich Christensen, org
recorded at King's Chapel, 26 Oct 2010

Could (and ought to) have played better; still, played all right. And Heinrich's registration is a great asset here.

[Karl Henning]

If you are even considering it, you need it, Karl.

Aye, I've wish-listed it.

[Karl Henning]

RVW
Toward the Unknown Region
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Bryden Thomson

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[Fafner]

How is Celi's Mozart, Faf?

Although the timings do not indicate it, subjectively it feels slower, with a darker tone colour than usual in Mozart and somehow "Brucknerian". But I admit it may just be a prejudice on my part, because "it is Celibidache".

[Karl Henning]

Holmboe
Symphony № 10, Op.105 (M.250)
Århus Symphony Orchestra
Owain Arwel Hughes

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[Karl Henning]

Hovhaness
Symphony № 14 « Ararat » , Op.194
Trinity College Winds
Brion

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