What are you listening to now?

[NikF]

Chopin: Polonaises - Pollini.

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[ritter]

More Brazilian stuff:

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[North Star]

G'day, all!

Revisiting this set yesterday and today:

Villa-Lobos
Chôros Nos. 1-11
Introduction to the Chôros
São Paulo Symphony
John Neschling
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[kishnevi]

I liked the brief work written for somebody's wedding; it was sweet. But yeah, the violin concerto is the major work there.

Evermore:  it was written for Ms. Bachmann and her groom, Mr. Gosling, who is the pianist in this recording.

TD

Quincy Porter

String Quartets 5-8

Ives String Quartet
(another Naxos CD)

Just started, so I am only 2 movements in, but like what I hear so far.

[ritter]

G'day, all!

Revisiting this set yesterday and today:

Villa-Lobos
Chôros Nos. 1-11
Introduction to the Chôros
São Paulo Symphony
John Neschling
[asin]B002EP8U6K[/asin]

Good day to you, Karlo!

I hope (for my wallet's sake) this revisit doesn't change your apprecaition of the works or the perfomances 

[North Star]

Good day to you, Karlo!

I hope (for my wallet's sake) this revisit doesn't change your apprecaition of the works or the perfomances 

I don't think I would have listened to all umpteen works if it did. 
I'm not entirely sure if  your wallet can be exonerated because of this, though, Rafael.

[aligreto]

Yeah, my order was triggered by that same mention, and it made me curious, even more so as I don't have any good recent recordings (I have the Grubert/Cherny one and find it pretty dull overall ... good piano, bad violin - if anyone wants it, I guess I pass it on for shipping costs).

Very often, for chamber music, I love old recordings ... those two Casals boxes on Music&Arts, Szymon Goldberg, the Heifetz/Piatigorsky recordings with and without Rubinstin (and of course the Heifetz/Feuerman/Rubinstein recordings), Rubinstein with Szeryng and Fournier, Fournier with Schnabel, Szgeti with Horszowski or Arrau ... you get the idea. Not quite sure what it is, but I hear things in these old recordings that more recent ones don't offer, and I guess I tend to prefer those things. But that's all too generalized of course, more like a general tendency, as I've got plenty of HIP chamber music, too, that I love (I guess that, really, is the general tendency: old or more recent/hip, not more recent/trad, or rarely so).

Thank you for that; it was an interesting read 

[aligreto]

Mouton: Pieces de Luth....

[Brian]

The main brass motif in the Violin Concerto reminds me strongly of Franck's Prelude, chorale, et fugue. Iscariot has some great moments, but I'm not wild about the Clarinet Concerto or the (very slow, somber) First Symphony. The symphony uses the DSCH motif and is closer to "modern Nordic" music than I expected, even without making any stupid/place-ist assumptions about a Stockholm orchestra's involvement.

[Brian]

(very slow, somber) First Symphony. The symphony uses the DSCH motif and is closer to "modern Nordic" music than I expected, even without making any stupid/place-ist assumptions about a Stockholm orchestra's involvement.

Update: the last 5-6 minutes of the First Symphony are really incredible. Love that, wish it was its own piece almost, it's some of the most atmospheric, suspenseful symphonic music of the last 30 years.

[Camphy]

Symphony 6

[Todd]

[North Star]

Ravel
Miroirs
Aimard
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[Brian]

3 + 5

Life is good.

[listener]

10 part-songs by each of Richard STRAUSS and Max REGER
Die Singphoniker
and PIZZETTI (Piano Concerto) Canti dela stagione alta    Cabiria film music

[king ubu]

first impression: this is so good, it may quickly turn into a favourite!

[Drasko]

https://www.youtube.com/v/0AxvCRKGIbI

[Que]

first impression: this is so good, it may quickly turn into a favourite!

Well, since it features Roberta Invernizzi, why isn't that a surprise? 

Q

[Drasko]

https://www.youtube.com/v/LX8VB9nBM3c

https://www.youtube.com/v/o5K3Aea-s0k

[aligreto]

Walton: Violin Concerto played by Heifetz....