What are you listening to now?

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Now:



Listening to Symphonic Dances, Op. 45. Great performance. I really like Polyansky's Rachmaninov series on Chandos.

[North Star]

Listened to the second of three disc of songs from here, good stuff.

Rakhmaninov
Songs
Elisabeth Söderström
Vladimir Ashkenazy
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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all,

Some of Papa's Trios from the BAT box.

[Sergeant Rock]

Lloyd Symphony No. 11 (1985), the composer conducting the Albany SO




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[Mandryka]

Andrew Parott/Taverner Choir sing John Taverner's Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas.,

This is a magnificent recording, the best Taverner CD I've heard, maybe the best CD of British choral music.  It's human, you sense real individuals, with real characters. Everything is full of human passion, both the Taverner mass and the chant. There is a lot of chant, but for me that's not a hardship when the chanting is as thrilling as this. Everything is clear. The interpretation sounds just right to me, the intonation, tempos and phrasing.

Even from the point of view of sound quality it's perfect. Truthful - you feel like you're in the best seat in the cathedral, just the right distance from the singers. The way the engineers have created a sense of place is exceptional.

The mass is less wild than Taverner's Missa Corona Spinea, but is no less inspired. It's also less dominated by virtuoso music for high voices - so Parrott's voice leading is much appreciated.

[André]

Atterberg: symphony no 6, 'Dollar Symphony'.  Ari Rasilainen, CPO



Weber: Abu Hassan, singspiel. Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, Ingeborg Hallstein. (RCA)



Brahms: symphonie no. 1, Chicago Symphony, James Levine (RCA). Mamma mia ! Blut und Donner !

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Cool.

Indeed.

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Listening to Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49. Great as usual.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Delius in a more rambunctious mood, Paris-inspired :

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[aligreto]

Brahms: Symphony No. 4...





Brahms' fourth symphony is the one that I have to listen to most attentively as there is so much going on in there, particularly in the outer movements.

[Daverz]

Haydn, String Quartet Op. 50 No. 6 - Fine Arts Quartet, from the complete Vox set of the string quartets.  Best $3 I've ever spent.

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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Symphony no. 3. Something very new to me and I am enjoying this kind of music more and more at the moment.

[Daverz]

Symphony no. 3. Something very new to me and I am enjoying this kind of music more and more at the moment.

Gird your loins for No. 4, it's a bit of a shock after the pastoral No. 3.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Gird your loins for No. 4, it's a bit of a shock after the pastoral No. 3.

I know and love No. 4.
It is that one and no. 8 which I have been particularly find of, but I haven't yet explored the others very much.

[André]

Symphonies 1 and 4, First piano concerto (Emmanuel Ax). RCA. Splendiferous playing, deep and finely honed recordings (Medinah Temple, Chicago for the symphonies, Orchestra Hall,  Chicago for the concerto and Requiem). Electric readings by a youthful, thoughtful master musician (Levine). In the concerto Ax is a sterling, worthy partner (it goes that way, not the other way around).

I have yet to listen to symphonies 2 and 3, and the German Requiem, but the first two discs of this 4-fer are a smash hit.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Orchestral music by Australian composer Brett Dean.



Amazing soundworlds, orchestration is really wonderful!

[San Antone]

Kristoff K.Roll : French sound duo

[TheGSMoeller]

Both arrived today, both fantastic. The type of performances that could easily catapult these powerful works to the top of my favorite listening pile.

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[Brahmsian]

[Ray batsignal]

Ooh, thank you for the signal! 

[Mookalafalas]

This has become my all time favorite disc of Schubert solo piano.

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