What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

My afternoon listening choices don't have much in common besides piano greatness.

[aligreto]

Atterberg: Symphony No. 3 [Rasilainen]....





What a wonderful, magical opening, and first movement even! The storm certainly breaks and rages in the second movement with wonderful, evocative scoring for brass and woodwinds. The exciting and mixed sound world continues into the final movement with its magnificent conclusion. A terrific work and performance.

[Madiel]

Haydn, Symphony No.2

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Villa-Lobos, Introduction to the Choros

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[Papy Oli]

Some Mozart overtures :

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[Mister Sharpe]

More Gian Francesco Malipiero.  Good-bye Austro-German symphonic tradition; hello "free kind of poem in several parts which follow one another capriciously, obeying only those mysterious laws that instinct recognizes." [quote of the composer].

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[Ken B]

Very cool Ritter, I was just reading about him and he fascinates me (which is a good start)
I see that he has composed symphonies, string quartets, sonatas and electroacoustic music in his output. I think it will be brilliant to hear his opera too! 
Thanks for the insight, I may be buying something of his 

I met him, and shook his hand.

[Dee Sharp]

Ravel: Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin. Marcelle Meyer. These are my favourite recordings of these works. Highly recommended.

[Ken B]

Bach, Actus Tragicus
Harnoncourt

[Autumn Leaves]

This morning's listening:



Symphonies #5 & 9

Good, good.



Think I prefer Bernstein's DG remake to this version but I still reckon his first cycle is top stuff.

[Ken B]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas 1 and 2
Binns, fortepiano

[Todd]

[André]

I have 5 versions of this symphony under Böhm. This one has the distinction of being his last ever (1978), recorded live  in Zürich's acoustically fabled Tonhalle ("Concert Hall", 1455 seating capacity: the kind of acoustical space originally designed to accommodate Romantic era orchestral works).

The Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra was for many years conducted by Volkmar Andreae (1300 concerts during their partnership, among which many of Bruckner symphonies). They had that music under their skin when Böhm came along. This is the most tense and fastest of Böhm B8 I know of. I still prefer the slower, dogged, mean and biting WP studio recording. But this is next in line, tied with Böhm's 1971 Munich recording (BRSO): different orchestral sonority and acoustics, but equal in all respects.

[André]

Biber violin sonatas with John Holloway. The instrumentarium  (basso continuo) is very rich, the violin playing sonorous, the acousic generous: altogether these "violin sonatas" generate as much sonic richness as a full orchestral consort in, say, the Brandenburg Concertos.

Gorgeous. On ECM.

[Mirror Image]

Atterberg: Symphony No. 3 [Rasilainen]....





What a wonderful, magical opening, and first movement even! The storm certainly breaks and rages in the second movement with wonderful, evocative scoring for brass and woodwinds. The exciting and mixed sound world continues into the final movement with its magnificent conclusion. A terrific work and performance.

Glad you enjoyed this, too, Andre. Great stuff.

[SimonNZ]

Mahler's Symphony No.3 - Simon Rattle, cond.

[anothername]

Colin Davis conducting: Berlioz- Requiem

[NikF]

Brahms: Piano Quintet, Op. 34 - Pollini/Quartetto Italiano.


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[Que]

Morning listening - fresh from the Ligia haul:

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From the XIVth c. Papal Court of Clemens VI in Avignon: a Mass for Assumption Day.

Q

[Autumn Leaves]

Tonight's listening:



Symphonies #1 & 5

Was just rummaging through my collection today looking for Mahler and Shostakovich Discs and I found these 2 which were still in their shrink-wrap, so I got them out and have been listening to them - My verdict is that they are quite nice, if not particularly remarkable. Thought the SQ in both recordings was pretty good but that's all I have to report at this stage. Ill listen to them again in future anyway.



Listening to Barbirolli's 6th.



Listening to Symphony #9 from this one.

[Madiel]

Let's get started on another purchase....

Theme and Variations, op.36

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