What are you listening to now?

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Listening to Double Concerto. Absolutely beautiful work and performance.

[Tom 1960]

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai conducts

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Continuing with the Kocsis Bartok orchestral series. Listening to Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta now. Great!

[TheGSMoeller]

Telemann: Overture-Suite in C major, TV 55 no C 3 "Wassermusik"
Maurice Steger (Recorder), Xenie Löffler (Recorder)
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

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[milk]

Excellent performance here and great sound. It has the zip Spanyi sometimes lacks. I hope there will be more. 

[TheGSMoeller]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Harnoncourt - RCO

I really love this performance, the Allegro Con fuoco is just that, ablaze. A real sharp-edged energy.

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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Harnoncourt - RCO

I really love this performance, the Allegro Con fuoco is just that, ablaze. A real sharp-edged energy.

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+1 Love Harnoncourt's Dvorak.

[EigenUser]

Robert Schumann "Manfred" Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc7haMknIjs

[kishnevi]

First spin of the Hurwitz-Approved ^(R)

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More to the point, the Jeff and John (MI) approved.
Although I suppose it must give Hurwitz a bit of confidence to know that GMG sometimes agrees with him. 

Excellent performance here and great sound. It has the zip Spanyi sometimes lacks. I hope there will be more. 

Included (with, it seems all the rest of Brilliant's latest CPEB releases) in the 30 CD CPEBach Edition box)

thread duty:

finally getting around to this CD, which has waiting for enough time to listen to it (78:29 in length; they stuffed this bird as about as full as they could)

York Bowen: Chamber Works
Clarinet Sonata op. 109  Rhapsody Trio  Op. 80 Piano Trio c. 1900 unfinished Phantasy Quintet Op. 93 for Bass Clarinet and String Quartet  Piano Trio  Op. 118

Gould Piano Trio (Lucy Gould violin, Alice Neary cello, Benjamin Frith piano)  Robert Plane clarinet and bass clarinet  Mia Cooper second violin and David Adams viola in the Op. 93

Chandos catalogue number CHAN 10805

just begun, but the first five minutes is certainly encouraging.

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More to the point, the Jeff and John (MI) approved.
Although I suppose it must give Hurwitz a bit of confidence to know that GMG sometimes agrees with him. 

Lol...

[EigenUser]

Boulez "Derive I"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu1u5uBe9So

Edit: Not bad! I'm surprised.

It doesn't have that "serial" sound that I dislike. In fact, it reminds me a bit of the first movement of the Ligeti "Chamber Concerto" for some reason. Though, it does sound odd right after listening to Schumann's wonderful "Manfred" overture.

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A new acquisition. Listening to String Quartet No. 2 (Version for String Orchestra & Soprano) (arr. Schoenberg). Awesome stuff.

[Henk]

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A new acquisition. Listening to String Quartet No. 2 (Version for String Orchestra & Soprano) (arr. Schoenberg). Awesome stuff.

You seem to go Harry's way, John: liking (almost) everything (to near or less the same degree). Though Harry seem to become more critical finally.

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You seem to go Harry's way, John: liking (almost) everything (to near or less the same degree). Though Harry seem to become more critical finally.

(Almost) everything is correct.

[Sadko]

Again:

Rimsky-Korsakov

The Maiden from Pskov

Kirov forces
Velery Gergiev

I'm listening to my favourite (I think) of the set again. After having listened to the whole set, I would sum up: The Tsar's Bride IMO is a complete failure. Sadko I find unenjoyable because of the voices. The other three I like, Pskovityanka the most. But indeed, fire, drive and drama are not Gergiev's strength.

[listener]

a couple of favourite discs this evening
BACH: Magnificat  and Cantata 51  'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Monteverdi Choir    English Bach Soloists      Emma Kikby in the Cantata
John Elliot Gardiner, cond.
SIBELIUS:  Symphonies 2 & 6
London S.O.     Anthony Collins, cond.

[kishnevi]

(Almost) everything is correct.

You're just as critical as anyone else on the forum.  And so is Harry.  But both of you are good at making educated guesses, and trying out samples, etc. to guide you in your purchases:  for both of you,  you don't buy unless you have evidence suggesting you will like the recording--or at least not find it a bad one.

And when you guess wrong,  you say so rather bluntly.

Thread duty:

still with that York Bowen chamber works CD.   Very good,  mostly late Romantic; there are several moments in which one could imagine Brahms perking up and saying "gee I wish I had written that!"
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[Wakefield]

Again:

Rimsky-Korsakov

The Maiden from Pskov

Kirov forces
Velery Gergiev

I'm listening to my favourite (I think) of the set again. After having listened to the whole set, I would sum up: The Tsar's Bride IMO is a complete failure. Sadko I find unenjoyable because of the voices. The other three I like, Pskovityanka the most. But indeed, fire, drive and drama are not Gergiev's strength.

It would be great if you could annotate some of your favorites in these works. I'm sure you have some interesting recommendation for "Sadko". Thanks in advance. 

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You're just as critical as anyone else on the forum.  And so is Harry.  But both of you are good at making educated guesses, and trying out samples, etc. to guide you in your purchases:  for both of you,  you don't buy unless you have evidence suggesting you will like the recording--or at leas not find it a bad one.

And when you guess wrong,  you say so rather bluntly.

Certainly no argument from me here, Jeffrey. A quite accurate observation on your part.

[EigenUser]

Scelci "Uaxuctum"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__4F3t4IxE
It's late. I'm scared  .