What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Delighted for you, mijn vriend!

[amw]

I have been listening to a lot of late Beethoven quartets lately and hesitate to report yet another one but the Busch Quartet box is honestly really great and everyone should check it out.

Op. 131 at the moment

[San Antone]

Pierre Boulez Conducts Schoenberg



Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, string sextet



Verklärte Nacht was controversial at its 1902 premiere. This was due to the highly advanced harmonic idiom, although Schoenberg did receive praise for his inventiveness.  The work does employ a richly chromatic language and often ventures far from the home key, though the work is clearly rooted in D minor. A particular point of controversy was the use of a single 'nonexistent' (that is, uncategorized and therefore unpermitted) inverted ninth chord, which resulted in its rejection by the Vienna Music Society. Schoenberg remarked "and thus (the work) cannot be performed since one cannot perform that which does not exist".

[NikF]

Sauget: Complete Music for Guitar - Baschiera.

[asin]B018LPLA86[/asin]

[Sergeant Rock]

Webern, Karajan, Berlin




Sarge

[amw]

I have been listening to a lot of late Beethoven quartets lately and hesitate to report yet another one but the Busch Quartet box is honestly really great and everyone should check it out.

Op. 131 at the moment

Now Op. 132.

Probably the first really slow Heiliger Dankgesang committed to record and definitely a good one. I'd take it in preference to QI or Guarneris. Also, still (as far as I can tell) the fastest performance of the finale ever.

[Madiel]

This evening...

Holmboe, Primavera.

[asin]B0054RVSRS[/asin]

One of the Beethoven works I really enjoy, the String Quintet op.29

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First listen to Dvorak's Te Deum. Surprisingly noisy at times!

[asin]B00ZE5M946[/asin]

[Harry]

More or less a new acquisition from a long time ago. Found somewhere in one of the big piles in my listening room.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/09/simonsen-rudolph-1889-1947-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[Madiel]

First listen to Missa in angustiis, aka the "Nelson Mass".

[asin]B002IVRBBU[/asin]

Wow. This one, with its minor key and the somewhat unusual scoring that was forced upon Haydn because the wind players had been fired, is making an immediate impression.

[Florestan]

The Perfect Fool op. 39 H150

Andre Previn, London SO

[Brian]

Look what popped up on NML...



My playlist:

Liszt - Les Preludes
*Egk - Franzosische Suite nach Rameau
*R. Liebermann - Suite Uber Sechs Schweizerische volkslieder
Hartmann - Symphony No 6
Kodaly - Dances of Galanta

First listens to all recordings and to *two of the works. First listen to anything by Egk.

[Mirror Image]

Webern, Karajan, Berlin




Sarge

For me, this is still one of the greatest Webern recordings. Marvelous performances.

[Drasko]

[Mahlerian]

Schoenberg: String Trio, Op. 45
75% of the Juilliard String Quartet


Berio: Sinfonia
London Voices, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, cond. Eotvos

[anothername]

Angela Hewitt ; Schumann.

[NikF]

Takemitsu: Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 1 - Shin-ichi Fukuda.

[asin]B00IO56T76[/asin]

[Sergeant Rock]

For me, this is still one of the greatest Webern recordings. Marvelous performances.

Indeed...and it shows how beautiful Webern can be. I do, though, prefer Levine/Berlin in the Op.6, especially his very slow, overwhelmingly intense funeral march.

Sarge

[San Antone]

3 Pieces for Orchestra

[Brian]

Takemitsu: Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 1 - Shin-ichi Fukuda.

I loved this CD, hope you do too. The exquisite Beatles arrangements are the cherry on top.

[NikF]

I loved this CD, hope you do too. The exquisite Beatles arrangements are the cherry on top.

I do, yes. And I think it was you who pointed out to me that there's a second volume which I subsequently bought. I keep meaning to buy some of Takemitsu's other output, his chamber music or orchestral works. Are you familiar with either of those?