What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

[j winter]

Wow, Temirkanov's Tchaikovsky is really quite excellent!  After Symphony # 4, I finished the disc with Fatum Op. 77, a work I definitely need to get better acquainted with, and then tried his Swan Lake Suite, which is among the best I've heard.  Very happy with this set so far!

Moving on to an old favorite disc from Fricsay... hard to imagine a better recording of this music...

[Que]

And what would those pages be?

I would also like to know

Mostly juvenalia!

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/May11/Tchaikovsky_MELCD1001736.htm

[JBS]

Exactly what Ana-Marija Markovina did in her Mendelssohn box. You should check that too, Harry. There's much more good piano music from Felix than Lieder ohne Worte and Variations serieuses.

There's also Prosseda's set, although it's not hypercomplete.

TD
Bazzini SQs 3 and 4


As part of this set (Bazzini's quartets are CDs 4-6)

[j winter]

[Todd]

Termikanov is basically as good in Prokofiev as Tchaikovsky.  (He's good in everything.)  If you have not heard it, you may want to consider hearing his Alexander Nevsky recording.

[Florestan]

Mostly juvenalia!

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/May11/Tchaikovsky_MELCD1001736.htm

Thanks. Still,
ex ungue leonem.

[j winter]

Termikanov is basically as good in Prokofiev as Tchaikovsky.  (He's good in everything.)  If you have not heard it, you may want to consider hearing his Alexander Nevsky recording.

Thanks, I may well seek that out.  

Not sure why I'm in such a Russian music mood today, but I'm going with it   Next up...

[Linz]

Shoatakovich Piano Concertos

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Three Questions with Two Answers

Gianandrea Noseda & BBC Philharmonic

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday!

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday!

Unsurprisingly, thoroughly enjoyable. Fine writing.

[Mapman]

Karłowicz: "Rebirth" Symphony, Op.7
Noseda: BBC Philharmonic

Very similar in style to Tchaikovsky. Many beautiful passages (although perhaps not quite as beautiful as Tchaikovsky), and the ending is very satisfying.

[JBS]

TD
Bazzini SQs 3 and 4


As part of this set (Bazzini's quartets are CDs 4-6)

Now CD 6, the Fifth and Sixth String Quartets of Bazzini.

Written in the last half of the 19th century, but sometimes a bit conservative: the finale of the Fifth sounds somewhat like Haydn. Overall typical Romantic music making of good quality.

[Operafreak]

Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 -Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)-

[Que]

I started the morning on Spotify with this:



Which immediately scared the hell out of me due to the excessive vibrato by Véronique Bourin, who sounds like a goat on steroids... Cipriano would turn in his grave...

Then settled in with this:

[Operafreak]

 Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

Ileana Cotrubas, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk-The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Korngold - Symphony in F (Previn/LSO)

[Irons]

How do you like that set overall Lol?

And thanks for the info re Dvorak and Jarvi Harry! 

Listening hear....started off with a CD by Andsnes for "Wintertime" by Norwegian composers (lovely, but decided that I needed something zippier for me this morning).  I eventually wandered my way over to Szymanowski on Naxos and listened to his first violin concerto.  Maybe it's just because I'm starting to fade energy-wise (got up awfully early today), but it didn't really grab me. 

PD

I'm dipping into the Suk set and liking what I hear, PD. The recording dates range from 1958 to 1965. It must be said the violin balance is a tad close in the earliest recordings which is rectified by cutting gain. Balance for recordings post 1959 are fine. Excellent booklet with photos of Josef Suk with Navarra, Holecek, Panenka and Hala all of whom feature on the set.