What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

I dont think there is anybody else here listening to Vaclav Tomasek. 

In that you are mistaken. 

[aligreto]

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 [Mackerras]....





This is grand, sweeping performance. The brass sounds great throughout.

[aligreto]

Looks interesting Toccata&Fugue

TD: disc 2



Lots of musical inventivness.  I will pursue my Caldara exploration

Excellent. I look forward to some recommendations 

[aligreto]

Atterberg: Symphony for strings, op. 53

Camerata Nordica, Ulf Wallin

What a beautiful work! It's like the 'Cinderella' among his symphonies.

That is a recent purchase of mine. It is in the listening queue, possibly tonight 

[aligreto]

And again:

https://www.youtube.com/v/x025Jli-rbA

Aw, I'm flattered.

I like that piece 

[Karl Henning]

I quipped initially that it must have been done by the girlfriend of one of the artists.

Then I asked. It was made by the girlfriend of one of the artists! 

You're clairvoyant!

[Karl Henning]

I like that piece 

Good!  I do, too (which is why I went back to listen again)  0:)

[Spineur]

Véronique Gens has a new album coming on the alpha label in june entitled "Visions"

[Drasko]

I quipped initially that it must have been done by the girlfriend of one of the artists.

Then I asked. It was made by the girlfriend of one of the artists! 

Nepotism, guarantee of quality since Borgias.

[Que]

Love that! 

Q

[aligreto]

Boccherini: Cello Concertos Nos. 7 & 8 [played by Bronzi]....

[Mahlerian]

I like that piece 

Many thanks to you as well.

[Todd]

Alexander Uninsky won the second International Chopin Competition, so one would hope he knows how to play Chopin.  On the evidence of this set of Mazurkas, he does, but the results are a bit mixed.  The first thing of note is that Uninsky likes to play fast, perhaps too fast at times, especially in the earlier works.  There also seems to be something of a recording date effect, whereby the 1959-61 recordings tend to be faster than the 1971 recordings.  The playing is quite literal much of the time, and while there is some personal rubato, this is not a set for people who like highly individual playing.  To be sure, some of the later, more famous Mazurkas sound quite good, and Uninsky's rare and discreet vocalization seems to indicate the ones he really likes.  The Berceuse is lovely but quick, and the Impromptus are just way too fast for my taste. 

[aligreto]

Rautavaara: Song of Our Time [Nuoranne]....





A wonderful, atmospheric work creating suggestive images of what I imagine certain Finnish scenes would be like and superimposing them onto words by Lorca.

[TheGSMoeller]

Rautavaara: Song of Our Time [Nuoranne]....





A wonderful, atmospheric work creating suggestive images of what I imagine certain Finnish scenes would be like and superimposing them onto words by Lorca.

Im intrigued, aligreto. Rautavaara is a composer I've been exploring the past year, and I've really grown appreciative of his compositional style. I was just listening to his 2nd Cello Concerto: Towards The Horizon yesterday, wonderfully atmospheric as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"
Rozhdestvensky/London Symphony Orchestra

Time to fall in love with this piece, which it seems I've actually grown away from caring about. I'm a big admirer of Bernstein's slooooooooowwwwww performance with NYP on DG, but never really explored much outside of it. Tchaikovsky is a composer who's music I never had an urge for, but starting to feel as if I'm missing out on something.
This recording of Rozhdestvensky/LSO might not be the one to help me turn the corner, but it was sent to me by accident by an Amazon MP seller, so I'm starting with it. Where should I go next??? 

[Florestan]

Love that! 

Q

It is absolutely wonderful! A peach and a winner! I didn't quite expect to be able to listen to 3-CD worth of solo recorder music in a row, but after listening to the first 2 CD I can hardly wait to finish the set tomorrow. And I also can hardly wait to listen to the complete, 9-CD set  by Dan Laurin, which I also have:



(Already did a comparison for Engels Nachtegaeltje --- a mindblowing piece --- and found Bosgraaf better by a slight margin.)

If only I could play the recorder a tenth as well as these guys --- I actually own two soprano recorders and every now and then I play one and my 4-year son the other: uneducated improvisations all along, of course, but not unpleasant to the ear; how much more interesting and fun it'd be if played properly... sigh.

[Florestan]

Sexy breeches, but I'd have prefered her to wear them! 

[Florestan]

Nepotism, guarantee of quality since Borgias.

Good one! 

[aligreto]

Atterberg: Symphony for strings, op. 53

Camerata Nordica, Ulf Wallin

What a beautiful work! It's like the 'Cinderella' among his symphonies.

So, a first listen to this work for me tonight.
I both agree and disagree with you 
I agree that the Sinfonia per archi was a beautiful. It was a very interesting work with an interesting musical language. The movements are varied and contain wonderful, appealing and contrasting moods and tones.
I respectfully disagree with the 'Cinderella' comment simply because I was quite taken with his symphonies [with the exception of his last one]