What are you listening to now?

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

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I don't know why, but I seem to find covers like that rather grating when they make the performer's name GINORMOUS and list the composers and repertoire in tiny font.

[Mookalafalas]

Duets combining a harpsichord and modern piano.  They go nuts playing with the contrasts.  So far I'm loving it.  That said, I suspect they are really playing fast and loose with the score.  Could hardly sound less Bach-like.

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to The Lark Ascending with Hugh Bean/Boult. Stunning performance.

[SimonNZ]

Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry - Valeri Polyansky, cond.



Stravinsky's Duo Concertant - Itzhak Perlman, violin, Bruno Canino, piano

[Artem]

Sergei Slonimsky's Symphony No.21 " Faust by Goethe" - Valeriy Gergiev, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLbcyXnm7E

Thanks for sharing this. I listened to half of it yesterday and enjoyed it. Never heard about this composer and it seems like he's not been recorded that much at all.

[SimonNZ]

Thanks for sharing this. I listened to half of it yesterday and enjoyed it. Never heard about this composer and it seems like he's not been recorded that much at all.

That YT chanel is proving to be a treasure-trove of largely unknown but particularly exciting contemporary classical - with an emphasis on Rissian / former-Soviet composers.

I'm trying to make hay while the sun shines, before it goes the way of the equally brilliant John11inch chanel.

[Mirror Image]

Now revisiting this classic:



For me, still one of the best Planets around.

[Mirror Image]

Sergei Prokofiev
Scythian Suite
Lieutenant Kije

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Great stuff, Ilaria.

[SimonNZ]

Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto - Pierre Boulez, cond.

(three times in a row)

wow, this is really clicking with me tonight - best listen yet

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Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto - Pierre Boulez, cond.

(three times in a row)

wow, this is really clicking with me tonight - best listen yet

Yeah, the Ebony Concerto is good fun indeed.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A wonderful friend of mine sent me this recording recently, so I've just started listening to it, starting at no. 1!



I'm loving the sound on this one. And I think Solti gets the strings to play measured tremolos at the start of the 7th, which makes this recording sooo much more awesome than most! Epiiiiic

Now after no. 1 and no. 7, I'm on to no. 2!

[Christo]

Now revisiting this classic:



For me, still one of the best Planets around.

It ranks as No. 32 in Peter Power Pop's survey of all available recordings: https://petersplanets.wordpress.com/

[Que]

My morning listening is a blast from the past,  collecting wise.
I got this from BRO three years ago.

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Rodrigo de Ceballos, master of the Royal Chapel in Granada, is not a big name in Spanish Renaissance. (More on the recording HERE). But the performance by the Ensemble Gilles Binchois under Vellard is just ravashing. Anyone with a particular interest in Iberian/ Spanish Early Music from will not be disappointed!

Q

[The new erato]

Now after no. 1 and no. 7, I'm on to no. 2!

My first Mahler 2, bought in the 70ies on LP! 

[The new erato]

Some fun listening; music for violin and percussion orchestra. Interesting colors, and lots of syncopation.

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[Camphy]

Haydn, Die Schöpfung:

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[SimonNZ]

Now after no. 1 and no. 7, I'm on to no. 2!

My first Mahler 2, bought in the 70ies on LP! 

And my first Mahler anything was Solti's No.1 - a secondhand cassette tape, circa 1989

[otare]

Felix Weingartner - Symphony nr. 1:



Strauss and Mahler were conductors, and they wrote wonderful music, so why not Weingartner? Since JPC had the whole series on sale for 2,99€ I though - why not try?  I have not been disappointed so far.

[The new erato]

Very virtuosic, pretty dramatic, rhytmically vital, occasional flashes of Scriabin and Prokofiev:

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Stunning playing by Hamelin, pretty clangy sound, very interesting but not particularly ingratiating. Disc 2 today, did the first yesterday.

[Que]

Just in:

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What drew me in was the combination of Sara Mingardo, Gemma Bertagnoli and Andea Coen at the organ.
And of course I love Alessandro Scarlatti. It doesn't dissapoint so far!

Q