What are you listening to now?

[The new erato]

BTW did you receive that Nibiru Zelenka? Definitely 5 stars IMO.

Q

Yes. I think I lack one in their series, but to aquire it I will ned to excavate to find out which. Anyhow, they are all great.

[Mandryka]

William Porter plays Scheidemann's chorale In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr.

I find  myself really moved by this tender and mysterious performance, by the eneffable emotions which Porter finds in the music.

[andolink]

J. S. Bach: 'Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende', BWV28; 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun', BWV183;
'Ich bin ein guter Hirt', BWV85
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Robin Blaze, counter-tenor
Gerd Türk, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass
Concerto Palatino, brass ensemble
Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki

Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 41 in A major
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano

Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major, Op.134
Isabelle Faust, violin
Alexander Melnikov, piano

[North Star]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Cello Concerto № 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107 (1959)
Heinrich Schiff, vc
Maxim Dmitrievich & BRSO

[Sadko]

Chopin: Piano concerto no. 2
Saint-Saens: Piano concerto no. 5
Franck: Les Djinns

Richter et al.

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[Wanderer]

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[North Star]

Much to everbody's surprise, I'm sure..

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Cello Concerto № 2, Opus 126 (1966)
Heinrich Schiff, vc
Maxim Dmitrievich & BRSO

[EigenUser]

Much to everbody's surprise, I'm sure..

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Cello Concerto № 2, Opus 126 (1966)
Heinrich Schiff, vc
Maxim Dmitrievich & BRSO

Why? Do you not like Shostakovich?

[EigenUser]

Stockhausen "Tierkreis". This is the only thing I've heard of his that I've actually enjoyed on a musical level as opposed to a "that's interesting" level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718J9pmDFZM

[North Star]

Why? Do you not like Shostakovich?

I was just referring to the fact that I posted slightly earlier that I was listening to No. 1, and I never manage to listen to just one of these at a time.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini again for me this Sunday morning - some works on the master's own instrument, i.e. the cello:

 

[Que]

The day has progressed a little further in these - momentarily windy and rainy parts...

Nothing like a superb, classic Beethoven performance on a rainy afternoon!

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Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Zinman conducting the Tonhalle Zurich




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Undoubtedly Bruckner's finest symphony

What?

Sarge

[Que]

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SQ Op. 80 B57 & Zypressen B152

Q

[Ken B]

An old friend

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The sound is dated, but the playing is wonderful.

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[André]

What?

Sarge

He must have been thinking of the symphony's slow movement 

[André]

This week, no music for me but the sound of the waves on the Caribbean Sea .

[Wakefield]

This morning before lunch:

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A must-have. Great music, splendidly played by the Freiburgers.

It was a good idea to combine works by these two composers of the Vivaldi period who both worked in Dresden; the resulting CD is of high quality musically and also from the scholarly viewpoint. Of the two, Jan Dismas Zelenka is the more quirky and unpredictable. Born in Bohemia in 1679, he studied with the Jesuits in Prague and in 1710 became double-bass player in the orchestra of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland at Dresden. In 1715-16 he was in Vienna and studied with JJ Fux, the great contrapuntalist. He returned to Dresden in 1719 and some years thereafter began to write church music for the Catholic court. He died in Dresden in December 1745 aged 66. The instrumental works on this disc include a Concerto, a 'Simphonie' and a piece entitled Hipocondrie – all three of which are scored for oboes, bassoon and strings in various combinations. They are all amusing and intriguing. Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) was a violin virtuoso and joined the Dresden orchestra in 1712, remaining there until his death. In 1730 he became the orchestra's leader. In 1716-17 he undertook a study trip to Venice, where he befriended Vivaldi, ordering his music for the Dresden court. The music on this CD includes Pisendel's Violin Concerto in D with virtuoso parts for the French horn in the opening movement, and a Sonata in C minor for oboes, strings and continuo. The performances by the Freiburg orchestra on period instruments are very fine and the recording excellent. Lovers of the Baroque should investigate this disc, on which much scholarly and musical effort has been expended.
-- HC Robbins Landon, BBC Music Magazine

I have this disk as a part of the DHM Anniversary set, but it can be found as an individual disk really cheap at the AMP.

Strongly recommended. 

[Sadko]

Bach

Mass in B minor

Klemperer

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Yes, the tempi are slow, but Klemperer's magic is not failing, for me.