What are you listening to now?

[The new erato]

Very impressed!

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The 2nd symphony is extremely beautiful with stylistic influences from turn of the century Vienna, a Straussian horncall here, a Mahlerian violin solo there, even some Nielsenesque woodwind work. Quite derivative, but extremely successful.

[North Star]

I may have that [Pärt: Arbos (ECM)] . . . and if I do, I don't think I've heard it.  What's your opinion, Karlo?

Did you ever check your shelves, Karl?

Thread duty

I've been spending some more quality time with this set lately.

Strauss
Also Sprach
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Don Quixote*
Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Metamorphosen
Meneses (vc)*
Karajan & BPO
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[Mandryka]

http://www.youtube.com/v/jcDkC9OMCj0

Jane Chapman plays a pavane by Louis Couperin. I find what she does unbelievably moving, and totally original. The contrast with Leonhardt in the same music reveals contrasting world views. Chapman humane, she makes it into music about us, human beings, our pain. She makes it into something urgent. Leonhardt eternal, he makes it into music music about something abstract, beyond us, still and unchanging,  and yet not cold, not dry, but rather consoling and . . . humane.

[Lisztianwagner]

Strauss
Also Sprach
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Don Quixote*
Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Metamorphosen
Meneses (vc)*
Karajan & BPO
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*pounds the table*

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.15 in D major op. 28 "Pastorale" played by Eric Heidsieck

https://www.youtube.com/v/uIbJMTvzArA&list=PL765841BFCBD7FF9D&index=15


Sarge

[Brian]

It's unfair to rag on Bartók for a piece he didn't live to finish, let alone revise, but Szymanowski's Symphonie Concertante hits so many of the same notes while being, er, more interesting, and about a decade earlier as well (one wonders if Bartók was influenced by it?). Recording's not the greatest, but I'm open to suggestions.

Yay!! I love Szymanowski's Symphonie Concertante; it's one of my probably top five 20th century concertos.

I wrote a long post comparing all the recordings I've heard.
EDIT: I subsequently listened to Matsuev/Gergiev and it was pretty excellent.

[TheGSMoeller]

Head-banging minimalism:

Symphony X
Ari Benjamin Meyers

Everything Mirror Image hates in music I imagine! 

I'm digging this, listening to samples of it now........

[EigenUser]

Haydn Symphony No. 31 "Hornsignal". I like the 'dirty' horn sound of HIP Haydn.
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[listener]

more BACH organ   Concertos 593,594,596, P&F in d 539
Foccroulle at the Wilhadi Kirche, Stade
SCHOENBERG: Guerre-Lieder
soloists, Hamburg NDR Chorus, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Radio Symphony Orch.  Eliahu Inbal, cond.
The Denon discs come with a text and translation.   I can't imagine the locals here springing for the cost and time to do this work.

[Todd]

[Ken B]

I'm digging this, listening to samples of it now........

[EigenUser]

It seems like Haydn and Feldman is (almost) all I have listened to this past couple of weeks. Now replaying Feldman's Cello and Orchestra in an original arrangement for cello, orchestra, and my abnormally-loud dishwasher. So, Cello, Dishwasher, and Orchestra.
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[Ken B]

It seems like Haydn and Feldman is (almost) all I have listened to this past couple of weeks. Now replaying Feldman's Cello and Orchestra in an original arrangement for cello, orchestra, and my abnormally-loud dishwasher. So, Cello, Dishwasher, and Orchestra.
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Dishwasher goes better with Boulez. Just sayin'.

TD Brahms 2 and 3, Klemps
Old friends these, and top notch.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

More from the Wagner box of Treats & Skeets :

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[André]

Fauré: some cello and violin sonatas, string quartets, piano trio, La Bonne chanson song cycle... From the Fauré Big Box.

Rossini: Stabat Mater. Giuanluigi Gelmetti. With Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Daniela Barcelona, Juan Diego Florez. Magnificent.

Bruckner: symphony no 9 by Daniel Barenboim. First the Berlin Phil, then the Chicago Symphony recordings. The latter is cruder, more extrovert, a little more tempo feverish, with less blended balances. I prefer it for its raw power and deeper emotional resonance. In Berlin Barenboim tweaks the controls of his Mercedes. It sounds too fine tuned, too controlled, too cultured. I'm finicky, because by all other standards it's a quite remarkable version, stupendously played.

[Mirror Image]

*pounds the table*

+1

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A new acquisition. Listening to Don Juan right now. Sounds great so far.

[Mirror Image]

Very impressed!

[asin]B00OYKL0PQ[/asin]

The 2nd symphony is extremely beautiful with stylistic influences from turn of the century Vienna, a Straussian horncall here, a Mahlerian violin solo there, even some Nielsenesque woodwind work. Quite derivative, but extremely successful.

Yes, Gal's Symphony No. 2 is quite good indeed. I love that Adagio movement.

[Todd]

From the big box.

[Moonfish]

Now:



A new acquisition. Listening to Don Juan right now. Sounds great so far.

Ahh, I have never heard Abbado's Strauss? Is his performance riveting?