What are you listening 2 now?

[classicalgeek]

Faure
Nocturnes (complete)
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
(on CD)



Gentle and melancholy - and somehow a perfect match for the unseasonably cool, overcast weather in the Pacific Northwest.

[classicalgeek]

Brahms
Cello Sonatas
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
Daniel Barenboim, piano
(on CD)

[Symphonic Addict]

At about the ten-minute mark, I needed to pause, to see to other matters. I had not lost interest in the piece. I finished it up today. A good piece. For now, I'll stop short of calling it great, but on a subsequent revisitation. who knows?

In my last revisitation of all of his symphonies, Nos. 6-8 are where my interest lies. The others did very little for me and I think it wasn't a good idea to listen to them one after the other (in several days), I got tired quickly.

[Symphonic Addict]

Walton: Suite from 'The Wise Virgins'

[brewski]

Listening to the final concert of the season with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jader Bignamini, and violinist María Dueñas. Missed the Marsalis, but the Lalo is fun, and Zarathustra is to come.

Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Halleujah!
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

https://www.dso.org/watch/2309752

-Bruce

[Daverz]

Schulhoff: Symphony No. 2



A very entertaining and concise symphony in Schulhoff's "jazzy" mode.

[Karl Henning]

In my last revisitation of all of his symphonies, Nos. 6-8 are where my interest lies. The others did very little for me and I think it wasn't a good idea to listen to them one after the other (in several days), I got tired quickly.

Yes, I can see that. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Martinu: Toccata e Due canzoni (Belohlavek, Prague Chamber Philharmonie)

Martinu at his dark and serious facet. What a great work. Even though the work is covered by a somber veil, the ending provides a hopeful conclusion.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Günter Wand, Münchner Philharmoniker

[Symphonic Addict]

Nielsen: Commotio, op. 58 (orc. by Bo Holten)

A contrapuntistic piece that possesses imposing and meditative passages. I really consider Holten's arrangement to be pretty succesful.




Guarnieri: Suite 'Vila Rica'

A first listen methinks. This is so cool and vigorous when needed.

[DavidW]

Exceptional recording, will order on cd!

[Mapman]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata #31, Op. 110
Stephen Kovacevich

Wonderful! I especially like the scherzo (which I have liked for a while) and the fugue.

[Symphonic Addict]

Penderecki: Concerto Grosso No. 1 for three cellos and orchestra

Powerful yet expertly contrasted work that never gets too dark or desolate. One of my favorite Penderecki CDs.




Barber: Suite from 'Medea'

The music manages to conjure up the Greek story to great success in its austere and atmospheric nature.

[Symphonic Addict]

Strauss: Duett-Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and strings

It's not mentioned on the front cover. A delightful piece.

[SimonNZ]

Disc two: 95, 99, 104

[Iota]

Bartok: Piano Concerto No.1
Zoltán Kocsis (piano),
Fischer, BFO

What a theatrical piece this is, ranging across myriad states of energy and light. The piano part is like a great, ever restless monologue. Superb performance!

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Klaus König (tenor)
Klaus Tennstedt & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Madiel]

I am having these very strange Mahler/Shostakovich urges. And I decided that Shostakovich was the easier option at this time of night.

Symphony No.10.

[Madiel]

ADDENDUM: I knew it had been a while since I'd listened to any Shostakovich in my collection, but apparently it's only been one work in the last 2.5 years. Yikes!

Since then it's been trying out all the recordings of op.87 that I don't own.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio, act 2^

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker