What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

CPE Bach: The Complete Works for Piano Solo    Markovina 

Rerun (because it is sooo good and because I want Ken to get to 26 first    ) -
CD 23 from:

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Cd 25. Quite a wonderful set.

[Moonfish]

Hi Moonfish - just reassessed my Graupner collection - actually have 14 discs (2 w/ some Cantatas which I forgot about) + 2 more in the mail from Amazon (below); so 16 discs soon - putting the works into a Google Drive document for future orders (so far, few repeats - I guy did compose a LOT!).  Dave

 

Very nice Dave! I can barely imagine how many discs you have of some of the more prominent Baroque composers... 
Do you have any favorite/s among those discs?

[Moonfish]

From a recent arrival..

Schubert: Piano Sonatas 6, 11 & 13       Richter

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[prémont]

But still curious how this would compare to Davidsson's remake for Loft records....
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The postman brought me the Loft set yesterday, so I shall do comparative listening as soon as I get the time.

[Ken B]

From a recent arrival..

Schubert: Piano Sonatas 6, 11 & 13       Richter

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NO! No no no no no.
Just when I am starting a serious Schubertiad too.

[Moonfish]

Graupner: Himmlische Stunden, Selige Zeiten (Cantatas)     Feuersinger/Capricornus Consort Basel

I listened to this yesterday and I was literally floored by the beauty of Feuersinger's voice and the ensemble's fiery energy embracing and supporting her. To me this has also been the gateway to Graupner's works. The recording is simply beautiful so I cannot recommend it highly enough to any GMG member that is fond of the Baroque era. Without hesitation I would choose this recording as my top single cd purchase/listen so far this year. Wonderful music!

https://play.spotify.com/album/5OoLyfUABIN40wvMHklTIo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFWXEELLqw4

[Moonfish]

NO! No no no no no.
Just when I am starting a serious Schubertiad too.

No worries - it is just an interlude as I listen to Schubert's piano music on a regular basis. I am not on a Schubertiade this time..   
I am more entrenched in the Baroque period at the moment and will try to work on building a serious case of Graupner mania...

Have you seen this "oldie"?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Franz-Schubert-Schubertiade-Artur-Schnabel/dp/B000PWRBRS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1400109818&sr=1-1&keywords=schubertiade
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[Lisztianwagner]

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen

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[Ken B]

Jeux

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[Moonfish]

Boyce: Symphonies Op 2      AAM/Hogwood

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[Ken B]

When the Debussy orchestral disc ends (it does end?) on to the 26th and final disc

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[Todd]

[EigenUser]

Jeux

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Yay!  +1

Currently, giving Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" a second listen. You know, I think that I actually enjoy this work. John, have you heard this? It's an orchestral work that resembles Schoenberg. Parts of it even remind me of the first chamber symphony. I honestly never thought I'd be suggesting Stockhausen to anyone, but this sounds nothing like "Gruppen" or his electronic works. In fact, a section right now almost reminds me of "Jeux"!

[Mookalafalas]

Listening to the Ursula Duetschler now. I don't have the background to say whether this is good compared to other comparable performances (forte-piano Haydn Sonatas), but I am enjoying it a lot.  It's compulsively listenable.

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[Ken B]

I needed a change of pace from all this piano, piano.
Escape from the Seraglio by WAM (no Nate I don't mean George Michael) arranged for wind nonet, it is thought by the man himself. From

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This is the first disc I am spinning, just bought this a few days ago. A very appealling collection of stuff, the WAMster, Krommer, Beethoven, Dvorak, and a few more. And judging by this disc superbly played and recorded.

[Ken B]

Listening to the Ursula Duetschler now. I don't have the background to say whether this is good compared to other comparable performances (forte-piano Haydn Sonatas), but I am enjoying it a lot.  It's compulsively listenable.

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I like that set, but it never really made a big impression on me, unlike Brautigam, or van Oort in Mozart.

Dear Brilliant,
  Please lock Bart van Oort in a studio with a few fortepianos, scores for all of Beethoven's piano sonatas, and don't let him out until he delivers.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Haydn's fantastic Harmony Mass, Hickox.



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[Ken B]

Currently, giving Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" a second listen. You know, I think that I actually enjoy this work. John, have you heard this? It's an orchestral work that resembles Schoenberg. Parts of it even remind me of the first chamber symphony. I honestly never thought I'd be suggesting Stockhausen to anyone, but this sounds nothing like "Gruppen" or his electronic works. In fact, a section right now almost reminds me of "Jeux"!

Second time today I have whipped out this DeQuincey quotation

For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.

[listener]

Charles-Auguste de BERIOT Violin Concertos
no.1 in D op. 14 "Military"  no.8 in D op. 99   no.9 in a op.104
Takako Nishizaki, violin   RTBF S.O., Brussels    Alfred Walter, cond.
concertos by a Romantic composer that Hyperion haven't gotten to, yet

[EigenUser]

Second time today I have whipped out this DeQuincey quotation

Give it a listen. I think you'll be surprised. I mean, it's modern, but not at all weird. I never would have guessed Stockhausen as the composer. No sputtering serial-sound, no electronics, no weird vocals/extended-techniques. Just good orchestral music. I think I'll download it to iTunes, in fact. It's actually easier for me to listen to, than, say, Schoenberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra".