What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Cello Concerto No. 2. Harrowing, eerie music that I love to bits. Ivashkin owns these concerti IMHO

[Moonfish]

Great to hear, Moonfish! If you're interested, I started a thread on Bluebeard that you may be interested in:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17905.0.html

Oh, nice!       Somehow I never expect threads on specific operas. This is what I like about GMG!   0:)

[Harry]

Good morning.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/monteverdi-claudio-complete-madrigali.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

Grigory Sokolov, Chopin op 28, live in Salzburg in 2010 I think. I wonder if this is the recording about to be released by DG.

The sound quality of this radio broadcast is fine. But it really is no substitute for the live experience - the timbre is a very special part of what he does.

The interpretation is much less perfumed and much less Brucknerian than his commercial recording

I do wonder how one can play Chopin in a Brucknerian way... Do you have a link for that too?

TD



Produktion 2

[Christo]

Ever more into Kinsella, a great contemporary symphonist:

[Harry]

Some more of what I started with this morning.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/monteverdi-claudio-complete-madrigali_5.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

Third listen to this, and it's now categorically my favourite Sibelius 6. Tempi in the outer movements are sometimes dangerously slow (the whole symphony is over the half-hour mark) but always make sense, and the closing bars of the finale are shockingly bleak.

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ka-ching!

[Sergeant Rock]

Bartok Bluebeard's Castle, Kubelik conducting Troyanos, Nimsgern and the NY Phil

Sarge

[The new erato]

Working from home today (writing audit documentation), listening to this first, disc 7:

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I've really enjoyed this unpretentious set (I've played disc 1 -7 in sequence since the summer, now disc 8 to go).

[Wanderer]

It felt like a violin concerto day: [asin]B000000B06[/asin][asin]B005OZDY5O[/asin][asin]B00E5Q9VSW[/asin]

[Florestan]

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Now, this is one I´d like to hear. What does he make of the Schumann?

[Florestan]

Tiny Wild Avocadoes, 1 & 2

TBH, Karl, that´s the first composition of yours that I don´t like at first listen. Way too short for me to figure out what´s going on. The first thing that crossed my mind while listening was Webern, which is not my cup of tea. I´ll give it another listen later.

[Harry]

Second rerun of Bach's Organ works. Disc 13.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/bach-j-s-complete-organ-music-cd-13.html?spref=tw

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

We should start a Gluck Society! 

Good Gluck with that!

[Karl Henning]

Tiny Wild Avocadoes, 1 & 2

TBH, Karl, that´s the first composition of yours that I don´t like at first listen. Way too short for me to figure out what´s going on. The first thing that crossed my mind while listening was Webern, which is not my cup of tea. I´ll give it another listen later.

Thank you, for your honesty, for a good track record prior to these,    and for willingness to try again afterwards!

[Karl Henning]

Good Gluck with that!

Good gLord!

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Every month we intend to publish two Playlists: One with all the classical pieces in the concerts we present the following month -- and one with the World & Jazz bits.

Here's the classical list for the Month of November. Where possible, the artists actually playing the works are chosen, but usually that's not the case. What recordings might you have chosen to present a given work from its best side??




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Maria Callas Remastered,
The First Recordings

Warner

German link - UK link

#morninglistening #classicalmusic @WarnerClassics #Callas #Liebestod in Italian. Remastered glory. Perfect production quality.

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Maria Callas Remastered,
Mozart, Beethoven, Weber Arias

Warner

German link - UK link

#morninglistening #classicalmusic @WarnerClassics More #Callas (now #Mozart) out of the fab big box. Weber isn't very good... one of the few "Mehs" in that collection.

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[jlaurson]

Ever more into Kinsella, a great contemporary symphonist:

I really enjoy those two symphonies and they make me want to hear more of Kinsella.

I thought they sounded a bit as if James Bond conducted Sibelius...

[Harry]

A composer of which I had nothing in my collection, and I think quite a find.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/skoryk-myroslav-1938-orchestral-works.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

G'day, Harry!  Have a great one!