What are you listening 2 now?

[prémont]

Typical of Nimbus recordings, these all suffer a bit from distant microphone placement.

This isn't fair. I have several Nimbus releases which are adequately miked.

[Spotted Horses]

This isn't fair. I have several Nimbus releases which are adequately miked.

Let's say "almost all," then.

Initially Nimbus records were encoded with an "ambersonic" system, for which the decoder was never widely available, and which is now not available at all. Later they stepped back from that, maybe the results were better. If Beethoven himself recorded for Nimbus I wouldn't listen.

[Cato]

Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op 31 (first three), Ruth Laredo.



Gorgeous.

Ruth Laredo's Scriabin recordings were classics!


e.g.

Today because of the Tchaikovsky symphony poll, another visit to the Symphony #3, this time with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, whose intonation at certain moments tended toward microtonality  :

[Spotted Horses]

Ruth Laredo's Scriabin recordings were classics!

Laredo's Scriabin Sonata set was one of my earliest CD purchases, and it was great. When I discovered I don't like Ashkenazy in Rachmaninoff Laredo's complete Rachmaninoff was the obvious choice.

[DavidW]

My favorites over the past few days:

[Linz]

Bach Piano Concertos, Angela Hewitt, CBC Vancouver Orchestra Mario Bernardi

[brewski]

Spurred by comments in another thread ( ), found this fab reading of Ligeti's Piano Etude No. 13, "The Devil's Staircase," by Yutong Sun, from the quarterfinals of the 2017 Van Cliburn Competion. Beautifully, expertly done.

-Bruce

[vandermolen]

Boris Parsadanian
Symphony No.1
'To the Memory of the 26 Commissars of Baku':

[Karl Henning]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

BLISS: Miracle in the Gorbals / Discourse for Orchestra.

[Symphonic Addict]

Apparently Moeran's publisher felt the work was too long and suggested dropping the Intermezzo and Forlana movements. 

That's unfair since the work is not long (lasting less than 24 min.). Maybe it would have had a different reception had Moeran called it a Suite.

[Symphonic Addict]

More rapturous music by Riisager. The jocular ballet Benzin is the main attraction on this CD and also includes other two orchestral works: Archaeopteryx and Til Apollon, Lysets Gud, and something interesting to notice is the huge contrast of mood between the former and the two latter. Riisager also had skills to compose some pretty dark, ominous, menacing music as heard in those two aforementioned pieces. Another smashing hit of a disc.

[Karl Henning]

[Linz]

Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World and Carnival Overture under Arthur Fiedler, Boston Symphony Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 in E major

Do

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Années de pèlerinage, Première année, Suisse

Pianist: Francesco Piemontesi

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1877 Linz version with revisions - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Martin Sieghart, Bruckner Orchester Linz

[Todd]

A few cuts.

[Symphonic Addict]

Nyman's minimalism is rather special to me. These three quartets are like a bath of endorphins, and they sound tricky to play.