What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

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<rolleyes> well...thanks for taking the time to reply

I'm just joking around, Simon. Please realize this fact.

TD:



Listening to Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 with Earl Wild and Jascha Horenstein/Royal Philharmonic. Absolutely outstanding! Even better than Ashkenazy (Previn and Haitink). Can't wait to dig into the rest of this PC cycle from Wild/Horenstein. The next Rachmaninov PC cycle I'll listen to is Hough/Litton.

[SimonNZ]

I'm just joking around, Simon. Please realize this fact.

Yeah, sorry. Got up on the wrong side this morning.

Thanks for the comments, Aligreto.

[Mirror Image]

Yeah, sorry. Got up on the wrong side this morning.

Thanks for the comments, Aligreto.

No worries, Simon. I'll give a listen to that work later on. I will freely admit that I'm not much for Contemporary classical music (or at least of the avant-garde variety) , but I'll certainly give it a shot.

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Listening to Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the LSO. Sounds absolutely wonderful so far. I love Rozhdestvensky's conducting anyway.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Have I ever mentioned how much I love these performances by the Trio élégiaque?  Come to think on it, I may not have but at the risk of repetition permit me to say that they are unerring, spirited, sparkling, indeed  effervescent.  Everything I've wanted LvB's trios to be - Beaux Arts Trio-good, that's how wonderful this group is.  And at the price, an exceptional bargain that belongs in every classical collection. 

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[kishnevi]

Have I ever mentioned how much I love these performances by the Trio élégiaque?  Come to think on it, I may not have but at the risk of repetition permit me to say that they are unerring, spirited, sparkling, indeed  effervescent.  Everything I've wanted LvB's trios to be - Beaux Arts Trio-good, that's how wonderful this group is.  And at the price, an exceptional bargain that belongs in every classical collection. 

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But I have BAT! Do I need this?
(In fact, since I have the BAT box,  I have them 2x!)
TD
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First Listen First Day continues. Earlier today the companion CD with Symphony 2 and Kullervo.
Deserves to be known as Finland's Best Composer as much as Sibelius.

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Listening to Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. Absolutely exquisite.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Sandrine Piau's Opera Seria recital cd is pure delight.

She skates and pirouettes with the silveriest of ease through Handel.

I love listening to this cd when at work or when answering correspondences at home.

Light, beautiful, and not too emotionally distracting.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

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Listening to Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the LSO. Sounds absolutely wonderful so far. I love Rozhdestvensky's conducting anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfAy2KDMCE

Have you heard the way Rozhdestvensky does the last four minutes or so of Sibelius' The Wood Nymph?

Pure EP-IC.

He approaches the horns and strings like its Mahler or Wagner.

I don't particularly care for the slower tempo he takes for the first two-thirds of the piece- but his treatment of the ending section is absolutely tremendous. 

I was cheering out loud when I heard this- as its the most "Nordic Superhero" version of a Sibelius piece that I've ever heard (well, this and Stokowski's fifties recording of the first movement of Sibelius' First Symphony).

[kishnevi]

First Listen FirstDay continues on
First, archival material from the Rubinstein gigabox, including a performance of ZD7's favorite piano concerto

And now PI Reicha
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Quintets in G Major Op. 88/3 and B Flat Major Op. 100/6, with an Adagio for Cor Anglais in d minor.
Musically pleasing, but it is regrettable that of the three males in the group photo, none knows how to tie a tie properly

[Mirror Image]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfAy2KDMCE

Have you heard the way Rozhdestvensky does the last four minutes or so of Sibelius' The Wood Nymph?

Pure EP-IC.

He approaches the horns and strings like its Mahler or Wagner.

I don't particularly care for the slower tempo he takes for the first two-thirds of the piece- but his treatment of the ending section is absolutely tremendous. 

I was cheering out loud when I heard this- as its the most "Nordic Superhero" version of a Sibelius piece that I've ever heard (well, this and Stokowski's fifties recording of the first movement of Sibelius' First Symphony).

I have not heard this performance of Sibelius' The Wood Nymph, but it certainly sounds like it's right up my alley. Thanks for mentioning it. I'll give his performance a listen at some point.

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Listening to The Bells, Op. 35. Great performance by Polyansky and all involved.

It's basically this recording reissued:

[SimonNZ]

Olga Victorova's Towards the Rhythm - Dmitry Liss, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxFjP3DPoTs

[Wanderer]

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[Florestan]

Your sense of disenchantment roused my interest so I gave it a listen. TBH the musical language of the piece is not one that I fully comprehend but I must say that I did enjoy the work.

+ 1.

The strikethrough is due to the fact that comprehension is not my main interest in listening to music. I fully subscribe to Hermann Scherchen´s dictum: "Music does not have to be understood. It has to be listened to."

From the same Youtube source I liked this even better:

https://www.youtube.com/v/cUPpOtCdzR0

Kirill Fandeev - "The Garden", symphonic poem

TD



CD 1

[Harry]

Sandrine Piau's Opera Seria recital cd is pure delight.

She skates and pirouettes with the silveriest of ease through Handel.

I love listening to this cd when at work or when answering correspondences at home.

Light, beautiful, and not too emotionally distracting.

But then, She is distracting..................

[Florestan]

CD 1

Continue with CD 2. The tone this Mario Ferraris (never heard about him before) gets from his violin is heavenly. Pure aural bliss.

[Tsaraslondon]

Very English choral tradition (the Allegri is sung in English after all), but none the worse for that, with Roy Goodman's pure boy soprano soaring over the choir with his stunning top Cs.

[Florestan]

Enjoying this immensely, from the epic violin concerto to the melancholy cello concerto to the tranquil Morning Song for piano and orchestra.

[Maestro267]

Penderecki: Piano Concerto, 'Resurrection'
Barry Douglas (piano)/Warsaw PO/Wit

The Polish composer turns 82 today.