What are you listening to now?

[Geo Dude]

Listened to this:



Brilliant!  Certainly worth the $4 it cost me shipped, even though I'll probably end up buying the box set.

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I've also listened to this tonight, which unfortunately, was not as good:



I wanted another interpretation to compete with Herreweghe's second recording and this...does not.

I'll be listening to this soon:

[Octave]

HAYDN | The Bear
New York Philharmonic
Lenny B

+ Hells yeah

Now:

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Munch does Saint-Saens #3, Debussy, Ibert; not the linked SACD, but a CD from the Living Stereo Collection box.

Pleasant to wake up to some pleasures of the third Saint-Saens, which I found pleasant but innocuous the last time I tried it.  The climbing figure in the opening minutes of the second movement, leading into the first first (??) entrance of the organ, is really moving for me.  The sub-bass throb of the organ later is startling and shoots through the soaring saccharine (not a bad thing for me) of the strings with an uneasiness.  I might need to finally get into the S-S symphs.....

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Symphony No. 1. Great performance.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Sinfonia Tapkaara. Great!

[HIPster]

One of those recordings. . .

One that I have been in awe of from the moment I first put it on.  Literally spellbinding. 

Purchase of the year thus far for me:

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[Gold Knight]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--Symphony No.35 in D Major, K.385 {"Haffner"}, Symphony No.36 in C Major, K.425 {"Linz"} and Symphony No.38 in D Major, K.504 {"Prague"}. All three symphonies are performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Herbert von Karajan's baton.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp Minor, featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.

[listener]

a very misc. but French set: Music for Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel and L'Éventail de Jeanne by most of Les Six (no Durey) and others:  RAVEL, FERROUD, IBERT, ROLAND-MANUEL, DELANNOY, ROUSSEL, MILHAUS, POULENC, SCHMITT, AURIC, TAILLEFERRE, HONEGGER,
The Philharmonia Orchestra,   Geoffrey Simon, cond.
and music for wind trio (oboe, clarinet, bassoon) by CANTELOUBE, GUY-ROPARTZ, TOMASI, DONDEYNE, FRANÇAIX and IBERTTrio Avena

[val]

MENDELSSOHN:       Octet                         / Heifetz, Piatigorsky, Primrose and others

A beautiful version of great, great artists. But I prefer the discipline, the dynamic of the extraordinary version of the Smetana & Janacek Quartets together.

[Octave]

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Ravel: DAPHNIS ET CHLOE (Munch/Boston) - cd from Living Stereo box, not the SACD

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Beethoven/Mendelssohn: violin concertos (Heifetz/Munch/Boston) - ditto

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Beethoven: violin concerto + Coriolan + Romances (Zehetmair/Bruggen/Orch18c) - HIP

[Karl Henning]

I've also listened to this tonight, which unfortunately, was not as good:



I wanted another interpretation to compete with Herreweghe's second recording and this...does not.

Sorry to hear when one of our local bands disappoints!  I do not know this recording.

[Karl Henning]

Sinopoli's Second Viennese box.

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Word just in that my order has been delayed (which I knew already from checking the site).

I suppose the good news is, that the word was delayed and not cancelled!

[Cato]

For my 8th Grade Latinists who received Confirmation from the bishop yesterday: the First Movement with the Veni Creator Spiritus

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And so the 7th Grade does not feel left out:

Bruckner's Te Deum:

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[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Kakadu. Outstanding work and performance.

[SonicMan46]

Listened to this:

 

Brilliant!  Certainly worth the $4 it cost me shipped, even though I'll probably end up buying the box set.

Hmmm - that 5 CD box is $14 (+ $3) from one of the Amazon MP sellers @ the moment -

[SonicMan46]

Kabalevsky, D. - Piano Concertos - another listen to this new acquisition - only my second recording of his music, but have a disc of his piano works on the way -

[Lisztianwagner]

Isang Yun
Symphony No.5, 5th movement

http://www.youtube.com/v/m4Bd4DzLRPA

[kishnevi]

Hindemith, String Quartets vol. 2 (Nos. 5-7)  Amar Quartet (on Naxos)

First listen to these works.
Some of it is good, some of it interesting but doesn't connect with me.  And some of it, unfortunately a large part,  seems like Bartok on one of his lesser days.

[Todd]

Second listen.  Good stuff.

[North Star]

Martinů
Nonet for wind quintet & string quartet, H. 374 (1959)
Trio for flute, cello & piano in F major, H. 300 (1944)
Sonatina for 2 violins & piano, H. 198 (1930)
Dartington Ensemble
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[Geo Dude]

Sorry to hear when one of our local bands disappoints!  I do not know this recording.

For what it's worth, Karl, their Brandenburg Concertos are excellent, as is their Monteverdi - Vespers recording.  I do hope you make it to their performances once in a while.