What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

DSCH SQs 8-10 from the new live recordings of Danel Q



Beautifully played.  I did hear some Barbirolli-esque groaning at one point.

[ritter]

André Jolivet conducts the Orchestre National de l'ORTF in his Cinq Danses rituelles.

On CD4 of this set:

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Alfred Orel, Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Bruno Walter

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Ugorski and Kodama are at least to my taste the most appealing recordings.
Strange that in the complete Messiaen box (DG) the Ugorski recording has been replaced by Muraro's recording, which is certainly very good, but Ugorski and Kodama bring it more to life. It is good to have several versions, especially of a complex work such as
Catalogue d'Oiseau.

Now Livre 1-2 & 3











There are certainly critics who do not appreciate a work and look for arguments to support their prejudice. This also happens with Messiaen, luckily I walk through the spider web that they throw up.

[Spotted Horses]

DSCH SQs 8-10 from the new live recordings of Danel Q



Beautifully played.  I did hear some Barbirolli-esque groaning at one point.

From the audience or performers?

[DavidW]

From the audience or performers?

One of the performers.

[ritter]

Time for some Messiaen chez ritter as well...

Olivier Messiaen accompanies soprano Marcelle Bunlet in Debussy's Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire and his own Harawi. Live in Vichy in 1954.



Bunlet was the first performer of all three of Messiaen's song cycles, and prior to that (in 1931), she had sung Kundry in Parsifal in Bayreuth under Toscanini, no less!

[Daverz]

Started to seem like a real chore around the 50 minute mark.  But the remainder was a bit better.  Not sure I'll come back to this one for a while, though, as it doesn't seem to do much that No. 8 doesn't do better.

[Bachtoven]

Superb playing matched with very good sound. Two pieces are for solo guitar, and they each play one.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Works Vol. 11, Gerhard Weinberger (Silbermann Organ Ponitz)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

RANJBARAN, B.: Persian Trilogy (London Symphony, Falletta).

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Gewandhausorchester, Herbert Blomstedt

[lordlance]

Maazel or Immerseel?

The Maazel intro. It's worse than Karajan's. Karajan's heavy, industrial steel approach isn't exactly prime Schubert material (in early, light works). Granted, his Schubert 2 I did quit in first movement. One size does not fit all even if that is how Karajan did it. Anyway, I am aware of the Immerseel and Maazel BRSO performances.

[Karl Henning]

RANJBARAN, B.: Persian Trilogy (London Symphony, Falletta).

Interesting! And nice that maestra Falletta has established a relationship with the LSO.

TD:
The Venezia String Quartet playing Boccherini's Opus 8 quartets.

[JBS]

[Karl Henning]

Thanks for the reminder! This is the work I most notably neglected in my survey of the box. I must listen. Soon. 

[JBS]

Thanks for the reminder! This is the work I most notably neglected in my survey of the box. I must listen. Soon.

Have you listened to the CD featuring Miles Davis?

[Karl Henning]

Have you listened to the CD featuring Miles Davis?

Yes!

[foxandpeng]

Harald Saeverud
Symphony 8 'Minnesota'
Please Kristian Ruud
Stavanger SO
BIS

Nice place to start with Saeverud. I seem to remember enjoying this very much, despite others feeling that isn't one of the better works.

[DavidW]

The Maazel intro. It's worse than Karajan's. Karajan's heavy, industrial steel approach isn't exactly prime Schubert material (in early, light works). Granted, his Schubert 2 I did quit in first movement. One size does not fit all even if that is how Karajan did it. Anyway, I am aware of the Immerseel and Maazel BRSO performances.

I have to hear this Maazel recording now, it sounds terrible!