What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

Back to the organ again...

CD 1

[Mirror Image]

Thread duty.  An amazing performance of La Mer and the Nocturnes:

You've got to love the look on Boulez's face here "What? You want to take another photo of me? I'm about to have lunch!"

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NP:

Bartók
Five Hungarian Folksongs, Sz 101, BB 108
Júlia Hamari, mezzo-soprano
Hungarian State Orchestra
András Kórodi

From this OOP set -

[Spotted Horses]

Thread duty.  An amazing performance of La Mer and the Nocturnes:

Agreed. In almost every case I prefer Boulez' earlier recordings on Columbia (Sony) to the later recordings on DG.

[Mirror Image]

Before heading out for the day (thank goodness it's my Friday):

Bax
Saga Fragment
Margaret Fingerhut, piano
LPO
Thomson



@Harry got me to thinking about Bax from his listening the other day, so why not listen to a work I haven't heard in probably 15 years.

A side note: I really ought to spend more time exploring Bax's oeuvre.

[Mirror Image]

Agreed. In almost every case I prefer Boulez' earlier recordings on Columbia (Sony) to the later recordings on DG.

Me, too. Although there are some exceptions, it seems to me there is a greater energy in his earlier performances, but I do rather like his Mahler cycle on DG. It would've been nice to hear him in the Mahler symphonies during his New York Philharmonic heyday, though.

[Karl Henning]

Today's reading always puts me in mind of this anthem:

[DaveF]

Today's reading always puts me in mind of this anthem:

Well, it always reminds me, whether I want to be or not, of:

Who's yours by, Karl?  I was hanging in waiting for some polytonal note-clusters that would reveal it as Ives having a laugh, but they didn't arrive.

[Bachtoven]

[DavidW]

Me, too. Although there are some exceptions, it seems to me there is a greater energy in his earlier performances, but I do rather like his Mahler cycle on DG. It would've been nice to hear him in the Mahler symphonies during his New York Philharmonic heyday, though.

And I will be listening to his Bruckner 8 which everyone is talking about but yeah I also agree with you two... I want to revisit sony/columbia Boulez especially in Stravinsky and Schoenberg.  It has been awhile.

[SonicMan46]

Today I'm 'downsizing' my Goldberg Variations collection from just over a dozen (3 categories: non-piano KB, piano, & other instruments, including small chamber groups) - below my 'keepers' for the harpsichord-clavichord group (latter w/ Tuma who also does a harpsichord performance). There are just TOO many good recordings over decades of these works on keyboard instruments to pick easily!     Dave

[Spotted Horses]

And I will be listening to his Bruckner 8 which everyone is talking about but yeah I also agree with you two... I want to revisit sony/columbia Boulez especially in Stravinsky and Schoenberg.  It has been awhile.

I hate to rain on the parade, but Boulez' Bruckner 8 did nothing for me. I did enjoy his recording of Mahler 6, although did not displace my favorites.

[Karl Henning]

Well, it always reminds me, whether I want to be or not, of:

Who's yours by, Karl?  I was hanging in waiting for some polytonal note-clusters that would reveal it as Ives having a laugh, but they didn't arrive.

David McK. Williams.

[Lisztianwagner]

Claude Debussy
Images

Pianist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

Delius: Appalachia

Whenever I give this work a spin, I'm convinced it has to be one of my favorites by him.

[Symphonic Addict]

Offenbach: Concerto Militaire, for cello and orchestra

Fun and demanding work for soloists.

[brewski]

Schnittke: Tango from Faust Cantata (Fiona Kimm, mezzo-soprano / London Schools Symphony Orchestra / Sian Edwards, conductor). Of course, once I started poking around, there are many versions of this striking sequence, such as this one. Especially grateful for the English translations of the text.

-Bruce

[SonicMan46]

Well, still on my Bach Goldberg Variations - have reduced my half dozen non-KB recordings to just the three below, i.e. Aulos Quartett w/ two oboes, Trio Echanton (a string trio) and Kurt Rodarmer on guitar BUT not solo, using multiple guitars (esp. two for this project, including a 'bass' instrument), he multi-tracts himself playing multiple guitars to simulate the playing of a keyboardist - the most interesting listening of the threesome - a must hear IMO - recommended to me by another member of the forum (sorry, forgot who?) - Dave

[Symphonic Addict]

Toch: Piano Concerto No. 1

Such a brilliant score, with the right dose of dissonances to make it tasty and quirky. It could easily make my list of favorite 20th century piano concertos. BTW, the Piano Concerto No. 2 is the Symphony for piano and orchestra.