What are you listening to now?

[kishnevi]

OFFENBACH: Un mari à la porte
soloists, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orch.    Petrenko, cond.
and then the soloists with Nikolai Krügel sing The Fables of La Fontaine

You will probably be interested in this one from what must be a series

[listener]

You will probably be interested in this one from what must be a series

I do have the ROH LP on London, but the fiiller looks interesting.   Thanks for the mention.
thread duty:  SCRIABIN:  Piano Études played by Alexander Paley
I have the Dover score, it is interesting to see what makes these so challenging.

[Mandryka]

Kenneth Gilbert plays a couple of late Froberger suites on an old French instrument (Bellot.) I think it's impossible and unnecessary to choose between poetic performances like Egarr's, and abstract performances like Gilbert's. Gilbert is superbly well recorded.

[Moonfish]

You have a gold mine there.  Did you see the Amazon MP prices?

That is why we always need to buy two of each box set...   

[Moonfish]

Now:



Listening to the Violin Concerto. A completely committed performance from Little/A. Davis. My favorite recording of this masterwork.

Now - that looks intriguing....
Tasmin Little has never been on my radar! 

[Obradovic]

Maybe it would stand a better chance if it was called The Legend of the Invisible City of Kittehs. Youtube at least would go nuts over it.

but not Invisible...

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Disc 4 contains music devoted to Virgin Mary. Excellent performances! 

I need to hear that my recommendation was a good one.............

Not to wory, I am more than satisfied!
But I think that the choice on disc 1 for larger forces and added instruments,  however historically justified, did not quite work out well for the cohesion and overall effect of the performance.

Q

[Moonfish]

Brahms: Symphony No 2           Münchner Philharmoniker/Kempe   (1975)

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Mozart: Divertimento No 17 (K334); Eine kleine nachtmusik K525             Chicago SO/Reiner




Elgar:
Violin Concerto                    Menuhin/London PO/Boult  (1961)
Introduction and Allegro       BBC SO/Boult (1975)
Grania and Diarmid - Funeral March            London PO/Boult (1969)

Wonderful although probably not my top choice for the VC. The greatest surprise here was the march from "Grania and Diarmid" which was delightful.

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[Mookalafalas]

Now - that looks intriguing....
Tasmin Little has never been on my radar! 

  You have forgotten your EMI Eminence box! She is featured on several discs.  The artwork is extremely dated, and she looks like a plump, frizzy-haired '80s chipmonk when she is shown.   Playing is wonderful, of course.

TD:
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[ritter]

This morning, Spanish National Television was airing Shostakovich's Symphony 5 in D minor, op. 47, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE conducted by Kiril Karabits. It had been some 15 years sice I last heard the work, and I hope at least another 15 years elapse before I encounter it again. How I dsilike this music! 

[Que]

I seem to go back and forth between these treasure boxes....

Welcome to the Age of Monster Sets!     

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Amazing set BTW...

Q

[Christo]

That's a great disc, orfeo. I especially like Beatus Parvo. Such a great work.

Thanks for the tip. Beatus Parvo is indeed a moving piece, hadn't paid it the attention it deserves.

[EigenUser]

Not even Nate can pretend this is good. 

Oh, believe me, I think it must be good. It is Ligeti, after all. I just don't get it. The problem is mine, not the music's (P.S. I feel the same way with most things I don't like, including Glass 0:)).

The weird thing is that the Chamber Concerto (abb. ChC) is often claimed to be similar to the CC. Even I can see how it is similar in many ways, but I love the ChC!

I'm so excited to go see the Ligeti program at Julliard with Bruce (GMG mod)! Coincidentally, just three days before that I'm seeing the Philadelphia Orchestra play Atmospheres (along with La Mer and the Berg VC) with a friend of mine. And two days before that, I'm going to see the NSO play the entire Daphnis and Chloe!

BTW, Ken, what do you think of the Lutoslawski CC?

[prémont]

I meant this one, which is really magical.

He manages to make the music sound timeless, eternal,  beyond human emotions.

If it's OOP and you want it, I can upload it for you.

The downside is that it has less that an hour of music on it.

I agree about it, but I just find the first DHM recording, I mentioned above, even more magical.
BTW thank for your kind offer, but I already own the recording. It was is part of the Leonhardt/Telefunken set, which I got more than 15 years ago.

By the way I've started to listen to the Fiori Musicali by Aymes and his mates. I bet you'll like it - the chant and the variety of instruments make it pretty special - completely different from Alsessandrini. More Italian maybe - colours, bright sunshine, religion and wine and dance.

I didn't enjoy the rest of Aymes's Frescobaldi CDs.

Yes, my experience with Aymes´ Frescobaldi is rather uninspiring too, so I haven´t listened much to it, and not the Fiori yet. I shall listen to it in the near future.

[Sergeant Rock]

...Heino Eller's (Estonian, 1887-1970) Preludes.  Forgive, please, my rabid enthusiasm; these are intensely brilliant works I know many of you will enjoy, the Kenster, I think, and Vandermolen, Sarge, John, Karlo und der Eigenuser, likely, among others.

I love Eller but have not heard these Preludes. Sampling at Amazon confirms it's music I'd like to hear. Thanks for the recommendation.

Sarge

[North Star]

Eller is unknown to me, but this does sound nice.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Kdmdkn-UOmc

[chadfeldheimer]

Boulez Conducts Bartok's second violin concerto
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great performance and recording.

[Sergeant Rock]

Eller is unknown to me, but this does sound nice.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Kdmdkn-UOmc

Reminds me of Le Gibet (Ravel), the mood established.

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now - that looks intriguing....
Tasmin Little has never been on my radar! 

As a Delian, Little's name has always been associated with this composer, but she also has had close ties with so many other early 20th Century British composers and her Elgar is completely enthralling. Run, don't walk, to pick this recording up on Amazon now. You won't be sorry! It doesn't get any better than this for Elgar's VC.

[North Star]

Good stuff
Delius
RSNO
David Lloyd-Jones
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