What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

CPE Bach, cello concerti, Suzukis, BIS

[Todd]

Revisiting Year III from one of my purchases of the year.

[Que]

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I hope that will be reissued soon!

Breakfast music:

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[Madiel]

The last one of my recent purchases finally arrived.

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Just doing a tiny bit of sampling, but quite excited by what I'm hearing. LOTS of variety in the tone colours of the different singers, which is one of the explicit selling points of the project - to do the songs in the original keys and to reflect the variety of voices that Rachmaninov originally composed for. The lower male voices sound particularly delicious.

Also, the song 'Fate' is blatantly referencing the opening of Beethoven's 5th symphony...

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Perfect for picking-up a deary & overcast, heavily humid Monday AM: the Serenade for 13

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and then, a reprise (over the weekend I so enjoyed Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra from this recording).  I had somehow forgotten how much I liked this work but it called to me anew like a memory, a place, a friend.

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[Mandryka]

Ekkehard Weber and Robert Hill play BWV 1029. I had four thoughts:

1  How like a concerto this music is.
2. How subtle and wonderful the relation between the two instruments is. I think this is a real special performance for that reason.
3. How impossible it is to play this on cello and piano and get satisfying results, because the sonority of the harpsichord cutting through the gamba,
4. How impossible to imagine a performance so subtle without ideas about HIP. You know it's like Starker and Sebok or whoever would never have even imagined to play it like this, with these balances, with the voices relating like this.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No.54 G major, second version (with added trumpets, flutes, timpani and an introduction to the first movement marked Adagio maestoso).




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[Todd]

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No.54 G major, first version




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[Karl Henning]

Haydn Symphony No.54 G major, first version




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I'm in!

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm in!

   ...I'm into 61 now:




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[EigenUser]

Sibelius 4
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[kishnevi]

From the L'Oiseau-Lyre box CDs 29 and 30

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[Brian]

Second listen to this super-charming album for accordion and cello!

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 54 in G (H.I/54), 2^nd version
Adagio maestoso intro to mvt 1
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[Mookalafalas]

Ekkehard Weber and Robert Hill play BWV 1029. I had four thoughts:

1  How like a concerto this music is.
2. How subtle and wonderful the relation between the two instruments is. I think this is a real special performance for that reason.
3. How impossible it is to play this on cello and piano and get satisfying results, because the sonority of the harpsichord cutting through the gamba,
4. How impossible to imagine a performance so subtle without ideas about HIP. You know it's like Starker and Sebok or whoever would never have even imagined to play it like this, with these balances, with the voices relating like this.

Great comments/review.   Lots of provocative thoughts and marvelously succinct.  Kudos.

[71 dB]

Hindemith - Mathis der Maler Symphony - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Franz-Paul Decker

[André]

Jonathan Harvey: Piano Trio; Advaya; Dialogue and Song; etc. Trio Fibonacci, ATMA.

Franz Liszt: orchestral works, incl. Les Préludes, Mazeppa, etc. VSOO, Herrman Scherchen. Westminster.

Ferdinand Hérold (of Zampa fame): Le Pré aux Clercs, opera. 1959 recording with Berthe Montmart, Camille Maurane. Malibran.

Louis van Beethoven: Triple concerto. John Corigliano, Leonard Rose, Walter Hendl. NYPO, Bruno Walter. Sony.

Schubert: Symphony no. 9, "The Great", Columbia Symphony, Bruno Walter. Sony.

Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto. Francescatti, Fournier. Columbia Symphony, Walter. Sony.

[Brian]

Quite possibly the fastest Schubert "Unfinished" ever?



I. Allegro moderato -- 11:42
II. Andante con moto - 9:23

All repeats included.

The first movement is so much better than the usual ponderous funeral march.

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich String Quartet No.6 G major played by the Pacifica Quartet




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