What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

New acquisition. First listen. Some fine organ music, and hopefully all details about the organ correctly, otherwise Premont will correct it

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/09/renaissance-baroque-organs-from.html?spref=tw

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Schumann's original scoring, of course. Chailly has done a good job with Mahler's reorchestrations, if you're interested in that kind of meddling.

Different conductors do different things with an orchestration that I think is perfectly good. Unfortuantely it is rather difficult to find 'original orchestration' Schumann symphonies which are texturally clear. Zinman, Nezet-Seguin and Bernstein are my favourites for Schumann and i am probably more picky about my Schumann preferences than anything else in the orchestral repertoire! (I am against the meddling)

[Monsieur Croche]

Streaming:

[asin]B01J1Y6AP4[/asin]

Released today. Very idiosyncratic - and slower than average -  playing from Mustonen (which doesn't always seem justified by the results); however, his approach does seem to work well in the final pages of the Third Concerto.

The 1st and 3rd can be had on one disc, Gary Graffman, George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra.  Both are extraordinarily fine, and that rare thing, the ensemble and soloist are all completely on top of things.  The 3rd there is not the fastest, nor the slowest, but has the proper weight and momentum giving it more drive than many a faster recorded version.  When it comes to this recording, imo, "there are none better ~ just different" :-)

[Autumn Leaves]

Tonight's listening - Part 2:



Now listening to random Preludes & Fugues from this box-set.

[North Star]

Different conductors do different things with an orchestration that I think is perfectly good. Unfortuantely it is rather difficult to find 'original orchestration' Schumann symphonies which are texturally clear. Zinman, Nezet-Seguin and Bernstein are my favourites for Schumann and i am probably more picky about my Schumann preferences than anything else in the orchestral repertoire! (I am against the meddling)

I strongly recommend checking out Gardiner.

https://www.youtube.com/v/pVXt9pO0cpo

[asin]B00H5DNC32[/asin]

[Autumn Leaves]

I NEED to get that,it's a MUST for me!!!

Ahh, its one of my favourite boxes (it's very good)
The Organist for this set released a new integral a few years back too which you might also be interested in (its an all-digital recording):



I want to get this one too at some stage!

[Harry]

A third rerun of a very fine disc. After this hearing it goes into my storage for a indefinite time! 

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/09/new-acquisition-pleyel-ignace-joseph.html?spref=tw

[Visions_fugitives]

Tonight's listening were Fauré's last three Barcarolles.
Very interesting, if maybe not overwhelming, listen.

n.12 in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADZE9ItZP2o

[Autumn Leaves]

Bach's organ music is his best (to me), apart from A Musical Offering and the Mass in B minor.
Art of Fugue to this day, still takes me to a place that only Messiaen and Scriabin can, it's majestic.
All his many other, smaller fugues are also fantastic. I really NEED that, it's been on my wish-list way too long 

In full agreement about Bach's Organ Music - its my favourite part of his output too.
You definitely wont regret it if you get a full set - Ive listened to all the box and every work is fantastic!

[Karl Henning]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing this with the group!

Thank you!

[Karl Henning]

Fun to be back.

Good to see you!

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg's Op.47 Phantasy for violin and piano. Phantastic.

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Glad you're enjoying it!

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky : Le Baiser de la Fée (complete)
https://www.youtube.com/v/sB8bPV0a9FQ

... some of the best Tchaikovsky I've yet heard ;-)

Seriously, a lovely score.

Aye, one of my favorite Igor Fyodorovich scores truly.

(And, all right:  I have a long list of favorite Igor Fyodorovich scores.  I see that  0:) )

[Que]

Q

[Mandryka]

Straight onto another recent purchase:



Vols. 1 & 2  Menno van Delft

I'd love to have another harpsichord version (for which I think the music was intended) next to Robert Hill's awesome interpretation (Hänssler Bach Edition).

Q

I'm wondering if you'll think that Meno van Delft is too Puritan, I found things to enjoy in it, but I have a Puritan tendency.

[Mandryka]

Bach's organ music is his best (to me), apart from A Musical Offering and the Mass in B minor.
Art of Fugue to this day, still takes me to a place that only Messiaen and Scriabin can, it's majestic.
All his many other, smaller fugues are also fantastic. I really NEED that, it's been on my wish-list way too long 

Be careful not to get confused about what you're buying, she recorded so many complete Bachs. I think, after much thinking, that her final set, the digital one, is not as good as the one which immediately preceded it.

[prémont]

Be careful not to get confused about what you're buying, she recorded so many complete Bachs. I think, after much thinking, that her final set, the digital one, is not as good as the one which immediately preceded it.

Agreed. So this is the set to get - at least in the first run:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/2564699028

[prémont]

I'm wondering if you'll think that Meno van Delft is too Puritan, I found things to enjoy in it, but I have a Puritan tendency.

I find van Delft introvert and reflective.
Never thought of him as being puritan.
The word puritan I would associate with Moroney I e.g.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I strongly recommend checking out Gardiner.

https://www.youtube.com/v/pVXt9pO0cpo

[asin]B00H5DNC32[/asin]

I have listened to his recordings in my search for the 'perfect Schumann for me' a couple of years ago. Alas, not the perfect one for me. The brass are a little too prominent for my taste in some parts which cover up the colourful woodwind writing at times. It kinda detracts from the Mendelssohnian influence in orchestration. I feel Gardiner does superbly with Brahms though!

[Harry]

Probably the best organ set in this box, and certainly some of the best I have heard from Leonhardt so far.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/09/the-organ-in-renaissance-and-baroque.html?spref=tw