What are you listening to now?

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Love both of these.

So do I...I've always been partial to Stravinsky's late serial works (particularly the much-maligned Aldous Huxley variations  ). It's a real pity the Craft recording of Threni on Koch Schwann was not re-released (AFAIK) by Naxos in the Craft-Stravinsky series  ...

[Sergeant Rock]

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 E minor, Slatkin conducting the Detroit




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

It's a real pity the Craft recording of Threni on Koch Schwann was not re-released (AFAIK) by Naxos in the Craft-Stravinsky series  ...

Oh, that is a tendentious (possibly prejudicial) oversight!  That's a wonderful realization of the piece.

[Mirror Image]

Indeed, a hauntingly beautiful, thrilling piece; I love its violent dissonances, the orchestration and the voices creating a so tense, dramatic atmosphere; it was the very first Schoenberg's work I've listened to.
Well, I have got: all Karajan's recordings, Hahn/Salonen/SRSO for Violin Concerto, Uchida/Boulez/CO for Piano Concerto and Klavierstucke, Chailly/RSO for the Gurrelieder, the Boulez for Serenade, 5 Pieces for orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire, Herzgewächse and Ode to Napoleon and Rattle/CBSO for A Survivor from Warsaw.

Ah, okay. Nice, Ilaria. Some great performances already in your collection.

[Mirror Image]

Was listening to this myself last night, but the Pelléas suite rather than the Nocturnes...I should buy Abbado's complete recording of the opera, which I understand is quite an achievement....And I still have room for another complete Pelléas on my shelves (next to Boulez--on CD and on DVD--, Désormière and Vittorio Gui), as I really love this opera...

The Suite is rather nice, but Abbado's performance of the full opera is something else. Run, don't walk to buy it. I think you'll enjoy it. I own those two Boulez you mention as well. It's a gorgeous work and deserves multiple recordings.

[Mirror Image]

A beauty!  And notwithstanding the fine point or two with which I might quarrel, I remain greatly fond of this recording.

Indeed, Karl. I own it to you who gave me this excellent recommendation. I remember I bought it with not knowing much about Previn's Shostakovich performances and reading that you thought he smokes that symphony was all the reassurance I needed.

[Mirror Image]

I agree.  I keep coming back to that recording and always enjoy it.

I, too, continue come back to this recording again and again. It's right up there with my some of my favorite Debussy discs.

[TheGSMoeller]

[ritter]

The Suite is rather nice, but Abbado's performance of the full opera is something else. Run, don't walk to buy it....

Will do so... Thanks for the advice!

I'll probably go for this incarnation of the recording, the price of which keeps falling  :

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I have all the Boulez stuff, of course, and the Ansermet Martyre, but not the Zimmerman Préludes or the Uchida Étutes, and I suppose the 4 CD's of Mélodies mean that these are near-complete (or really complete    )

[Mirror Image]

Will do so... Thanks for the advice!

I'll probably go for this incarnation of the recording, the price of which keeps falling  :

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I have all the Boulez stuff, of course, and the Ansermet Martyre, but not the Zimmerman Préludes or the Uchida Étutes, and I suppose the 4 CD's of Mélodies mean that these are near-complete (or really complete    )

You're welcome. Yeah, I would have bought that box set hadn't I already owned most of it already. As for the solo piano music, the only set I own is the near complete Ogawa set on BIS, which is excellent all-around.

[ritter]

You're welcome. Yeah, I would have bought that box set hadn't I already owned most of it already. As for the solo piano music, the only set I own is the near complete Ogawa set on BIS, which is excellent all-around.

I meant the songs  , which I have only on isolated CDs... My "benchmark" complete piano music album is this one:

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Very, very, veeeeeery good....  

Best regards,

[Mirror Image]

I meant the songs 

Ah, okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Karl Henning]

Will do so... Thanks for the advice!

I'll probably go for this incarnation of the recording, the price of which keeps falling  :

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Almost miraculously, I have only one disc which that box will make redundant . . . so it is in my wish list, too.

[Karl Henning]

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Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 15 ля мажор, соч. 141 [ Symphony № 15 in A ]
Prague Symphony
Максим Дмитриевич [ Maksim Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]

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[madaboutmahler]

Good evening all,

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The 5th, mon favourite

[The new erato]

Very disappointing sound quality. The opening soundes so flat, quenched and dull that I had to check my speakers to see if there was something wrong.

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[Mandryka]

Walter Gieseking plays BWV 881, the F minor from WTC 2

Utterly charming, he turns the prelude into a sort of lovely nothing. This is diverting music making, the sort of thing that would go down well after dinner at a party. The same for the fugue. What he does here reminds me of his Beethoven op 110 .




Jaroslav Tüma plays the prelude of BWV 881 like a long meditation on suffering and sorrow. The fugue is more resolute, less contemplative.

[Karl Henning]

Very disappointing sound quality. The opening soundes so flat, quenched and dull that I had to check my speakers to see if there was something wrong.

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Pity!

[The new erato]

It gets better in the later movements, but a far cry from the very fine no 6 from the same sources.

[Lisztianwagner]

Good evening all, on spotify:

Arnold Schoenberg
Die gluckliche Hand

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