What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

The piano quartets from this recently arrived set:

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It arrived huh, well Marvin will get his set too very soon.

[Obradovic]

NDR SO/Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt excellent performances, problematic sound though

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg
Die Jakobsleiter, Oratorio (Fragment)
Berlin Radio Chorus
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg & al.
Gielen

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 and 4 played by the Mandelring Quartett




Sarge

[North Star]

The piano quartets from this recently arrived set:

I had my dose of Hamelin today as well

Shostakovich
Piano Concertos
Hamelin, Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet)*
BBC Scottish SO
Litton
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Now:

Bach
'Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille,' BWV 120
Deborah York (S), Ingermar Danz (A), Mark Padmore (T), Peter Kooy (B)
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe
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[Mirror Image]

Schoenberg
Die Jakobsleiter, Oratorio (Fragment)
Berlin Radio Chorus
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg & al.
Gielen

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Fabulous, indeed!

[listener]

GLAZUNOV:  String Quartets 6 in B-flat op.106, 7 in C op.107
The Shostakovich Quartet
J. STRAUSS vol.8 of the Marco Polo series, includes a Quadrille on these from 'Un Ballo in Maschera'
Polish State Philharmonic Orch.  Oliver Dohnányi, cond.
And Variations for the organ
KNECHT, HESSE, FINK, RHEINBERGER, REGER, KARG-ELERT, Hans Ludwig SCHILLING and Uans Uwe HIELSCHER
Kurt-Ludwig Forg, organ (Münster zu Radolfzell/Bodensee, by Mönch 1997)

[André]

Bruckner: symphony no. 9. Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter. Sony. I had almost forgotten how fantastic this recording is. Orchestra and sound are amazing. Old Dr. Walter beats the sh... out of the competition.

Bruckner: symphony no 3. Original (1873) version. Orchestre métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Admirable interpretation, glowing, nicely soft-focused reading in I and II, aptly more dynamic in III and IV. Excellent sound.

Dvorak: symphony no 8 in G, op. 88. Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter. Sony. Another excellent disc.  Walter gets the smplicity and geniality of the first two movements perfectly right. Reminds me of another G Major symphony (Mahler's 4th).

[Brian]

Karl sent me:



First time I heard "Night Ride and Sunrise" was live. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop...and waiting...and then it dropped!

[Karl Henning]

Groovy!

[mc ukrneal]

Dussek. First of the new Hyperion Classical Concerto Series. And what a start. Music was probably among Dussek's best. Playing is excellent. 
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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all

Beethoven sonatas Op.31 (1,2,3) / Annie Fischer.

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[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays!

First-ever Zelenkafication!

Lamentations for Maundy Thursday (ZWV.203 [?])

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[North Star]

First-ever Zelenkafication!

Zelenbration!


Thread duty
Schönberg
Pierrot
Anja Silja
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Robert Craft

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty
Schönberg
Pierrot
Anja Silja
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Robert Craft

(* pounds the table *)

[Mandryka]

http://www.youtube.com/v/6_LuxbNw89Y

Wanda Landowska plays a Chopin mazurka. One of the comments on youtube is right "Sounds kinda like 17th century Irish pub in the old village far away from other villages in the middle of the night" Maybe that's what Chopin intended.

[Mirror Image]

Karl sent me:



First time I heard "Night Ride and Sunrise" was live. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop...and waiting...and then it dropped!

That's a fantastic recording. My favorite performance of The Oceanides. Segerstam/Helsinki PO completely in their element.

[Mirror Image]

Now:





Listening to Dream in White On White. Gorgeous.