What are you listening to now?

[mahler10th]

 

H. Berlioz
Grande Messe des morts
Sir Colin Davis / LSO
LSO Live SACDs
German link - UK link

Brilliant.  It is a brilliant one!

[listener]

ARNELL: Symphony no.3, op. 40     Overture - The New Age, op. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra      Martin Yates, cond.
CASELLA: Paganiniana     DALLAPICCOLA: Marsia - Ballet
GHEDINI:  Partita per Orchestra   Pezzo Concertante
Guido Cantelli, cond.      NBC Symphony Orch.   NY Philharmonic (Dallapiccola)

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Sonata in A major KV 331 (containing perhaps the finest set of variations ever composed)

I like the sound of that even if I'm not sure I agree with it.

This is well-trodden territory and the list is formidable. Lurking are sets of variations by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin...to name a few...

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Haydn's Schöpfung by Dorati et al. Kurt Moll, ya'll!  Damn.

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There's an Originals of this, but that's not the one I got; the Originals edition looks like it might not include Laszlo Heltay's Salve Regina (w/Arleen Auger, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, etc), which does come on the Decca Double pictured above, which I got for like $3.

Still looking forward to McCreesh HIP/English version.

[The new erato]

A simply wonderful disc:

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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all 

Shostakovitch "the Dance Album" (Chailly)
Cheryomushki / The Bolt / The Gadfly

Again ! Great Great Greaaaaaaaaat !!! 

[Karl Henning]

I never thought highly of 70 until this recording. And Fey injects the finale of La chasse with so much spunk it's hard to resist.

An excellent album, Greg, good call!

Thread Duty:

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 6 си минор, соч. 54 [ Symphony № 6 in b minor, Opus 54 ]
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester
Kurt Sanderling

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Finishing a 1st listen run through this CD received today.

Shostakovitch "the Dance Album" (Chailly)
Cheryomushki / The Bolt / The Gadfly

really great stuff, thoroughly enjoyed it !!!

+1, I really liked this too; I got mine as part of that red/white CONCERTOS ETC Decca box set.  I think one GMGer even listed THE DANCE ALBUM as a personal essential "desert island" disc.  Not bad for shipbuilding!

[mc ukrneal]

+1, I really liked this too; I got mine as part of that red/white CONCERTOS ETC Decca box set.  I think one GMGer even listed THE DANCE ALBUM as a personal essential "desert island" disc.  Not bad for shipbuilding!

It's a brilliant disc.

[Cato]

Thanks to a GMG member:

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So far the first movement is like Mary Poppins 

"Practically perfect in every way!"   

Earlier, also thanks to a GMG member:

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I listened to the Ninth Symphony: I know that Schoenberg said David Diamond could become the American Bruckner, but Mennin makes a case here that the title might belong to him!

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening everyone!

Karlo has been strongly recommending this piece to me for a while:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ROKMp4iemUc

Enescu's 3rd violin sonata. Absolutely incredible piece, really enjoyed it all. The dialogue and equal importance between instruments is fantastic.

[Papy Oli]

Victoria - Sacred Works (CD8)



Buy it 

[madaboutmahler]

More Enescu:

http://www.youtube.com/v/qP6Xh6Dxd3k

The First Romanian Rhapsody. Charming, absolutely brilliant piece! Celibidache definitely gets into it 

[Papy Oli]

1st listen
Stravinsky - Pulcinella

[Brahmsian]

Mozart

String Quintet in G minor, K.516
String Quintet in C major, K.515

Talich Quartet
Calliope

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[Lisztianwagner]

Outstanding, Ilaria! Let me know afterwards what you think!

Thanks, Karl. It was the first time I listened to Schuman's music and I extremely liked it! What a beautiful symphony, it has a very intense, dark atmosphere that really captures you, especially in the slowest sections; absolutely impressive. Great orchestration, the solo passages of the instruments are enchanting. I will provably look for more Schuman.

[Karl Henning]

Splendid, Ilaria!

[Lisztianwagner]

Splendid, Ilaria!

But now, it's time for some Chopin.....

Fryderyk Chopin
Polonaise 'Heroic'

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[Brian]

Of potential interest to the GMG public: MusicWeb will unveil its redesigned look tomorrow morning! There won't be any enormous changes to the site architecture, but:

• that wacky '90s pink-and-yellow color scheme will be gone
• colors used in the text will be simplified
• review pages will be shorter and require less scrolling
• Times New Roman will be banished

I've seen some previews and it's a major improvement.

[Cato]

Good evening everyone!

Enescu's 3rd violin sonata. Absolutely incredible piece, really enjoyed it all. The dialogue and equal importance between instruments is fantastic.

The music of Enescu has not been sufficiently appreciated beyond the Romanian Rhapsodies.

I find that he was one of the major 20th-Century composers: take a listen to the originality of the 3 symphonies, especially the Third Symphony, which takes Schoenberg at his word that great music was still possible in C major.

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