What are you listening 2 now?

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Florestan

Quote from: Madiel on April 16, 2020, 01:47:49 AM
A personal favourite (though none of those are a version I have).

They are all good. What version(s) do you have?
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Mandryka



A cold hard look at Satie's so called mystical music.
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Madiel

Quote from: Florestan on April 16, 2020, 01:51:07 AM
They are all good. What version(s) do you have?

I've got Harrell/Ashkenazy and Tortelier/Heidsieck.
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Some Dowland to start the day :

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Florestan

Quote from: Madiel on April 16, 2020, 02:05:31 AM
I've got Harrell/Ashkenazy and Tortelier/Heidsieck.

I've got those too. Cello Sonatas are among my very favorite Beethoven's works. Generally speaking I vastly prefer his chamber music over the symphonies.
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Florestan

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vers la flamme



Elliott Carter: Clarinet Concerto. Michael Collins, Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta.

First listen to this CD that I got yesterday. I think the sound is much, much better than the other Knussen/London Sinfonietta Carter disc that I have, that one on EMI. So this is one of the rare instances of DG's engineers doing something right. Though admittedly the sound on these 20/21 series is generally pretty good.

Mookalafalas

First time through the Mercury box sets, 6 or 7 years ago, I dismissed Howard Hanson, as conductor and composer, as a B-lister.  This time through I've completely changed my mind.
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Iota



Tippett: String Quartet No.1


Tippet in rude health, including the gorgeous central Lento Cantabile.

San Antone


vers la flamme



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major. Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony Orchestra

I think this is the best recording of this symphony I've heard. The funeral march and the first movement are perfectly paced.

Traverso

Shostakovich

Symphony No.4
October, Symphonic Poem




Papy Oli

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Gayaneh
Spartacus
Masquerade

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vandermolen

Quote from: Mookalafalas on April 16, 2020, 03:45:06 AM
First time through the Mercury box sets, 6 or 7 years ago, I dismissed Howard Hanson, as conductor and composer, as a B-lister.  This time through I've completely changed my mind.
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The Third Symphony is the greatest of them IMO and that is a great CD with the moving tribute to Koussevitsky and the fine Beowulf work. Koussevitsky's own recording of the Third Symphony is, however, in a class of its own.
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Mahlerian

Quote from: vandermolen on April 15, 2020, 09:52:17 PM
That Boult box set is very nice, featuring, for example two different recordings of the 6th Symphony and 'Job'. What did you think of Dona Nobis Pacem?

Very powerful piece, and (despite the mutual antipathy between the two composers), it made an interesting companion to the Britten War Requiem I listened to the other day.

Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 in C
Malmo Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sinaisky
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Quote from: Mahlerian on April 16, 2020, 05:23:36 AM
Very powerful piece, and (despite the mutual antipathy between the two composers), it made an interesting companion to the Britten War Requiem I listened to the other day.

Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 in C
Malmo Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sinaisky


Interesting, thanks. I'm also a fan of the Schmidt work, especially in Mehta's recording.

I was lucky to attend a performance of Dona Nobis Pacem at the proms last year.
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André



An exciting (if uneven) performance. The Royal Philharmonic version is still the go-to one to hear Barbirolli's Sibelius 2.

ritter

Some Italian avant-gardism (with a detour through Jugendstil Vienna):

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Mookalafalas

Quote from: vandermolen on April 16, 2020, 04:34:34 AM
The Third Symphony is the greatest of them IMO and that is a great CD with the moving tribute to Koussevitsky and the fine Beowulf work. Koussevitsky's own recording of the Third Symphony is, however, in a class of its own.

  Good to know! I don't know if I have any Koussevitsky, actually...I'll keep an eye out for it.
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