What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Dmitry Kabalevsky
Complete Symphonies
Eiji Oue
NDR Radiophilharmonie
CPO

More Kabalevsky this morning while working. Very worthwhile hearing all four symphonies back to back.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Que]

https://earlymusicreview.com/blancrocher-loffrande/

Pierre Gallon is a formidable cembalist!

[vandermolen]

Dmitry Kabalevsky
Complete Symphonies
Eiji Oue
NDR Radiophilharmonie
CPO

More Kabalevsky this morning while working. Very worthwhile hearing all four symphonies back to back.

That's a great set! No.4 is my favourite - a most underrated work. No.1 shows the influence of his teacher Miaskovsky - another fine work.

[vandermolen]

Gliere: Symphony No.3

[Traverso]

Schütz

Der Schwanengesang

[Linz]

I wonder if this the same recording that appeared on EMI years ago.

According to abruckner.com the Sony recording is from Feb. 1989. The EMI recording is from October 1988

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden

[foxandpeng]

That's a great set! No.4 is my favourite - a most underrated work. No.1 shows the influence of his teacher Miaskovsky - another fine work.

I have enjoyed all four Kabalevsky symphonies, even #3, with the choral elements. I've only heard them 3 or 4 times through now, but would probably go 2, 4, 1 and 3. I do like the more emotive atmosphere of 4, though.

[Mandryka]

Partita 4. Conception is original, the sound is distinctive - I reckon I could tell who's playing blind. Lovely performance IMO.

[Spotted Horses]

Listened to the Brahms Piano Trio No 2, the Beaux Arts Trio, last week I think, and Angelich/Capucon/Capucon over the last couple of days. The Beaux Arts Trio struck me as a very "objective" performance, but the Angelich et. al. more brilliant, more personal in interpretation. (Officially the Florestan Trio on Hyperion is my "favorite," but I am avoiding it in my survey of the trios because I want to expose myself to other performances.)

[Mandryka]

my survey of the trios
 

This one came out last year and really caught my attention in music I don't know well

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9328993--johannes-brahms-the-piano-trios

That sent me on a hunt of other recordings -- and I remember enjoying the one with Pauk, Frankl and Kirschbaum -- just modest and agreeable playing. I liked the one with Vogt etc too.

[Lisztianwagner]

From the Karajan 60s box:

Georg Friedrich Händel
Concerti Grossi No. 3, 7 & 9

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[vandermolen]

I have enjoyed all four Kabalevsky symphonies, even #3, with the choral elements. I've only heard them 3 or 4 times through now, but would probably go 2, 4, 1 and 3. I do like the more emotive atmosphere of 4, though.

Interesting Danny - my order would be:
4 1 2 3

[Bachtoven]

Brilliant playing and superb sound (DSD64 file).

[DavidW]

These are shockingly beautiful works, a new discovery for me.  Check it out!

[classicalgeek]

Gabriel Pierné
Cydalise et le Chêvre-Pied (complete ballet)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
David Shallon
(on Spotify)


Just dazzling music, and brilliantly orchestrated! If you like Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, give this a listen!

[Spotted Horses]

Gabriel Pierné
Cydalise et le Chêvre-Pied (complete ballet)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
David Shallon
(on Spotify)


Just dazzling music, and brilliantly orchestrated! If you like Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, give this a listen!

Daphnis et Chloe is probably my least favorite work by Ravel, but I like this Pierne disc.

[brewski]

Thomas Adès: Dante (Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel, conductor) - Will save detailed comments for an article I'm writing on this recording, but for now: a ballet score in three parts, 88 minutes long, based on La Divina Commedia, and quite inventive.



-Bruce

[DavidW]

I feel like this is one of those famous works that I should have listened to years ago but somehow never did