What are you listening to now?

[Drasko]

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[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - Piano & Violin Concertos + Cello Sonatas w/ Bruno Weil & Tafelmusik - Dave

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

The Duparc Weekend continues :

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the Enigma Variations. One of those works, especially conducted by Boult, that never get old or tiresome. A masterpiece.

[Mookalafalas]

I eas getting close to posting you missing!

TD Igor, Petrouchka, Maazel

No, I've been lurking. Check "listening now" a lot. Vacation and doing other things (photography, studying chinese, taking care of kids).  Still listening like mad .
  I was thinking of your expression "wading through the pile" yesterday and was thinking how negative it sounded, even if said jokingly.  Perhaps "Splashing in the iridescent ocean"? Diving into sonic culture? Frolicking in the seas of aural bliss? Hmmm...pretty lame sounding.

  I'm listening to a disc now I couldn't even find a picture of on Google. Ghislain Potvliegh's "Adieu".  He or she apparently uses a "Tangent Piano"--a particularly flat sounding fortepiano--low in resonance, high in timbre.  It's one of those things that I think would grow on you if you heard it a lot, but what are the chances of that? So much more to listen to! (Actually, I just restarted it...the sound is so primitive that, paradoxically, it almost comes across as electronica.)

[North Star]

Britten
String Quartets nos. 1-3
Endellion String Quartet
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[Mookalafalas]

I know why I'm more active--I have a proofreading job to do I mostly quit that work. I hate it so much I constantly want to go online and chat.

  The Kuijkens with Leonhardt.

[SimonNZ]

Peteris Vasks' Duo for violin and cello

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin, Sol Gabetta, cello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSQuKJ_dFO4

edit: I wonder if the frantic bits are meant to quote/echo the last part of Vivaldi's Summer

[Pat B]

edit: I wonder if the frantic bits are meant to quote/echo the last part of Vivaldi's Summer

They must have been. Those parts and a couple others also reminded me of Glass. That's not criticism, but this is: the whole thing was repetitive and almost entirely in homorhythm. Gabetta seemed like she was sight-reading. I liked the big glissandi at 8:10-8:20 though.

After that I listened to the Xenakis Duo from the same concert. I liked this composition and performance much better.

http://www.youtube.com/v/HcjzjqgUc9M

[Mandryka]

Giulio Monaco and team play some motets by Luca Marenzio. These Marenzio recordings by Monaco on Tactus are a real revelation, I've started to enjoy Marenzio more than any other chromatic madrigalist as a result.

[The new erato]

I've been listening to this recently:

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Very varied and fine stuff if you're into concertos with string orchestra.  I cannot imagine eg listeners into Holmboe's chamber concertos feeling shortchanged by this disc. 

[Mookalafalas]

Finished this:



now playing this
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[SimonNZ]

Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Ian Bostridge, tenor, Marie Luise Neunecker, horn, Ingo Metzmacher, cond.

the last time Bostridge's name would be in small print, his breakthrough Schone Mullerin on Hyperion released the same year

[SimonNZ]

Britten's The Prince Of The Pagodas - Oliver Knussen, cond.

[North Star]

First Listen

Jack Gallagher
Symphony No. 2 "Ascendant"
LSO
Falletta
https://www.youtube.com/v/C6oYSloDXbE

[SimonNZ]

Turning off Prince Of The Pagodas which was boring me, and giving this recording a first listen:



Schubert's Winterreise - Peter Anders, tenor, Günther Weissenborn, piano

...and being knocked sideways

[aligreto]

[prémont]

This  Andrea Gabrieli material was recorded in the cathedral of Valvasone. I wonder if there are any other recordings of that organ. It is now on spotify and qobuz.

Yes, the most of Molardi's Merulo set on Divox.

[Henk]