What are you listening to now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Camille Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre

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

[Sergeant Rock]

From the concert at King's Chapel, 8 Oct 2013, listening to Karl Henning's Irreplaceable Doodles for clarinet and infant Ad libitum

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

That child made the show, I tell you.

[mahler10th]

String Quartets
Gabrieli Quartet[/b]
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That wee set is what I use to hear Janacek most of the time.  It felt like a Godsend when I discovered it (here, on GMG!), that wee set is worth it's weight in grand pianos....

Listening to this:


My new audio setup has made a huge difference to how I hear things...Vivaldi never played this good...Azzolini is lurking his bassoon around like a merry prankster and everything is as bright as hot fudge sundae.   

[Mirror Image]

I have this set too - its awesome! 

Right on! It sure is, Conor.

[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky Orpheus, Craft conducting the LSO




Sarge

[kishnevi]

CD 1, solo piano works
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Only six tracks in,  but makes one wish he will get around to recording the rest of, or at least more, Satie.

[Karl Henning]

CD 1, solo piano works
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Only six tracks in,  but makes one wish he will get around to recording the rest of, or at least more, Satie.

Mmm, looks nice!

[Parsifal]

That installment is my favorite of the Robert Craft, Naxos, Stravinsky cycle.  Agon is just about my favorite Stravinsky work of all of them - but it is too hard to make that call.  Symphonies of Wind Instruments is also high up on the list, as are several other works.

This is the Agon I listen to, which I enjoy

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Most recently, Medner, Sonata Op 25, superb!

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[jlaurson]

Earlier:


Ignatz Waghalter
Violin Concerto op.15
Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra op.9
Sonata for Violin & Piano op.5 et al.
Irmina Rynkos (violin), G.Latsabidze (piano)
Royal Phil., / A.Walker
Naxos
German link - UK link

Beautiful, gay music! Do explore ... it's a treat.


Now:


Othmar Schoeck
Violin Concerto
Penthesilea Suite
Bettina Boller
Andreas Delfs / Swiss YO
Claves
German link - UK link


One of the 15 great Violin Concertos of the 20th Century. Just behind Wolf-Ferrari, ahead of Martin... and on par with Bartok  2 and Martinu 2.

[kishnevi]

Mmm, looks nice!

CD 2 will probably not be played until tomorrow or Friday.  That's the CD with musique pour piano avec...
chanteuse (Juliette), autre piano (Le Sage) , tenor (Delescluse), violon (Faust), trompette (Guerrier)

[Sergeant Rock]

That installment is my favorite of the Robert Craft, Naxos, Stravinsky cycle.  Agon is just about my favorite Stravinsky work of all of them

Mine too. I'm listening to it now while the green beans steam. Stravinsky...music to cook by 

Sarge

[listener]

Adolf LINDBLAD:  Symphony no.1
Stockholm Philharmonic,  Okko Kamu, cond.
15 Songs   
Mari-Anne Håggander,sop.,  Mikael Samuelson, bar.,   Thomas Schuback, piano
LOEFFLER: The Death of Tintagiles*     Five Irish Fantasies#
*Jennie Hansen, viola d'amore   #Neil Rosenshein, tenor
Indianapolis Symphony Orch.,  John Nelson, cond.

[North Star]

Nice to see the Agon love

Othmar Schoeck
Violin Concerto
Penthesilea Suite
Bettina Boller
Andreas Delfs / Swiss YO
Claves
German link - UK link


One of the 15 great Violin Concertos of the 20th Century. Just behind Wolf-Ferrari, ahead of Martin... and on par with Bartok  2 and Martinu 2.

Wolf-Ferrari ahead of Bartók 2nd? I might have to hear this work soonish!

That wee set is what I use to hear Janacek most of the time.  It felt like a Godsend when I discovered it (here, on GMG!), that wee set is worth it's weight in grand pianos....

Listening to this:


My new audio setup has made a huge difference to how I hear things...Vivaldi never played this good...Azzolini is lurking his bassoon around like a merry prankster and everything is as bright as hot fudge sundae.   

I have a feeling I might have recommended it.
And that doesn't sound like it's worth much to you, considering how much those grand pianos weigh. 

That Vivaldi  must be great, I have their bassoon & oboe disc, fantastic stuff


Thread duty:
first listen 
Handel
Salomon
Padmore, Connolly, Gritton, Sampson, Reuss Akademie für Alte Musik & RIAS Kammerchor
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[not edward]

Looks very interesting - I haven't heard it .... yet.  I like the coupling of other works, nice mix.

It's a fabulous disc: run, don't walk. :-)

[jlaurson]

Earlier:

Now:


Othmar Schoeck
Violin Concerto
Penthesilea Suite
Bettina Boller
Andreas Delfs / Swiss YO
Claves
German link - UK link


One of the 15 great Violin Concertos of the 20th Century. Just behind Wolf-Ferrari, ahead of Martin... and on par with Bartok  2 and Martinu 2.

I never take those kind of rankings very seriously.  But let me add, I say that with no reflection on the work in question, since I have heard neither it nor the Wolf-Ferrari VC. 

My rankings are obviously official, scientific, and infallible... and therefore impossible not to take seriously and illegal to disagree with.


The point is to make a point, obviously... the validity of which depends on how well you know the points of reference I make and how much you trust in the person who makes these rankings' ability to determine quality and whether you agree with their approach (which is still yet another matter).  Needless to say, it seems to me that anyone who appreciates the more famous concertos I mentioned will be amazed by the quality of the two lesser known ones... regardless of whether or how they might end up ranking them.

[kishnevi]

Nice to see the Agon love
Wolf-Ferrari ahead of Bartók 2nd? I might have to hear this work soonish!

I have the recording Jens doesn't like, and even with just that one find the W-F worthy of top ten consideration.


Thread duty:
Haydn  Symphonies 53 and 54 (Second Version) Hogwood/AAM
aka  CD 25 of the Hogwood Haydn box

[Karl Henning]

I never take those kind of rankings very seriously[....]

In this case, I took it as a wry-ish not of the first rank of 20^th-c. vn concertos, but doesn't belong in the dustbin, either 

[Karl Henning]

I have the recording Jens doesn't like, and even with just that one find the W-F worthy of top ten consideration.

Gosh . . . but the 20^th-c. top 10 vn concertos is such a formidable line-up!

(Hey, I've got an idea . . . .)

[jlaurson]

In this case, I took it as a wry-ish not of the first rank of 20^th-c. vn concertos, but doesn't belong in the dustbin, either 

Wowowowowow! Nooo, Sir-ee!

DEFINITELY, decidedly of the first rank. I hope the first rank is deeper than just 10 concertos... if you think about what's all in there! (Even not counting contemporary or truly 'modern' concertos, there's the Sibelius, Prokofiev, DSCH, Bartok, to content with... and whatnot. Britten...

Not just not the dustbin, but front and center of the repertoire is where it belongs. Not Brahms or Beethoven (though it rhymes with the Beethoven, actually... and its subtitle "Quasi una Fantasia" tells you that that's intent!), but really first rate.