What are you listening to now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.7

[TheGSMoeller]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.7

Memories right there. The three Mahler recordings Bernstein made with The NYP on DG (2,3 and 7) were some of the first discs of classical I heard. My brother and I lived in New Jersey and would go see the NYP play. The brass section were like rock stars to us. 
Great performance of the 7th. Happy Listening!!

[North Star]

Last night:

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Enescu
Symphony No. 3
Rozhdestvensky & BBC PO

[Karl Henning]

Just happened, really!

[Lisztianwagner]

Memories right there. The three Mahler recordings Bernstein made with The NYP on DG (2,3 and 7) were some of the first discs of classical I heard. My brother and I lived in New Jersey and would go see the NYP play. The brass section were like rock stars to us. 
Great performance of the 7th. Happy Listening!!

Thank you, Greg! Agreed, this is absolutely the best recording of Mahler No.7 I've ever listened to; a masterpiece!
Ah, seeing the NYP performing live must be definitely an amazing experience; I really hope to attend one of their concerts in the future! Does the orchestra still play at Carnegie Hall?

[Sergeant Rock]

Just happened, really!

Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

Thank you, Greg! Agreed, this is absolutely the best recording of Mahler No.7 I've ever listened to; a masterpiece!
Ah, seeing the NYP performing live must be definitely an amazing experience; I really hope to attend one of their concerts in the future! Does the orchestra still play at Carnegie Hall?

Their normal venue is Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, but they play at Carnegie Hall every now and then. It's been years since I've seen them, it was during Kurt Masur's years as MD when we would attend.

Now back to Bernstein's 7th there, how about that ending?    It's a knock your socks off kinda performance!

[Karl Henning]

LvB
Piano Sonata № 32 in c minor, Op.111
Rudolf Serkin

[TheGSMoeller]

Eating a bagel at Panera, listening to Dowland's Flow my Tears (Lachrimæ Antiquae) over their PA system, a flute/lute arrangement. Way to go Panera!!

[Karl Henning]

Well . . . and what's on your bagel, dude?

[TheGSMoeller]

Well . . . and what's on your bagel, dude?

Plain cream cheese, kinda dull, but it's the Asiago Cheese bagel that makes it special.

Good morning, Karl. 

[Karl Henning]

Good morning, Greg!

[Lisztianwagner]

Now back to Bernstein's 7th there, how about that ending?    It's a knock your socks off kinda performance!

The entire movement rondo or more precisely the Accelerando? In any case, it's absolutely brilliant, powerful and thrilling music; I think Bernstein did an outstanding interpretation of Mahler No.7, such an overwhelming passion and a perfect control of the orchestral timbres he extracts from the musicians! A wonderful journey from the night to the noonday sun.

Solti's recording is great too; what a pity Karajan never recorded that symphony.....

[SonicMan46]

Duphly, Jacques (1715-1789) - Harpsichord Music w/ Christophe Rousset on a restored instrument made by Christian Kroll in Lyon in 1776 (dual manual), and with a wonderful presence and sound.  The composer is new to me - apparently a Parisian harpsichord teacher who died in poverty - born the year Louis XIV died and passing away himself the year the Bastille was stormed!  Purchase prompted by a reviews in the May-June issue of Fanfare (attached) - I was actually amazed at how many performers have recorded his music! 

 

[TheGSMoeller]

A wonderful journey from the night to the noonday sun.

Bullseye.    Nicely put.

[HIPster]

Time to listen to this again.

BTW, HIPster, do you know the complete harpsichord concertos recorded by Moroney et al.? 

Hi Gordon - I do not know the Moroney, though you nearly read my mind here!  I was looking at it on amazon last night after posting the Egarr. . .

I have come to really enjoy the Egarr/Manze AAM recording, especially after some initial reticence felt upon first listens to it.  My ears seem to have adjusted to the sound balance "issues" that many talk (complain) about with this one.  Other recordings that I am interested in checking out are Hantai's and the new one from Halls on Linn.  The Belder/Musica Amphion set of multiple harpsichords is also one I am primed to purchase, so to speak.

As high as I am now on the AAM Harpsichord Concertos set, I have taken the nearly counter thought to their Brandenburg's as of late. . .  Really weird too!  That was one set that I totally dug on first listen and felt that it would be a library staple for years to come; I'd rank that particular set at the very bottom of my Brandenburg collection at this moment.  I do love the liner notes in it, though, whatever that's worth. . . 

More Bach for thread duty:

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[Que]

Hi Gordon - I do not know the Moroney, though you nearly read my mind here!  I was looking at it on amazon last night after posting the Egarr. . .

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That's the one...

Short notes HERE.

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[Todd]

[TheGSMoeller]

That looks interesting, Todd. What pieces are performed?

[Todd]

That looks interesting, Todd. What pieces are performed?

Bach Partita 1, Mozart K310, a smattering of Chopin Etudes and Mazurkas, some Mendelssohn, Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimantales, and Debussy's Danse - and that's the recital.  The 1928 recording include LvBs 31/1 and some Chopin, Mozart, Strauss, and Boccherini.  A richly varied program.