What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

This method is only technically subverted by the misleadingly-numerated symphonies n^os. 42-56  0:)

If you use K. numbers you'll be fine.

[Madiel]

Now streaming (and also some last night):

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Various reviews have persuaded me that this set from Brilliant is the set to try, over the Suprahon and Naxos rivals. For one thing it's pretty safe to say it has the best sound, and the reviews I've spotted have been consistently positive, saying that the performances are overall the equal of the other sets, sometimes better.

I've been browsing it by... Burghauser number. Currently trying the Silhouettes (B.98).

[Florestan]

Just finished this:



Four Songs op.15
Three Songs from Peer Gynt op. 23
Six Songs on Poems by Holger Drachmann op. 49
Six Songs on Poems by Vilhelm Krah op. 60

First volume in a series of seven. Splendid, musically, performance-wise and sonically. The booklet includes the original poems as well as  full English and German translations. Highly recommended for lovers of Lieder.

I can hardly wait listening to the next volume --- scheduled for tonight.

[Madiel]

String Quartet No.9

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A work that has gradually risen up the Shostakovich rankings for me over time. Best of all is the closing Allegro, and it certainly doesn't hurt that it's by far the longest movement.

[Maestro267]

Brian: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Moscow SO/Rowe

[amw]

A work that has gradually risen up the Shostakovich rankings for me over time. Best of all is the closing Allegro, and it certainly doesn't hurt that it's by far the longest movement.

One of my favourites as well, and also one that has gradually risen up....


Also I'm listening to Mahler 5 (Bernstein, Sony) and I think I can kind of put my finger on why I've been so much less enthusiastic about music lately: it's difficult for me to find anything that equals in emotional intensity all the, uh, falling in love I've been doing over the past month+.   

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Water Goblin and Noonday Witch [Kubelik]....

[aligreto]

How odd. I was looking at that album today.

Fate and destiny; you need to own it 

[Brian]

Also I'm listening to Mahler 5 (Bernstein, Sony) and I think I can kind of put my finger on why I've been so much less enthusiastic about music lately: it's difficult for me to find anything that equals in emotional intensity all the, uh, falling in love I've been doing over the past month+.   

Hey, congrats, enjoy it!

I find that many of the best days in my life are without any listening time, simply because they're spent with friends and loved ones, or traveling.

[Wanderer]

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[Todd]

[jlaurson]

#morninglistening to #ReWriteofSpring by @AarhusJazzOrch on @dacaporecords. A tribute to S... http://ift.tt/24zO2f4


#morninglistening to #Buxtehude on @challengerec w/#TonKoopman & ABO, one bloody good disc... http://ift.tt/1t39jSi
Organ Works, v.3. You can really hear where Bach got some of his ideas... down to the Passacaglia perhaps.

[Brian]

Giving a first try to this performance of an old favorite work.

[Ken B]

Bits of A Little Night Music by Sondheim. I am going to a performance in Stratford later this month.

[Pat B]

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony (Markevitch). Sounds great so far. H/T to Que for his persistent recommendation.

Giving a first try to this performance of an old favorite work.

Thoughts?

[André]

We might even call it the "Mozart limit" 

Seriously:  lowest-numbered Mozart symphony to which one deliberately returns . . . .

For me it's no. 25. Under that, they are...underage.

[Ken B]

Bartok
Violin Concerto 2
Dumay/Nagano

[André]

Meeting with 4 friends this PM to assess sundry and many versions of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps. One of the guests will bring the Decca 100th Anniversary box (38 versions) and another, Sony's more modest 10 versions box. Considering the scope of what will be on offer, I will bring 2 versions not duplicated in either.

[Pat B]

For me it's no. 25. Under that, they are...underage.

Actually, none of the lower ones are minor.

Ugh. That was bad. Sorry.

[Que]

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#morninglistening to #Buxtehude on @challengerec w/#TonKoopman & ABO, one bloody good disc... http://ift.tt/1t39jSi
Organ Works, v.3. You can really hear where Bach got some of his ideas... down to the Passacaglia perhaps.

That set is on my wish list!   

We are both Koopman fans...

Q