What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor is a miracle! Crossland is very satisfying.



Beethoven Piano Sonata No 22, Op 54.

Maybe I am missing something, but what a turd!

[Mandryka]

This is just what the doctor ordered.

[Karl Henning]

Enjoyed it entirely. Will listen again later today.

Or, I will, if YouTube ever stops hanging up.

[Spotted Horses]

Enjoyed it entirely. Will listen again later today.

Seems like I should listen to some Mennin. I think I once listened to a symphony recorded by Mercury Living Presence.

[ritter]

'Tis the seaason...

J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (parts 1 & 2). Vocal soloists (incl. boy sopranos and alto),  Regensburger Domspatzen (Georg Ratzinger, dir.), Collegium St. Emmeram, Hanns-Marrin Scheidt (cond.).

[Karl Henning]

Seems like I should listen to some Mennin. I think I once listened to a symphony recorded by Mercury Living Presence.

That would have been the Fifth, the Eastman Rochester Orchestra led by Howard Hanson. It's been a while, let me revisit that recording.

[Papy Oli]

Bach by Rogg.

[Karl Henning]

That would have been the Fifth, the Eastman Rochester Orchestra led by Howard Hanson. It's been a while, let me revisit that recording.

IIRC both Mennin & Piston were of Italo-American families, so it's almost like, with Giannini, Flagello, Dello Gioio, Persichetti, Mennin & Piston, 20th-c. Italian music in diaspora.

[Karl Henning]

Mennin Sixth
Albany Symphony
David Alan Miller

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

IIRC both Mennin & Piston were of Italo-American families, so it's almost like, with Giannini, Flagello, Dello Gioio, Persichetti, Mennin & Piston, 20th-c. Italian music in diaspora.

I've never heard of Giannini!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

That would have been the Fifth, the Eastman Rochester Orchestra led by Howard Hanson. It's been a while, let me revisit that recording.

I will do too!

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

I've never heard of Giannini!

[DavidW]

I listened to my favorite Mahler 1 today:


And I received the Atterberg CDs I ordered from Europadisc... where shall I begin?

[André]

Good morning all 

JS Bach
Bach 333: 4-Part Chorales - Vol. 3

Daniel Russ (chorus master), Ophira Zakai (lute), Elina Albach (organ), Sarah Perl (violone)
Vocalconsort Berlin, Daniel Reuss

Good evening, Papy !

[André]

'Tis the seaason...

J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (parts 1 & 2). Vocal soloists (incl. boy sopranos and alto),  Regensburger Domspatzen (Georg Ratzinger, dir.), Collegium St. Emmeram, Hanns-Marrin Scheidt (cond.).

One of my very favourite versions of this evergreen score.

[André]

Symphony no 5, written just after WWII ended. Not exactly tragic but still sombre, melancholy stuff.

Symphony no 12, as per the notes is supposed to be 'optimistic'. To my ears it sounds like the optimism of Honegger's 2nd and 3rd symphonies: an optimistic grimness, a joyful despair maybe ? Not gloom and doom, but a driven, angular romp.

[JBS]

Good morning all 

JS Bach
Bach 333: 4-Part Chorales - Vol. 3

Daniel Russ (chorus master), Ophira Zakai (lute), Elina Albach (organ), Sarah Perl (violone)
Vocalconsort Berlin, Daniel Reuss

The part of Bach's works that is perhaps least known but most enjoyable. I have them as part of my complete Bach sets (Hanssler and Teldec).

TD
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Paul Lewis pianist/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska conducting
Holberg Suite
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka conducting
Lyric Suite
BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards conducting

BBC Music Magazine CD for Volume 34 No 2 (December 2025 issue)

[Number Six]

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll & Preludes
Hans Knappertsbusch & Munich Philharmonic

Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1
Siegfried Idyll
Parsifal: Prelude

[PaulR]

Beethoven:Symphony #9