What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 11 соль минор « 1905-й год », соч. 103 [ Symphony № 11 in g minor, Opus 103 "1905" ] (1956-57)
LSO
Мстислав Леопольдович [ Mstislav Leopoldovich (Rostropovich) ]

[Brian]

Have you heard Pletnev/RNO?

Not yet! It's on DG, right?

[The new erato]

Ross Wood etc play a requiem by Pierre Manchicourt. This is my first experience of this composer, who I just stumbled across via spotify. Once I started to listen I couldn't stop, because the music is so rich melodically, rhythmically and contrapuntally. It is maybe to sensual to be an enduring favourite for me, but nevertheless I shall have to get to know this composer better - if anyone knows anything good to listen to please let me know.

I seem to remember that there is a Manchicourt disc in the "Secret Labyrinth" box by Huelgas/Nevel.

[mc ukrneal]

Not yet! It's on DG, right?

Yes

[Mandryka]

I seem to remember that there is a Manchicourt disc in the "Secret Labyrinth" box by Huelgas/Nevel.

Yes I noticed that, and anything Nevel does is going to be interesting. In fact I've just ordered a Manchicourt disc by the Brabant Ensemble, really because I really like the sound they make - quite high, women and men, small, well balanced. I have their recording of Gombert motets and I think it's wonderful.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Very nice.  Hope you love that incredible 3rd movement Romanza.

Love the kitty avatar btw. 

I loved that movement especially. And thank you! That's my cat. :3

[North Star]

Hindemith
Kammermusik
Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Chailly
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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

More Bax : Christmas Eve.

[aligreto]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 [Haitink]....

[listener]

DOHNANYI:  Piano Quintets 1 in c, op. 1  and 2 in e^b op. 26 (that's a nasty key for the string players, 6 flats in the key signature)  Serenade for string trio in C, op. 10
The Schubert Ensemble of London     "Brahms light"
PROKOFIEV Songs - The Ugly Duckling, op. 18 + opp. 23, 35, 68, 104
Carole Farley, sop.  Roger Vignoles, piano

[Dee Sharp]

Szymanowski & Hahn: Works for Violin and Piano/Tasmin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins. Another excellent disc from this pair.  I enjoyed the Szymanowski more that the Hahn who got a bit syrupy but an outstanding recital disc overall.

[SimonNZ]

I loved that movement especially. And thank you! That's my cat. :3

Very pretty! What is the cat's name?


now:



"Conversation Galante" - Musica Antiqua Koln

[Mirror Image]

Now --- a new acquisition:

[Gurn Blanston]

I love the way Podger & Cooper attack this music and break it out of that old 'rococo' mold it was cast in for so long. A lot of Mozart lovers over the last 2 centuries managed to do him more harm than good by making his music 'pretty'. This suits me very well indeed! 

[Mirror Image]

Now:

Rach's The Bells w/ Svetlanov

[Todd]

From the bog box.  Meh+.

[SonicMan46]

I love the way Podger & Cooper attack this music and break it out of that old 'rococo' mold it was cast in for so long. A lot of Mozart lovers over the last 2 centuries managed to do him more harm than good by making his music 'pretty'. This suits me very well indeed! 

Hi Gurn - I own that box and enjoy the performances - have 4 different recordings of these works (but of course all of the others are fewer discs) - guess that my other favorite (w/ 4 CDs) are the ones shown below - Dave

 

[kishnevi]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 11 соль минор « 1905-й год », соч. 103 [ Symphony № 11 in g minor, Opus 103 "1905" ] (1956-57)
LSO
Мстислав Леопольдович [ Mstislav Leopoldovich (Rostropovich) ]

And?
TD
Earlier
Ormandy conducting Tchaikovsky as channelled by Bogatryev
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_in_E_flat_(Tchaikovsky)
And then Variations on a Rococo Theme with Leonard Rose as cellist.
First listen to the symphony, which struck me as a sibling of the ballets more than the other symphonies...which is perhaps why PITch abandoned it, but it desrves to be better known: a melodically inventive piece.
Now
Leonhardt playing Bach's French Suites CD 48 of the SEON box.

[SimonNZ]

From the bog box.  Meh+.

That box has The Music Party's recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, doesn't it? Have you played that one yet? I seem to recall that was another of those "overplayed work made fresh again" albums.

[CRMS]

Richard Strauss - Ein Alpensinfonie
Saito Kinen Orch. / Daniel Harding

I had a vinyl recording of this work for decades but rarely played, finding it a bit too repetitive & over-the-top * but after watching a Berlin Philharmonic / Digital ConcertHall broadcast of it with Semyon Bychkov, I found it rather more interesting ... but still repetitive & over-the-top!  That did prompt me to go looking for a good recording of the work ... and I found this one.  Yes it is rather repetitive and over-the-top but fun in small doses!

* - Albeit not as much as the Sinfonia Domestica, but hey ... any piece that calls for 20 horns has something going for it!