What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

[Cato]

Up-and-coming Belgian pianist Valere Burnon is a great advocate for the works of Sergei Protopopov:

Here he is in the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3:

[Florestan]

Viotti Piano Competition... I guess there is also a Clementi Violin Competition. 

[Daverz]

Streamed earlier today.



I think it's highly likely this will end up in my collection. I don't own a recording of 3 of the 4 works, and Wit is a fine conductor.

The Kuchar Dvorak box also has some of these pieces.

[Traverso]

Richard Strauss

Tod und Verklärung
Vier Letzte Lieder

I really love these songs.they are a farewell , full of nostalgia and love them for that.

[DavidW]

Inspired by Que's posts... Schumann's piano concerto:

And then I switched to Dvorak:

[ritter]

Richard Strauss

...
Vier Letzte Lieder

I really love these songs.they are a farewell , full of nostalgia and love them for that.



...

And Gundula Janowitz is outstanding in them....

[AnotherSpin]

And Gundula Janowitz is outstanding in them....

Karajan/Janowitz performance of Vier letzte Lieder is very, very good, imo.

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.2

Fabio Luisi & Danish National Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker, Semyon Bychkov; Berliner Philharmoniker

[Mandryka]

[Brian]

Oooh, good one. 

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first time with this:

[ritter]

Some Alfredo Casella tonight:



I really like this man's music... 

[vers la flamme]

György Ligeti: Chamber Concerto; Ramifications for String Orchestra; Ramifications for 12 Solo Strings; Lux aeterna; Atmosphères. Friedrich Cerha, Ensemble "Die Reihe" Wien (Chamber Concerto); Ernest Bour, SWR SO Baden-Baden (Ramifications 1 & Atmosphères); Antonio Janigro, Kammerorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks (Ramifications 2); Clytus Gottwald, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart (Lux aeterna)

That took a long time to type out But this is an incredible CD that I would recommend to anyone. Every time I hear it, it occurs to me that I should be listening to Ligeti much, much more.

[Lisztianwagner]

Paul Hindemith
Die Harmonie der Welt

Herbert Blomstedt & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

[classicalgeek]

John Field
Nocturnes (selection)
John O'Conor, piano
(on CD)



Perfectly lovely works, beautifully played. They're not in the same league as Chopin's nocturnes, but they're still pleasant and charming.

[Lisztianwagner]

William Alwyn
Lyra Angelica

Susan Willison (harp)
David Lloyd-Jones & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra



So melodiously fluent, persuasive and suggestive music; Hickox's recording is provably my favourite version, but Lloyd-Jones is very convincing too.

[vers la flamme]

William Alwyn
Lyra Angelica

Susan Willison (harp)
David Lloyd-Jones & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra



So melodiously fluent, persuasive and suggestive music; Hickox's recording is provably my favourite version, but Lloyd-Jones is very convincing too.

I've always liked the Lloyd-Jones better, but now I want to revisit the Hickox!

[DavidW]

I've always liked the Lloyd-Jones better, but now I want to revisit the Hickox!

I've only heard the Lloyd-Jones, but now I want to hear the Hickox!

[Bachtoven]

I finished listening to this set with Quartets No.3 and 15. Sublime.