What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Dvořák
String Sextet in A major, B. 80 (Op. 48, 1878)
Josef Kluson (va), Michal Kaňka (vc), Panocha Quartet
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[Karl Henning]

Dvořák
String Sextet in A major, B. 80 (Op. 48, 1878)
Josef Kluson (va), Michal Kaňka (vc), Panocha Quartet

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Well, I'll bet that's a beauty.

(* wonders why he hasn't listened to this one yet *)

[North Star]

Well, I'll bet that's a beauty.

(* wonders why he hasn't listened to this one yet *)

It sure is, Karl!

Heck, even this is pretty damn enjoyable so far.

Dvořák
Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 5 (B. 28, 1872, rev. 1887)
Jan Panenka & Panocha Quartet

[Ghost Sonata]

Well, I'll bet that's a beauty.

(* wonders why he hasn't listened to this one yet *)

'cause you ain't got time for that, mister; you have a great symphony to write - and it's extry-extraordinary so far. So get back to work. (Please.)

[Karl Henning]

'cause you ain't got time for that, mister; you have a great symphony to write - and it's extry-extraordinary so far. So get back to work.

I thank you!

I did start sketching the second movement this morning.

[Madiel]

Beethoven, piano sonatas 14 (op.27/2) and 18 (op.31/3).

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I think it's easy to forget just how strange op.27/2, the infamous "Moonlight", actually is. An almost completely static first movement and a great big dramatic sonata form finale. As a structure it's totally screwy.

[Ghost Sonata]

I ordered several of these Membran conductor boxes with some timorousness.  But am pleased with most of the recordings in them.  For those who like their Sibelius lean (but by no means mean); Beecham brings a remarkable clarity and precision to the 2nd in this 1946/7 recording with no loss of drama and excitement.  "Meticulous over the marking of parts," New Grove sez about him and you can hear it here.  Little wonder he's one of the true greats. The Tapiola recording, also from '46, that follows, I know is going to be one of my two or three hands-down favorites, thoroughly recommended.

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[Madiel]

Vine, Symphony 4.2

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A good work, made better by the cool title.

Having listened to all the works in this set again in the last couple of weeks, I find a lot of worthwhile things in Symphonies 1, 2, 3 and 4.2. But I find no.5 downright disappointing and no.6 relatively weak.

[Florestan]

Beethoven, piano sonatas 14 (op.27/2) and 18 (op.31/3).

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I think it's easy to forget just how strange op.27/2, the infamous "Moonlight", actually is. An almost completely static first movement and a great big dramatic sonata form finale. As a structure it's totally screwy.

Yes, he's known for not caring a damn about miserable little structures when the muse visited him. 

[North Star]

Dvořák
Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23 (B. 53, 1875)
  Josef Koďousek (va) & Suk Trio
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 (B. 155, 1887)
  Jan Panenka & Panocha Quartet
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[Madiel]

Now streaming: Sibelius, Sandels op.28

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

What sound on this baby from 1949!!!


#morninglistening to #ClaudioArrau on @sony_classical in #Debussy

#Images pour piano & #E... http://ift.tt/2fgu4aX



#morninglistening to #Haydn w/@GoldmundQuartet on @NaxosRecords in early, middle, and late... http://ift.tt/2f9VkIT

[aligreto]

Beni Mora [Oriental Suite]
St. Paul's Suite
Hymns from the Rig Veda - 2nd Group
Ode to Death

[Mandryka]

What sound on this baby from 1949!!!


#morninglistening to #ClaudioArrau on @sony_classical in #Debussy

#Images pour piano & #E... http://ift.tt/2fgu4aX

Yes impressive transfer, much better than the one I had before,  and if you're interested in Arrau's development an interesting recording. I'm not very familiar with what people have made of estampes, I should like to know more about it,  and  what he does sounds very provocative to me.

[Karl Henning]

Beni Mora [Oriental Suite]
St. Paul's Suite
Hymns from the Rig Veda - 2nd Group
Ode to Death

So here's the question:  Are all the Rig Veda Hymns in this Collector's Edition?

(That could be the cruncher for me . . . .)

[ritter]

Some Mahler (of documentary value above all IMHO, but certainly not devoid of interest):

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[aligreto]

Takemitsu: - Visions for Orchestra [Wakasugi]....





I was undecided about this work when I initially heard it first but I put it aside for a couple of hours and then went back to it again. It was definitely more appealing on second listen.

[aligreto]

So here's the question:  Are all the Rig Veda Hymns in this Collector's Edition?

(That could be the cruncher for me . . . .)

List of contents only include 2nd Group & 4th Group....

[Ghost Sonata]

   

I just put that on too!! 

https://youtu.be/Eg7WsTuxMSQ

Sibelius thought of Karajan as "the only one who truly understands my work."

[North Star]

Brahms
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53*
Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Nänie, Op. 82
Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89
Ewa Wolak*
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra
Antoni Wit
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