What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

Kicking off ABBM here, anybody but Bartok month, my attempt to swim against the tide on this thread, is

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No Bartok til May, at least.

I can't imagine why. Who's been talking about Bartok so much recently?

[TheGSMoeller]

Sample Weil/Tafelmusik. No to mention the Hog.

Weil is a nice set, definitely one I would wish was complete.

[Karl Henning]

Sample Weil/Tafelmusik. No to mention the Hog.

I do not merely sample them, sir, I exultantly own them

[Karl Henning]

Malipiero
String Quartet № 4 (1934)
Venezia String Quartet

[Wakefield]

Outstanding.  One of the best Scarlatti on piano discs I've heard, almost rivaling Sergei Babayan and Mikhail Pletnev.

Besides Scarlatti stands better than any other Baroque composer the interpretations on modern piano... almost suspiciously fine, I would say.

BTW, I love how Horowitz plays Scarlatti.

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Kuijken - La Petite Band

A very good bassoon bomb I must say. 

[EigenUser]

Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
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[Bogey]

Kicking off ABBM here, anybody but Bartok month, my attempt to swim against the tide on this thread, is

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No Bartok til May, at least.

That MTT recording is special.

[DavidW]

Weil is a nice set, definitely one I would wish was complete.

Yes Weil's Haydn is awesome!

[DavidW]

BTW, I love how Horowitz plays Scarlatti.

I do too.

[Ken B]

I do not merely sample them, sir, I exultantly own them

Abject apologies! I should have known you would!

[Brian]

Courtesy of NML.



Yup. Excellent - and in line with the other Zhu Xiao-Mei albums I've been hearing this week.

[Ken B]

That MTT recording is special.

Still listening, but yes. Reminds me of when I was a fan of his, after his Rite. I still think that the best rite. Alas I own it no longer. This is so far the best RJ. Arrived on the mail today. Ordered Friday.

[EigenUser]

No. 3
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[Ken B]

No. 3
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Curious about this one. What's your view of the performance.

Aber wir sind noch Bartok-frei, and sehr frohlich daran.

(I think that's at least mostly correct!)

[listener]

clearing some new arrivals:
KRENEK: Symphony no. 2, op. 12
NDR Hannover Philharmonic.    / Takayo Ukigaya
well, it was cheap and I didn't have it.
Henri REBER (1807-1880)  3 Piano Trios
Born in Mulhouse, studied with Berlioz under Reicha andapparently well thought of in his time, Saint-Saëns made piano duet arrangements of his 4 symphonies.

[The new erato]

Reaching out for a disc from the collection. This is a concerto I'm not very familiar with.

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[North Star]

Mahler
Symphony No. 6
Barbirolli
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[Ken B]

Bruckner 8, Celibadache from the EMI box.

[EigenUser]

Curious about this one. What's your view of the performance.

I like it, along with the Anda/Fricsay. The BBC third is more elegant sounding here, which (for this particular work) I like. Really, both the Anda and the Bavouzet both have things I like and dislike. I will say that the Anda recording of the 1st piano concerto is frankly a poor performance, regardless of how Hungarian-sounding the interpretation might be (and it is very Hungarian sounding!). The first movement is a mess (really, I have the score and there are so many things that are not aligned in this recording) and the third movement is actually 2/3rds of the full tempo Bartok writes! The second movement is great, though (better than BBC).

I'm not nearly as enthusiastic in acquiring various performances as many here are, though it is definitely interesting to hear differences. I approach the music with the idea that performances/recordings are approximations and the music is in the score (my personal view, I'm not arguing universally, of course  ). If I'm not able to acquire the score (which is rare) then I will go after several performances. But, if I am able to get the score, then I usually have one or two good recordings and I'm set.

Aber wir sind noch Bartok-frei, and sehr frohlich daran.

(I think that's at least mostly correct!)

Why must you antagonize the birthday boy? Take that back!