What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Schumann, Robert - String Quartets w/ the Dover Quartet (outstanding reviews attached) and the Kuijken family (Veronica and Sara sisters) - Dave

 

[Traverso]

Johann Gottfried Walther

Ab Weegenaar, born in Groningen, obtained the diploma UM (Performing Musician) for bassoon and organ at the municipal conservatory there. Wim van Beek was his organ teacher.

[NumberSix]

Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Szell, Cleveland Orchestra

Okay, I have been listening to country and blues this morning, and I have had my fill.  I need some Strings. . .

[NumberSix]

Haydn: Symphony No. 45
Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

[DavidW]

[NumberSix]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (1873 Version)
Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, Symphony no. 31 in D 'Horn Signal'
Michael Haydn Horn Concerto in D, Anthony Halstead, natural horn, The Hanover Band , Roy Goodman

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

SZYMANOWSKI, K.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Polish State Philharmonic, Stryja.

[brewski]

Since the Bruckner 7th is making the rounds, I'm listening to Klemperer/Philharmonia, which I don't recall ever hearing. So far liking it a lot. (With some very slight surface noise, this version on YouTube sounds like it was uploaded from an LP.)

Pacing is unhurried, and the orchestra is showing great tonal beauty in all sections. The Adagio is particularly gentle — marvelous.

-Bruce

[Roasted Swan]

SZYMANOWSKI, K.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Polish State Philharmonic, Stryja.

Kulka is a great player.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1888 Third Version - Ed. Benjamin Korstvedt,  Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša

[DavidW]

Since the Bruckner 7th is making the rounds, I'm listening to Klemperer/Philharmonia, which I don't recall ever hearing. So far liking it a lot. (With some very slight surface noise, this version on YouTube sounds like it was uploaded from an LP.)

Pacing is unhurried, and the orchestra is showing great tonal beauty in all sections. The Adagio is particularly gentle — marvelous.

-Bruce

I think the EMI GROC recordings come with extra couplings. Some Wagner springs to mind, but either one of the Bruckner or one of the Mahler recordings comes with a beautiful, melodic Metamorphosen. I just don't remember which one!

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Die Walküre, act 1^

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Nicolo Paganini Complete Chamber Music CD9

[Mandryka]

I think the EMI GROC recordings come with extra couplings. Some Wagner springs to mind, but either one of the Bruckner or one of the Mahler recordings comes with a beautiful, melodic Metamorphosen. I just don't remember which one!

His Metamorphosen was a great favourite of mine. I'm listening now to his Philharmonia Bruckner 8. He's good at making structure clear, and in this music it's what I need. There's no sense of rambling. The sound of the Philharmonia 8 on Spotify is just amazing!

When I listened to Bruckner a lot - 40 years ago - it was the orchestral sound which really appealed, and now, older and less wise, I feel the same way!

Such a weird feeling listening to 8 - the scherzo - first time for many decades yet I really know the music as well as I know any music. Bruckner is somehow knowable - so it's like meeting an old friend. (Contrast late Beethoven - op 131 -  or Art of Fugue - or an Ockeghem mass - or The Ring - unknowable no matter how many times you hear them.)

Back in the day, I don't think I heard Klemperer's Bruckner - Karajan's certainly.

[ritter]

Made a one day business trip to Lisbon today, and in my car, driving home from the airport, caught the last movement of Mahler's Sixth recorded live at this year's Proms (September 6). Simon Rattle conducted the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

I hadn't listened to the work in years, and tonight it unnerved me (in a negative way). I could mostly hear the excess, the schmalz and the kitsch (those violin solos!  ), and only a few moments stood out as truly magnificent. I clearly have fallen out with Mahler's music over the past couple of years. Maybe it's a temporary thing, maybe not...

Seine Zeit ist vergangen?

[DavidW]

This one?

Oh yeah, what a magnificent recording! That is it. I should give it a fresh listen!

[DavidW]

His Metamorphosen was a great favourite of mine. I'm listening now to his Philharmonia Bruckner 8. He's good at making structure clear, and in this music it's what I need. There's no sense of rambling. The sound of the Philharmonia 8 on Spotify is just amazing!

When I listened to Bruckner a lot - 40 years ago - it was the orchestral sound which really appealed, and now, older and less wise, I feel the same way!

Such a weird feeling listening to 8 - the scherzo - first time for many decades yet I really know the music as well as I know any music. Bruckner is somehow knowable - so it's like meeting an old friend. (Contrast late Beethoven - op 131 -  unknowable no matter how many times you hear it.)

I've listened to his sixth and seventh frequently, but I don't think I've ever heard his 8th. I will have to remedy that.

[Mandryka]

Oh yeah, what a magnificent recording! That is it. I should give it a fresh listen!

Again it's decades since I heard his Mahler 9 but I can still remember the incisive way he takes the Rondo-Burleske.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim