What are you listening 2 now?

[pianococo90]

Hans Zender
"Den Wiederkommen" Hölderlin Lesen III (1991) for string quartet and speaking voice

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NP:

Bax
The Garden of Fand
BBC PO
Handley

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

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NP:

Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
François-Frédéric Guy

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter
Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker

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I'm going to do something that I haven't done in ages --- listen to all six of the Nielsen symphonies -

NP:

Symphony No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 7, FS 16
Danish National RSO
Michael Schønwandt

From this set -



I'm going to listen to this entire Schønwandt cycle as I feel it's the most consistent as far as complete cycles are concerned. Oramo's would be my second choice as most consistent, but I feel let down by his performance of the 5th. Anyway, looking forward to getting reacquainted with these symphonies. As a bonus, I'll probably end up playing the Schønwandt companion disc of concerti (although this disc appeared on the Chandos label and not Dacapo).

[Jo498]

Sibelius, Symphony #3 Maazel, Pittsburgh (Sony 1992)
I got this disc used many years ago, and unfortunately it has some scratches but they don't affect the 3rd symphony, and I don't care enough about the fillers although right now the "swan" and the first mvmt of Karelia still played without problems.

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - String Symphonies - over a few days, two versions of these works, i.e. Concerto Köln and Lev Markiz w/ his Amsterdam group. Works written between 1821-23 when he was 12-14 years old!  Dave

 

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NP:

Nielsen
Symphony No. 2 "De fire Temperamenter", Op. 16, FS 29
Danish National RSO
Michael Schønwandt

From this set -

[Linz]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.74 'Pathetique', Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

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NP:

Martinů
String Trio No. 2, H 238
Jacques Thibaud String Trio

[nico1616]

Mozart, Quartet KV499 Hoffmeister, Quartetto Italiano

[Brian]

A promise is a promise!

[hopefullytrusting]

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542, "The Great" (from the below recording)



Nothing makes me feel more like a madman than air-organing!

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One more work before nap time:

Mendelssohn
Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4
Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien

[Brian]

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542, "The Great" (from the below recording)

Nothing makes me feel more like a madman than air-organing!

I hope you also air-organ with your feet!!

A promise is a promise!

Listening on headphones at work, it's clear that Qobuz' remastering has been "messed with" - you can actually hear the choir jumping artificially from right channel to left at times.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner String Quartet in C Minor, Rondo in C Minor
Theme and Variations in E Flat Major for String Quartet
Friedrich Klose Strin Quartet in E Flat Major, Quartet Diotima

[hopefullytrusting]

I hope you also air-organ with your feet!!

Of course! I also puff out my hair to its full length!

(still listening to the same disc - super cheap on Presto, if anyone is interested)

[Jo498]

[Abbado Mussorgsky]

Listening on headphones at work, it's clear that Qobuz' remastering has been "messed with" - you can actually hear the choir jumping artificially from right channel to left at times.

I have the CD and could check how the choir sounds there.
FWIW, Abbado has recorded a similar disc later for Sony (not full overlap) and at least some of the pieces another time as filler for the "Pictures" on DG (but I don't know that one). He apparently was really fond of that stuff.

[ritter]

Revisiting the disc pictured below, which made a very favourable impression when I bought it last year.



I'm glad to say that I'm liking it as much this time around as when I first listened to it...