What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

A Mi chiamano Mimi to die for, so fragile, so sad and so pure... made me cry.

[DavidW]

Mahler 7 Gilbert/NYPO

[Brian]

This very generous selection of 39 of Stanford's preludes is all I will ever need. 70 minutes of romantic piano fluff, including a number of affectionate, witty parodies of other composers and styles (e.g. a baroque gavotte). Many of the tracks are only 60-90 seconds. Good background music for working.

Yes I do. The WORST earworm my ears ever came across.

Speaking of which, an earworm I came across lately - though I did not hate it  - is the "Ballad of Revolt" by Harald Saeverud. It gets repeated so many times that, by the end, you're never forgetting it!

[Todd]

[Maestro267]

Delius: Eine Messe des Lebens
Bournemouth/Hickox

[Iota]

Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 74, Op. 20

These short pieces really do feel like they could be genuine improvisations quasi-transcribed. And I find it easy to imagine Bartok sitting at his piano conjuring them up as I listen. Whether they are or not I don't know. But very engaging pieces nonetheless, in ear-catching harmonic territory.

[Linz]

Nicolo Paganini Quartet for Violin, Viola, Guitar and Cello No. 11 in B major, MS 38
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Guitar and Cello No. 12 in A minor, MS 39
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Guitar and Cello No. 13 in F minor, MS 40

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink 

[Karl Henning]

A post by @SonicMan46 prompts me to revisit this:

Prokofiev
Symphony-Concerto for Cello & Orchestra, Op. 125
Aleksandr Ivashkin

[DavidW]

[lordlance]

New performances of the last 3 symphonies of which I am hearing the Seventh:


It's actually well-played, well-recorded, not lethargic. It's not going to be anyone's reference I imagine but it's enjoyable. The coda of the finale is good but not the best; spin it on if you want to try a new Seventh...

[Bachtoven]

[Linz]

Mozart: Clavier-Concerte 8, 28 &12, Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel

[Karl Henning]

And because it's just too lomh since I've listened to this piece, too: Steven Isserlis playing Britten's Cello Symphony, Op. 68.

[André]

I love Feltsman's WTC. I'm curious to find how he fares in Mozart.

[ShineyMcShineShine]

Mozart: Clavier-Concerte 8, 28 &12, Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel

Never cared for this: can't hear the piano.

[Karl Henning]

And because it's just too long since I've listened to this piece, too: Steven Isserlis playing Britten's Cello Symphony, Op. 68.

Lawd! That's good!

[Linz]

Schubert  Symphonies Nos.3 & 4, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Helmuth Rilling

[Karl Henning]

[foxandpeng]

Benjamin Britten
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Edward Gardner
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Chandos

Britten has always been a bit of a gap in my roster of English composers (as has William Walton, really), so recs by @Karl Henning are pretty timely. I don't think I really 'get' him, yet.