What are you listening to now?

[Parsifal]

I've heard the first five so far and my experience has been wholly positive.

Sarge

Cool, I'll start with number one then, maybe tonight.

(I also realized I have Szell's recording of Haydn's infamous 93.)

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Part 10

The first time I listened to this I had to listen to it complete in one go. A wonderful experience although it really is difficult to find the time to do it again.

[TheGSMoeller]

Mysterious Mountain...

[Todd]

Some Messiaen.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

This:



from this:

[SymphonicAddict]

His longer works certainly do leave a lasting impression, even if not listened to often (which I admit). Patterns in a Chromatic Field, Piano And String Quartet and For Philip Guston have all been like:





Both during and after listening 

Great GIF, highly suggestive 

[SymphonicAddict]

Liszt: Fantaisie and Fugue on the chorale: Ad nos, ad salutarum undam....


   

This work is a strong candidate to be my favorite organ piece ever. That gothic soundscape amazes me.

[André]

Disc one: flute, oboe, violin sonatas, wind sextet, bassoon and clarinet sonata, horn, trumpet and trombone sonata.
As always with Poulenc, great music in small packages. Very good liner notes. The list of first performers is a who's who of important players of the time (with Poulenc at the piano). The famous flute sonata's first performance by Rampal and Poulenc happened before an audience of...one person: Artur Rubinstein, who had to leave town before the « official » first performance the next day. Rubinstein was a huge Poulenc fan. What a night this must have been !

[San Antone]

The first time I listened to this I had to listen to it complete in one go. A wonderful experience although it really is difficult to find the time to do it again.

I have never listened to it from start to finish - one day. 

[San Antone]

Disc one: flute, oboe, violin sonatas, wind sextet, bassoon and clarinet sonata, horn, trumpet and trombone sonata.
As always with Poulenc, great music in small packages. Very good liner notes. The list of first performers is a who's who of important players of the time (with Poulenc at the piano). The famous flute sonata's first performance by Rampal and Poulenc happened before an audience of...one person: Artur Rubinstein, who had to leave town before the « official » first performance the next day. Rubinstein was a huge Poulenc fan. What a night this must have been !

Looks good; I love Poulenc's chamber music.

[Todd]

Disc eleven.  The Beethoven Etudes, based on music from LvB's Seventh, are rather entertaining, if not really Schumann's best stuff.  The draw for this disc is the Humoreske.  Ciocarlie plays with a sense of playfulness and spontaneity, though the sound goes catawampus in a few places, and she also seems to push up to her limit.  I'd rather take that than an overstudied version.  The two Op 118 sonatas (1 & 3) are rather like the second from the prior disc.

[TheGSMoeller]

Schubert's 9th Symphony....

[kishnevi]

A very mixed bag, with some ear-pleasing moments, some heart-tugging moments, and some moments so compositionally banal a first year student would blush to put their name too. And often in the same movement!
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Will definitely need at least one more listen to see how accurate that first impression is.
Contents, in disc order
SQ 4 (2012)
SQ 3 (2008)
SQ 2 (1981)
10 Preludes [SQ 1] (1973)

[André]

Closing today's listening session with some Couperin played by the young Blandine Verlet in 1976-81 (disc 1 of this 2-disc set). She re-recorded Couperin pieces - a mostly different selection - some 35 years later.

[Mirror Image]

Rachmaninov's Youth Symphony:



Even though this work is clearly juvenilia, it is highly attractive nevertheless.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Das Rheingold from unequivocally the best Ring ever recorded

[Mirror Image]

Das Rheingold from unequivocally the best Ring ever recorded

For me, the HvK cycle is the best Ring ever recorded:



I know the Sarge will have my back on this one.

[kyjo]

Barber's Cello Sonata:

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A gorgeous work which is rather let down by its final movement.

[kyjo]

Now, Merikanto's Symphony no. 2 War Symphony:

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I'll report back in the Merikanto thread.

[Earthed]

Recent listening:

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Chopin: Waltzes (Random Selection) - Augustin Anievas


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Beethoven: Piano Trio #5 In D, Op. 70/1, "Ghost" - Barenboim, Zuckerman & Du Pré

Not listened to this box in a while - quite a handy collection of various LVB Chamber Music.
Just got these recordings as MP3's ATM so might have to pick up a hard-copy soon.