What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube; I was suggested this recording, very curious about what it is like:

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
Vladimir Jurowski & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

[Todd]

The Piano Quintet.  Purchased mostly because I wanted to hear the Quatour Hermès.  Quite different from the Glitburg/Pavel Haas set from earlier in the year, but both are among the best I have heard.  Sonics from the Arsenal de Metz impress as normal.

The Op 76 is a straight reissue from Couteau's complete set.

[SonicMan46]

Well, back to my eclectic performer's collection, just mixing it up w/ the ones below today - Dave

 

 

[Todd]

A by the numbers recording, though at least sound quality is good.  Worth the one buck I paid for it.

[Peter Power Pop]

A by the numbers recording, though at least sound quality is good.  Worth the one buck I paid for it.

I have the 1995 reissue of that recording, with the addition of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. I like Ashkenazy as a conductor, so I like the performances. The recording quality is mighty fine too.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Szymanowski Piano Works: Marie-Catherine Girod.

[Todd]

I like Ashkenazy as a conductor, so I like the performances. The recording quality is mighty fine too.

I like Ashkenazy as a conductor for the most part - His DSCH cycle is top notch, his Sibelius and Prokofiev as well, and his Suk is amazing.  There's nothing wrong with the performance of any the works, it's just not a fave.  (Sonics are superb, and I cranked the volume to get some wall rattling impact in the last movement of the main draw.)  Of course, the last version of La Mer I listened to was Toscanini's on EMI/Warner, and while sonics are woeful, the interpretation is in another class.

TD:



33/5.  This twofer is turning out to contain some splendid Haydn playing.

[SimonNZ]

Ravel's both hands concerto on the radio

Stephen De Pledge, piano

[Symphonic Addict]

Nystroem: Sinfonia espressiva [Symphony No. 2]

These symphonies turn out to be quite rewarding whenever I give them a listen.

[Bachtoven]

I enjoyed the Qobuz version so much that I decided to buy the FLAC version and gave it a second listen. This would probably be my favorite if he played the 25th variation a little slower. He traverses it in 5:58--I prefer 8:00-10:00. Still, it's near the top of my list.
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[SimonNZ]

Huh. The Mass in B minor is probably my favorite work in all music, but only now after 30+ years of listening do I learn there is this early "Missa of 1733" version of the first parts.

I'm going to be sad I can't hear the rest of it at the end of this disc, particularly so tastefully done.

And I also see that Pygmalion have done a recent recording of Saint Matthew Passon I wasn't aware of. Has anyone here heard it?

[Symphonic Addict]

Hartmann: Symphony No. 3
Diamond: Symphony No. 4

Two astonishing symphonies, particularly the Hartmann. What a most splendid performance it receives here.

[Peter Power Pop]

Hartmann: Symphony No. 3
Diamond: Symphony No. 4

Two astonishing symphonies, particularly the Hartmann. What a most splendid performance it receives here.

I'm a huge fan of David Diamond's music. (When he was alive, he was my favourite living composer.) It started with the Rounds for String Orchestra and grew from there.

I bought the original Delos release of Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4. It's a great disc.

[Symphonic Addict]

I'm a huge fan of David Diamond's music. (When he was alive, he was my favourite living composer.) It started with the Rounds for String Orchestra and grew from there.

I bought the original Delos release of Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4. It's a great disc.

I also have affinity for his musical style. Too bad they never recorded the full cycle, although I'm more taken by his first four symphonies. The next ones are decidedly more dissonant and modernist.

[Peter Power Pop]

I also have affinity for his musical style. Too bad they never recorded the full cycle, although I'm more taken by his first four symphonies. The next ones are decidedly more dissonant and modernist.

As fine as the symphonies are, I'm more drawn towards Diamond's other symphonic works such as the ballet TOM and the music for Romeo and Juliet.

But I love it all.

[Que]

Morning listening, this time on disc:



Very dense musical textures, as Mandryka pointed out before. Quite an achievement to pull this off.

[Mandryka]

November 18th.

Yamaha piano. Good sound in the op 9 variations. Nice performance in a style which I'm learning to recognise as Japanese - spacious and introspective. I don't think I can remember hearing a better op 9.  If the op 18 variations are as good this is an interesting release, because I think satisfying performances of the minor Brahms variations are rare (though I'm probably forgetting some.)

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/34/000153743.pdf

[Traverso]

Yamaha piano. Good sound in the op 9 variations. Nice performance in a style which I'm learning to recognise as Japanese - spacious and introspective. I don't think I can remember hearing a better op 9.  If the op 18 variations are as good this is an interesting release, because I think satisfying performances of the minor Brahms variations are rare (though I'm probably forgetting some.)

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/34/000153743.pdf

Yesterday I bought her recording of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-J'esus. Hard to find and often expensive to buy. Because I love this work so much, I finally took the step.

[Traverso]

Yamaha piano. Good sound in the op 9 variations. Nice performance in a style which I'm learning to recognise as Japanese - spacious and introspective. I don't think I can remember hearing a better op 9.  If the op 18 variations are as good this is an interesting release, because I think satisfying performances of the minor Brahms variations are rare (though I'm probably forgetting some.)

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/34/000153743.pdf

Yesterday I bought her recording of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-J'esus. Hard to find and often expensive to buy. Because I love this work so much, I finally took the step.

[Mandryka]

Morning listening, this time on disc:



Very dense musical textures, as Mandryka pointed out before. Quite an achievement to pull this off.

It's outstanding! Because it's so poetic.