What are you listening to now?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

You're very welcome! And just for the record, this knight really isn't into the whole slaying dragons thing 

Enjoy the Danses!  Pay attention how one of the pianos mimics the harp 's glissandi towards the end of the Danse profane...riveting!!!! And then the transition between both parts...so simple and yet so magical. ..How I like this music @

That's reassuring!!    And appreciated! 

Danses is as you say - and well-described! - a delight from start to finish.  Damerini & Rapetti's lighter touch and "Brilliant" engineering work to much better effect in those than in La Mer.  Looking forward to hearing the other disks in the set.

[listener]

songs by GLINKA, sung by Boris Christoff with Alexandre Labinsky, piano
and WALTON:  Te Deum and Gloria, and the 2 Coronation Marches: Orb & Sceptre and Crown Imperial
Choristers of Worcester Cathedral,  City of Birmingham S.O..  Louis Fremaux, cond.

[bhodges]

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Glad to know of this (and your impressions invited). I saw Baráti live in a recital last year - works for solo violin - and thought he was terrific.

--Bruce

[aligreto]

Moussorgsky: Boris Godounov / Gergiev [1872 version]....





On first listen I imagine myself preferring the earlier 1869 version; I have no idea why at this stage. I am not familiar enough with the work yet even to make a valued comparison of both versions.

[André]

Rautavaara:symphonies 1 and 2. Mikko Franck and the Belgian National Orchestra. Then symphonies 5 and 6 under Max Pommer and the Leipzig Radio Symphony.

[SimonNZ]

"Virtuoso Recorder Music" - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Espansiva," Op. 27, FS 60 and then onto Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, FS 97. Such incredible performances. This will make my second pass through both of these symphonies tonight.

[SimonNZ]

"Bella Donna: The Medieval Woman" - Sinfonye

[Todd]

Op 14.

[Que]

Let me do another disc this morning :

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Q

[The new erato]

Played the string quartet last night:

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Considering it is his best known chamber work, it didn't make as strong an impression on me as the other works on this set; i.e. the violin sonata, cello sonata, piano trio or wind quintet with piano,all of which I really liked.

Maybe I'm spoiled by the version by the Ysaye quartet which admittedly is better played.

Also, to continue the French theme, made the first inroads into the Lekeu set on Capriccio which I received yesterday.

[Harry]

This is absolutely one of the best recordings of the Akathist of the Mother of God, in the Syrian tradition. It will not get better as this. It belongs to my top list and is very much recommended.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-akathist-of-mother.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Sweelinck played on a Jan van Covelens organ built probably around 1521, a one manual instrument with only a 8' praestant, and a 16' Bourdon, but boy what a fine sound. Leon Berben at his best. Second rerun.

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

[Drasko]

Beethoven - Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien, Tema con Variazioni (from Suite No.3)
Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire

Mendelssohn - The Fair Melusine & Ruy Blas Overtures
Schubert - The Unfinished
Wiener Philharmoniker

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Gonna look at the Bonus DVD that comes with this (borrowed from my local public library, bless - this time - its peculiar collection development policy) : never seen before footage from the film,"Vlad the Impaler."

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[Karl Henning]

This is absolutely one of the best recordings of the Akathist of the Mother of God, in the Syrian tradition. It will not get better as this. It belongs to my top list and is very much recommended.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-akathist-of-mother.html?spref=tw

Sweelinck played on a Jan van Covelens organ built probably around 1521, a one manual instrument with only a 8' praestant, and a 16' Bourdon, but boy what a fine sound. Leon Berben at his best. Second rerun.

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

Delighted to read both these, mijn vriend.

[Bogey]

[Karl Henning]

Walton
Belshazzar's Feast (1931)
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
Waynflete Singers
L'inviti
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Litton

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[Cato]

I came across this today: an excellent performance (from a concert?) of Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic. 

Available on YouTube also: a download on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OUB0FK/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

[Karl Henning]

I came across this today: an excellent performance (from a concert?) of Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic. 

Available on YouTube also: a download on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OUB0FK/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

Well, I shall have to check that out later!