What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

It is nearly midnight, and my day has been devoid of Dvorak.

This is unacceptable.

Harnoncourt! Bring me the 8th!

[Mirror Image]

Nope. Sorry, I thought that was clear from my reference to a streaming service on the other thread. Most definitely planning to get one unless the last 3 symphonies are inexplicably awful, but I only own the tiniest scrap of Nielsen thus far. Accidental side-effects of my Holmboe collection...

Well, when you're considering getting a symphony set, let me know. I'll help you figure out which one will probably be up your alley. Oh and the last three symphonies are anything but awful --- they're masterpieces IMHO.

[Mookalafalas]

Quantz. Terrifically slow and tasteful.

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[Todd]

[aligreto]

Brahms: Trio for piano, violin and horn Op. 40....

[Harry]

I finally had some time for listening, be it only one CD, but beggars can't be choosers. My garden is eating up my listening time.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/06/gouvy-theodore-1819-1898-serenades-for.html?spref=tw

[Mandryka]

My attention was caught by the Scarlatti k426 here played by someone called Eva Vicens, which is imaginative and is on a very bizarre instrument. Is it an Antunes harpsichord? Or some sort Spanish instrument?  It's on spotify and no doubt on other platforms. She appears to be a professional musician

https://evavicens.wordpress.com/

[Ken B]

Weinberg, Symphony 6
Botstein, American Symphony Orchestra

Update
Sallinen, Symphony 3
Milhaud Symphony 11  I want to change my vote in the elimination thread!
Eisenga, Piano Concerto

[aligreto]

Frescobaldi: Il Primo Libro Delle Canzoni Vol II....





I equally enjoyed this as much as I did Vol. I; good music, good playing and good recording.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - Vol. 2 of the Divertimenti, Op. 16 w/ Marcello Gatti on the same Grenser flute reproduction - lovely recording on the Accent label - just arrived today.  Dave

Boccherini, Luigi - Divertimenti w/ the PI group 'Piccolo Concerto Wien' - really Flute Sextets - listening to the first disc below (left) w/ Marcello Gatti on a copy (Rudolf Tutz, 1997) of a Carl A. Grenser (Dresda) flute, ca. 1770 (pic of him @ the bottom - not sure which flute he is playing in that photo) - this CD has 3 works (nearly 71 mins); there are 3 others in the Op. 16 group - found V. 2 (below right) on Amazon and ordered a 'used' disc - this music is delightful and enjoying the performances of this group - attached an AllMusic review for those interested.  Dave

 

[Pat B]

My attention was caught by the Scarlatti k426 here played by someone called Eva Vicens, which is imaginative and is on a very bizarre instrument. Is it an Antunes harpsichord? Or some sort Spanish instrument?  It's on spotify and no doubt on other platforms. She appears to be a professional musician

I'm listening now. Don't know what an Antunes harpsichord is. This sounds more like a clavichord.

[Karl Henning]

I want to change my vote in the elimination thread!

Why, of course you do!

[Spineur]

Virginia Zeani was born in 1925 at Solovastru, a small transilvanian town in Romania.
She studied first at Bucharest conservatory and then with Aureliano Perile in Milan.

She did most of the lyric soprano roles on many international opera houses.  She is best known for her interpretation of Violetta, Cleopatre (Haendel, Guilio Cesare) and Blanche (Poulenc Dialogue des carmelites).

I find her interpretation of "Se Pieta" from Giulio Cesare, particularly moving:

https://www.youtube.com/v/RZfoAT9_UPA

I have only heard few of her recording and after hearing this, I plan do do a lot more. 

[Todd]

Disc 1.

[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Concert for Fløjte og orkester, FS.119 (1926)
Julius Baker, fl
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Serenata in vano, FS.68 (1914)

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[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Molto adagio (3 Piano Pieces, Op.59 posth. FS.131 № 2) — 1928
Herman Koppel

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[listener]

a gifted disc, so I had better listen quickly to keep friends
a musical about Shakespeare and a nephew of Nostrademus
Something Rotten!
and a disc from the Stokowski box,
SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Delila excerpts
Rise Stevens, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Robert Shaw Chorale
NBC Orchestra
does contain the Bacchanale and Mon Coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
TCHAIKOWSKY: Eugene Onegin: Tatiana's Letter scene
Lucia Albanese, Stokowski S.O.

[North Star]

Nielsen
Flute Concerto, FS119 (1926)
Gareth Davies, fl
Bournemouth Symphony
Kees Bakels

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[Brian]

List of Things Brian Can't Resist

1. Birthday parties
2. Wind quintets by Carl Nielsen