What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Streaming:

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Did you like it? If so, do listen to the rest of the series. I have them and think that they are wonderful.

[North Star]

I have that one on my List. Nothing wrong with lush but is it lush mush? I have heard nothing of it yet.

The Atterberg 3rd is certainly not mush! Try that recording here.

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

[aligreto]

Thank you; will give it a listen a little later 

[aligreto]

Tveitt: Concerto No. 2 for Hardanger Fiddle -





A very interesting sound world, heavily folk tune based, but that appeals to me. I really liked these two works.

[listener]

morning listen REGER: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart
rather like some good dinners with the host(-ess) offering more and more when you've had enough
HINDEMTH: Syphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Weber
Bavarian Radio Orch.    Colin Davis

[Brian]

Connoisseurs may notice an ad-lib addition to the timpani part in this performance...

http://www.youtube.com/v/-JrkFh5ful8

...among other irregularities.

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/a4v0Wyrf0N4

[bhodges]

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto's Finnish folksong encore, after his Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto performance at the Proms (No. 27, with Helen Grime's "Catterline in Winter" from Two Eardley Pictures and Stravinsky Petrushka, all with Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish SO):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04470vv?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_proms&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=radio_and_music

The whole concert is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5h9w

--Bruce

[Brian]

It came to my attention that Leinsdorf (a) recorded Dvorak once, and (b) recorded the fastest Sixth Symphony ever set down - just 36 minutes (compare: Talich 44, Suitner 41, Jarvi 42). So I need to hear it!

[Que]

I'm experiencing a small Bruckner renaissance at the moment:

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I quite forgot about the existence of  this recording on my shelves.... And it has been been a long time...judging from the dated issue from 1999. It has been reissued since the at least two times.

Anyway, I am enjoying the performance. Though I'm not sure if the slightly sweet and woolly sound of the New Philharmonia Orvhestra is entirely to my liking - I miss the translucent sound of the BRSO and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.... Klemperer doesn't dilly dally and I definitely like that, yet he is surprisingly mellow and rounded.
His approach sounds kind of Mahlerian to me...
A very nice, fascinating performance indeed, but I don't think it me it would represent the ultimate in Bruckner.

Q

[Brian]

It came to my attention that Leinsdorf (a) recorded Dvorak once, and (b) recorded the fastest Sixth Symphony ever set down - just 36 minutes (compare: Talich 44, Suitner 41, Jarvi 42). So I need to hear it!

No cuts - just a headlong race through each movement. There are pretty great, thrilling moments, but overall, the work needs that extra flexibility...

Now trying an unfamiliar recording of my favorite (musically) Tchaikovsky ballet:

[The new erato]

The Goldbergs from this superb set:

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[Cato]

I'm experiencing a small Bruckner renaissance at the moment:

Q

Bruckner always is a renaissance!  0:)

A very nice, fascinating performance indeed, but I don't think ... it would represent the ultimate in Bruckner.

Q

That would be   0:)  Eugen Jochum   0:)  !   

Thanks to Karl Henning:

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[Karl Henning]

Pssst, Brian!

[SonicMan46]

Brescianello, Giuseppe (1690-1758) - Concerti, Sinfonie, Ouverture w/ La Cetra Barockorchester Basel; Vaclav Luks on harpsichord, David Plantier on violin, & Evangelina Mascardi on theorbo (assume that she is in the back row, fourth from right) - great PI performance - recommended by Harry, plus an excellent Fanfare review by Dubins attached - this performance seems to have been re-published and re-licensed several times - Dave

 

[Brian]

Now trying an unfamiliar recording of my favorite (musically) Tchaikovsky ballet:

Is "Adagio a la rose" single best movement from a Tchaikovsky ballet? No clue...but it's my favorite 

[Spineur]

Now trying an unfamiliar recording of my favorite (musically) Tchaikovsky ballet:

Remember: a ballet means dancing.  I love Nureyev version
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I understand that Bolshoi's version is also quite good.

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



2 Versions of Chopin's Piano Sonata #3

Later:



Various works from this box-set (probably Mazurkas and some Nocturnes).

[aligreto]

Finishing this wonderful CD with Mazeppa....

[king ubu]

First spin late last night, second spin ended a few minutes ago:



First impression was: nothing really wrong with it ... second impression is somewhat better, but still unlikely that this will end up being a favourite disc, albeit some of the arias did really get me, this time around.