What are you listening to now?

[NikF]

Brahms: Fantasias, Op.116 - Gilels.

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[Todd]

Disc 2.

[Brian]

First ever listen to the Brahms Requiem. Yes, really.

[Karl Henning]

First ever listen to the Brahms Requiem. Yes, really.

Well, I await your report 

[aligreto]

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 2 [Svetlanov]....

[(poco) Sforzando]

Well, I await your report 

It is to die for.

[Karl Henning]

It is to die for.

Denn alles Fleisch ist wie Gras . . . .

[(poco) Sforzando]

Denn alles Fleisch ist wie Gras . . . .

What an awesome movement that is. As a side note, I remember when going through all the Bach cantatas that Brahms seems to have been inspired by one of them (perhaps 22, or 27 - I'd have to check) when writing this piece.

Don't know the Blomstedt version and would be interested in hearing a report. He's a very sound, reliable conductor in all I've heard from him. But I've always thought of Klemperer as the accepted gold standard in this work.

[Brahmsian]

Denn alles Fleisch ist wie Gras . . . .

My favourite movement of the splendid Op. 45 

[NikF]

Sibelius: String Quartet Op. 56, Grieg: String Quartet Op. 27 - New Helsinki Quartet.

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[aligreto]

Locatelli: Violin Sonatas Op. 6 Nos. 1-4 from this set....

[aligreto]

Elgar: Serenade for Strings [Collins]....

[aligreto]

Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso & Songs Without Words Nos. 25, 30 & 34 played by Wilhelm Backhaus....

[NikF]

Schumann: Piano Quartet Op.47 - Gould/Juilliard Quartet.

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[Mandryka]

Kenneth Weiss plays Well Tempered Clavier 2. It's full of small scale ideas about voicing and rhythm. And in terms of high level conception it's fast and unemotional.

[Todd]

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Cello Concerto played by Du Pré....

[The new erato]

I just love it when an artist cares more about music than about makeup and styling.

[Karl Henning]

I just love it when an artist cares more about music than about makeup and styling.

Don't we all?

[(poco) Sforzando]

What an awesome movement that is. As a side note, I remember when going through all the Bach cantatas that Brahms seems to have been inspired by one of them (perhaps 22, or 27 - I'd have to check) when writing this piece.

Don't know the Blomstedt version and would be interested in hearing a report. He's a very sound, reliable conductor in all I've heard from him. But I've always thought of Klemperer as the accepted gold standard in this work.

Ah, yes. Listen to the opening movement of Bach's Cantata 27, and tell me if you don't hear an ancestor to this chorus from the Brahms Requiem.