What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

First disc I started with today.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/backlog-listening-2012-british-light.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Volume 2 of this series is much better as Vol. 1.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/backlog-2010-romantic-orchestral-music.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

A Stravinsky disc everyone should have!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/backlog-2007-stravinsky-igor-works-for.html?spref=tw

[Mandryka]

Bernard Foccroulle plays the Leipzig Chorales on CD 13 of his big box, Doms Freiberg, Silberman. What is impressing me most is the tender lyricism, that and the way the music is so "inhabited", as if he's managed to penetrate through the complexity of the rhetoric, got to the heart of the poetry. I think it's one of the high points in his set.

[Brian]

First listen to this CD of Shostakovich's Stepan Razin, Zoya, and Finnish Suite.



The battle scene from "Zoya" is cutely translated as "Military Problems" 

[San Antone]

Berg : Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Daniel Barenboim

[Moonfish]

Sibelius:
Pohjola's Daughter
Nightride and Sunrise

Gothenburg SO/N Järvi

from
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[listener]

a pair of Cavaillé-Coll organs in recitals at La Chapelle de Conflans (1866, 2 manuals and pedal) and Saint-Pierre, Charenton (1891, 2 manuals, pedal)
works by CAPOCCI, DUBOIS, GUILMANT, SAINT-SAËNS
Domenico Severin, organist

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius
Symphony № 4 in a minor, Op.63
Lahti
Vänskä

[Sergeant Rock]

Nielsen Symphony No.4 "Inextinguishable" ...Schmidt conducting the LSO




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen Symphony No.4 "Inextinguishable" ...Schmidt conducting the LSO

It's a while since I've listened to that one, Sarge.  How do you like the sound?

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius
Symphony № 4 in a minor, Op.63
Lahti
Vänskä

Pounds the table! Amazing performance.

TD -



Listening to Symphony No. 5, Op. 50. I'm on the fence with this performance so far. I don't hear enough aggression or menace in the introduction or when the percussion enters. This is supposed to be more wild IMHO. Will have to play Bernstein's performance to make up for this rather lethargic introduction....but wait....those strings in Mvt. I: Adagio are heavenly. Will be curious to hear how Oramo holds up in the 5th as well.

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius:
Pohjola's Daughter
Nightride and Sunrise

Gothenburg SO/N Järvi

from
[asin] B000SSPL2Q[/asin]

This is one Sibelius cycle (along with Maazel/Vienna, Blomsted/SFSO, Barbirolli/Halle) that I just couldn't get onboard with at all. I think Neeme is a good conductor when he wants to be and when he's inspired but I think he misses so much detail in those Sibelius performances. Sometimes it just felt like he was going through the motions as well.

[Ken B]

Stuff don't have to be long and written for big forces to be great, a lesson still to be learned by some.

Well said. Cough *TurangaliLaMerrelieder* cough.

[Mirror Image]

Some selections from these two sets:





I listened to the following -

The Wood-Nymph, Op. 15
En Saga, Op. 9
The Captive Queen, Op. 48
The Origin of Fire (Original Version), Op. 32
Arioso, Op. 3
Luonnotar, Op. 70
The Rapid-Riders Brides, Op. 33
A Lonely Ski-Trail, JS77b
Twelfth Night (Come Away, Death), Op. 60 No. 1

Next:



A new acquisition. About to listen to Sibelius' VC.

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

The Chung/Previn performance of Sibelius' Violin Concerto was good, but not on par with my favorites. Not a fan of Chung's bowing technique or at least in this particular performance.

Now:



Listening to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43. Awesome performance from Rattle/CBSO.

[Artem]

I was mainly interested in the Piano and Orchestra piece on that CD, because I have the other two works on Mode CD. But the liner notes correctly call it a "modest experiment". Palais de Mari is more engaging. However, Aki Takahashi's performance of it on Mode to my ears sounds more alive and enjoyable as opposed to Hinterhauser's take.

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[Bogey]

BWV 167 for John the Baptist.  Remarkable sound and performance.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable'. Sounds quite nice so far under Gilbert/NY Phil.