What are you listening to now?

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Listening to Symphony No. 1 in A flat, Op. 55. Sounds quite nice so far. I loved Oramo's previous Elgar recording, so I'm hoping this one is just as good.

[SimonNZ]

Schubert's Octet - Berlin Philharmonic Octet

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[SimonNZ]

^Is the one I used above not showing for anyone else? If not, then thanks.

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^Is the one I used above not showing for anyone else? If not, then thanks.

I can see it, but the color of the album cover is darkened out.

[SimonNZ]

"On The Banks Of The Seine: Music Of The Trouveres" - Dufay Collective

[listener]

some 1960's music from Czechoslovakia
Vladimir SOMMER: Vocal Symphony
commenting on death through settings of Kafka, Dostoyevsky (Raskolikov's dream) and Cesare Pavese
Peter Ustinov, off-stage narrator ( and possibly recorded elsewhere), Nancy Williams, msop., The Ambrosian Singers
Jan KLUSÁK: First Invention   Luboš FIŠER: 15 Prints after Dürer's Apocalypse
London Symphony O.,    Igor Buketoff, cond.
HAYDN:  Symphonies 15, 16, 17
Vienna State Opera O.     Max Goberman, cond.
and a collection of études from SOR, AGUADO, COSTE to DODGSON and SEGOVIA inter alia
Óscar Cáceres, guitar

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Listening to Concerto for Orchestra. Love this work. Excellent performance from Gardner/BBC SO.

[SimonNZ]

Masao Ohki's Symphony No.5 "Hiroshima" - Takuo Yuasa, cond.

In just under 44 hours from now it will be (Japanese time) 70 years since the devistation of Hiroshima. And of Nagasaki three days later on the 9th.

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Listening to Concerto for Cello and Strings. Such a beautiful work. I'm eagerly anticipating the next ECM recording of Tabakova's music.

[Moonfish]

Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony & Symphony No. 5           London PO/Boult

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[Que]

Perfect morning  listening:

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Decided to do another run of this set - a Golden Standard IMO.

Q

[The new erato]

Summer time means less listening (after returning from 3 weeks of vacation in Germany/Austria/Hungary/Czechia/Slovakia I have spent quite some time trying to fix the worst excesses of the "garden", visiting my cabin and generally exercising), but last night I listened to nr 15 from this:

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Good, but without the easy, natural flow (IIRC) of my favorite Haitink version. This is one of the most "musical" and least demonstrative of Shostakovich symponies (except for no 1 and 9), perhaps because he, like in  the quartets, was writing just for himself.

[Mandryka]

Hans Petermandl plays Schubert 960, a performance which stands out because of its confident, tough, almost aggressive style, not  edgy like Erdmann, not lyrical and timid  like Schanbel. I'd be very keen to know what other people who are more familiar with Schubert think of Petermandl's understanding of the music.

[The new erato]

Also last night, disc 1 with symphonies 1 and 2 (Antares) from this:

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I find the recording/playing very good, and the music is very fine though perhaps not very symphonic. This music deserves an occasional airing as a substitute for endless reruns of Scheherazade.

[Harry]

The last disc of this box, that gets an unqualified recommendation from me. The other 5 discs however need to be sampled before you are going to buy this box. Its very cheap, granted, but sample it anyways.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/new-acquisition-gabrieli-andrea.html?spref=tw

[Camphy]

Haydn, Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI: 27-29

[Harry]

Some very fine Orthodox religious music.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-theotoke-parthene.html?spref=tw

[TheGSMoeller]

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Listening to Concerto for Cello and Strings. Such a beautiful work. I'm eagerly anticipating the next ECM recording of Tabakova's music.

Nice one, John. One of my favorite discs of new music from the past few years. Truly stunning and original compositions.

[Karl Henning]

The name, of course, is almost tobacconist