What are you listening to now?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Listening to

Fugue for Thought's podcast with Gurn Blanston.

http://fugueforthought.podbean.com/

[SimonNZ]

His 6th what? (I am interested to know.)

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playing now:



Messiaen's La nativité du seigneur - Jennifer Bate, organ

[Madiel]

First listen: Schumann, 'Zwickau' Symphony

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EDIT: There's definitely a fair bit of Beethoven influence in there, at least in this recording.

[anothername]

Georg Solti conducts: Strauss- Der Rosenkavalier.

[Madiel]

Schubert, Moments Musicaux, Brendel

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The Moments Musicaux are the one thing in this collection I already have a recording of, with Andras Schiff playing. I've always struggled a bit with that particular Schiff recording, feeling that it lacked energy or presence. I like the Brendel better already.

Looking forward to the rest of the set.

[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky Jeu de cartes, Kegel conducting the RSO Leipzig




Sarge

[Madiel]

Nielsen, Symphony No.1

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Great stuff. And very extensive essays in the booklet for this box.

I can well understand why, in the age of late Romanticism, the first reviewers were struck by the "breathlessness" of Nielsen's music. There's no wallowing and lingering here.

[andolink]

Anthonello de Caserta, et. al.

[Mister Sharpe]

Koechlin's Sur les flots lointains, comes in two packages, for strings or small orchestra :

[zamyrabyrd]

Georg Solti conducts: Strauss- Der Rosenkavalier.

How interesting! I would never associate Crespin with the Marschallin but the reviews are very good. She has more of a mezzo quality and the Fach if this role is very high. I would really like to hear this recording. Thanks for posting.

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen, Symphony No.1

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Great stuff. And very extensive essays in the booklet for this box.

I can well understand why, in the age of late Romanticism, the first reviewers were struck by the "breathlessness" of Nielsen's music. There's no wallowing and lingering here.

Splendid.

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty . . . the accompaniment to (variously) a composed percussion solo, and to a quartet of winds in guided improvisation:

http://www.youtube.com/v/dcofMh91_7M

[Sergeant Rock]

Delius Appalachia, Barbirolli conducting the Hallé




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

I can well understand why, in the age of late Romanticism, the first reviewers were struck by the "breathlessness" of Nielsen's music. There's no wallowing and lingering here.

And this is a quality that was prominent not only in his music, but his own life as well. As I said in another thread, the guy never stopped. He always was on a forward-looking path.

Thread duty:



Listening to Apollo. Really gorgeous work.

[bhodges]

Still replaying (in my head) two quite different versions of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, heard just 5 days apart: first with Vladimir Jurowski and the New York Philharmonic, and then with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both excellent, but I give Jurowski the win by a hair: an "on fire" reading, with unexpected emphasis on the score's flashes of Stravinsky.

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the whole disc. Abbado's mastery of Mussorgsky's idiom is quite apparent from the beginning.

[Sergeant Rock]

Delius In a Summer Garden, Barbirolli conducting the Hallé




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Shostakovich - Jazz Suites (Chailly, Concertgebouw)

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[Mirror Image]

Good afternoon all,

Shostakovich - Jazz Suites (Chailly, Concertgebouw)

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Great stuff.

[Papy Oli]

Great stuff.

yup, I had forgotten how much fun this one was. I'll re-line up the Dance Album next again