What are you listening to now?

[Corey]

My first listen to C.P.E. -- was expecting some pleasant trifles but these pieces are surprisingly stormy and dramatic! The period instruments sound brilliant and are sharply recorded.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Vers la Voûte étoilée, which translated to English means Towards the Starry Vault. Strange title, beautiful work nonetheless.

[springrite]

Mozart PC 24 and 25 (Immerseel, Anima Eterna)

Loved Beethoven symphonies from them, but can't say I love the fortepiano playing...

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6 'Celestial Gate'. Very cool work.

[Wakefield]

Haydn Piano from
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Haydn fortepiano, sir. 

[Brian]

I couldn't wait for my review copy, so NML it is.

[Wakefield]

I couldn't wait for my review copy, so NML it is.

You picked my curiosity, Brian. I'm listening to listen to it via ClassicsOnline HD. Liner notes included. 

[listener]

BUSONI:  Piano Sonata in f op. 20a     Seven Elegies
Bruce Wolosoff, piano
MYASKOVSKY:  Symphonies 23 & 24
Russian Federation academic Symphony Orch        Svetlanov, cond.
and vol. 4 of the Nonime label's series of surveys of north German organs, this time Ostfriesland, with music by the usuals: Byrd, Hofhaimer, Dufay, Buxtehude, Böhm, etc.
nice little booklet with pictures and specifications and registrations are included
Agnes Luchterhandt and Thiemo Janssen cover the eight locations

[Brian]

You picked my curiosity, Brian. I'm listening to listen to it via ClassicsOnline HD. Liner notes included. 

Good choice. The sound quality is so good, and this NML feed is so poor. And the liner notes are really essential - Honeck interprets this piece as programmatic tone poems, and his essay does a great job explaining many things about the symphony that have always confused and frustrated me.

[Justin Ignaz Franz Bieber]

amazing

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[Wakefield]

Good choice. The sound quality is so good, and this NML feed is so poor. And the liner notes are really essential - Honeck interprets this piece as programmatic tone poems, and his essay does a great job explaining many things about the symphony that have always confused and frustrated me.

I have assembled a good second audio system: big iMac, Cambridge Audio dac(magic), speakers Adam A3X and now ClassicsOnline HD. 

I will read those liner notes.

[North Star]

Fauré
Violin Sonatas
Isabelle Faust & Florent Boffard
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[Brian]

I have assembled a good second audio system: big iMac, Cambridge Audio dac(magic), speakers Adam A3X and now ClassicsOnline HD. 

I will read those liner notes.

Let me know what you think of the performance!

I'm afraid I still don't understand the finale at all.    it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

[Karl Henning]

  it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

"Warmed-over romance"?

[Drasko]

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[Que]

An outstanding organ disc. Recommended. (Que, Hipster, Jeffrey, Premont, Neal, Marc, ao)

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisitionkerll-johann-caspar-1627.html?spref=tw

I already ordered that one. 

Recommended and praised on GMG, and its all true!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisition-willaert-adrian-c1490.html?spref=tw

And that one as well!

Q

[Harry]

I already ordered that one. 

And that one as well!

Q

I suppose I have done this too?

[Wanderer]

I'm afraid I still don't understand the finale at all.    it just sounds like a less interesting, less memorable copy of the first movement.

Sounds like we might need popcorn when that review comes out. 

[Ken B]

Mozart PC 24 and 25 (Immerseel, Anima Eterna)

Loved Beethoven symphonies from them, but can't say I love the fortepiano playing...

I like that set, but you might prefer Sofronitsky for the vigor of the performances. Bilson is probably best for all round poise. But Sof is very fun.

[aligreto]

As I already own the Bruggen versions of the Paris symphonies I bought this set for the other two collections. On first listen I was a little underwhelmed with the Sturm und Drang. I cannot exactly pinpoint why; the answer may lie in the nature of the music itself. I will of course revisit these performances. The Paris symphonies sparkle exactly as I remember them however. So, onwards to the London symphonies and I am curious to see what the late maestro brought to these works.