What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Just listened to a wonderful work...haunting, driving...and I won't say anything further though I do encourage you to listen to it!  Kabelec's "Mystery of Time" (mentioned elsewhere--Thanks Jeffrey as I've been wanting to explore his work).  I found a wonderful recording with Ancerl on YT here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxcD0mU9jo

Best wishes,

PD

[aligreto]

Hi Aligreto - took me a couple of listens (one w/ headphones) to appreciate this recording, but still in my collection - guess like bass solos in a jazz band, i.e. not easy to hear - but the reviews (attached) have been good.  Dave

Cheers Dave, I enjoyed it too even if the double bass was quite recessed in the recording. Thank you also for the attached reviews.

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 [Kertesz]





I particularly like the fine scoring for the brass and the woodwinds throughout this fine work.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 [Kertesz]





I particularly like the fine scoring for the brass and the woodwinds throughout this fine work.

+1! 

[Todd]

Disc 2.  It opens with a crackerjack Hob.XVI:46 played on harpsichord.  This is as strong a case as I can imagine for Haydn played on the instrument.  But that's not as good as the clavichord recordings that follow.  Outstanding.

[listener]

A Program of music on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Santa Maria la Real de Azkoitia.
The instrument was his last (1899), one a series for Spanish churches,  Azkoitia is in the area of San Sebastian.   Lots of trumpet stops and mixtures making for rather muddy sound when the full instrument is used.
GUILMANT: Sonata no. 5  FRANCK: Choral no.2, BONNET: Variations de concert
+ Dupré, Vierne and de la Tombelle
Mathias Kjellgren, organist
And IVES; 32 Songs
Henry Herford, baritone   Robin Bowman, piano

[Daverz]

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Dresden Staatskapelle, Otmar Suitner

[asin] B00009YFXW[/asin]

This was a Hurwitz recommendation from his Sacre video.  Exciting wind playing, but in the big part for bass drum, instead of the expected BWOOOM, BWOOOM, BWOOOM, BWOOOM, the overcautious engineers (or the conductor?) gives us a delicate twoom, twoom, twoom, twoom.  I mean you might not notice the bass drum part unless you'd heard it properly done in other recordings.  Definitely will not become a goto Sacre.

[Brian]

Les quatre premiers disques sont consacrés aux grands concertos que Monique de La Bruchollerie (1915-1972) fréquentait souvent et auxquels elle donnait toujours un panache et une grandeur communicatifs.
Parmi eux, on découvre le Quatrième de Beethoven, premières cires, inédit absolu. L'autorité et l'éloquence, l'extrême honnêteté du discours et la virtuosité électrisante de la jeune soliste de 28 ans dans les cadences de Saint-Saëns, alliées à sa grande complicité avec André Cluytens et l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts, sont une véritable révélation.

Romantic and poetic!
Source: http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=3629

Thank you!! Camille makes sense. 

[André]

Just listened to a wonderful work...haunting, driving...and I won't say anything further though I do encourage you to listen to it!  Kabelec's "Mystery of Time" (mentioned elsewhere--Thanks Jeffrey as I've been wanting to explore his work).  I found a wonderful recording with Ancerl on YT here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxcD0mU9jo

Best wishes,

PD

Quite unlike anything else indeed !

[Sergeant Rock]

A new piece by my friend & colleague David Bohn:

https://www.youtube.com/v/DPHDirCqQ9o

Quite a lovely little piece.

Sarge

[André]

Symphony no 3.

Once again Karajan glosses over Brahms' wonderful writing for winds. The instrumental lines are there, but the tone is slender, bodiless, undercharacterized. Tempi are very swift, legato reigns. With similar speeds and a lesser orchestra, Walter's 1960 version suffuses warmth and drama. No contest.

[Todd]

I wavered on this one a bit, even at $5.  That was silly.  This is probably the best overall DMS recording I've heard now.  He and Piemontesi nail every work.

[SimonNZ]

[Symphonic Addict]

A first listen to Peteris Vasks, i think.

I love that disc! Missa is just sublime. It really is.

[TheGSMoeller]

[Symphonic Addict]

Casella: Cello Sonatas

I had heard the first one long ago, but the second one is a fresh work for me. Sounds formidable. I think I prefer it to the first one.

[Todd]

It's been a good long while.  Disc 1.

[Karl Henning]

Just finished an excellent performance of DSCH Fourth Symphony from this set

Recorded live in May 1987 with the USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra.  Only demerit was some determined coughing in the audience.

Nice!

[André]

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Dresden Staatskapelle, Otmar Suitner

[asin] B00009YFXW[/asin]

This was a Hurwitz recommendation from his Sacre video.  Exciting wind playing, but in the big part for bass drum, instead of the expected BWOOOM, BWOOOM, BWOOOM, BWOOOM, the overcautious engineers (or the conductor?) gives us a delicate twoom, twoom, twoom, twoom.  I mean you might not notice the bass drum part unless you'd heard it properly done in other recordings.  Definitely will not become a goto Sacre.

I love that Sacre ! It's slow, heavy, dark, violent. 

[Karl Henning]

Reinbert de Leeuw playing Satie