What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

First Listen

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

This is superb. 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Still there'll be more :

[NikF]

Mahler: Symphony No.6 - Bernstein/Vienna Philharmonic.

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This is miles apart from the performance I have of the same work by Mariss Jansons with the LSO. I feel like I've been pummelled mercilessly. Bernstein really doesn't mess around.
I've a few other versions of this I'd like to hear (including Abbado in Lucerne) but for now I'll take a breather...

[Mookalafalas]

Not sure why, but am listening to Dimitri Mitroupolos conducting Samuel Barber's "Vanessa". 
   I think I'm enjoying it

[kishnevi]

Relisten.
In the form of CD 2 of the Sony budget box.

The Stravinsky again underwhelmed me, but the Schuller made a deep impression this time.

[Que]

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[Bogey]

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Nice!

TD:

[North Star]

William Schuman
Symphonies nos. 4, 5 & 7
Schwarz & Seattle Symphony
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Earlier:

Barber
Capricorn Concerto
Stéphane Rancourt (ob), John Gracie (tp), Karen Jones (ft)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop

[Karl Henning]

... Vacation and doing other things (photography, studying chinese, taking care of kids).  [....]

I misread that as studying cheese.  Wish I might lay the blame for that on the lower-case c, but, no, I was just lazy 

[Karl Henning]

First Listen

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

I'm an interested party, of course;  but I hope you think well of it!

[Karl Henning]

This is superb. 

Ah! I need only have gone on to the next page! 

[Karl Henning]

William Schuman
Symphonies nos. 4, 5 & 7
Schwarz & Seattle Symphony
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What do you think?

[North Star]

I'm an interested party, of course;  but I hope you think well of it!

Ah! I need only have gone on to the next page! 

What do you think?

Great stuff, Karl.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon,

Earlier on :

Richter / Beethoven-PC 1 and Chopin-Etudes

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Scott Ross / Scarlatti-keyboard sonatas (CD32)

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Now :

Gulda - Beethoven - PC 2 & 3

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[niknala]

Now playing:
Robert Schumann – Fantasia in C major Op.17
Frederic Chopin – Scherzo No.4 Op.54 in E Major
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d'eau, Miroirs No.2: Oiseaux Tristes
Alexander Scriabin – Sonata No 5 in F-sharp Major Op.53
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude in G-Sharp Minor Op.32/12
— Sviatoslav Richter – from the fourth concert in the historic series at Carnegie Hall (Columbia—Sony Classical)

   

[Karl Henning]

Relisten.
In the form of CD 2 of the Sony budget box.

The Stravinsky again underwhelmed me, but the Schuller made a deep impression this time.

Too bad about Agon; glad that the Schuller is ascendant 

[Mirror Image]

Earlier:



Listened to Ballad of Heroes and Sinfonia da Requiem.



Listened to Nocturne.

Now:



Listened to Symphony No. 1. Now listening to the Piano Concerto.

[SonicMan46]

Bruckner, Anton - Symphonies w/ Haitink & the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - after a LONG hiatus, I decided to return to some Bruckner symphonies - I have just 3 sets (others w/ Jochum & Wand), all recorded in the 1960s & 1970s - anything 'new' of more recent origin?  Dave

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the Kata Kabanova Suite. Great stuff.

[North Star]

Very interesting works by a Ukrainian friend of Pärt's.  Silvestrov has a philosophical, "post-modern" view of music :  "My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists," and raises questions about the contemporary composer's musical language and intent.  I need to listen to his 5th Symphony, reckoned to be his most impressive composition.   

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Bagatellen on Youtube, beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuWF7Yn1jw