What are you listening to now?

[Sadko]

I'm listening to 1 minute track samples of this set:

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[Sergeant Rock]

Martinu Nipponari (Seven songs to Japanese lyric poetry for female voice and small orchestra)




Sarge

[Mookalafalas]

I heard that this wasn't very good. Am playing it and like it very much.

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Symphonies 1&2 from :

[The new erato]

Dramatic and fiery:

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[listener]

a couple of discs for Sunday, and another
PALESTRINA:  Missa Aeterna Christi munera,  Oratio Jeremiae Prophetae,  3 motets
Pro Cantione Antiqua, London      Bruno Turner, cond.
BORTNIANSKY, KEDROV and others
Chants from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to the Slavonic Byzantine Rite
The Tilburg Byzantine Choir   
and some popular Zarzuela by CHAPÍ, GIMÉNEZ, CHUECA arias sung by Victoria de los Angeles
Frühbeck de Burgos cond.

[Mandryka]

John Khouhri plays Schumann's Symphonic Etudes.

STOP EVERYONE!!!!! This is the most exciting and bravest Schumann playing I've ever heard. The piano is really basic sounding, and that really adds to the experience, if you're up for it.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Works w/ Pieter-Jan Belder - last few days and into this pleasant Sunday in Piedmont North Carolina - there are a total of 8 discs in these 2 'double-size' jewel boxes - but there is plenty of variety; Belder plays on harpsichord, fortepiano, & clavichord.  Dave

 

[Todd]

Finished with the Knardahl recordings, it was time for the original, quite a bit brassier version of the piano concerto, along with some miniatures.

[North Star]

Beethoven
Piano Sonatas nos. 28 & 29
Pollini
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[mc ukrneal]

Lotti Requiem. A new piece and composer for me. It's excellent! The singing really stands out too.
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EDIT: And now listening on the Senn 598s that arrived on a Sunday!!!! Awesome!

[ritter]

Revisiting this set which I got a couple of years ago:

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Listened to Brahms Second Symphony and Violin Concerto (with Christian Ferras), both with the Vienna Philharmonic. Brahms is a composer I have never warmed to (I think he has many admirable features, but in the end his music bores me to tears  ). I mus confess, tough, that these performances are quite admirable  .

Also listened to the Beethoven Fifth (this with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra). The performance is a bit rough and tumble, IMHO  .

[North Star]

Are you familiar with Brahms's choral, chamber & solo piano works, Rafael?

Thread duty
https://www.youtube.com/v/hb4qj_z4294

[ritter]

Are you familiar with Brahms's choral, chamber & solo piano works, Rafael?

Hyvää iltaa, Karlo! I'm familiar with the orchestral and choral works (and have serious reservations concerning Ein deutsches Requiem  ), less so with the chamber and solo compositions.

There is the one or the other thing I can enjoy (the opening of the First symphony, some parts of Liebesliederwalzer--Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel nahm den Flug  ), but other pieces are really unbearable to me. For instance, the First piano concerto (with all its--empty, IMHO--bombast) was a torture for me when I saw it live in Hamburg a couple of years ago with no less than Radu Lupu and the Bamberg Symphony under Nott).

It's odd: I think Brahms has almost everything I expect from a major composer, and yet I can't stand his music. Is it inspiration (as I see it) that is missing? 

[Marc]

Georg Böhm: Praeludium, Fugue & Postludium in G minor.
Wim van Beek, Schnitger et al organ, Martinikerk, Groningen, NL.

http://www.youtube.com/v/oiPAIULhZy8

[Sadko]

Hyvää iltaa, Karlo! I'm familiar with the orchestral and choral works (and have serious reservations concerning Ein deutsches Requiem  ), less so with the chamber and solo compositions.

There is the one or the other thing I can enjoy (the opening of the First symphony, some parts of Liebesliederwalzer--Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel nahm den Flug  ), but other pieces are really unbearable to me. For instance, the First piano concerto (with all its--empty, IMHO--bombast) was a torture for me when I saw it live in Hamburg a couple of years ago with no less than Radu Lupu and the Bamberg Symphony under Nott).

It's odd: I think Brahms has almost everything I expect from a major composer, and yet I can't stand his music. Is it inspiration (as I see it) that is missing? 

My experience with Brahms is a bit similar: I think he has wonderful melodies and in freeer froms, like songs, I find him very convincing. But when he is developing material "systematically" I often find him unconvincing and a bit boring too. But not as much as you

- And I love many of the Liebesliederwalzer - in the right interpretation.

[Wakefield]

I'm listening to 1 minute track samples of this set:

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Enough to be aware of the quality of this set. 

[Marc]

And now some meditation for a good night sleep, one of the most beautiful Choralvorspiele ever written (IMHO): Vater unser im Himmelreich, composed by mr. Böhm again.

Matteo Imbruno, Heyneman et al organ, Sint Janskathedraal, Den Bosch, NL.

http://www.youtube.com/v/lLuNtyFZU0s

[Moonfish]

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 20, Nos. 2 & 4       Quartetto Esterhazy

I really enjoyed these performances. What is the general opinion about the Esterhazy Quartet?

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[Wakefield]

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 20, Nos. 2 & 4       Quartetto Esterhazy

I really enjoyed these performances. What is the general opinion about the Esterhazy Quartet?

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Grief because they didn't record more Haydn.