What are you listening to now?

[Que]

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Symphony nr. 4, Heinz Rögner/ Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin.

Hat tip André.

Q

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre (arr. Liszt, S.555)
Horowitz, pf

[North Star]

Karl, did you check whether you have the Pärt Arbos disc?

[Brian]

For a guy who failed to advance out of Round 1, Francois Dumont sure is impressive. His Gaspard de la Nuit, despite being live, is as assured, controlled, and impressive as any in the last decade.



Time to listen to the rest of Dumont's Cliburn Competition programs. I gotta see if he was rejected for a reason.

[Ken B]

How'd you like it?

I've always liked it. It's not a masterpiece but it's interesting and enjoyable music.

TD Douwe Eisenga, Piano Concerto, on YouTube.
Don't tell Nate.
(This is Monkey Greg music though.)

[TheGSMoeller]

TD Douwe Eisenga, Piano Concerto, on YouTube.
Don't tell Nate.
(This is Monkey Greg music though.)

Oh, nice, on my way....

[Karl Henning]

Karl, did you check whether you have the Pärt Arbos disc?

Haven't yet, sorry!  Choir rehearsal last night.  Should be able to determine that this evening 

[North Star]

Haven't yet, sorry!  Choir rehearsal last night.  Should be able to determine that this evening 

Oh, no need to apologize to me.

[Ken B]

Oh, no need to apologize to me.

Yes there is! Just not on this thread! 

[North Star]

Yes there is! Just not on this thread! 

Precisely. 


E: Thread duty - Halloween Listening
Kurtág
Stele
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Gielen

[madaboutmahler]

Exploring a new composer to me, Panufnik!
Wow.
Lullaby especially.... and Autumn Music, Tragic Overture..

[Lisztianwagner]

Something for Halloween:

Bela Bartok
Music for string, percussion and celesta

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Some Liszt later.....

[North Star]

Exploring a new composer to me, Panufnik!
Wow.
Lullaby especially.... and Autumn Music, Tragic Overture..

Good day, Daniel!

[Karl Henning]

Good day, Daniel!

Exploring a new composer to me, Panufnik!
Wow.
Lullaby especially.... and Autumn Music, Tragic Overture..

But, Daniel . . . are you mad about Mahler even in Schoenberg's arrangement of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen? 

[North Star]

But, Daniel . . . are you mad about Mahler even in Schoenberg's arrangement of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen? 

It's much too long since I last heard that piece, but the arrangement is wonderful in my opinion.

[Todd]

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Disc 1.  An energetic and superbly played Chopin 1; Freire's only performance (per him) of the Schumann Concert Introduction and Allegro in D minor, Op.134, which sounds good to these ears, though I rarely listen to it; and a Tchaikovsky 1 with Kurt Masur that's the same vintage as the studio effort with Rudolf Kempe.  The version with Kempe is much better.  Freire is in good form here, but he only really plays with the same electricity as the studio effort in the last movement, and Masur and crew are not up to Kempe and his band, with some noticeable flubs in execution here and there.  (It is a concert, so that's to be expected.)  Disc 2 is definitely the better disc in this case.

[Karl Henning]

It's much too long since I last heard that piece, but the arrangement is wonderful in my opinion.

Not your opinion alone, dear fellow 

[Ken B]

FLF
Douwe Eisenga, Music for Wiek
via Spotify

Spotify has just paid for itself!

[Sadko]

A lossless download from Melodiya, without any artwork, but at their extremely good price ...   

Tchaikovsky

Serenade op. 48
Suite no. 3 op. 55

Simfonichesky orkestr Moskovskoy gosudarstvennoy filarmonii
Kirill Kondrashin

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[listener]

The Silbermann organ in the Cathedral at Freiberg
not quite the usual collection of composers: J.S. BACH Passacaglia,  2 Fantasias, 'Komm Heiliger Geist' DANDRIEU: Magnificat in d,  GRIGNY: Veni creator and Hans OTTO' Hommage à Silbermann
Albrecht Koch, organist       The tuning of A=573 will probably decrease if global warming warnings are correct.
Querstand disc with notes all in a standard digipack size
and from Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series the disc with RIMSKY-KOSAKOFF and 2 BALAKIREV  Concertos
Malcolm Binns, piano    English Northern Philarmonia,   David Lloyd-Jones, cond.