What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Cracking cast there, Karlo!

[North Star]

Cracking cast there, Karlo!

Yes indeed! And the music is good so far, too.

[ritter]

New arrival!  First listen:

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From disc 1, the 1950 Eroica with the Concertgebouw...wunderbar!

[SimonNZ]

New arrival!  First listen:

From disc 1, the 1950 Eroica with the Concertgebouw...wunderbar!

Wonderful! (Do they reproduce the original sleeves for each of the discs?)




playing now:



Handel's Messiah - Paul McCreesh, cond.

[ritter]

Wonderful! (Do they reproduce the original sleeves for each of the discs?)

Nice LP sleeve! But no, unfortunately the discs in the new set come all in cardboard sleeves that replicate the cover of the box...

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Violin Sonatas K. 377, 303 & 304 played by Steinberg and Uchida




Sarge

[Brian]

How much of the Big Reiner Box can I stream in one day??



R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra (later, GMG-prize-winning version)
Smetana - Bartered Bride overture
Dvorak - Carnival
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Byron Janis)
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emil Gilels)
Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead
Mahler - Four

Following Mahler's Fourth with Josef Strauss's waltz Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich - you may not like Viennese waltzes, but the transition from the end of M4 to the soft woodwind birdcalls of this Strauss piece is one of those rare flawless moments where it seems like one piece was destined by the heavens to follow another.

And, of course, Mahler isn't really THAT far away from the world of the Strauss family.

Up next, also Reiner: Haydn 88 and 95!

[Wanderer]

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[SimonNZ]

Great! Who knows, I may see you there. Full disclosure: the article I'm writing is the programme notes for that very concert. 

PS, the scheduled violinist is Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is highly regarded (I have not yet heard her). She recently suffered tendonitis that caused her to cancel her November and December concerts, so hoping she will be recovered by February.

--Bruce

Oh my! You're in for a treat! She's one of the most interesting and exciting violinists of recent times.

If you're involved will you have an opportunity to meet her?

(also: is there any way you can share the programme notes with us at any point? I'd be very interested)

[listener]

ZEMLINSKY:  Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) "short' version which I think I prefer, and Psalm
XIII
Chailly and the Berlin Radio S.O.  with chorus for the Psalm
MASSENET: Ève   an French-style oratorio
Euregio Symphony Orch., Three Nation Choir, Jeanpierre Faber, cond.
from a festival performance in Passau involving German, Czech and Austrian groups.

[king ubu]

first listen - I'm hooked!

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[bhodges]

Oh my! You're in for a treat! She's one of the most interesting and exciting violinists of recent times.

If you're involved will you have an opportunity to meet her?

(also: is there any way you can share the programme notes with us at any point? I'd be very interested)

Thank you, Simon!  I may get over there (concert is 7 February), but won't know for awhile, unfortunately. I have heard great things about Kopatchinskaja but we just haven't crossed paths yet - hope to remedy soon. I did meet Anu Komsi about 7-8 years ago when she was here - lovely person.

And I will PM you about the notes!

--Bruce

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Mutter and Mozart - works for me!. Love her recording of the Violin Concertos, coupled with the Sinfonia Concertante with Yuri Bashmet, and alsoher disc of  the Piano Trios with Previn and Muller-Schott.

I absolutely treasure Mutter's Sinfonia Concertante as well- especially her racy first movement- which to my ears doesn't sound 'aggressive' but rather 'right.'

It really does have an exuberant eloquence all its own.

I play it incessantly but never too often.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Segerstam's Sibelius' First with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra on Chandos has the most powerful brass I've ever heard in the first movement- its thrilling and ennobling in every way. Is this the music of Nordic Super Heroes?- I think it is.



Sea Hawk suite



Sursum Corda

[kishnevi]

SEON box CDs 51/52

Strange this recording did not do better in the blind listening.

[Mirror Image]

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Outstanding recording.

[Todd]

Some of year three.  So, so good.

[Mirror Image]

Oh, another favourite Igor piece! 

The hits just keep on coming.    That is perhaps my favourite disc now, in that entire Sony Stravinsky box. 

Why don't you just say you like all of Stravinsky's ballets, Ray?

Thread duty:

[Mirror Image]

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 from this set:

[SimonNZ]

Kurtag's Kafka-Fragmente - Juliane Banse, soprano, András Keller, violin

Was there some recent talk of Barbara Hannigan upthread? It wasn't in relation to this piece was it? Because listening to this now I'm thinking how perfect it would be for her.

And now I need to set up this video, that continues to amaze no matter how many times I see it, for another watch after the Kurtag:

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