What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

The rather amazing-sounding Cantata No.65, Sie Werden aus Saba alle kommen.

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Amazing-sounding because of the unusual instruments Bach chose. The opening really does sound different from the normal 'Bach cantata sound'. This is what you get for Epiphany, with the Three Wise Men arriving from somewhere exotic.

[Harry]

This is a marvel. I'm enjoying it immensely. Highly recommended for Baroque buffs. (I'm looking at you, Que.  )

This CD is OOP I am afraid

[Sadko]

Dvořák

Piano quintets in A major opp. 5 and 81

Vlach Quartet Prague
Ivan Klánský, piano

++

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[Florestan]

This CD is OOP I am afraid

Bought it yesterday in a bookstore. 

[listener]

Friday is VIERNES day   12 Preludes for Piano  op. 58,  Carillon de Westminster
Antoine REBOULOT: 5 Preludes for Piano
LANGLAIS Symphony no.3, Poem of Happiness,   GUILLOU: Toccata   MATHIEU: Improvisation
Antoine Reboulot, piano
Bruno Mathieu, organ (Église Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, 1894, Cavaillé-Coll)
KREBS: Organ Works vol. 1    2 Toccata-and-Fugues, Chorale Preludes, etc.
Gerhard Gnamm, organ (Gabler, at Weingarten)

[kishnevi]

The rather amazing-sounding Cantata No.65, Sie Werden aus Saba alle kommen.

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Amazing-sounding because of the unusual instruments Bach chose. The opening really does sound different from the normal 'Bach cantata sound'. This is what you get for Epiphany, with the Three Wise Men arriving from somewhere exotic.

My brain always wants to connect that title to the Queen of Sheba.

Thread duty
Byron Janis /BSO/Munch cond.
Rach PC 3 recorded Dec 1957
From the RCA Byron Janis set.
Excellent playing all around, and the sound seems 30 years or more ahead of itself.

[Drasko]

from the big box.

Papillons, Kinderszenen and smattering of Chopin, live in Tokyo '67.

He was really on form that evening.

[Que]

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Mady Mesplé was a so called "nightingale", a coloratura soprano - one of my many little guilty pleasures...

To make things even worse , I'm listening right now to the operetta disc... But hey...it is FRENCH, which gives it cachet by definition? 0:)

Listening to Lecocq's "O Paris gai séjour", well there you go .... ah.... Paris...


It might be a French night tonight!

Q

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 3 ми-бемоль мажор «Первомайская», соч. 20 [ Symphony № 3 in E^b, Opus 20 "May the 1^st" ]
Russian State Choral Cappella
Moscow Phil
Кирилл Петрович [ Kirill Petrovich (Kondrashin) ]
Recorded in 1972

[Karl Henning]

No surprise, really:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 2 си мажор «Октябрю», соч. 14 [ Symphony № 2 in B, Opus 14 "To [the] October [Revolution]" ]
Russian State Choral Cappella
Moscow Phil
Кирилл Петрович [ Kirill Petrovich (Kondrashin) ]
Recorded in 1972

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

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Mady Mesplé was a so called "nightingale", a coloratura soprano - one of my many little guilty pleasures...

+1!  She steals the show in Hahn's Ciboulette, an operetta my wife and I never tire of.

[Harry]

Bought it yesterday in a bookstore. 

Well all I can say you're lucky.  Amazon UK has one copy 15 english pounds, and on a Dutch site I found 1 secondhand copy for 24 euro's, so I did not purchase it

[Karl Henning]

Everyone saw this coming . . .

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 1 фа минор, соч. 10 [ Symphony № 1 in f minor, Opus 10 ]
Moscow Phil
Кирилл Петрович [ Kirill Petrovich (Kondrashin) ]
Recorded in 1972

[bwv 1080]

great disc of Henze's chamber music

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich Symphony No.9 E flat, Bernstein conducting the Vienna Phil



Sarge

I'm late, of course, but I'm joining you . . . .

[North Star]

Schumann
Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & 4
Symphony in G minor ('Zwickau') (incomplete), WoO 29
Konzertstück for 4 horns & orchestra in F major, Op. 86

Gardiner & Orch. Révolutionnaire et Romantique

[Florestan]

Well all I can say you're lucky.  Amazon UK has one copy 15 english pounds, and on a Dutch site I found 1 secondhand copy for 24 euro's, so I did not purchase it

I paid 4 euros, brand new, unripped. 

[Moonfish]

Mahler: Symphony No 4    Orgonasova/Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman

Zinman surprises me in the quality of his Mahler cycle. Excellent sound for sure! It seems like Zinman has a mixed reputation, but I certainly have been enjoying his Mahler recordings (so far).

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[kishnevi]

Mahler: Symphony No 4    Orgonasova/Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman

Zinman surprises me in the quality of his Mahler cycle. Excellent sound for sure! It seems like Zinman has a mixed reputation, but I am certainly have been enjoying his Mahler recordings (so far).

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That for me is one of the three top entries in Zinman's cycle. 

[EigenUser]

Schumann
Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & 4
Symphony in G minor ('Zwickau') (incomplete), WoO 29
Konzertstück for 4 horns & orchestra in F major, Op. 86

Gardiner & Orch. Révolutionnaire et Romantique

I have yet to hear "Zwickau", but you just heard some of my favorite pieces in one fell swoop. Especially the last one .

Why not No. 1?

Edit: Currently, LvB's "Missa Solemnis", 3rd or 4th listen. I think I will explore Beethoven soon. Out of the symphonies I am only familiar with his 5th, 7th, and 8th. You read that right.