What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Only finished first work; Northern Lights. Impressionistic yes, with some Russian plangent and mournful winds. melodically somewhat like Prokofiev.

Your own?  Congrats!  Say more, please.

[Wakefield]

On the other hand, this one looks utterly excellent:



Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano

[North Star]

Your own?  Congrats!  Say more, please.

New Erato is referring to that Klami disc. 

[Papy Oli]

Dvorak - Symphonies No.3 & No.5

Witold Rowicki / LSO

[Fafner]

Gaetano Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor
Callas, di Stefano, Gobbi
Chorus & Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Serafin

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[Karl Henning]

A clammy disc, Karlo?  We must have some of those here in The Land of Chowder . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Henning My Island Home (unfinished torso)


Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!

[North Star]

A clammy disc, Karlo?  We must have some of those here in The Land of Chowder . . . .

One Clammy - Uuno Klami 

[Karl Henning]

Hah!

[Sergeant Rock]

Thank you!

Thank you!  Good piece, impossible not to waggle at least one body part, or several, while listening.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

More amorous skeletons: Corelli Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord




Sarge

[Wakefield]

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano

Once again.

Great interpretation of these two early sonatas, with the piano as interpretative leader and the cello (at the beginning at least) commenting the statements of the piano.

Then gradually the cello gets  more freedom and prominence. 

Perfect assembly between Ax & Ma.

Superb sound quality with both instruments placed to the same distance of the microphones. 

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas No.7, 13, 14, 16 (Buchbinder)

I do like that boxset so far 

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No. 44 E minor "Trauer" ....Lubbock conducting the Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, London




Sarge

[Brian]

First listen to these recordings - and possibly my first-ever listen to "Short Ride"?

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[Lisztianwagner]

For the DBM:

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty

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[Sergeant Rock]

For the Winter Solstice and Nut: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 G minor "Winter Dreams" ...Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw




Sarge

[Todd]

Superb playing, but it may or may not be the last word in Prokofiev's 6th.  (I have my doubts.)  Of course, the only other version I've heard is from Mravinsky, and it has been years since I listened.  This recording is blessed by some of the finest sound that Joanna Nickrenz is associated with, which is saying a lot from my experience.

[Mandryka]

Ewald Kooiman plays the first 10 Leipzig Chorales, his second recording.

A mixture of highs and lows.

A wonderful BWV 651, with a roaring growling pedal which gives the music quite a complex feel emotionally - a mixture of joy and terror. And a bizarre BWV 655, a  none-event, stiff, at least that's how I hear it. You hardly notice when the chorale theme finally comes in, and there's no response to that entry in the manuals. BWV 656 is very fine, a noble joyfeel in the first verse which steadily becomes increasingly ecstatic, the final verse has that growling pedal again, and becomes a frenzied dance, unforgettable.