What are you listening to now?

[Papy Oli]

Good evening.

Dvorak - Piano Trio No.4 "Dumky"
Queyras/Melnikov/Faust

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[aligreto]

Thumbs up!

"Oh Thou Tran-scen-dent. . . "

[aligreto]

I like the edit 

[aligreto]

Gyrowetz: Symphony in F major Op. 6/3....

[Papy Oli]

Bruch - Kol Nidre (Du Pré)

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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

My favorite "O Thou Transcendent" by the by is the Hickox/Philharmonia- which for me has the poise and majesty of a royal coronation.

Do you know it?

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Strange and beautiful music.

Have you by any chance heard Mingardo's recording of Merula's Hor ch'é tempo di morire, "canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna"?

https://www.youtube.com/v/W0ZV8IklstY

No, I have not.

But I'm going to listen to the You Tube clip when I get home because the office is just too loud right now- and I want to give the timbral nuances of the singing the good faith listen.

- Thanks.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I like the edit 

I share your enthusiasm for the edit with sheer delete.

[Florestan]

Gyrowetz: Symphony in F major Op. 6/3....

Pounds the table to the whole series! Essential!

TD on repeat thrice today



The First Suite is a peach, with its unconclusive battle of the three emperors: Baroque vs Classicism vs Romanticism...

Thus Enescu himself: "Both Romantic and Classical by instinct, I endeavored to reach, in all my compositions, an equilibrium whose inner shape is well defined by the music itself."

[Todd]

[Madiel]

Delayed thread duty from yesterday, and likely to be repeated today: Petrushka

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After struggling to feel much enthusiasm for The Firebird from the same set, Petrushka was highly enjoyable.

The funny thing is, reviews of this tend to criticise Petrushka the most.

I don't know whether I need new Stravinsky (this is my only recording of these works) or a new set of ears.

[aligreto]

My favorite "O Thou Transcendent" by the by is the Hickox/Philharmonia- which for me has the poise and majesty of a royal coronation.

Do you know it?

No I do not it. However I am an admirer of Hickox and I can imagine what he might do with the work. Consequently I would be interested in hearing the version.

[aligreto]

I share your enthusiasm for the edit with sheer delete.

[aligreto]

Pounds the table to the whole series! Essential!

Table pounding for a whole series....oh no $$$$$$$ 

[aligreto]

John Kinsella: String Quartet No. 3....

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

A respectable, if prosaic reading of the Symphony in D minor - but what to my mind makes this disk singular is the esp. brilliant reading of the Symphonic Variations, Jorge Bolet piano.  My favorite hands down in the catalog.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 5 in D. One of my favorite symphonies ever and my favorite performance of this symphony to boot. Lately, I seemed to have backtrack a bit and have been listening to the music that got me into classical music in the first-place. RVW's 5th is one of those works that drew me in instantly and made me fall in love with this genre.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 5 in D. One of my favorite symphonies ever and my favorite performance of this symphony to boot. Lately, I seemed to have backtrack a bit and have been listening to the music that got me into classical music in the first-place. RVW's 5th is one of those works that drew me in instantly and made me fall in love with this genre.

The Thomson RVW Fifth is the most beautiful sounding and best recorded Fifth I've ever heard.

Prior to hearing this performance, the only other thing I had heard by RVW was Previn's Second and Third. 

Well, needless to say, after hearing the bucolic magic of the second movement, I just started to buy a lot of RVW as a matter of course. . . and never looked back.

I've never heard anything by RVW that wasn't noble and beautiful in some way.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

No I do not it. However I am an admirer of Hickox and I can imagine what he might do with the work. Consequently I would be interested in hearing the version.

You can get it for a pittance on Amazon- $0.01 used or $7.95 new:

http://www.amazon.com/Vaughan-Williams-Marshall-Roberts-Hic/dp/B00000DP54/ref=sr_1_23?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1452824461&sr=1-23&keywords=vaughan-williams+sea

[Mirror Image]

The Thomson RVW Fifth is the most beautiful sounding and best recorded Fifth I've ever heard.

Prior to hearing this performance, the only other thing I had heard by RVW was Previn's Second and Third. 

Well, needless to say, after hearing the bucolic magic of the second movement, I just started to buy a lot of RVW as a matter of course. . . and never looked back.

I've never heard anything by RVW that wasn't noble and beautiful in some way.

Hear, hear, Blair. A magnificent symphony and performance. I've heard several performances of the 5th before stumbling across Thomson's (Previn, Boult, Haitink, Handley, Barbirolli, etc.), but it was Thomson who turned this symphony into something unforgettable for me.