What are you listening to now?

[listener]

L3-L4 problems (so my selections may seem a bit perverse for while) but no  one else seems to be enjoying these:
DVORAK: songs  op. 50 - 3 Modern Greek Songs   op. 55 - 7 Gypsy Songs
op. 83 - 8 Love Songs  op. 73  On Folk Poems
Jindrich Jindrak, baritone   Alfred Holeček, piano
...... songs by SCHOENBERG, BERG and WEBERN
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau        Aribert Reimann piano
OHANA  4 Études cinématographiques   KABELAC 8 Inventions  op. 45
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
  - all vinyl

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Finishing up Sinfonia in Memoriam. Wow....

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Apollon musagete. Beautiful work and great performance.

[Mirror Image]

One more work before I go to bed:



Listening to Memento mori. Absolutely gorgeous work.

[val]

MENDELSSOHN:        Symphony n. 5              / NBC Orchestra, Toscanini

The best version I know of this work. In the last movement Toscanini reaches a true greatness that is very impressive.

Other versions such as the ones of Sawallisch, Paray or Abbado seem pale compared to Toscanini.

[Moo Yai]

Delius: Songs Of Sunset

Not much to report on the listening front this week - I have been listening to this box. Heard about 5 of the Discs so far. Great set! 

[Fafner]

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 14
Julia Varady, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernand Haitink

[asin]B000F3T7RO[/asin]


I do not particularly like FiDi in opera, but he is really great in songs and the symphonic  repertoire.

[huntsman]

Delius: Songs Of Sunset

Not much to report on the listening front this week - I have been listening to this box. Heard about 5 of the Discs so far. Great set! 

G'Day Mate!

Just listening to the same set. I'm on CD3 (Paris - The Song of a Great City) etc...

[Lisztianwagner]

Vagn Holmboe
Symphony No.5

http://www.youtube.com/v/Wx40Aj2gUa4

[Sadko]

Mahler

Symphony No. 7

Czech PO
Václav Neumann

[asin]B000025L40[/asin]

[Fafner]

Now:

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernand Haitink

[asin]B000F3T7RO[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

Fresh out of the box!

“Papa”
Symphony № 1 in D (H.I/1)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

[Karl Henning]

Fresh out of the box!

“Papa”
Symphony № 10 in D (H.I/10)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

[Fafner]

Just finished Shost #15 and I need something a little more cheerful. 

Mozart - Concerto for Flute and Harp, Oboe Concerto, Clarinet Concerto
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nicolas Harnoncourt

[Karl Henning]

Fresh out of the box!

“Papa”
Symphony № 27 in G (H.I/27)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood

[Sergeant Rock]

Inspired by recent discussion in the Haus, Haydn String Quartet C major op.54/2 played by the Julliard Quartet




Sarge

[jlaurson]

First this, which I am beginning to cherish a lot...

Per Nørgård
Libra et al.
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Dacapo SACD
German link - UK link


then this, because I found it among some discs I brought up from the cellar

Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
EMI
German link - UK link
(and boy, does this hold up well. I actually spun it twice... listening to Prisoner as a tribute to the Iron Lady, as clearly it's anti-union:
"I'm not a number, I'm a free man
Live my life where I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book
'Cos I'll run rings around you")

and then, keeping, vaguely, with the British theme:

The Versatile Viol
Tina Chancey
Irish & Scottish Music
Golden Apple
German link - UK link

[HIPster]

This very beautiful, new-ish recording:

[asin]B0085U0GWO[/asin]

A winner in both performance and price (purchased new via amazon mp for well under $8, including shipping).

[jlaurson]

Earlier:

The Versatile Viol
Tina Chancey
Irish & Scottish Music
Golden Apple
German link - UK link


In between: Alice Cooper's Trash (doesn't hold up as well as Iron Maiden, actually: too slick and pandering)

Now:

William Grant Still
Symphonies 2 & 3, Wood Notes
Naxos
German link - UK link
Chaaaaaaaaaarming!

[Opus106]

Possibly my favourite of the lot, the 6th suite -- BWV 1012. Anner Bijlsma. My first time listening to any work from this set on a PI. Despite my liking/preference for PI in general, I don't think I'll lose interest in the Fournier, though.