What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

FINALLY! An album of Miss Marple's symphonies has arrived on Naxos Music Library!!!



Celebrate!!

Listening to No. 4 now

[The new erato]

FINALLY! An album of Miss Marple's symphonies has arrived on Naxos Music Library!!!



Celebrate!!

Listening to No. 4 now

Was it the butler?

[Sergeant Rock]

G'day, Sarge!

This is a two-fer I need to come back to . . . .

The Desert Island Brian disc.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

FINALLY! An album of Miss Marple's symphonies has arrived on Naxos Music Library!!!



Celebrate!!

Listening to No. 4 now

Excellent! Your first Marple? A good place to start, the Fourth.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Lloyd Symphony No.9, the composer conducting the BBC SO




Sarge

[J.A.W.]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata 23, Op.57 - Claudio Arrau - 11 CDs, Philips; disc 8 (boxed set released in 1991)

[Sergeant Rock]

Messiaen La Ville d'en haut, Boulez conducting the Cleveland



Sarge

[HIPster]

J.S. Bach - Nouveaux Brandenburg Concertos, no. 7-12
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Reconstruction/Transcriptions by Bruce Haynes

Great way to start off Monday morning!   

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Newly acquired :

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No. 7 playing now.

[Mirror Image]

Newly acquired :

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No. 7 playing now.

Excellent, Zauber. What do you think of the Leningrad so far with Rozhdestvensky at the helm?

[listener]

American stuff to start the week
Piano Music   Robert EVETT: Chaconne    ADLER: Sonata Breve, Canto VIII,
PERLE: 6 Études     COWELL: Exultation  KEENEY: Sonatina  Frederic GOOSSEN: Fantasia Aria and Fugue
Bradford Gowen piano
And from the Louisville Orchestra: ORREGO-SALAS: Serenata Concertante op. 42  SHAPERO: Credo  MUCSZYNSKI: Piano Concerto no.1
Robert Whitney, cond.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Ligeti's Violin Concerto. Excellent performance.

[Drasko]

[Karl Henning]

Love this piece, in a geeky sort of way:

L. Andriessen
De snelheid (1982-83; rev. 1984)
ASKO Ensemble
Knussen

[André]

What could make me buy another Beethoven Fifth? Only if it's in a boxed set, that is. And what could make me listen to it ? Thread duty, of course  . Montreal Symphony, Kent Nagano

This one is clean, snappy, overdriven. Alla Markevitch but with a smooth sounding, spic and span western orchestra playing with little vibrato. And admittedly less of a POV.  Nagano does not seem interested in statements of his own. He plays the music instead. Admirable. 33:20 with extra repeats in the scherzo and finale.

Mahler: symphony no 4. Maria Ewing, Bernard Haitink, KCOA.

[Brian]

Excellent! Your first Marple? A good place to start, the Fourth.

Sarge

Of course not!! I listened to the Fifth during Hurricane Ike's visit to Houston in 2009, at about 4 in the morning with the storm blowing outside. Been a Marple lover ever since, although to this day, I've listened to only a tiny handful of the symphonies. Need to drop a couple hundreds on the Albany catalogue to get the rest.

Just started listening to the Fifth...for the second time in a row today 

[EigenUser]

Now

This:

Agon = my favorite Stravinsky.

Messiaen La Ville d'en haut, Boulez conducting the Cleveland



Sarge

+1

Currently, LvB PC4
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[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays!

Punkhausen
Zeitmaße, Op.5 (1956)
Jacques Castagnier, fl
Claude Maisonneuve, ob
Paul Taillefer, cor ang
Guy de Plus, cl
André Rabot, bn

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays!

Nono
Incontri for 24 instruments (1955)
Orchestre du Domaine musical
Boulez Monsieur le Président

[Ken B]

Of course not!!

... said the man who has never heard Mahler's ninth!