What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

First listen to the Fitzwilliam String Quartet [a recent purchase] playing Shostakovich's String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2....

[listener]

from a DGG BRAHMS Box, some of the choral music
Alto Rhapsody op. 53, Nänie op. 82, Song of Destiny op. 54, Gesang der Parzen op. 89
Brigitte Fassbaender, contralto  Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orch.
Giuseppe Sinopoli, cond.
and SVIRIDOV:  Kursk Songs
RSFSR Russian Chorus and Moscow Philharmonic Orch.   Kondrashin, cond.
Music for Chamber Orchestra        Moscow Chamber Orch.     Barshai, cond.

[Sergeant Rock]

where Ormandy makes an unholy rush of it at 22'04

Another in the house of the unholy: Rozhdestvensky 22:02.




Sarge

[SonicMan46]

Several new arrivals today:

Smetana, Bedrich - String Quartets w/ the Pavel Haas Quartet - some excellent reviews (attached) - only complaint is that the recording is under 50 minutes so another work could have been easily added?

Fauré & Franck - String Quartets w/ the Dante Quartet - also some great reviews (included in the PDF file) - been culling my collection and wanted a new version of the Franck and both Smetana quartets.  Dave

 

[kishnevi]

First listen.
Of the three violin concertos, the Third gives the best initial impression.

[Drasko]

where Ormandy makes an unholy rush of it at 22'04

Another in the house of the unholy: Rozhdestvensky 22:02.

and Mravinsky at 22:03 makes it unholy trinity   



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[Sergeant Rock]

and Mravinsky at 22:03 makes it unholy trinity   

Sarge

[André]

Biber: the Rosary sonatas for solo violin. Reinhard Goebel, Archiv Produktion. Slightly enervated, but the music's palpitations are echoed in the soloist's approach.

Rautavara: his nice, flowing, cinematic 8th Symphony. Osmo Vänskä, conductor. BIS records.

[San Antone]

Tatiana Nikolayeva : Liszt B Minor Sonata

[kishnevi]

This music had not previously impressed me, but I suspected Letzbor might do a better job, and he has.

[Que]

The Rosary Sonatas should impress! And there are so many  recordings around these days. Haven't  heard Letzbor.

My morning listening  is this lute disc that came in yesterday:

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Paolo Cherici is a favourite. I seldom worry about sonics but Tactcus can by ocassion produce really atrocious sounding recordings....
Luckily this sounds fine, though a tad too close.

Q

[ritter]

Back to Le Marteau sans maître, which never ceases to amaze me...this time, sans Boulez:

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[Harry]

Disc 5 of this box. To start the day with

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_7.html?spref=tw

[Que]

Disc 5 of this box. To start the day with

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_7.html?spref=tw

Great!

The recent post by Gordo on a complete Soler by Barbara Harbach and the issue of a box with Belder 's recordings made me revisit this:

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I checked and I have all four previous slimline 2CD volumes of the solo repertoire and there is very space to be gained to swap that for the box set,  so I am going to leave things as a they are.

Now on rehearing this recording I was again impressed by Belder. This is just really excellent: vibrant and expressive interpretations. The only quibble one might have that Belder 's generally muscular and intense style might have too little of the delicate, dreamy touch associated  with Iberian keyboard music and a bit too "pushy". Not to my taste however - I think Belder holds back when necessay and don't mind a bit of "Soler on steriods"... A bit like Scott Ross' Scarlatti...

Q

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Friday Froberger :

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[amw]

The Rosary Sonatas should impress! And there are so many  recordings around these days. Haven't  heard Letzbor.

He's one of the best. I don't know if anyone has ever done a Rosary Sonatas Blind Comparison or whatever, but Letzbor would probably end in the top four or five

Currently, first listen to Josef Suk's Epilogue

[Karl Henning]

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I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

[mc ukrneal]

I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

MFA - what is that? I think that is usually at the Prado, but perhaps it was in an exhibition? Though there is more than one in this style, so perhaps I have mixed them up.

[Karl Henning]

Some jovial Friday music:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 9 ми-бемоль мажор, соч. 70 [ Symphony № 9 in E^b, Opus 70 ] (1945)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[Karl Henning]

MFA - what is that? I think that is usually at the Prado, but perhaps it was in an exhibition? Though there is more than one in this style, so perhaps I have mixed them up.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, yes a visiting exhibit.