What are you listening to now?

[Moonfish]

I have spun each of the discs at least twice.

Aah, I did so on about a quarter of them, but figured I would return to the works soon. They have their own charm.

[Mookalafalas]

From this wonderful beast of a box (that finally arrived today from the UK)   
I know what I am doing for the next couple of weeks (err -- summer, ummm year)
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You dog!! (Moondog...hmmm ) I can't believe you got yours already. I ordered mine from Germany, and apparently the release dateisn't even until May 16th...

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[EigenUser]

I had to stop at 31 minutes, as I had a luncheon with my brother. I'll try it again later, I think.

Which 'this music' - Messiaen or French Impressionist orchestral?

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Prokofiev
Etudes, Op. 2
Raekallio

French impressionist. It doesn't seem to be too long, in general. The longest is probably "Daphnis and Chloe", but there are also the two suites available (I prefer the whole thing, though, which is unusual for me -- too many good things missing from the suites).

[listener]

Franz DOPPLER (with Karol Doppler and Antonio Zamara)<
Souvenir de Prague, Duettino Americano, Duettino hongroise, La Somnambula,
L'oiseau des bois*, ...
for flute (or two) and piano /harp. *for piccolo and 4 horns
Alain Marion and Jean-Louis Beaumadier*, flutes or piccolo
Edouard Exerjean, piano      ...
closer to salon/parlour music than anything else.   
MOSSOLOV:  Piano Sonatas 4 op.11, 5 op.12,  Turkmenian Nights
Daniele Lombardi, piano
and a STRAUSS II disc to finish   vol 7  includes the Odeon-Quadrille that has no connection to Lord Rank
Oliver Dohnányi, cond.   Polish State Philharmonic Orch.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

http://www.youtube.com/v/d16g3NrMVMU


Hey, who's this Lubka Kolessa?

That's some highly individual playing! And gorgeous. It's a great mix of Kolessa and Schumann.

I know nothing about Kolessa but Gramophone's International Piano Quarterly actually wrote an article about her in an issue many moons ago, probably at least a decade ago. I have it but can't fine it now. I'll do some more searching...


 

[Que]

I forgot to mention thus (off line) purchase! Apologies for the blurry picture, this disc seems hardly available...



Alessandro Poglietti, L'Arte della Fuga del XVII secolo
Luca Guglielmi; ORF "Edition Alte Musik" CD 321

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbZtunJkkzk

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[Harry]

Buxtehude! To start the morning with Disc 4, a treat.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/buxtehude-dietrich-c1637-1707-complete_13.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

I am none to happy with this recording.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/new-acquisition-benjamin-arthur-1893.html?spref=tw

[North Star]

Fresh from the mailbox

Chopin
Ballades
Nocturnes op. 9
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45
Arthur Schoonderwoerd, pf (Ignace Pleyel 1836)
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[DavidW]

Gorecki's 3rd symphony.

[Mookalafalas]

Rubinstein and the Guarneri Quartet playing Brahms Quartets. From the big box. It's fun hearing Rubinstein wailing on the piano and remembering that he's already 80.

Whoops, that just finished. Now listening to disc 1 from 1919.  Wonderful.  I have a hard time listening to an orchestra that sounds like mud, but one piano, all the sweetness and action are still very clear through the hiss.  I could play this all day

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[Todd]

Some Debussy to start the day.

[North Star]

Beethoven
Piano Concertos No. 3 & 'No. 6' Op. 61a
Schoonderwoerd & Cristofori

[ritter]

A Haydn symphony randomly chosen from this megabox:

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F.J. Haydn: Symphony No. 79 in F major (Hoboken 1/79). Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adm Fischer (cond.)

Sheer delight!    (particularly the second movement, adagio cantabile - un poco allegro ).

[Sergeant Rock]

Bruckner Symphony No.6, Maazel conducting the SOBR




Sarge

[The new erato]

Beethoven
Piano Concertos No. 3 & 'No. 6' Op. 61a
Schoonderwoerd & Cristofori

I find these discs endlessly fascinating.

[The new erato]

Quintets. Short version: superb.

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[Karl Henning]

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

What do you think, Karlo?

[Karl Henning]

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

Excellent!

[Karl Henning]

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Schubert
The Great
CSO
Giulini

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