What are you listening to now?

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all

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Have made a start on the Inbal Mahler set over the last few days - very much a mixed bag so far. Very underwhelmed by the M1 and M2 actually, due to the tempi changes (going from too slow to too fast - unsettling for my liking - an erratic feeling I have only found before in the Rattle CBSO M2)... oh and Inbal does hum and lalala a bit in the last movement... I don't need that...just didn't work for me overall 

The M3 was just OK, average.

M4 and M5 are, on the other hand, absolute stunners. Proper contenders to even topple my favourite versions (Reiner and a Live tennstedt respectively)   

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Strauss II
O schöner Mai!

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[jlaurson]

Almost Johann SebastianBach
Weinberger
Spurious Organ Stuff
(Eight Small Preludes & Fugues, BWV 553-560)
cpo
German link - UK link
(From the complete set.)

But I've never been a fan of volume 20, now that I remember (perhaps Weinberger's weakest in the set)... and I prefer in this, by some measure:


Almost Johann SebastianBach
Sir Simon
Chorale Preludes & Fugues, incl. 8 Small P&F BWV 553-560
DG
German link - UK link
(Not included on the complete set.)

[TheGSMoeller]

Good morning, friends.

Two for the road. Kremerata Baltica performing an arrangement of Schubert's 15th Quartet. And a delightful 2-fer of Weill featuring Violin Concerto, Berliner Requiem and music from Threepenny Opera and Happy End.


 

[Octave]

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Andreas Staier plays Schumann (on a lovely Erard 1837)
For the moment, surely one of my favorite single discs of Schumann that I've heard.  A keeper!
I feel a Schumann jag coming on.

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Richter plays Schubert, ~1979
It is every bit as slow as I'd heard, but it still sounds like Schubert; it doesn't sound self-aggrandizing or 'dramatic', but it is pretty dramatic. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn String Quartet G major op.76/1 played by Quatuor Mosaiques




Sarge

[jlaurson]

Ivan Karabits
Concertos for Orchestra
K.Karabits / Bournemouth SO
Naxos
German link - UK link
Karabits Concertos for Orchestra: I love thee. What imaginative, colorful creatures you are, and yet never pandering!

[Mirror Image]

Ivan Karabits
Concertos for Orchestra
K.Karabits / Bournemouth SO
Naxos
German link - UK link
Karabits Concertos for Orchestra: I love thee. What imaginative, colorful creatures you are, and yet never pandering!

Excellent! I bought this recording a few days ago.

[DavidRoss]

More Mobius Trio, this the premiere of Kevin Villalta's Witch Wagon at the Old First Concert Series a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/v/uL0U_dwx3Ew

I love it when a new piece just keeps getting better each time I hear it!

[Opus106]

Possibly First Listens

FJH
String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3
Lindsays

I may follow it up with nos. 1 and 2.

[Karl Henning]

Possibly First Listens

I feel ya, buddy.

[Lisztianwagner]

William Schuman
Symphony No.7

http://www.youtube.com/v/mYm3blG70iM

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
Symphony № 90 in C « La chat » (H.I/90)
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken

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[Sergeant Rock]

Bruno Maderna Aura (1972), Sinopoli conducting the NDR SO




Sarge

[Todd]

Second disc, perhaps my favorite version of the Etudes, plus some other goodies.

[Wakefield]

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Andreas Staier plays Schumann (on a lovely Erard 1837)
For the moment, surely one of my favorite single discs of Schumann that I've heard.  A keeper!
I feel a Schumann jag coming on.

I totally agree, Octave, it's a great disc. My favorite Staier, indeed. 

[listener]

HAYDN: The Seasons  (sung in German)
Teresa Stich-Randall, Helmut Kretschmar, Erich Wenk  STB
NDR Hamburg Orchestra and Chorus   Walter Goehr, cond.
no, it's not by Vivaldi  (and there's Boismortier, Charpentier and Milhaud as well)
Surprise here!  a symphonic quotation whistled by the farmer in the field (Haydn, Symphony 94 2nd mvt)
and a box of TARTINI's music (not the kind Angelina Jolie is partial to)
4 Violin Concertos, Cello concerto, flute concerto and assorted chamber pieces - 3 lp's with variety
Piero Toso, violin     Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute    Severino Zannerini, cello
I Solisti Veneti       Claudio Scimone, cond.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JS - English Suites w/ Peter Watchorn - just arrived today w/ the Titanic label on the front cover art (below left); now there is another offering w/ the same cover art but under the Musica Omnia label (not shown), and yet another w/ a different picture (below right) but also w/ his label - the recordings on the set I received were done in October 1997 (New Hope Methodist Church in Methuen, MA) - I'm assuming that the Musica Omnia releases are the same recordings (so stated on their website HERE); now, not sure if these have been re-mastered, but would be curious about any comments - thanks. 

 

[Lisztianwagner]

Jean Sibelius
Pohjola's Daughter

http://www.youtube.com/v/s_hbNeq0qy8

[Wakefield]

Bach, JS - English Suites w/ Peter Watchorn - just arrived today w/ the Titanic label on the front cover art (below left); now there is another offering w/ the same cover art but under the Musica Omnia label (not shown), and yet another w/ a different picture (below right) but also w/ his label - the recordings on the set I received were done in October 1997 (New Hope Methodist Church in Methuen, MA) - I'm assuming that the Musica Omnia releases are the same recordings (so stated on their website HERE); now, not sure if these have been re-mastered, but would be curious about any comments - thanks. 

 

I'm quite sure these are mere "reprintings" of the original release. Watchorn always planned an integral recording of the harpsichord works, then when he started again his Musica Omnia project, he included the English Suites previously released by Titanic. If we believe its announcement, Musica Omnia will release these discs during the next years: 

MO O411: Bach: Clavierübung, parts II & III - Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)
MO 0412: Bach, Six Partitas, BWV 825 – 830  - Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)
MO 0505: Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910-916 - Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)
MO 0506: Bach: Sonatas, Suites, Capriccios - Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)
MO 0507: Bach: Concerto arrangements, BWV 972-987; 592a Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)
MO 0511: Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 - Peter Watchorn (harpsichord)

Prompted by Sonic, I'm listening to the last Bach recordings released by Watchorn so far:

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P.S.: Naturally, some additional volumes will be necessary to complete the harpsichord works on Musica Omnia. Remarkably, so far the Goldbergs aren't mentioned.