What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

1951- very unsentimental Haydn. Fast and clean. Nice.

1993 - slower and elegant. The Allegretto = 3 minutes of bliss.

Fascinating how different people hear different things in the same music. I find the Oistrakh / Knushevitsky / Oborin Allegretto warm and passionate, while the Levin/Beths/Bylsma sounds cold and uninvolved to me. I prefer the former over the latter by a wide margin.

[pjme]

"Fascinating how different people hear different things in the same music"

Indeed....but I do like Oistrakh / Knushevitsky / Oborin for playing so fresh and crisp. To me Bylsma & co seem to be a bit more relaxed...
Anyway. Haydn can be a magician!

Peter

[Spotted Horses]

Kodaly, Sonata for Cello Unaccompanied, first movement



Splendid.

[vandermolen]

Symphony No.5 (Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields)

[vandermolen]

Earlier: two great Naxos CDs

[Florestan]

After listening to the 8th disc, I have to concur with @Dry Brett Kavanaugh : the playing is mostly too forceful, lacking warmth and nuance. The Lieder ohne Worte especially suffer as a result. I will not cull this box as it's nice to have all of Mendelssohn's piano music at hand --- but there is a reason why LOW are his best-known and most-played piano works, and I'll stick to them, in performances more sensitive and delicate than Markovina's.

[VonStupp]

Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65

Young Uck Kim, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano

Thankful to @Madiel  for putting me on to the piano trios.

[71 dB]

Double Bass Concertos by Vanhal and Dittersdorf
Chi-Chi Nwanoku/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Paul Goodwin
Hyperion

[DavidW]

My favorite eroica.

Only the D960.

Only the Serenade.

[Traverso]

Ravel

Le Tombeau de Couperin
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Menuet antique
Miroirs

[Karl Henning]

Possibly my first listen to this recording:

RVW
A Sea Symphony

[Lisztianwagner]

Béla Bartók
The Wooden Prince

Pierre Boulez & New York Philharmonic

[Traverso]

Poulenc

Figure humaine
Quatre Motets pour un temps pénitence
Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padua
Quatre Motets pour le temps Noël
Quatre petites Prières de Saint François d'Assise

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

[Todd]

[aligreto]

Handel: Italian Secular Cantatas [Murray/Christophers]





Delirio Amoroso HWV 99 Murray/Christophers]

This is a delightful performance. The vocal element from Murray is very committed and wonderfully buoyant without being over earnest; not to mention Murray's vocal technical abilities. The orchestral textures are much thinner and therefore more clear here to me. I particularly enjoyed this presentation.

[Linz]

Dvořák Symphony No. 8 In G major, Op. 88 and Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World" Rafael Kubelik

[aligreto]

Albinoni: Trio Sonatas 7-12 [Parnassi musici]





This is delightful, charming and very fine music that is well played and presented here. These readings are vibrant and very sympathetic to the nature of the music. The recorded sound is full, if a little on the dry side but this is a very minor quibble. These musicians promote this music very well. Trio Sonata No. 9, in particular, stands out for me in this set.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

I don't think I've seen any Baroque music issued by Baroque Records; regardless, this is very good.

[JBS]

Earlier today, a Mahlerthon: the Seventh AND Eighth Symphonies

Now as a counterbalance