What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

After moving houses, first listen to music in more than a month. Picked up where I left off. In the Mists, An Overgrown Path, Sonata, Janacek.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
All Night-Vigil (Vespers)

Valeri Polyansky & USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir

[j winter]

Semi-random pick from the big Muti box...

[Todd]

More Mozart birthday music.  Disc 10, a couple divertimenti, the third VC, and some odds and ends.

[j winter]

More Mozart birthday music.  Disc 10, a couple divertimenti, the third VC, and some odds and ends.

Great stuff!  How's the remastering on that set?  I have the Haydn Londons on EMI 2-fers remastered in 1992, and my copy of the Mozart symphonies is from an ancient CD set from 1990 -- have they updated the sound at all?

[Madiel]

Some of it has to be due to Sony: the booklet notes give the title of Opus 114 as Five Esquisses, with movement titles given in Finnish with English translations. The track listings stick to German for everything. I think neither Sibelius nor his publishers mucked things up that much.

I only looked at the opus titles you mentioned, not the individual movements or what the rest of the liner notes do. But hilariously enough when I go look at my 2 different sources for op.114, that's exactly where I get an inconsistency with one giving a French opus name and Finnish piece names in a way that doesn't happen in any other opus, and the other one with a German opus name.

Maybe he sold that one to multiple publishers.

[Todd]

Great stuff!  How's the remastering on that set?  I have the Haydn Londons on EMI 2-fers remastered in 1992, and my copy of the Mozart symphonies is from an ancient CD set from 1990 -- have they updated the sound at all?

Sound quality works for me.  I'm not sure if the recordings were remastered or not, though.  If memory serves, EMI just repackaged the most recent remasters for the set, but since the boxset is ripped and in storage, I don't have access to the notes and cannot verify. 

[j winter]

Sound quality works for me.  I'm not sure if the recordings were remastered or not, though.  If memory serves, EMI just repackaged the most recent remasters for the set, but since the boxset is ripped and in storage, I don't have access to the notes and cannot verify.

Thanks!

[Traverso]

Mozart


Requiem

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

CD 4

Sonatas KK 49-66

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I've never thought that I would like Mendelssohn.

[Mapman]

Nielsen: Symphony #4
Blomstedt: San Francisco

I listened through IEMs, and there is very clear separation between the two timpanists, which is great for the finale.

[Todd]

[Brian]

Did not at all realize it was Mozart's birthday but I listened to the Bruno Walter stereo recordings of the Prague Symphony and 3rd and 4th violin concertos (Francescatti) so I celebrated in very good accidental style.

[Karl Henning]

I've never thought that I would like Mendelssohn.

I've relatively recently come to enjoy much more Mendelssohn than I should previously have suspected. Indeed, I was just today listening to his first quartet.

[Mapman]

Happy birthday, Mozart!
Symphony #17, K129
Mackerras: Prague Chamber Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

Some Mozart here as well:

Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11

[Madiel]

Did not at all realize it was Mozart's birthday but I listened to the Bruno Walter stereo recordings of the Prague Symphony and 3rd and 4th violin concertos (Francescatti) so I celebrated in very good accidental style.

I knew it was his birthday and did precisely nothing to celebrate, so thanks for balancing out the universe a little.

[brewski]

Tonight, another superb livestream from the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/livestreams/), with cellist Peter Stumpf and pianist Cynthia Raim. They do keep the broadcasts up for a few days, including Wednesday's fantastic concert with the JACK Quartet and flutist Julietta Curenton, which will be available through January 28.

Debussy: Cello Sonata in D Minor
Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata in C Minor, Op. 32
Fauré: Sicilienne, Op. 78
Fauré: Romance, Op. 69
Poulenc: Cello Sonata

-Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
Tubin: Symphony No. 10

Two formidable symphonies exceptionally played.