What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Some new arrivals below - in the Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano, I already own those w/ Jandó but the review on ClassicsToday convinced me that another set is fine!    Dave

ADDENDUM: for those interested in Maltempo in Liszt, reviews are now attached - the Krommer recording is just OK, possibly a better version?

 

[Traverso]

Chopin

[DavidW]

More Segerstam Pettersson!

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams - Sacred Choral Music/ The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

That's a fine CD!
I haven't bought this set as I already have all the CDs (although this hasn't necessarily stopped me in the past) 

[vandermolen]

More Segerstam Pettersson!

Fine performance of No.7

[Mirror Image]

Fine performance of No.7

My favorite performance of the 7th. Too bad Segerstam didn't record a Pettersson symphony cycle. He'd be so incredible and much, much preferable to Lindberg who I don't think is a convincing conductor. A fine trombonist of course, but instrumentalists don't always make good conductors however confident they believe they are on the podium.

[vandermolen]

I've got rather hooked on this CD which I've had for years but never really appreciated before.

[Florestan]

Some Wieniawski from this:

[vandermolen]

My favorite performance of the 7th. Too bad Segerstam didn't record a Pettersson symphony cycle. He'd be so incredible and much, much preferable to Lindberg who I don't think is a convincing conductor. A fine trombonist of course, but instrumentalists don't always make good conductors however confident they believe they are on the podium.

V much agree with you John about Segerstam as a conductor. There are some fine Sibelius recordings and much else besides.
Like these ones:

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire.

[Linz]

Vivaldi Four Seasons with some Violin Concertos by Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer

[Mirror Image]

V much agree with you John about Segerstam as a conductor. There are some fine Sibelius recordings and much else besides.
Like these ones:

I have these recordings you posted somewhere, Jeffrey. Great stuff.

[Mirror Image]

Speaking of great stuff...

Now playing this Walton recording in its entirety:



Top-drawer performances from one of the great Walton conductors.

[Karl Henning]

Delius


Florida
Brigg Fair
Summer Evening
La Calinda
Air and Dance
Intermezzo & Serenade
Two Aquerelles

I remember enjoying most of those, Jan, though my recollection is that I found the Aquarelles a little, well, wishy-washy ....

[Maestro267]

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Ax (piano), Stern (violin), Laredo (viola), Ma (cello)

[Karl Henning]

That's a fine CD!
I haven't bought this set as I already have all the CDs (although this hasn't necessarily stopped me in the past) 

Hah!

TD:

CD 7
Wagner transcriptions

Lohengrin: Elsas Brautzug zum Münster (tr. Liszt)
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I (tr. Kocsis)
Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebestod (tr. Liszt)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I (tr. Kocsis)
Parsifal: Feierlicher Marsch (tr. Liszt)

[Linz]

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf narrated by Itzhak Perlman Zubin Mehta with the Israel Philharmonic  as well Saint Saens, Carnival of the Animals

[DavidW]

My favorite performance of the 7th. Too bad Segerstam didn't record a Pettersson symphony cycle. He'd be so incredible and much, much preferable to Lindberg who I don't think is a convincing conductor. A fine trombonist of course, but instrumentalists don't always make good conductors however confident they believe they are on the podium.

The Lindberg performances are kind of drab.  Segerstam is much more convincing.  He has made few recordings though unfortunately.

[Linz]

Prokofiev Symphonies 1 and 2 The Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Kitaenko

[Mirror Image]

The Lindberg performances are kind of drab.  Segerstam is much more convincing.  He has made few recordings though unfortunately.

Indeed. Another conductor I wish did a cycle of Pettersson symphonies was Sergiu Comissiona.