What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
La Marseillaise, S237

[Roasted Swan]

I can understand your point of view.  But I don't happen to share it.  I tend to find what people are listening to more interesting than why they are listening to it.  Possibly this is because I rarely have much of an opinion about my own listening, and even when I do, it is usually incredibly banal.  Honestly you are not missing anything by not knowing why I've been listening to Weinberg's string quartets lately.  Not sure I know why myself.   But it is thanks to MI's posts - cover shots mostly sans text - that the Silesian Quartet have my attention currently.

I'm very happy with just a cover shot.  These have led me to some interesting discoveries.

This is the genuine JOY of a forum like this - such diametric views and all equally valid.  I'm pretty much ONLY interested in the why and not at all in the what.  I accept what you say absolutely but surely SOMETHING must have made you reach for the 2nd disc of Weinberg String Quartets (works I have never heard) and I'm curious to know what that is.......... but I'm glad you're enjoying them anyway because that is the key to what everyone here shares - a love of music for any reason!

[Karl Henning]

I'm listening to and enjoying Vol. 2 of Olli Mustonen's WTC I and Shostakovich Op. 87 "mix tape."
He's not going to please everyone, but it likes me well.

[Bachtoven]

Op.18 No.6--a wonderful performance and recording.

[foxandpeng]

Peteris Vasks
Oboe Concerto
Andris Poga
Latvian NSO
Ondine


Restorative and beautiful before sleep, evoking the harmony and glory of the natural world.

[classicalgeek]

You're the first one I meet in this forum who seems to like them - I love them too, as I do about everything Berkeley wrote in the 1940s.

This is my first time listening to Berkeley in a while - I definitely enjoyed these symphonies. I look forward to listening to more of his music.

TD:
Bruckner
Symphony no. 5
Staatskapelle Dresden
Eugen Jochum
(on CD)



A great no. 5 from my favorite Bruckner conductor! I like how he makes total sense of the relation between the slow movement and scherzo, and the finale keeps the momentum building all the way to the end.

[vers la flamme]

y'all are making me want to hear the Weinberg string quartets 

Now playing:



Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op.9. Youri Egorov

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Songs from Rückert-Lieder and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Christa Ludwig, Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra

Stellar performances. Only wish Ludwig and Klemperer performed all of them.

[Spotted Horses]

y'all are making me want to hear the Weinberg string quartets 

Now playing:



Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op.9. Youri Egorov

That is a great collection. Don't overlook the recording of Papillons, which is utterly superb.

[Karl Henning]

y'all are making me want to hear the Weinberg string quartets 

Certainly!

[Mapman]

Martucci: Piano Quintet in C, Op. 45 & Respighi: Piano Quintet in f minor
Patrizia Prati, Quartetto di Venezia

Martucci wrote some beautiful melodies, especially in the first and third movements.

[bhodges]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (Susanna Mälkki / Frankfurt Radio Symphony, recorded 17 May 2019) - Marvelous, and another in the seemingly endless array of excellent recordings from this ensemble. Mälkki is now one of my favorite living conductors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXU8EXL7a_4&t=5s

--Bruce

[JBS]

Another listen. Music of its time (dates range from 1796 to 1810) well composed and well performed.

[Symphonic Addict]

Guerra-Peixe: Symphonic Suite No. 1 'Paulista'

A rather cool work. If the first mov. doesn't remind you of Nielsen's 4th, nothing else could! Very optimistic and rhythmic. The energy of this piece has a notable feature one can detect. I like this combination, and the orchestration is phenomenal. It's an assured disc to be in my list of discoveries/discs of this year.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Guerra-Peixe: Symphonic Suite No. 1 'Paulista'

A rather cool work. If the first mov. doesn't remind you of Nielsen's 4th, nothing else could! Very optimistic and rhythmic. The energy of this piece has a notable feature one can detect. I like this combination, and the orchestration is phenomenal. It's an assured disc to be in my list of discoveries/discs of this year.

Interesting!  I will check it out!!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Excellent music, very committed playing, merely adequate sound.

Nice!

[Symphonic Addict]

Nice!

This is also an interesting disc:



The music does have a similarity with that of Scriabin, but this music also has alluring writing.

[Operafreak]

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé & La Valse/ Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opéra National de Paris, Philippe Jordan

[Mirror Image]

Guerra-Peixe: Symphonic Suite No. 1 'Paulista'

A rather cool work. If the first mov. doesn't remind you of Nielsen's 4th, nothing else could! Very optimistic and rhythmic. The energy of this piece has a notable feature one can detect. I like this combination, and the orchestration is phenomenal. It's an assured disc to be in my list of discoveries/discs of this year.

Nice, Cesar! I still haven't received my copy yet, but good to read you enjoyed it.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Schoenberg
Wind Quintet, Op. 26
New York Wind Quintet



I think this is the only recording I own of this work and, thankfully, it's a good one. Arnie really had a penchant for writing elastic harmonies and rhythms. It reminds me of walking down a corridor of nothing but funhouse mirrors and I mean this in a positive way. This almost schizophrenic, rapidly morphing musical world is unlike anything I've heard.

Next up something a bit more consonant:

Berlioz
Harold en Italie, Op. 16
Antoine Tamestit, viola
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski