What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Vanhal: Symphony in D major [Mallon]....

[Florestan]

[anothername]

Nelson conducting: Berlioz.

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen, Serenata in vano

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Which turns out to be little gem.

Love that one.

[Harry]

It has not been a easy listening month for me due to circumstances, but I managed to do some extensive reruns and completed the second rerun of a few sets.

This box I nominate as best buy 2017, and is for me on the first place.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/12/rheinberger-josef-gabriel-1839-1901_6.html?spref=tw

[HIPster]

Good day to you Harry! 

Now playing ~

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[Harry]

Good day to you Harry! 

Now playing ~

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And to you my dear friend.
That is a fine recording you have there. I am a big admirer and collector of her music. (Hildegard von Bingen)

[Harry]

Second rerun of CD 18-21 of this box.
And also has the second place in the best buy 2017.
An absolute must even if you have the works by other performers.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/12/locatelli-pietro-antonio-1695-1764_6.html?spref=tw

[mc ukrneal]

I saw a bad review of this, but thought I would still get it anyway. Now you can tell me what you think!

[mc ukrneal]

It has not been a easy listening month for me due to circumstances, but I managed to do some extensive reruns and completed the second rerun of a few sets.

This box I nominate as best buy 2017, and is for me on the first place.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/12/rheinberger-josef-gabriel-1839-1901_6.html?spref=tw

As much as I enjoyed this, I think you enjoyed it even more! Hope you are feeling ok!

[Harry]

The Fourth rerun of this set.
And this twofar holds the third place in my best buy 2017.
I simply adore her music, all of it.
I even bought the vocal works she wrote, something which I have never done before from a composer on that era.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/12/pejacevic-dora1885-1923-complete-piano.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

As much as I enjoyed this, I think you enjoyed it even more! Hope you are feeling ok!

Yes I absolutely found all what is important to me in this music.
I will play it many times after this.
I try to keep a strong attitude towards my well being.

[amw]

Chailly Beethoven 5—first listen to that version. It was very good but won't replace Gardiner/Grimal/Krivine in my affections.

And now Op. 55 no. 3 from the London Haydn Quartet. This seems a pretty underrated Haydn piece.

[Florestan]

I saw a bad review of this, but thought I would still get it anyway. Now you can tell me what you think!

I'm more than halfway through it and I like what I hear, both performance-wise and sonically. What did the reviewer object to?

[aligreto]

Stanford: String Quartet No. 1 [RTE Vanbrugh Quartet]....

[Todd]

FFG's Benediction.  At just a hair under twenty minutes, FFG's take is very broad of tempo and individual in nature.  The Moderato is very slow, introspective, and intimate.  It's a musical confession.  The blurred rolled chords paired with a hypnotic bass line captivate, and FFG takes his sweet time building up to the climax, in which he doesn't speed up, but he does thicken his sonority, rendering it almost organ-like, complete with a few wall-rattling bass notes.  The music leading to the end of the section is heavenly, the pianist seeming unburdened with worldly thoughts.  The Andante is also quite slow and meditative, with some very delicate playing punctuated by the occasional thundering bass note or chord.  FFG mixes up pedaling, sometimes riding the sustain and holding chords, and sometimes letting some music fall off quickly.  Somehow he manages to make the Piu sostenuto sound more ethereal and transcendent than the preceding sections right out of the gate, and he once again takes his time building to a satisfying and powerful climax, with right hand runs that approximate the effect the chains of trills in LvB's Op 111, with FFG intent on delivering a Lisztian vision of Elysian Fields, which he does.  An astounding recording, and one of my favorites.  Maybe one day he will see fit to record the Annees. 

[amw]

Earlier this week, someone I didn't know personally but who was part of my broader social circle, took their own life.

I've been thinking about this a lot, and No.7 of Po zarostlém chodnícku has become the only thing I really want to listen to. I think it's something I'd want played at my own funeral. (turned off the Haydn, with no offence to him intended; he will be back)

[Florestan]

Hat tip to mc ukrneal.

[Karl Henning]

Earlier this week, someone I didn't know personally but who was part of my broader social circle, took their own life.

That's rough.

[Florestan]

Earlier this week, someone I didn't know personally but who was part of my broader social circle, took their own life.

I'm sorry to hear that. Such news is always saddening.