What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Franz Schubert Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major ('Fantasy'), D. 894
Moments musicaux for piano, D. 780
Claudio Arrau The Final Sessions CD 5

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Now playing Ravel Shéhérazade

[Que]

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Now playing Honegger String Quartet No. 1



I'll probably end playing Honegger's three SQs over the course of today and tomorrow. These are inspired works that are most definitely worth your time. Honegger is a composer whose stature only continues to grow in my estimation.

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Now playing Villa-Lobos Uirapurú

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stravinsky: Petrouchka.  Eugene Goossens/London.

[Symphonic Addict]

Completed listening to the piano album. Gorgeous music, a keeper. The PC is more late-romantic to my ears and doesn't really spark my interest. I've listened to a performance by Ewa Kupiec.
Quite a remarkable figure Paderewski having also been prime-minister of Poland.

I see, I didn't know that late-Romanticism wasn't your thing. Anyway, glad you enjoyed that Hyperion disc.

[Symphonic Addict]

A generously filled disc with 5 string trios by Johann Nepomuk David. This is serious, stern music overall, and very contrapuntal. The trios opp. 33 Nos. 1 and 2 and in G major didn't elicit much interest on me, unlike the opp. 33 Nos 3 and 4 which I felt more succulent and satisfactory. These trios often reminded me of the seriousness one hears in Hindemith, but lacking the spark of his genius.

By this composer, the symphonies 2 and 4 have interested me the most so far.

[JBS]

Another listen to this

[Karl Henning]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Singulière" & 4. Igor Markevitch/Berlin.

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Now playing Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni



A rather splendid account of this oft-recorded masterwork.

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Now playing Diamond Symphony No. 4

[JBS]

I've decided it's time to go through the Derek Solomons/ L'Estro Armonico Haydn symphonies set again.

Number 59 in A major "Fire"
Number 49 in f minor "La passione"
Number 58 in F major

[Symphonic Addict]

Respighi: Chaconne for violin, strings and organ after Vitali, La Boutique Fantasque and Prelude and Fugue in D major after Bach

The Chaconne is a great arrangement of a masterpiece. It should be better known. A very moving work.

La Boutique Fantasque inhabits the opposite side of the spectrum, fun aplenty. Respighi's masterful sense of orchestration fully displayed, likewise in the Prelude and Fugue.

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Now playing Silvestrov Symphony No. 4 for strings and brass

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Last works for the night --- now playing this entire Strauss Ashkenazy recording



Ashkenazy doesn't get mentioned much as a Strauss conductor, but I think he's fabulous in this music.

[Symphonic Addict]

Martinu: Symphonies 3 and 4

I did remember how gripping the 3rd is and it always manages to leave quite an impression. One of my favorites. The 4th receives a tremendous performance too, although the cymbals sounded a tad shy.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps