What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

In each movement he starts at the beginning and proceeds to the end.

Usually the best way of playing a movement!

I have those... I think you would do well with Barenboim (closest to Chailly of those, not surprisingly, but still more brawny) and, yes, Odense. They are very different than any of those. I wonder if the Rattle-Berlin recordings might be a bit in the sleek direction the Odense Orchestra is taking Schumann... they might be, if that former combo were to play Schumann like they play there Brahms. (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/03/dip-your-ears-no-100.html). Alas, I've not heard them yet.

Thanks - just listened (streaming) to Odense's Schumann No. 1 and it really is a ton of fun! Will happily try the rest this week, although I do see they chose the inferior (to my ears) later version of No. 4...have a hunch that their chosen performing style will make it work in the way that the more concise original version works.

[Mandryka]

Usually the best way of playing a movement!

Yes it took me a long time to arrive at a sentence with such perfect poetic concision and undeniable verisimilitude.

[Brian]

After happily blitzing through the awesome Gaudenz/Odense Schumann 1, 4, and 3 (thanks, Jens!), I'm now checking out more Gaudenz recordings.



Some interesting fashion choices by both of them, in that photo.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6 "Det himmelrivende" (The Heaven-Rending), BVN 165. Awesome work!

[aligreto]

Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings....

[Brian]

Some interesting fashion choices by both of them, in that photo.

Well, this is really good! Jens, give it a try.

Cadenzas
20
Beethoven (i)
Zacharias (iii)
21
Lipatti (both)

[Todd]

[aligreto]

Gesualdo: Responses for Holy Saturday [A Sei Voci]....





I really like the dissonances in Gesualdo's music.

[André]

Handel: Chandos Anthem # 10, "The Lord is my Light". Sir David Willcocks, ASMIF, Choir of King's College, Cambridge. April Cantelo, Ian Partridge.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6 "Det himmelrivende" (The Heaven-Rending), BVN 165. Awesome work!

Listening to this work again. It's just that good.

[aligreto]

Haydn: Symphony No. 46 [Goodman]....

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Grieg's Holberg Suite - Paavo Jarvi, cond.

[Que]

Love that recording. 

Q

[Mirror Image]

Now:





Listening to The Light That Fills The World. One of the things I love about JLA's idiom is how it reflects nature and seems to be about some kind of transcendence or trying to get beyond what we see in the mountains, oceans, and skies. Music that's suspended in time.

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

Now:



I'm playing through the whole recording. Exquisite music.

[Todd]

[amw]

Brooklyn Rider plays two rather desultory pieces of imitation pop music and an absolutely breathtaking performance of Op. 131—fully the equal of Juilliard '60 and very, very few others. Would be nice if their taste in contemporary music was as good as their taste in Beethoven, but I'm not gonna wait around, lmao.

[SimonNZ]

Jean Richafort's Requiem in memoriam Josquin Desprez - Paul Van Nevel, cond.

[jlaurson]

Current listens...


Vivaldi, Bassoon Concertos
Gustavo Núñez, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Pentatone
German link - UK link