What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Schubert


CD 4

[Mirror Image]

Everything in life is a matter of balance, and everyone knows or figures out the way to create comfort to ourselves, so if you are satisfied with what you hear, that's what matters. Up to this point of my life I'm not tired to listen to more new stuff as much as possible according to certain parameters, screenings or preferences, which doesn't exclude I am in the mood for the "classical stuff" or the music of my preferences in other opportunities (which is the most important in my overall tastes, of course). I tend to balance both.

Instead of listening to one recording of a work that doesn't have any important difference with any other, I do prefer to hear, i.e., the Symphony No. 2 in B minor by Wilhelm Berger (CPO, take note!), or a String Quartet by Gavriil Popov (there's a recording of it, btw), etc. I'm not in that point of my life where I want to hear or own every recording of, say, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas just to detect or hear "nuances" between recordings, or Dvorak's Symphonies to notice what more nationalistic is. I want new but good stuff, and it doesn't mean that I have to give a spin to every work and a composer that appear, and that's precisely one of the advantages of partly being a streamer. Yes, I'm a streamer a considerable part of the day, and I also collected some CDs when I started exploring classical music. As I don't have as much money as you to acquire lots and lots of CDs and much less to show off what I buy on the Purchases Thread, streaming has meant to me a huge help to me to approach this fascinating music.

I agree with a lot of what you say and remember that I said I'm not completely done exploring. I don't think anyone is truly done exploring, especially if one loves this music as much as you and I obviously do. On the topic of streaming, I'm wondering when Apple will unveil its new classical streaming service? This looks like it would be right up your alley, especially since they acquired Primephonic.

[Mirror Image]

That's a very fine CD, combining Church Windows with the Botticelli Pictures.

Now playing (new arrival) Glazunov: Symphony No.7
A beautifully recorded, reflective performance. Slower paced than other performances I have heard which brings added depth and beauty to the slow movement
However, in places, I find more urgency in the recordings by Fedoseyev and Svetlanov. I would still, however, recommend this new release. The cover image reminds me of the Ukrainian flag. The booklet contains four nice photographs of the composer. The 'Overture Carnaval' with its chorale-like central organ passage was a very nice discovery.



I very much agree with this enthusiastic review:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/Apr/Glazunov-sym7-95222356.htm

Looks like a nice recording, Jeffrey, but of course I couldn't imagine it topping Svetlanov or Rozhdestvensky for me, but that's okay. The couplings are also quite nice. I only have one performance of Carnival Overture and it's on this fine disc:

[Todd]

Disc nine, Schumann Piano Quintet and Chopin Cello Sonata.

[Spotted Horses]

Revisited this disk, Sinfonia dello Zodiaco, Final section, Inverno (winter) and a second listen to the Symphony No 9.



My impression of the Sinfonia cello Zodiaco is confirmed, wonderful sensuous music that is fun to listen to. The Symphony No 9 is a more focused affair with intense outer movements and a central slow movement which contains an impressive climax.

Continued with the Goldberg Variations, Kolesnikov, variations 4-9.



This recorded performance is interesting and satisfying, generally light and rhythmically precise, without being revelatory.

[Mirror Image]

Kodaly: Peacock Variations. Gyorgy Lehel/Budapest, 1962. Real deal.

Nice! I love that work and Lethel was a great conductor.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Martinů - "The Butterfly that Stamped". Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice! I love that work and Lethel was a great conductor.

Yes I am searching for other recordings by Lehel. His Peacock is not sophisticated like Dorati or Dutoit, but very colorful and exotic. The Bartok tunes in the album are vg too.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I couldn't not to be in the mood for 'VW':


Lodewijk de Vocht: Cello Concerto

One of the most interesting releases from this Marco Polo Flemish series.

I was listening to both the Vols 1 and 2 this past weekend. 

[Mirror Image]

Yes I am searching for other recordings by Lehel. His Peacock is not sophisticated like Dorati or Dutoit, but very colorful and exotic. The Bartok tunes in the album are vg too.

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Cantata BWV 67 (Kuijken)

[Mirror Image]

Martinů - "The Butterfly that Stamped". Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek

Pounds the table! I love all of the Martinů ballets.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Khachaturian
Violin Concerto in D minor
Julia Fischer, violin
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Cantata BWV 67 (Fritz Werner)

[Operafreak]

Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 1-  City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner


   

[DavidW]

JS Bach - Cantata BWV 67 (Fritz Werner)

Which one of the three are you preferring today?

[Papy Oli]

Which one of the three are you preferring today?

Gardiner maybe grabbed me more than the other two today, David, but, to be honest, I don't think to compare the interpretations much anymore now. I just discover and enjoy them individually in their own right as I go along, whoever performs them     

[Traverso]

Fauré

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - BWV 66 (Herreweghe)

[DavidW]

Hummel Piano Sonatas



Excellent music, never heard them before!