What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Splendid!

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First-Listen Fridays!

Milhaud
Sonata for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano, Op. 47
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Francois Meyer (oboe), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Eric Le Sage (piano)

[Mahlerian]

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D
Isaac Stern, CBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Stravinsky

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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D
Isaac Stern, CBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Stravinsky

Horrible performance.

[Florestan]

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. 

Vierne is great! I've recently listened to his complete piano music and it's excellent. His Piano Quintet is a very moving work, written in the memory of his son who was killed in WWI.

[Mahlerian]

Horrible performance.

I wouldn't go THAT far, but it's got intonation issues.

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I wouldn't go THAT far, but it's got intonation issues.

Stern is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard to me. Unbearable.

[Todd]

First ever listen to the Phanasie in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra, otherwise known as the first pass at Piano Concerto.  The famous version is better.

[Karl Henning]

Janáček
String Quartet no. 2 'Intimate Letters'
Pavel Haas Quartet

Shostakovich
Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Alexander Melnikov

Cheers, Karlo!

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Roussel
Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42
Orchestre National de France
Martinon

[ritter]

Vierne is great! I've recently listened to his complete piano music and it's excellent. His Piano Quintet is a very moving work, written in the memory of his son who was killed in WWI.

I was expecting a bleak composition in the Quintet ( I knew about its background), but instead I found a sadly melancholic piece that is very well crafted, and really engaging.

As for the piano music, to paraphrase you, "Just got it. Thanks, Sir" 

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[Karl Henning]

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...

Cheers, John! I did pick this one up as an impulse on an Amazon flash sale.  In the random sampling I've done, some of it I really enjoy, some percentage is standard rep which I have IMO much better recordings elsewhere. Some of it is rarities with which I am pleased for that fact.

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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.

In my opinion one of his most beautiful works,in my view anyway.

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Cheers, John! I did pick this one up as an impulse on an Amazon flash sale.  In the random sampling I've done, some of it I really enjoy, some percentage is standard rep which I have IMO much better recordings elsewhere. Some of it is rarities with which I am pressed for that fact.

You're probably right about that for sure. I mean these are some older recordings, which have, no doubt, been bettered elsewhere.

[Traverso]

Stern is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard to me. Unbearable.

But now you know what it means to suffer.

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But now you know what it means to suffer.

Indeed!

[JBS]

CD 1, the odd numbered quartets

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Mozart

pioanoconcertos 20 & 25

[SonicMan46]

Platti, Giovanni (1697-1763) - Late Keyboard Sonatas performed by Luca Guglielmi; six sonatas w/ 2 performed on a Kerstin Schwarz harpsichord (2009) after Bartolomeo Cristofori (Florence, 1698) and 4 on a Kerstin Schwarz fortepiano (1997) after Cristofori (Florence, 1726).  Dave

[Florestan]

I was expecting a bleak composition in the Quintet ( I knew about its background), but instead I found a sadly melancholic piece that is very well crafted, and really engaging.

All the more poignant and moving, imho.

As for the piano music, to paraphrase you, "Just got it. Thanks, Sir" 

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You're in for a treat, imho. I have this version: