What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

Trying this out for a first listen:



not a struggle  0:)

[North Star]

Trying this out for a first listen:

not a struggle  0:)

Whew, you really had me worried there, Brian! 

[Mandryka]

Ross Wood etc play a requiem by Pierre Manchicourt. This is my first experience of this composer, who I just stumbled across via spotify. Once I started to listen I couldn't stop, because the music is so rich melodically, rhythmically and contrapuntally. It is maybe to sensual to be an enduring favourite for me, but nevertheless I shall have to get to know this composer better - if anyone knows anything good to listen to please let me know.

[Brian]

William Bolcom's Canciones de Lorca is another major work from Bolcom, written in collaboration with Placido Domingo, who personally chose 4 of the 7 Lorca poems used in the cycle. (Bolcom chose the other 3.) True, Rene Barbera isn't exactly Domingo - there's a "saminess" to his tone, like either he or Bolcom doesn't believe in dynamic adjustments - but his voice is a beautiful one, and the music is terrific. There is stuff from all of Bolcom's range: the musical language reflects the poetry, from the gloomy "casada infiel" (cheating housewife) to the cheeky, dance-y habanera finale.

In other words, the only cause for struggle is the missing space in "Carl St.Clair" [sic] on the cover.

I haven't listened to Prometheus, but like Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, it's a chorus-piano-concerto that clocks in at around 20 minutes.

[North Star]

Test-drive Thursdays (this recording)

A couple of minutes into the second movement, first impressions are very positive. 

Rakhmaninov
Symphony no. 2
London Philharmonic
Walter Weller
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[SonicMan46]

Today, some new arrivals in the mail & an MP3 iTunes DL burned to CD-R:

Godard, Benjamin (1849-1895) - Piano Concertos w/ Howard Shelley & the Tasmanians yet again, and the latest volume of Hyperion's The Romantic Piano Concerto series - a PDF file is attached w/ three reviews, all quite positive. Interestingly, Godard was born the same year that Chopin died and then in his mid-40s also died from tuberculosis.

Goldmark, Carl (1830-1915) - String Quartet & Quintet w/ the Haydn Quartett & Rudolf Leopold - purchase prompted by a Jerry Dubins review, which is attached (along w/ several others) - coming up next - I have only one other disc of this composer's works (Piano Quintets on CPO).

Vivaldi, Antonio - Bassoon Concertos, V.4 w/ the wonderful Sergio Azzolini - now have all four volumes (3 & 4 as MP3 downloads) - burned to CD-R and listening at the moment on my den stereo - what can one say, i.e. if you like period Baroque bassoon, then Sergio should please (booklet PDF attached for those interested).  Dave

 

 

[aligreto]

Seconded. I discovered these symphonies earlier this year, on the Naxos recording, and No. 1 is definitely my favourite of the three. Looking forward to hearing more Rawsthorne in the future.

Until recent interaction here on the subject of Rawsthorne I only had two CDs of his work. That has since doubled already with more to come for me. If you have not already heard it I can also recommend this recent purchase of mine if you are interested....

[aligreto]

I spent the afternoon listening to Mozart's Don Giovanni from this Bohm set....

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Listening to Game Of Thrones film music.
https://www.youtube.com/v/d5JqkHuDvr8
Hardhome pt2, I'm hearing Shostakovich creepiness vibes.

[Sergeant Rock]

Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 E minor op.27, Svetlanov conducting the Philharmonia.




Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 E minor op.27, Svetlanov conducting the Philharmonia.




Sarge

So do you agree that it is possibly one of the best?

[Brian]

So do you agree that it is possibly one of the best?

I listened to that and the Svetlanov Warner recording back-to-back. The ICA one is, if anything, too fast for me at times - it does create a rousing finish, but other parts weren't my favorite. I did really like the Warner one.

My favorites are still Previn/LSO, Rozhdestvensky/LSO, and more recently Slatkin and Kitajenko, but the two Svetlanovs are probably in my top 10!

[mc ukrneal]

I listened to that and the Svetlanov Warner recording back-to-back. The ICA one is, if anything, too fast for me at times - it does create a rousing finish, but other parts weren't my favorite. I did really like the Warner one.

My favorites are still Previn/LSO, Rozhdestvensky/LSO, and more recently Slatkin and Kitajenko, but the two Svetlanovs are probably in my top 10!

Have you heard Pletnev/RNO?

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 11 соль минор « 1905-й год », соч. 103 [ Symphony № 11 in g minor, Opus 103 "1905" ] (1956-57)
LSO
Мстислав Леопольдович [ Mstislav Leopoldovich (Rostropovich) ]

[Brian]

Have you heard Pletnev/RNO?

Not yet! It's on DG, right?

[The new erato]

Ross Wood etc play a requiem by Pierre Manchicourt. This is my first experience of this composer, who I just stumbled across via spotify. Once I started to listen I couldn't stop, because the music is so rich melodically, rhythmically and contrapuntally. It is maybe to sensual to be an enduring favourite for me, but nevertheless I shall have to get to know this composer better - if anyone knows anything good to listen to please let me know.

I seem to remember that there is a Manchicourt disc in the "Secret Labyrinth" box by Huelgas/Nevel.

[mc ukrneal]

Not yet! It's on DG, right?

Yes

[Mandryka]

I seem to remember that there is a Manchicourt disc in the "Secret Labyrinth" box by Huelgas/Nevel.

Yes I noticed that, and anything Nevel does is going to be interesting. In fact I've just ordered a Manchicourt disc by the Brabant Ensemble, really because I really like the sound they make - quite high, women and men, small, well balanced. I have their recording of Gombert motets and I think it's wonderful.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Very nice.  Hope you love that incredible 3rd movement Romanza.

Love the kitty avatar btw. 

I loved that movement especially. And thank you! That's my cat. :3

[North Star]

Hindemith
Kammermusik
Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Chailly
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