What are you listening to now?

[HIPster]

Utterly gorgeous seasonal music ~

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A very favorable impression of the Aeolus label!  Stunning recording. 

Hat tip toward Que for pointing me in this label's direction with a post here, in another thread. 

[aligreto]

Atterberg: Symphony No. 9 [Rasilainen]....





This symphony is a departure from the previous eight in that it calls for voices, two soloists and a choir. For me, the other significant difference is the musical language which has greatly evolved from that in his previous works and which I find difficult to come to terms with on first hearing. This one definitely calls for further scrutiny.

However, what an amazing and wonderful musical journey this has been.

[aligreto]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4. Mravinsky/Leningrad. Desert Island Disc for me (for all 3). No one does the last movement of this work like Mravinsky does - furious and riveting.

A great set that 

[Todd]

Cymbeline Suite, Fruhlingsbegrabnis, Ein Tanzpoem.

[SonicMan46]

My post from yesterday quoted below - already 5 pages behind!   

Finishing up my newest acquisition, i.e. the first set below left - boy this group is good and will likely order the other set of Violin Sonatas - Dave

Boy - have not been posting here recently - kind of 'hooked on' NPR (our local WFDD radio channel) the last few months - but new arrival below - listening over a couple of days:

Locatelli, Pietro (1695-1764) - Concerti Grossi, Op. 1, 4, & 7 w/ Igor Ruhadze/Ensemble Violini Capricciosi (new recordings from 2013/2014) - period instruments and practices - excellent recordings so far (through 4 of 6 discs) - now, I do not own the Vol. 2 recordings from this group - any comments?  Thanks -   Dave

 

[Ken B]

FWIW, I like these much better than any of the Symphonies, proper.

+1
The petites are fun and lively. They are worm-holes to the underworld through which the will live is sucked from listeners.

[Drasko]

[Todd]

Death and the Maiden.

[Que]

Nice!  and long time OOP I guess...
Does the complete series cover the same repertoire as the Ligia set?

Q

[aligreto]

Larsson: Symphony No. 1 [Frank]....





I am relatively familiar with the smaller orchestral works of Larsson but this is the first time that I have heard his Symphony No. 1. In it I found that he does not deviate from the musical language and sound world that I know and like. I enjoyed the journey through this lyrical work.

[SimonNZ]

CPE Bach Symphonies - Ludger Remy, cond.

[The new erato]

Very fine music and performances:

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[Drasko]

Nice!  and long time OOP I guess...
Does the complete series cover the same repertoire as the Ligia set?

Q

Mostly OOP. Requiem is in print, Te Deum and Lamentations out, even though they were at one time reissued on Accord (I have Lamentations on Accord).

As I can see it's mostly but not completely the same repertoire. Both include Requiem, Te Deum, Lamentations and Diligam Te Domine Grand Motet but Ligia has Mass in D and one Grand Motet that Niquet doesn't have and Niquet has two Grand Motets that Ligia doesn't.

[Madiel]

Brahms, Piano Concerto No.1

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If I've ever heard the work before, it's not for a very long time, and certainly not within the period where I would be interested in a concerto on this scale.

Wow. The booklet for this recording says Brahms' concertos were derisively dismissed as symphonies with piano obbligato. But these days that ain't a criticism, that's an asset. The vast opening movement is certainly working for me so far.

[Spineur]

Tchaikovsky piano trio Op. 50

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[Harry]

Very fine music and performances:

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Yep! Played that same CD today and came to the same conclusion. 

[Monsieur Croche]

FWIW, I like these [Darius Milhaud ~ Six Petites Symphonies] much better than any of the Symphonies, proper.

(FWIW = "that, and the fare get you on the bus." lol) it seems often enough we are agreed in some tastes and preferences, as here.


Happy Thanksgiving, man.

[Mahlerian]

Stravinsky: Anthem, Threni, Requiem Canticles, Da pacem Domine
Collegium Vocale Ghent, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, cond. Herreweghe


Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat "Harp," String Quartet No. 15 in A minor
Alban Berg Quartet

[Monsieur Croche]

Prokofiev, the complete extracted suites of dances from his ballet Cinderella for piano, Op. 95, 97, 102[/b] -- with scores.
Boris Berman, piano.
https://www.youtube.com/v/lXOPvvDVcu4

Berman also recorded
Prokofiev ~ Visions Fugitives, Op.22, 20 masterly miniatures
https://www.youtube.com/v/P2nbszrB2L4

[Monsieur Croche]

Stravinsky: Threni
Collegium Vocale Ghent, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, cond. Herreweghe

Is this satisfying your former yearning for a much better performance of Threni than the rough-edged (and fomerly only) Columbia recording?