What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Bridge: the Piano Sonata again. Just a fantastic work in Bridge's late style.

[steve ridgway]

Maderna: Requiem



I'm enjoying this new purchase from the Chandos download sale .

[steve ridgway]

Nono: Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica



Another sale purchase .

[steve ridgway]

Kagel: Rrrrrrrr..., Sieben Stücke Für Gemischten Chor A Cappella Oder Mit Klavier



Decent choral pieces, some bits of a requiem among them .

[Mookalafalas]

How did I not know about this? Remarkable.

[Iota]

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'

Prompted by @ritter's excellent review in the 'What concerts are you looking forward to?' thread (#7173), I realised it'd been a long time since I last listened to this magnificent piece. And it's a great joy to be reunited.
An excellent recording too, Salonen always seems such a natural at finding mood and colour in a score, and naturally enough bearing in mind the work's debt to Grünewald's paintings, there's a rich supply of both amidst the overall grandeur.

[Florestan]

Bought yesterday at the shop of National Auditorium in Madrid, and listening to now.



Comala is a 1897 (Belgian) Prix de Roma cantata by Joseph Jongen, on texts by Paul Gilson (himself a composer), based on Ossian.

I should have learnt by now that whenever I see "Prix de Rome" on a CD cover, I better run in the opposite direction and never look back... 

Maybe you should try Niels Gade's Comala, he didn't win the Prix de Rome. 

[Mookalafalas]

[Traverso]

Beethoven

These are the first complete recordings I bought in the LP era.
My first LP with string quartets  was with the Lasalle quartet.
This was in response to a review of the quartet in the  novel "Point Counter Point", Aldous Huxley.

String Quartets 1-2 & 3

[Todd]

[DavidW]

Last night:


And then v4:

[Traverso]

Prokofiev

Violin Concertos 1 & 2

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

How did I not know about this? Remarkable.

Nice recording! Enjoying autumn in Hokkaido?

[Bachtoven]

I normally like or even love piano transcriptions, but Bach's Cello Suites simply do not work for me.

[prémont]

I normally like or even love piano transcriptions, but Bach's Cello Suites simply do not work for me.

It's scarcely a transcription, and even less so an arrangement. She simply performs the nearly unaltered cello score on the piano.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphonies  CD 2

[Florestan]

It's scarcely a transcription, and even less so an arrangement. She simply performs the nearly unaltered cello score on the piano.

How is this possible? Left-hand or right-hand only?

[Spotted Horses]

Martinu String Sextet, Kocian Quartet and friends.



Similar in style to the String Quartets, with an added richness due to the two additional voices. Superb music, performance and recording.

[Spotted Horses]

How is this possible? Left-hand or right-hand only?

I don't see how it could fail to be possible. Probably one hand is almost sufficient, although some of the multiple stops in the music might span a range larger than one hand and require a second to be sneaked in.

[Spotted Horses]

 Mozart, Divertimento KV439b, No 4 for three basset horns, Meyer's Trio di Clarone



Wonderful little gem featuring ingenious voice leading and some surprising dissonances.

It is a brief piece so I pulled up the Netherlands Wind Ensemble recording. A wonderfully perky realization of the music.