What are you listening 2 now?

[Iota]

Ives: Concord Sonata

Deeply impressing, the best account of it I've heard. It seems to lie so naturally in Hamelin's hands.

[Florestan]

I'll stick with my single proposition.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUk306uqedE

I'll see you, my friend, and raise you this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8FRXUBgJ0

[Linz]

Jean-Philippe Rameau |Platée et Dardanus Suites, Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchester

[Bachtoven]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, 1885 Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[André]

[Todd]

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas, Rudolf Buchbinder CD8

[Mandryka]

Listening to the Schubert/Liszt here for the first time in a few years, I have an intuition that @Florestan  would appreciate these extraordinary performances. I mean, like, you have to be a bit of a hedonist. Just let the beauty of it fill you, like a heady wine.  Also, the free, almost jazzy, approach made me think of Francesco Tristano Schlime's Frescobaldi, so . . .

[Irons]

Miaskovsky: String Quartet No.3

I don't why it should be of interest but for me at least it is. 1st Quartet in 4 movements, 2nd Quartet in 3 and 3rd in 2.



I found the second movement in the form of Theme and Variations more original. Theme being Grieg's Cradle Song followed by an inspired set of variations which alternate slow and fast. Every so often Miaskovsky comes up when you least expect a sublime melody which he does here with one of the slow variations.

[Bachtoven]

Excellent performances and sound.

[prémont]

Brandenburg concertos #1-5. The fast movements are as lively as Freiburger's later set, but this recording finds the poetry in the slow movements.

Is this the set from ca. 2000 which was released on DVD only?

[Madiel]

I'll see you, my friend, and raise you this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN8FRXUBgJ0

One of his better efforts. Nevertheless. Half the reason I said anything is that I consider Dvorak a greater melodist, more consistent, than the fabled Schubert. Opinions will of course vary.

[Todd]

Styx.

[Linz]

b]Bruckner[/b] Symphony No, 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra; Stanislaw  Skrowaczewski

[DavidW]

Is this the set from ca. 2000 which was released on DVD only?

Yes, it is available to stream.

[Bachtoven]

Listening to the Schubert/Liszt here for the first time in a few years, I have an intuition that @Florestan  would appreciate these extraordinary performances. I mean, like, you have to be a bit of a hedonist. Just let the beauty of it fill you, like a heady wine.  Also, the free, almost jazzy, approach made me think of Francesco Tristano Schlime's Frescobaldi, so . . .

I just cheked that Schubert--stunning. Schlime's recording "On Early Music"--I'm not sure what to make of that! Yes, his playing is great, but I have never heard a piano so closely recorded, and it sounds more like a digital than an acoustic piano. I read that it's a Yamaha CFX, but it certainly doesn't sound like one.

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke: Choir Concerto

[steve ridgway]

Respighi: Fountains Of Rome

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Yamaon