What are you listening to now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Magnard Symphony No.3 B flat minor, Thomas Sanderling conducting the Malmö SO




Sarge

[Madiel]

Schubert, Symphony in C, D.944 (to use a relatively non-controversial number).

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[Mister Sharpe]

The Baxman, Symphonies 3 & 4

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[Kontrapunctus]

This recording convinced that digital audio wasn't completely evil.

[Kontrapunctus]

No.41.

[Todd]

Some Soler on the piano.  It sounds closer to Scarlatti than Larrocha's recordings, but that doesn't make the music a Scarlatti knock-off.  The superb late 90s sound reveals Ms Hinrichs to possess a delicate touch and fine rhythmic sense.  I'm very tempted to try her CPO recording of ten more Soler sonatas.

[Kontrapunctus]

Mozart's 24th.

[Spineur]

Pursuing the Beethoven quartets with the 3 Rasumovsky Op59 with the Takacs

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[Zeus]

[NJ Joe]

The whole thing.

[HIPster]

Earlier:

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Now:

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[Todd]

Sinfonia domestica and the Le Bourgeois gentilhomme suite.

[kishnevi]

No.41.

The set that proves doing Mozart correctly  (which Karajan did not do, by modern HIP standards)and doing Mozart superbly  (which he did do) are two entirely different things.

TD
Dvorak Piano Trios 1 and 2 Opp. 21 and 26
Beaux Arts Trio
1969 recordings
CD 47 of the Philips Complete BAT box.

[Ken B]

Schubert
D960 and The Wanderer Fantasy
Brendel, who can do no wrong in Schubert

[Sergeant Rock]

Earlier:

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You've entered the 19th century!...and with Bruckner?    Is this a first or have I simply missed other instances? I think of you as a baroque specialist who also inhabits the Dead zone 

Sarge

[kishnevi]

You've entered the 19th century!...and with Bruckner?    Is this a first or have I simply missed other instances? I think of you as a baroque specialist who also inhabits the Dead zone 

Sarge

But it's HIP Bruckner!

[amw]

Do I need another version of the Brahms String Sextets? Probably not. And yet.



Maybe.

[Mirror Image]

I was going to wait until Sunday, but now playing:



I'm listening to Job only from this recording right now and it's finishing up. I'd say it's a good performance, but it doesn't displace Boult (EMI) or Hickox (EMI). This performance doesn't seem that special or it feels like there's something missing. One of my favorite moments in the whole ballet: Jobs' Dream - Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine, and Battle seems odd. This is where Hickox/Bournemouth is much more ravishing. Jeffrey was right about the powerful organ in Dance of Job's Comforters - Job's Curse - A Vision of Satan, but that's about all this performance has going for it. Everything sounds a bit ho-hum to me and not too involving --- I'd even say it sounds rather lifeless. I'm not sure if it's because I'm tired or what, but I keep asking myself where's the magic at in this performance? I just don't hear it. I wasn't impressed with Andrew Davis' Teldec cycle, I suppose I was being a bit too optimistic about this new recording from him.

[Mirror Image]

Now listening to Job from this recording:



A classic performance. There's really a sense of occasion in the way Boult conducts RVW. It doesn't feel like this is 'just another recording session.' I truly believe he felt every measure of this music. It really makes Andrew Davis' new recording look tepid and simply worn-out by comparison.

[HIPster]

You've entered the 19th century!...and with Bruckner?    Is this a first or have I simply missed other instances? I think of you as a baroque specialist who also inhabits the Dead zone 

Sarge

I know, right?!?! Crazy. 

Ha on the Bruckner (and the 19th century) - for me.  I really like this performance too.

But it's HIP Bruckner!

As Jeffrey Smith notes, it is certainly HIP.  Again, it sounds wonderful to my ears.

Sarge, believe it or not, but I actually have posted listening to Celibadache's Bruckner fourth here previously.  That's my gateway to Bruckner; a favorite recording for me.  Listening to that one is like listening to a Dark Star from 1969 - to be savored.

I am considering the Simone Young Bruckner set, based on reviews here.

Thread duty ~

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Glorious!  Gio review for those in the know.