What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Some ballet............

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/ballet-masterpieces-worlds-favourite.html?spref=tw

[Madiel]

Mozart's 'Hunt' Quartet...

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Um. Oh dear. I've just hit at big disappointment in this highly recommended set. This is a quartet I already know, and right now I'm listening to the Menuet. It's plodding.

I think there was another menuet in one of the earlier quartets that felt a bit stodgy and old-fashioned, but this time it's in a work I already know so the effect is worse.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Most of them are indeed also in those Documents boxes: Bach/Busoni, Chopin Waltzes, all of Schumann and Brahms.

Gaspard de la Nuit and Chopin Fantasy aren't. Chopin is from those Torino TV sessions (available on DVD) and the Ravel is from 1960 Prague Spring Festival, used to be available on Multisonic label. I think it should be currently on Praga but provenance of what they release is always dubious.

Thanks, Drasko!  You a fan?  A fellow in England has what appears to be an excellent discography http://www.andrewfwilson.co.uk/abm1.htm of Michelangeli listing five recorded Gaspard performances over 28 years (quite an aural document listened to back-to-back that would make!), but I see he hasn't updated it in a number of years. 

[ritter]

It's always a pleasure to revisit Petrassi's music! 

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So far...Frammento and the Flute Concerto...great stuff!

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I'm psyched for more Michelangeli

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and then for something completely different, but also Italian.  Ever since my close brush with deaf I've grown more interested in 18th and 19th century music, for some inexplicable reason.  I love picking-up discounted Newton and Brilliance (late and lamented  - I thought their business plans made commercial sense, what I knew of them) disks when I see 'em, even of repertoire I wouldn't normally - whatever that means - engage with.  I've listened to these once already and couldn't believe how charming they are - they were composed in his youth and already a master is to be seen heard :  no aspect of human emotion is left untouched here but the emphasis is on good cheer - even outright comedy (I laughed outright at several points in the proceedings - I bet you will, too). 

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[Drasko]

Alas, that it should be so.

Praga is the oddest of labels. They have superb modern studio production, released some great recordings (mostly by Prazak Quartet); then they have access to regular treasure trove of legit historical recordings from Prague Spring, but still they'll occasionally indulge in some blatant piracy (like those notorious Melodiya studio recordings with superimposed coughs and applause and passed as live).

Thanks, Drasko!  You a fan?  A fellow in England has what appears to be an excellent discography http://www.andrewfwilson.co.uk/abm1.htm of Michelangeli listing five recorded Gaspard performances over 28 years (quite an aural document listened to back-to-back that would make!), but I see he hasn't updated it in a number of years. 

Yes, you could say that. He is probably my all time favorite pianist. And yes, it's very nicely done discography, but hasn't been updated in quite some time.

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[Brahmsian]

Mozart's 'Hunt' Quartet...

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Um. Oh dear. I've just hit at big disappointment in this highly recommended set. This is a quartet I already know, and right now I'm listening to the Menuet. It's plodding.

I think there was another menuet in one of the earlier quartets that felt a bit stodgy and old-fashioned, but this time it's in a work I already know so the effect is worse.

[Florestan]

and then for something completely different, but also Italian.  Ever since my close brush with deaf I've grown more interested in 18th and 19th century music, for some inexplicable reason.  I love picking-up discounted Newton and Brilliance (late and lamented  - I thought their business plans made commercial sense, what I knew of them) disks when I see 'em, even of repertoire I wouldn't normally - whatever that means - engage with.  I've listened to these once already and couldn't believe how charming they are - they were composed in his youth and already a master is to be seen heard :  no aspect of human emotion is left untouched here but the emphasis is on good cheer - even outright comedy (I laughed outright at several points in the proceedings - I bet you will, too). 

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Aren't they just great? To think they were written by a 12-year boy.

You might want to close the full circle of Rossini's work with his (late) piano pieces --- no less than 8 CDs, played by Stefan Irmer on MDG, all of them integrally available on Youtube. Equally charming and sometimes downright surprising, for some of them you wouldn't have guessed who the composer is in a hundred years. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Weinberg (Mr. Vineyard  ) String Quartet No. 1 op.2/141 played by Quatuor Danel




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Weinberg (Mr. Vineyard  ) String Quartet No. 1 op.2/141 played by Quatuor Danel




Sarge

And your report, sir?

[Harry]

Some fantastic Rodrigo....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999-jr-edition.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

And your report, sir?

Of course he gets very much depressed, what else?

[Karl Henning]

We're counting on Sarge's native good cheer, mijn vriend! 

[North Star]

Schönberg
Five Ten Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
Rattle & CBSO, Chailly & RCO

[HIPster]

Second disc from this exquisite double;

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Thank yo for bringing this recording to my attention erato!

Added to the wish list.   

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening all!

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4 The brass chorale climax in the first movement is so gorgeous.  0:)

[Mookalafalas]

While everybody is enjoying their new SEON, I broke out my various SEON discs to enjoy while I wait for the price to go down.  A couple of glorious war-horses.

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[Todd]

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Another listen, this time through headphones and a portable player.  This disc deserves a big rig with high quality speakers. 

[Karl Henning]

A first listen!

Bruckner, WAB 71 (1893)
Helgoland
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim

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[Gurn Blanston]

While everybody is enjoying their new SEON, I broke out my various SEON discs to enjoy while I wait for the price to go down.  A couple of glorious war-horses.

Is there something going on in the Seon world that I missed out on?