What are you listening 2 now?

[MusicTurner]

A fantastic work! I'll have to look out for the Brilliant recording.

Yes, in this case, I'm listening to it several times in a row ...

[pjme]

I have every CD of Divna, a most glorious voice with Orthodox music, all very near to my heart.

Yes, very beautiful and uplifting.
However, and to my surprise, she apparently also tries to be some kind of a pop diva (see Sidji do reke) in a very kitschy way...an overload of worn cliches.
Too bad!

[Florestan]

Pounds the table!! Great music and performances.

Yep. There's a whole series of Dvorak's chamber music for piano and strings by the Busch Trio and guests, 3 more discs.

[Florestan]

Well, here goes  :

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1, op. 89 - Michel Dalberto & the Quatuor Ebène.


CD 5.

I have both this and the Domus but have listened to the latter only. I reckon this should be very good as well.

[Harry]

Yes, very beautiful and uplifting.
However, and to my surprise, she apparently also tries to be some kind of a pop diva (see Sidji do reke) in a very kitschy way...an overload of worn cliches.
Too bad!

Yes those I avoid...I concentrated on the religious side.... To bad she uses her voice for that kind of thing, but apparently that brings money on the table..

[Mandryka]

Listening to this I'm thinking

1. It is very good to have subwoofers
2. I don't know if I could tell Lübeck and Bux apart blind, I mean apart from the works I know well enough to identify the attribution. Maybe, I'm not sure.

[JBS]

CD 1

[Florestan]

Yes those I avoid...I concentrated on the religious side.... To bad she uses her voice for that kind of thing, but apparently that brings money on the table..

Years ago I've heard her live in Bucharest. A joy!

That she sings for money on the table? Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...

[Karl Henning]

Schubert
The b minor semi-symphony, D.759
ONRF
Markevich
Recorded in the Salle de la Mutualité (18 Jan 1955)

This is a piece I've always been very fond of: first came to know it by playing a band transcription of the Allegro moderato in my teens.
That said, this item on the program was far from just why I purchased this 18-disc box.

But, the Allegro moderato is so well-shaped, its dramatic subtleties so expertly expressed, this may be my all-time favorite account of the piece.

[Karl Henning]

And now, Markevich conducting the f minor symphonies of Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich, respectively. Hot damn, but this is good!

[Todd]

A blended recital, spanning the baroque to contemporary music.  The selections and sequence are excellently done, and some transitions sound seamless.  Some contemporary works quote or allude to other works.  The only beef is that Greilsammer is definitely not a great Scriabin player.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

A blended recital, spanning the baroque to contemporary music.  The selections and sequence are excellently done, and some transitions sound seamless.  Some contemporary works quote or allude to other works.  The only beef is that Greilsammer is definitely not a great Scriabin player.

I heard him do the whole sequence of that album at Ravinia last year. It was fun stuff. Especially I like the way he integrates early keyboard music into the mix.

[vandermolen]

Imants Kalnins: Symphony No.4
Wow!
This is something quite special with the 'rock band' genuinely integrated into the orchestra. The first movement with its pounding and yet compulsive Bolero-like ostinato has me on the edge of my seat - I've never quite heard anything like it. It must be sensational in concert and IMO not to be missed:

[André]

Revisiting old friends: Mozart 39, 40, 41 and Beethoven 1, 6.

In short: 39 is excellent, full of vim and vigour. No 40 doesn't entirely convince, on account of an under accentuated first movement. Mov 3 and 4 otoh are perfectly paced and articulated. The Jupiter is the crown of this cd, with a joyous, robust, swinging performance. BP, recorded in the early sixties.

The Beethoven 1st (a favourite) is given a superlative performance, gruff and mischievious, sturdy and full of fun. This is not Böhm's Pastorale. It's the Wiener Philharmoniker's, in all its glory. Whether it's an oboe, a clarinet, the horns, the big, patrician string section, in nature painting or village scene, no orchestra has ever approached them for idiomacy, stylishness, effortless elegance and pointed individual/sectional/ensemble playing. WP, early seventies recordings. Lucky Ludwig !

[Madiel]

Years ago I've heard her live in Bucharest. A joy!

That she sings for money on the table? Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...

She could also actually like what she's singing. Shock horror.

[Irons]

Yuri Falik: 6th String Quartet (1984).



The 6th is unlike the other quartets on this CD in fact unlike any other quartet known to me! Consisting of two movements, the first being a short boisterous Fanfair followed by a moving Requiem. Two movements that would seem irreconcilable but from Falik's pen they fit and one feeds off the other.

[North Star]

Haydn
String Quartets Op. 64
Festetics
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Bach
Cantatas 51, 99, 100, 138
Gardiner
[asin]B00ETHPJ1U[/asin]

[Traverso]

Schubert

Schwanengesang

[Christo]

Imants Kalnins: Symphony No.4
Wow!
This is something quite special with the 'rock band' genuinely integrated into the orchestra. The first movement with its pounding and yet compulsive Bolero-like ostinato has me on the edge of my seat - I've never quite heard anything like it. It must be sensational in concert and IMO not to be missed:

Nice to read that you like it! Have the older BIS recording, will give it a spin again.

[vandermolen]

Nice to read that you like it! Have the older BIS recording, will give it a spin again.

It arrived today.
Here's the opening movement played by the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic if anyone wants to sample the 'Rock Symphony' by Imants Kalninš:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qI4G5J50nGg