What are you listening to now?

[Pat B]

Yes. The second batch has been shipped as well.

Wow! I love BRO, but I usually have to wait at least a week.

Thread duty: Mahler 8, Ozawa.

[Wakefield]

The Eroica HIPsters performing Schumann's String Quartet A major op.41/3



Sarge

I'm curious, Sarge: Have you listened to the Kuijken String Quartet on Arcana?

[DavidW]

You had some nice choices today Ken.

For me some Pärt.

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[Harry]

Good morning on this sunny Friday morning. Second rerun on this box, and pretty awesome it is!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/guillaume-de-machaut-c1300-1377-sacred.html?spref=tw

[amw]

I place this third in line after Juilliard '63 and Takacs '98, though still several parsecs ahead of everyone else, at a first listen.

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[Octave]

Over the past week-plus:

1. finished the Christine Schornsheim set of Haydn keyboard music (HIP)

2. Went through the Haydn piano trios again, by Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Phoenix Edition, 8cd...modern instruments)....some of my favorite music ever at the moment.
I also have a double SACD of Pentatone remasters of some of the Beaux Arts, all of whose Haydn I heard at the library several years ago.
I cannot wait to listen to this music again on period instruments; the set I have is Van Swieten (untouched).  I've also heard a single disc on Vivarte (Beths/Bylsma/Levin, HIP) that was energetic, exciting.

3. A disc of late Haydn keyboard works on fortepiano, played by Gary Cooper (Channel Classics).

4. Throughout this week, Mozart symphonies by Hogwood/AAM (Decca Italia). 
There was something about the moptopped bassist in the cover photo.  What's up, Barry Guy?  I knew he'd been a member of AAM for some years until he tired of "serving two masters", but it was funny to actually see him mugging in a group pic. 
The photo does make it look like Alex Schlippenbach was right about free-improv "keeping us young".....Guy actually looks happier to be hanging out in a penguin suit than the rest of the AAM full-timers.

[Harry]

Second disc of this set this morning, because I like it that much....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/guillaume-de-machaut-le-vray-remede.html?spref=tw

[listener]

I'm sure these are not on anyone else's playlist this morning, but it is convenient for me to get through the Piano Concertos by PARRY and STANFORD (his no.1)
Piers Lane, piano   BBC Scottish S.O.,  Martyn Brabbins, cond.
and discs of their Cathedral Music.   PARRY includes 'I Was Glad' and 'Jerusalem'
Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor   Christopher Robinson, cond.
with Roger Judd, organ
and the STANFORD disc has the 3 Unaccompanied Motets op.38 and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis op.12 among its selections
Worcester Cathedral Choir    Donald Hunt, cond.   Paul Trepte, organ
neighbours are at work so I can crank up the volume to cathedral level

[Harry]

More of the good stuff. CD III.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/guillaume-de-machaut-sacred-and-secular.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

The last CD of the Buxtehude Organ music.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/buxtehude-dietrich-c-1637-1707-complete.html?spref=tw

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.3

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[Cato]

Julius Reubke is the Hans Rott of the organ: one great piece, a handful of smaller works, and then dead at 24.

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The Liszt work was an eye-opener: I had not heard it since my teenaged years, and wondered why!!!   

[amw]

Julius Reubke is the Hans Rott of the organ: one great piece, a handful of smaller works, and then dead at 24.

His piano sonata is also rather exceptional, one of the few such works before the fin-de-siècle to be directly modeled on Liszt's B minor.

[Ken B]

Over the past week-plus:

1. finished the Christine Schornsheim set of Haydn keyboard music (HIP)

2. Went through the Haydn piano trios again, by Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Phoenix Edition, 8cd...modern instruments)....some of my favorite music ever at the moment.
I also have a double SACD of Pentatone remasters of some of the Beaux Arts, all of whose Haydn I heard at the library several years ago.
I cannot wait to listen to this music again on period instruments; the set I have is Van Swieten (untouched).  I've also heard a single disc on Vivarte (Beths/Bylsma/Levin, HIP) that was energetic, exciting.

3. A disc of late Haydn keyboard works on fortepiano, played by Gary Cooper (Channel Classics).

4. Throughout this week, Mozart symphonies by Hogwood/AAM (Decca Italia). 
There was something about the moptopped bassist in the cover photo.  What's up, Barry Guy?  I knew he'd been a member of AAM for some years until he tired of "serving two masters", but it was funny to actually see him mugging in a group pic. 
The photo does make it look like Alex Schlippenbach was right about free-improv "keeping us young".....Guy actually looks happier to be hanging out in a penguin suit than the rest of the AAM full-timers.

For some reason this surprises me Octave. I didn't think you were a fan of the classicals.
Might be the avatar

[North Star]

And a very British Friday to all!

Britten
Grimes
Haitink

Holst
Planets
Boult & LPO

[TheGSMoeller]

[EigenUser]

And a very British Friday to all!

Britten
Grimes
Haitink

Holst
Planets
Boult & LPO

Britten? Don't forget the YPG2theO!

Damn, now I have the fugue stuck in my head...

[DavidW]

How could I forget?  I also listened to Prokofiev's "War" Sonatas.

[Mandryka]

http://www.youtube.com/v/pu4rAzUpma0

Franck Gutschmidt plays Stockhausen's Natural 10, for piano and handbells, like a cimbelstern stop in organ music. Relatively serene and totally different from any Stockhausen piano music I've heard before.

[Todd]

http://www.youtube.com/v/CFNoBMm46AY

http://www.youtube.com/v/yGLiPAXDbS4



Two more Handel Variations.  Balint Vazsonyi, a name new to me, and Olga Kern.  I prefer Ms Kern.