What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

That might have been the one that my friend own.  How many times did he record them?

PD

To my knowledge,complete, I think these two but I'm not sure.

Ah..the answer was already there 

[Traverso]

Schubert

Symphony No. 8

[Florestan]

Hi Fergus, I am waiting for a recording this afternoon with a pianist I had never heard of. His musical career has ended for many years because of his conversion to Catholicism and the priesthood.
It is a recording made in the small hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
From what I have read, the recording is very good even if it is a live recording from 1976.
It will be delivered later this afternoon.

How interesting! There was another very good pianist who gave up performing and became a monk: Thierry de Brunhoff. His Chopin's Nocturnes are something else.

[Mandryka]

Hi Fergus, I am waiting for a recording this afternoon with a pianist I had never heard of. His musical career has ended for many years because of his conversion to Catholicism and the priesthood.
It is a recording made in the small hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
From what I have read, the recording is very good even if it is a live recording from 1976.
It will be delivered later this afternoon.

While you're waiting you may enjoy his Debussy, I only discovered myself a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTGOd4GZGep8CTba8DHZqaO_NfaS_d3r

Speaking of Debussy, this morning I listened to Preludes 2 here



I just think it is am amazing recording, Bach and Debussy. a real successful document of a magical concert, a desert island recording for me. And I don't even like piano!

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor op.67 played by Trio Wanderer




Sarge

[Traverso]

While you're waiting you may enjoy his Debussy, I only discovered myself a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTGOd4GZGep8CTba8DHZqaO_NfaS_d3r

Speaking of Debussy, this morning I listened to Preludes 2 here



I just think it is am amazing recording, Bach and Debussy. a real successful document of a magical concert, a desert island recording for me. And I don't even like piano!

Thank you for posting ,I had read that there were also recordings of the Debussy preludes.

[vandermolen]

Shchedrin: Symphony No.1
Fine performance of this great work:

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor op.67 played by Trio Wanderer




Sarge

Very nice, Sarge!

[Karl Henning]

like falling in love with this piece all over again:

Nielsen
Symphony № 5, Op. 50
NY Phil
Lenny

[Artem]

SQ No.4. Good description from the liner notes: The piece oscillates episodically between moving forward and stopping still, between stasis and dynamic change, between mechanistic, empty operations and rude outbreaks, treating time as a broken continuum, until towards the end any sense of coordination is given up and a conclusion is offered in which each flageolet sounds on in spheric aloofness.

[Brahmsian]

Schubert

Symphony No. 8

[Symphonic Addict]

Yet another formidable example of an astonishing first symphony. The performance and recording are top-notch.

On the other hand, Capriccio's rather kitsch cover arts don't match the music at all. I wonder what they have in mind when designing them.

[Traverso]

[Roasted Swan]

Yet another formidable example of an astonishing first symphony. The performance and recording are top-notch.

On the other hand, Capriccio's rather kitsch cover arts don't match the music at all. I wonder what they have in mind when designing them.

+1 regarding the quality of the symphony.  How does this performance copmpare to the Chandos or Telarc versions?

[Symphonic Addict]

+1 regarding the quality of the symphony.  How does this performance copmpare to the Chandos or Telarc versions?

Both the Telarc recording and this one do full justice to the work in terms of interpretation and sound quality. The tempi are rather similar too. I don't own the Chandos one.

[Symphonic Addict]

like falling in love with this piece all over again:

Nielsen
Symphony № 5, Op. 50
NY Phil
Lenny

It's inevitable not to do it. A categorical masterpiece in a coruscating performance.

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 7 [Svetlanov]





I really like this one with its turbulent, swirling strings of the first movement. A sense of peace and calm pervades the second movement with wonderful woodwinds featuring even with the inevitable turbulence that inevitably raises its head.

[aligreto]

Walton - Façade

That is a wonderful, quirky work. Did you like it Olivier?

[aligreto]

Schubert

Symphony No. 8

I honestly do not remember the details but I definitely do remember liking that one. I am a fan Of Kertesz. His was a tragic loss.

[Mandryka]

This has been discussed here before and people didn't feel positive - including myself. The thought was that it was unpoetic.

However I now think that that judgement was unfair. Tonight I'm listening to them play Babbitt 3 and to me, it sounds like the most beautiful quartet I've ever heard in all my life. I mean, while I'm listening to it, it totally effaces the memory of all other quartets.

Part of the fascination comes from a contradiction. On the one hand, the music is completely unpredictable - as unpredictable as something by Cage constructed by chance processes, even though it's probably diametrically opposed to chance processes, the logic is not something I can hear at all. And on the other, it is so poised, classical and elegant, like a jewel, a diamond.

So I guess they're doing something right.