What are you listening to now?

[amw]

I like this sonata too. It was that sonata, in fact, which first prompted me to listen seriously to Scarlatti, and it's kind of made me feel happy that someone else has discovered it. I first got to know it through a CD by Albert Fuller, which is a bit sewing machiney, bit still rewarding in parts. Then later I found Scott Ross's recording, which is fabulous - a moment of real grace.

Now that thing you've been listening to, Zacharias. He takes 12 minutes to get to the end of it. It's too much for me, I lose attention. And I don't like the kitschy teardrop pianissimos and the unsuppleness compared with the harpsichordists. 

Yea Zacharias is real slow. I guess I need Ross.

Introducing myself to some Liszt via my signed copy of this, which I really should have opened a long time ago

Listened today from William Tell up to the end of the Dante Sonata. The rest tomorrow. Detailed comments eventually, but the music is surprisingly good. Better than I would have expected Liszt to be actually.

[Mookalafalas]

Decided to make a long-weekend project of listening my way through this box.  On disc 3 and already feeling its going to be a very pleasant and rewarding weekend
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  Playing Lortie's Chopin Etudes right now.  He's definitely not the best, but he's no slouch.  Disc 2 was Lili Boulanger (?).  She apparently died right at the end of WWI.  At first I thought it was overwrought Orff style vocal excess and almost decided to skip over it, but I ended up liking it a lot--for a first listen anyway.  Delius coming up next. 

[EigenUser]

Olivier Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine, Bernstein conducting. I like this version (even though the violin solo and choir aren't quite together in the first movement). It is the only version I've heard where the ondes-Martinot player actually does the 'glissando trille' (tr. 'Trilled glissando') that Messiaen asks for in the score in the second climax of the third movement. All other recordings just do a regular glissando (as opposed to 'wavering' the pitch on the way down). It irritates me when performers leave out these kinds of things that are explicitly asked for by the composer. There aren't many OMs in the world, so take advantage of its full range of effects!
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[Ken B]

Decided to make a long-weekend project of listening my way through this box.  On disc 3 and already feeling its going to be a very pleasant and rewarding weekend
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  Playing Lortie's Chopin Etudes right now.  He's definitely not the best, but he's no slouch.  Disc 2 was Lili Boulanger (?).  She apparently died right at the end of WWI.  At first I thought it was overwrought Orff style vocal excess and almost decided to skip over it, but I ended up liking it a lot--for a first listen anyway.  Delius coming up next.

Great box. But for your next ... have some caffeine handy.

[Que]

Q

[HIPster]

Cafe Zimmermann
J.S. Bach - Concertos
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What a triumph this 6-disc set is!   

[Karl Henning]

Olivier Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine, Bernstein conducting. I like this version (even though the violin solo and choir aren't quite together in the first movement). It is the only version I've heard where the ondes-Martinot player actually does the 'glissando trille' (tr. 'Trilled glissando') that Messiaen asks for in the score in the second climax of the third movement. All other recordings just do a regular glissando (as opposed to 'wavering' the pitch on the way down). It irritates me when performers leave out these kinds of things that are explicitly asked for by the composer. There aren't many OMs in the world, so take advantage of its full range of effects!
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You gave me an idea ...

First-Listen Fridays!

"Uncle Morty"
Out of Last Pieces
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Schuller
Triplum
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Denisov
Crescendo e decrescendo
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Hindemith
Violin Concerto
Isaac Stern, vn
NY Phil
Lenny

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Works w/ Ana-Marija Markovina on a Bösendorfer Imperial piano on 26 discs (all 70+ minutes each) - just getting started today - will report back in a month!    Dave

P.S. Same model piano used below but not likely the exact one -

 

[Ken B]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Works w/ Ana-Marija Markovina on a Bösendorfer Imperial piano on 26 discs (all 70+ minutes each) - just getting started today - will report back in a month!    Dave

P.S. Same model piano used below but not likely the exact one -

 

Keen to hear your reaction.

[pi2000]

Virginia Zeani
http://www.norpete.com/v2313.html

[EigenUser]

You gave me an idea ...

First-Listen Fridays!

"Uncle Morty"
Out of Last Pieces
NY Phil
Lenny

I'm guessing you've heard the Messiaen though, right? A great piece (though it isn't so 'little'!).

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen
Flute Concerto, FS 119
Julius Baker, fl
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

I'm guessing you've heard the Messiaen though, right? A great piece (though it isn't so 'little'!).

Not this recording, though: does not seem to be in The Box!  And yes, I went to The Box to look for that one, first of all . . . .

[EigenUser]

Not this recording, though: does not seem to be in The Box!  And yes, I went to The Box to look for that one, first of all . . . .

Aw, that's disappointing... It is on Spotify, though.

[HIPster]

Amarillis
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Playing CD 4 right now (French Baroque works - gorgeous).

This 4-disc set is essential - particularly at this price.   

Hat tip to Gordo for "forcing" me to purchase this one a few months back.   

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays! (Curious to say, quite possibly.)

Fauré
Ballade in F#, Op.19
Robt Casadesus, pf
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 13 in D (H.I/13)
AAM
Hogwood

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