What are you listening to now?

[nodogen]

Takemitsu
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Spirit Garden - Orchestral Works - Double CD

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[kishnevi]

It's in my cart ! Could take a few weeks before I place another order though (should I have inserted an Oxford comma here ?  ). Must clean the slate before ordering. I hate to pay interest on my credit card  .

Make sure to get the whole kit and kaboodle
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TD
Spending the afternoon with Strauss's Rosenkavalier, via the Solti recording.

[Todd]

Mehta's Berlin take on Ein Heldenleben is weighty and lush and he doesn't even try to generate the same type of excitement and unrestrained forward thrust as someone like Reiner.  That's just fine.  This is a sumptuous aural feast, with ample detail to capture one's attention.  The Hero's Companion sounds languid and tender and beautiful in the best superficial Straussian way.  This is not perhaps the best version available, but it is an exceptionally fine one.  The second Horn Concerto is predictably well done.  The main work is live and the concerto is studio, and both are from the early 90s and in weightier, richer, more properly balanced sound than the earlier recordings in the set.

Mehta's way with Heldenleben makes me think he might deliver some Wagner to my liking.  There's a DVD version of Tristan which might be nice, but the 1972 live take with Nilsson in the lead, OOP and expensive, is the one I want.  Of course.  His Ring might have some good stuff, too.  I'm thinking Act I of Die Walkure and pretty much all of Siegfried.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
Hamlet, Op.77
(missing the singers' names!)
Russian State Symphony
Polyansky

Symphony № 4 (revised), Op.112
Orchestre National de France
Slava

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen
Prelude to Act II of Saul & David
RDNSO
Dausgaard

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen
Paraphrase on "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Royal Liverpool Phil
Bostock

[Karl Henning]

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

[Maestro267]

Fancying a bit of lugubrious B minor this evening, so:

Gliére: Symphony No. 3 ("Il'ya Muromets")
Czecho-Slovak RSO/Johanos

[Todd]

[Mahlerian]

Takemitsu
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Spirit Garden - Orchestral Works - Double CD

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I generally don't like giving recommendations, because I hate the idea of someone going away disappointed and unhappy, but I felt very safe with this one.  Glad you liked it!

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Chorus, cond. Klemperer
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Takemitsu: Air
Hiroshi Koizumi

[Karl Henning]

Rakhmaninov
Symphony № 3 in a minor, Op.44
Royal Liverpool Phil
Mackerras

[Ken B]

Spohr
Symphonies 3 and 6

[HIPster]

A friend caught this group live in concert recently and purchased this recording for me:

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Most excellent. 

Informative and interesting liner notes, help to explain the music.

Voices sound very beautiful, with superb instrumental accompaniment (when called for).

Sound is vivid and up-front in presentation.

[nodogen]

I generally don't like giving recommendations, because I hate the idea of someone going away disappointed and unhappy, but I felt very safe with this one.  Glad you liked it!

I know what you mean, but I trust your judgment. Thanks again; only played one disc so far (the 2nd!) and it's really...iridescent...

[PerfectWagnerite]

It doesn't mutter a bit!! I prefer a painting or a nice landscape,myself;but the performances on the cds are a delight. The accompanying booklet,the inside and rear of the digi-pak style case (which folds out by the way) brings the total of photos to fifteen,I think? And the one on the front,Sixteen! If you count the inclusion of reproductions of four other Mutter cd's,it's actually a grand total of twenty! That's a lotta Mutter!!

Now that I think about it it is pretty inexcusable that they left out Bashmet on the CD cover, especially when the standard Youtube video clearly gives credit to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDCug495CF8.

And it isn't like it is a no-name violist either, we are talking about Yuri Bashmet here. But it is nowhere as good as the newer one because the violist Bruno Giuranna sounds hard and unfocused on this recording, nowhere near as muscular and smooth as Bashmet.

Mutter must love this work as she already has an earlier recording here:

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[Ken B]

Falla
El Amor Brujo

[HIPster]

Just finished ~

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Big thanks to Sonic Dave for the recommendation! 

Now playing ~

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[listener]

The 3-cd set of Ronald STEVENSON transcriptions and fantasies
if they weren't so interesting I would do just one disc
played by Murray McLachan

[TheGSMoeller]

Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony from this disc...

[Ken B]

Silvestrov
Symphony 5

Hmm. This reminds me of something, but I cannot quite pin it down. Pettersson on qualudes

On to

Rybnikov
Symphony 6
World Premiere recording with Gergiev

Now this is more like it.