What are you listening 2 now?

[Irons]

Mendelssohn in Scotland.

Supercharged LSO strings for 'Fingal's Cave'.

 

A German Speakers Corner LP pressing.

[Que]

[Roasted Swan]

It's a sign that I have too many recordings when I browsed through my Discogs purchase history, and I had absolutely no recollection of buying this LP! Well, I'm so glad I did--his playing is absolutely phenomenal, and the sound, captured with just two Schoeps mics in 1970, sounds much more realistic than most digital recordings today. His program is almost overwhelmingly intense.
A1        Fantasy And Fugue On The Thee BACH Franz Liszt
A2        Mephisto Waltz Franz Liszt
B1        Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 Scriabin
B2        Sonata  Alberto Ginastera

I remember that LP!  I bought it only for the Ginastera which I'd never heard (we'd been playing Estancia in my Youth Orchestra).  Great performance of a great work.....

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Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No.3
Ukrainian SSO
S Turchak
A fine performance of this fine score:

[foxandpeng]

Ferde Grofé
Hudson River Suite
Death Valley Suite
William Stromberg
Bournemouth SO
Naxos

Pleasant, tuneful listening 🙂

[foxandpeng]

Frederick Delius
Delius Edition
North Country Sketches
Appalachia
Sir Charles Mackerras
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Decca

Listening to this on the back of the Grofé, as I really enjoyed the gentleness and ease of it all.

[Maestro267]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Brendel (piano)/ASMF/Marriner

[Todd]

[brewski]

Ligeti: Atmosphères (Christoph von Dohnányi / NDR Symphony Orchestra at the closing concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2005).

-Bruce

[foxandpeng]

Hans Gál
Cello Concerto
Claudio Cruz
Royal Northern Sinfonia

In the mood for the serenity and tunefulness of Gál 🙂

[Florestan]

I'm not sure that Boccherini's warm and melifluous music benefits from being played without vibrato. Actually, I'm positively sure it doesn't.

Anyway, a Boccherini recording a day keeps the doctor away.

[Selig]

Awesome 544 at Ponitz

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Walton: Film Music
LPO, Carl Davis:

[Traverso]

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser, act 2^ & 3^

André Cluytens & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

[André]

My Bruckner marathon will begin with the Honeck 9th:

Yesterday (B-Day) I didn't have access to my CDs, but the radio played Manfred Honeck's B9 with the Elb-Philharmonie, a concert broadcast from last spring. While I didn't go for every single conducting decision he made (I found the accelerando in the first climax in I a bit jarring) it was both a moving, powerful and, ultimately, cathartic experience. Makes me want to explore this disc.

[André]

BruckneFerdinand Leitnerr Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ferdinand Leitner

My favourite B6

[ritter]

The Mandelring Quartett plays French string quartets: Debussy's, and No. 1 & 2 by Jean Rivier.

[SonicMan46]

Reicha, Anton (1770-1836) - own just over 20 discs of Reicha (see attachment), nearly all 'windy' music and just over half in the 12-CD box of his 24 Wind Quintets w/ the Westwood Wind Quintet (there is competition with two other groups). Bio below mentioning some of his prodigious output (List HERE).

At the moment, listening to the recordings below - will continue with others later today and likely in the morning - a few months ago, I went through the Westwood box which is a delight.  Dave

Anton Reicha was born in Prague. An associate of Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, Reicha's reputation lies primarily with his 25 wind quintets and his theoretical writings on music. His copious chamber music includes an octet for strings and winds, ten string quintets, thirty-seven string quartets, five quintets for wind and strings, several piano trios and violin sonatas, and a large body of solo piano music. There are also eight symphonies, three large-scale choral works, and eight operas. It has been said that Reicha is to the wind quintet what Haydn is to the string quartet – he almost single-handedly established the combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon as an important form. In later life, as professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatoire, Reicha taught Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, and César Franck, and many others. (Source)

     

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Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 'The Year 1905'
Maris Jansons with The Philadelphia Orchestra