What are you listening to now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Of course they can both be used, Ilaria, and nobody in their right mind would seriously object to the choice of greeting.
I do, however, think you should at the very least also know the word sauna. 

Yes, of course, I didn't think about that.

[Brian]

Weigle (my desert island pick)

Thanks! The only available choices on NML were Segerstam and Ruckwardt, so I went with triangles.

[ritter]

I now officially join the party  :



Kicking off with Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110.

[Moonfish]

Elgar: Cello Concerto      Beatrice Harrison/New Symphony Orchestra/Elgar  (1928)

Magical top tier performance from Harrison! From now on this goes right next to my du Pré/Barbirolli recording!
Great sound for 1928!

The photo below was taken at the recording of the cello concerto!!!



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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

It's good, isn't it!?

Q

Good?  I realize I'm way outta my area of expertise in saying so, but as Tony the Tiger used to say, er growl, "THEY'RE GRRRRRRREAT!!"  AND, the scholarly research behind it all is so interestin', I'm gonna read it again tonight.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Haven't listened to this in many years and miss it :

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[EigenUser]

Haydn's Symphony No. 8 "Le Soir"
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[SonicMan46]

Well I for one want the KB concerto box. Everything I have heard I liked. I do not want the BIS price-tag though.

Hey Ken - LOL! You quoted my post before my edit - found an extra 5-CD set of Belder doing CPE Bachs solo works - so up to a dozen or so, but certainly not 29 volumes - WOW!  Now, 20 CDs of the concertos in a properly priced BIS box would interest me also - Dave 

[mahler10th]

I realize I'm putting myself in danger of a horrible, addictive disease, but, what the hell, I'm going to listen to some late-Romantic music anyway 



Sarge

I haven't got it yet Sarge.  What do you make of it?

[Moonfish]

JS Bach: Partitas 1, 2 and 4         Tureck

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[Daverz]

Schumann: Symphony No. 2

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The Vienna recording is the best of these.

[not edward]

Wm. Schuman's To Thee Old Cause and In Praise of Shahn.

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Ornery music, and I mean that as a compliment.

[Mirror Image]

Stravinsky
Ebony Concerto
Dumbarton Oaks
8 Instrumental Miniatures for 15 players
Concertino for String Quartet
Three Pieces for Clarinet solo
Élégie for solo viola (in memoriam Alphonse Onnou)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez
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Sweet! Love those works.

[Ken B]

Webern
5 pieces for string quartet

[Todd]

Jean-Rodolphe Kars' Wanderer Fantasy is not especially intense, but it does boast one of the most meditative – probably the most meditative – takes on the Adagio I've heard, and every time the music slows down, Kars takes a similar approach.  It ends up sounding really episodic, and Kars regularly breaks the musical line, but the playing is so compelling that it not only works, it works fabulously well.  Kars can and does play with verve and power and nifty fingerwork when needed, but he sounds most compelling in these really slow passages.  The just shy of twenty-four minute length of the work shows how much Kars favors slow tempi, but not as much as the over thirty-two minutes needed for just the first two of the three piano pieces D946.  Here, Kars plays Richter-slow at times, and the effect is mesmerizing.  Again, the playing is episodic and Kars all but dispenses with the musical line, with the focus on the passage to be played at the moment, but the playing is simply superb, and almost mystical in nature.  It is unique, but not for everyone.  I've listened to the disc at least a half-dozen times in a the span of a week and a half or so, at home and work, through speakers and headphones.  This is a keeper.  More than a keeper.

Sound is not Decca's best for 1970, but it is good enough.  I've got his Debussy and Messiaen ready to go. 

[Que]

Just got this yesterday from the shop near work:

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[The new erato]

A wonderful disc:

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The Jonathan Dove work is beautiful!

[EigenUser]

Webern
5 pieces for string quartet

+5. Good for you!

I like the Six Bagatelles better, though.

Webern is still my favorite of the 2VS gang -- a group whose music I am still having trouble with (especially late Schoenberg, i.e. Variations for Orchestra). I'm warming up slowly, but surely.

[listener]

Russian for the morning
PROKOFIEV: Sinfonia Concertante op.125
Rostropovich, cello      Royal Philharmonic Orch.    Sargent, cond.
TANEYEV:  Apollo's Temple in Delphi (entr'acte from 'The Orestea)
Symphony no. 2 in Bb (compl. V. Block)
USSR Radio & TV Orch., Fedoseyev, cond.
STRAVINSKY:  Ragtime for 11 Instruments
Les Noces,  Renard
Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Roger Sessions    pianists
Assorted vocal soloists and ensembles         Stravinsky, cond.

[Henk]

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Excellent, I say again, excellent stuff..!