What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

How'd it go?

[North Star]

QUICK!

Josef Suk's Summer's Tale. Choose your favorite recording available on Naxos Music Library: Belohlavek/Chandos, Pesek/Virgin, or Mogrelia/Naxos? I want to listen.

I'm listening to Pesek & CzPO (Supraphon) now (curious timing indeed) 
I don't know any others, and I assume the Virgin is a different recording, so I can't really help you there..

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

QUICK!

Josef Suk's Summer's Tale. Choose your favorite recording available on Naxos Music Library: Belohlavek/Chandos, Pesek/Virgin, or Mogrelia/Naxos? I want to listen.

EDIT: While waiting for an answer, I will take Dave's inspiration and listen to Zehetmair play Brahms.

I know only the Mackerras performance of Summer Tale; but can tell you that the Belohlavek is much esteemed in this repertoire, though I've not heard it meself.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.8

[Brian]

This is the first time I've listened to a performance other than Mackerras'. Thanks for the input, folks!

[Todd]

A second go.  Even better than the first time?  You betcha!

[The new erato]

The glorious quintets from this:

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[The new erato]

And some Sibelius Tone Poems courtesy LSO/Dorati on EMI.

[North Star]

Suk
Thing Lived and Dreamed, Op. 30 (1909)
Lullabies, Op. 33 (1910-12)
Friendship, Op. 36 (1920)
Pavel Stepan (pf)
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[Brian]

The glorious quintets from this:

Listened to that twice over the weekend, and can't figure out why the quintets aren't regularly hailed as among Brahms' very finest music. The first quintet is apparently his least-recorded mature chamber piece.

[Lisztianwagner]

Josef Suk
About Mother

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZMOE9Bn86Gc

[North Star]

Josef Suk
About Mother

Excellent, Ilaria! Do tell me what you thought of it after listening.

Thread duty

Suk
Episodes (4) (from 1897, 1909, 1920 and 1923)
Pavel Štěpán

[Madiel]

Poulenc's beautiful and haunting Oboe Sonata.

[North Star]

Rakhmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Jean-Philippe Collard, pf
Plasson & Orchestre du Capitale de Toulouse
[asin]B0040UEIAO[/asin]

[André]

The beautifully  deliquescent music of Valentin Silvestrov: symphony no 5, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Lahti SO.

An opium-laden dream fantasy on Mahler's Adagietto. First 3 minutes: slumbering. Then from 3-20 minutes: the Adagietto drifts in, is decomposed and notes float around in deep sleep. 20-30 minutes: troubled images disturb the beautiful dream. 30-41 minutes (the end): the wet dream continues.

Some hate, others love it.

I also listened to symphony no 4, but it seems less striking than the 5th.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Gaspard de la Nuit.  Of my entire CD collection, this is easily one of my Top Ten - a desert island disk, a dessert island disk, a disk Sméagol would call his "precious", one of the chosen ones I'd risk life and limb for if the house catches fire, a disk that - were I wealthy - I'd make certain was in every American home, a disk that were I even wealthier would make certain was in every home on the planet..(cultural imperialism? - so be it), a disk so...well, you get the idea.  [asin]B000001OG7[/asin]  Sometimes one can be too enthusiastic about one's faves.  One (whoever he or she is) certainly can be; but not me.

[andolink]

Samuil Feinberg:  Piano Sonatas 7 & 8
Christophe Sirodeau, piano

[Ken B]

Listened to that twice over the weekend, and can't figure out why the quintets aren't regularly hailed as among Brahms' very finest music. The first quintet is apparently his least-recorded mature chamber piece.

They are. Or they were in the 70s when I got to know them.

[HIPster]

Listening to a very effective hybrid release of the music of John Coltrane and J.S. Bach (on the Zig Zag Territories label) ~

Bach Coltrane
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[Todd]

Some proper heroic music.