What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

The JR Edition, CD 7.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/10/new-acquisition-rodrigo-joaquin-jr.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Its time for the JS edition, disc 27.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/10/strauss-johann-ii-complete-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[Moonfish]

I suddenly have an urge to watch Fanny och Alexander..
https://www.youtube.com/v/Yu5vznLtdM4

Wonderful stuff - especially the full blown 5 hr TV version! 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

How did the lot strike you?

I'm fond of tombeaux (those clever French!); commemoration, literary or musical, I find very moving.  But I'm esp. fond of your Tombeau, Karl, twice listened to and will come back again.  And have a look at your score.    It's lively, varied, firmly in the tombeau tradition in its depiction of a multi-faceted personality.  It's wonderful music-making - I love its cross-boundary nature - and it imparts the sense of loss required of the genre.  Now, the title, forgive for asking :  who is W.A.G.? (or is this personal? a tombeau à clé, to coin a phrase?) Some tombeaux are for imaginary persons.  A wonderful work, Karl, looking forward to more of it.

[The new erato]

Second run through. This has what I've missed in my other CD versions of these works:

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[Karl Henning]

I'm fond of tombeaux (those clever French!); commemoration, literary or musical, I find very moving.  But I'm esp. fond of your Tombeau, Karl, twice listened to and will come back again.  And have a look at your score.    It's lively, varied, firmly in the tombeau tradition in its depiction of a multi-faceted personality.  It's wonderful music-making - I love its cross-boundary nature - and it imparts the sense of loss required of the genre.  Now, the title, forgive for asking :  who is W.A.G.? (or is this personal? a tombeau à clé, to coin a phrase?) Some tombeaux are for imaginary persons.  A wonderful work, Karl, looking forward to more of it.

Thank you for your kind listening!  The dedicatee is Wm. A Goodwin.

[North Star]

Wonderful stuff - especially the full blown 5 hr TV version! 

I'm sure it's wonderful. I sure wish that they broadcast it here again sometime soon..

Thread duty
Barber
Violin Concerto
James Buswell
RSNO
Alsop

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Thank you for your kind listening!  The dedicatee is Wm. A Goodwin.

Thanks, Karl - now about that VC...

[Karl Henning]

Ready to apply myself whenever practical

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

RVW
Concerto grosso (1950)
LSO
Bryden Thomson

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[Karl Henning]

RVW
Partita for double string orchestra (1948)
LSO
Bryden Thomson

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[TheGSMoeller]

More overtures and preludes, this time from Thielmann and the Philly Orchestra. I consider the Parsifal Prelude as some of the most majestic and beautiful music these ears have heard. And Philly sounds great here, almost always do.

[Karl Henning]

Love the solar glare on his mop!

[North Star]

RVW
Phantasy Quintet
Endellions
https://www.youtube.com/v/Lf34-mLQYvs

[North Star]

Martinů
Piano Concertos nos. 4 & 5
Emil Leichner
Belohlávek & CzPO

[TheGSMoeller]

Love the solar glare on his mop!

I bet Thielmann demanded that glare for the photo. What a diva. 

[Ken B]

Bruckner, Symphony 5, Wurtemburg Phil., Paternostro, live

[North Star]

Schumann
Piano Sonata no. 1
Fantaisie in C major, Op. 17
Andsnes

[listener]

on vinyl because my CD/DVD player hasn't been reconnected after being used elsewhere last night`:
SCHUMANN Noveletten op. 21       Beveridge Webster, piano
GIUSTINI:  vol. 2 of the Piano Sonatas  published in 1732
on a Cristofori fortepiano of 1720    Mieczyslaw  Horszowski, pianist (and vocals)

[Daverz]

Apart from the big opening of the first movement, made famous by K-Tel, I am mostly unfamiliar with Tchaikovsky's PC1.

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