What are you listening 2 now?

[j winter]

[Traverso]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9 in D major. Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic (live recording)

One of the best recordings of Karajan's career, and possibly my favorite recording of this symphony.

Did you ever listen to his studio-recording,it's quite good too.

[Todd]

[MusicTurner]

I already have the Da Capo 'Masterpieces' box, with Schønwandt for the symphonies. And I have Salonen's Violin Concerto recording with Lin because it's paired with the Sibelius Concerto.

I'm focusing on smaller works right now partly because there often a lot FEWER options and it's easier to filter through them. The symphonies and concertos get many recordings, partly because they fit quite neatly on CDs (such as 2 symphonies per disc). Some other works there are only 2 or 3 remotely modern recordings. The cantatas for example. Having recently listened to both Hymnus Amoris and Søvnen, they really should be much better known.

OK, so you have this one
https://www.dacapo-records.dk/da/udgivelser/nielsen-the-masterworks-vol-1-orkestermusik

I think that seems to leave primarily:

- the two wind concertos (?)(essential)
- Lille Suite / Small Suite for Strings op.1 (?)(essential)
- Aladdin Suite op.34 (?)(essential)

- vocal works with orchestra:
  Fynsk Forår / Springtime on Funen
  Søvnen / The Sleep
  Hymnus Amoris

- Symphonic Rhapsody (a quite effective, early piece)
- Saga Dream op.39

and maybe also
- Andante Lamentoso/At the Bier of a Young Artist
- Romance for Violin & Orchestra op.2 (*)
- Andante & Scherzo for Strings (*)
- Nearer My God to Thee, for wind orchestra

- smaller stage pieces
  Hagbard & Signe
  Cosmus
  Tove
  En Aften på Giske / An Evening at Giske

- cantatas for various events such as that of Grosserersocietet and that of the Børsen / The Stock Exchange, etc. (I don't collect that & I'm not sure how much has been recorded, I have a few excerpts with John Frandsen and Mogens Wöldike on LPs).

I think (*) is only available with Bostock, but I'm not totally up to date ... And I might have forgotten some ...

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The Membran Super Budget 10 CD box release has a lot of the missing content, plus songs and piano and wind chamber music etc., but it is not the most recommendable recording-wise:
https://www.discogs.com/Carl-Nielsen-The-Danish-Symphonist/release/8673127

[Karl Henning]

Superb!

"Papa"
Schöpfungsmesse Hob. XXII:13

Harmoniemesse, Hob. XXII:14
Tafelmusik & al.

Weil

[aligreto]

Atterberg: Symphony No. 4 [Rasilainen]





The small one but still a very interesting sound world; a very fine work with many interesting facets. I particularly liked the languid slow movement.

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Eroica (Szell/Cleveland)

[Traverso]

Shostakovich

Symphony No.7

[Irons]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9 in D major. Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic (live recording)

One of the best recordings of Karajan's career, and possibly my favorite recording of this symphony.

Agree on both counts.

[Karl Henning]

Well, now that I have at last listened through to both of the magnificent Harmonia Mundi boxes (and if I had not entirely neglected them heretofore, it is true that they pretty much sat on the shelf "till later," Let me wade into this Mercury Living Presence box, which, similarly I have pretty much only sampled (apart from prior purcheses with this box redundantified.

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For fun, I shall start at random with CD 22: Freddie Fennell leading the Eastman-Rochester "Pops" in music by Leroy Anderson

[Florestan]

Earlier today, live on radio while driving, the Berlin PO concert

Mahler - Symphony No. 4

Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Christiane Karg (soprano)

I have never ever heard this symphony performed this way, almost chamberlike, almost like a concerto grosso alternating ripieno and concertino. The strangest version I've ever heard --- and also the best hands down. It charmed, touched and moved my soul as no other performance of this symphony I've ever heard. Desert island stuff. I hope they recorded it and will release it in the near future.

[Mirror Image]

The Violin Concerto -

[vers la flamme]

Did you ever listen to his studio-recording,it's quite good too.

Never did, I'm considering getting it on CD so I can get my hands on his Lieder recordings with Christa Ludwig—you showed them to me last year when I was first getting into Mahler, and it was my introduction to those songs. I've heard conflicting things, some say it's nowhere near as good as the live, some say it's even better. Whatever the case it's clear that Karajan had a real affinity for Mahler's 9th.

[Mirror Image]

Well, now that I have at last listened through to both of the magnificent Harmonia Mundi boxes (and if I had not entirely neglected them heretofore, it is true that they pretty much sat on the shelf "till later," Let me wade into this Mercury Living Presence box, which, similarly I have pretty much only sampled (apart from prior purcheses with this box redundantified.

[asin]B00B7364H2[/asin]

For fun, I shall start at random with CD 22: Freddie Fennell leading the Eastman-Rochester "Pops" in music by Leroy Anderson

I own all three of those Mercury Living Presence box sets and I have yet to explore them. I don't normally buy box sets that are record label-centric, but I bought them each for such a fantastic price that I simply couldn't resist. I wonder if these sets are OOP now? I'll have to take a look...

[North Star]

Janáček
String Quartet no. 2 'Intimate Letters'
Pavel Haas Quartet
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Shostakovich
Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Alexander Melnikov
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[ritter]

Roger Désormière's pioneering (1950) recording of excerpts from acts III, IV and V of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, from this new arrival:

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[Brian]

I own all three of those Mercury Living Presence box sets and I have yet to explore them. I don't normally buy box sets that are record label-centric, but I bought them each for such a fantastic price that I simply couldn't resist. I wonder if these sets are OOP now? I'll have to take a look...

They are. I realized much too late that I've enjoyed every MLP recording I've heard, but now they're all about $200-500.

Thread duty:

Corelli Variations
Ashkenazy

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Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, w/ various singers: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Sara Fulgoni (mezzosoprano), & Gösta Winbergh (tenor)

An eBay seller sent this to me by accident and told me to keep it. I'm very thankful for it as this recording wasn't even on my radar, but I'm enjoying it so much that I think I owe it to myself to hear more of Chailly's Mahler. It wouldn't be unfair to call him one of the preeminent Mahlerians of our time, I think. The singers are all phenomenal, but especially Goerne. This song cycle is one of my most neglected works in all of Mahler, I need to listen to it more.

[ritter]

I don't know that recording (TBH, I'm not really a fan of Chailly, but really cannot say why  ), but I have seen Matthias Goerne sing some of the Wunderhorn-Lieder in concert (conducted by Theodor Currentzis) here in Madrid, and he was superb!

THREAD DUTY:

First listen to Louis Vierné's Piano Quintet, op. 42, and String Quartet, op.12.

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So far (halfway through the first movement of the Quintet) I'm liking this rather more than I expected. 

[Mirror Image]

They are. I realized much too late that I've enjoyed every MLP recording I've heard, but now they're all about $200-500.

Ah, they're very expensive now.