What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Interestingly I don't think I have ever heard one note of Berlioz' Op. 17 before this.  This Love Scene sounded great to my ears, but the whole Symphony is about 100 minutes long I believe and maybe it isn't all that good? Or is it?

Try this classic, it's on Spotify:



Don't be afraid of Berlioz, he's much better than his reputation. The quintessential Romantic, way before Liszt and Wagner.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche
Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Daverz]

Try this classic, it's on Spotify:



Don't be afraid of Berlioz, he's much better than his reputation. The quintessential Romantic, way before Liszt and Wagner.

Make sure you get the 10 CD box.  There's an older 8 CD box that doesn't have the stereo R&J and the second Symphonie Fantastique with Boston.  There was also a 2-CD set with those two extra items.

[Iota]

2 and 1/2 hours of great music. I have another set of those P&F, but Jalbert's is the one that really does it for me. He makes every moment come alive: superb musicianship, instrument and recorded sound. A splendid set.

Thanks for this excellent recommendation, I had a listen to the first half and they are indeed superb. Will be returning for the second half at the first opportunity. Clearly a pianist I need to pay more attention to.

To get a taste of what he's like elsewhere I also had a listen to his performance of Prokofiev's Ninth Piano Sonata below, which did nothing to diminish my interest in him.

[Bachthoven]

This is an excellent new release. His arrangements all have jaw-dropping playing, and his own work, the title track, is quite captivating, too.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Egmont, Op. 84: Overture
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
London Classical Players, Roger Norrington