What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I should give the Cantus arcticus a fresh try. It was an early Naxos release, and thus an example of the fresh label distributing music by living composers, and a friend of mine, long since deceased was enthusiastic about it. I tried it, but didn't care for it at the time. However, as recent listening to the Baley vn cto demonstrates, sometimes my ears get up on the wrong side of the bed.

Don't know Baley but will check it out.  Here is a link to my latest acquisition: 

Will be interested to read your latest thoughts. And, as for me, I've had changes of mind re certain works.    I think that sometimes the works don't work in terms of what I want to listen to at the time and my frame of mind.  I've had jaw-dropping moments when I listened to the works some months later...go figure!   

PD

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

Don't know Baley but will check it out.  Here is a link to my latest acquisition: 

Will be interested to read your latest thoughts. And, as for me, I've had changes of mind re certain works.    I think that sometimes the works don't work in terms of what I want to listen to at the time and my frame of mind.  I've had jaw-dropping moments when I listened to the works some months later...go figure! 

PD

Thanks! Will tune in a bit later!

[SonicMan46]

Anthony Halstead & the Hanover Band - motherlode of JC Bach's Orchestral Works - 3 boxes totaling 17 discs (a 3-CD box of his opera overtures also available) - for this afternoon into  dinner time, will just pick out a couple from each collection.  Dave

   

[Cato]

Michael Colgrass was fairly big c. 60 years ago, especially because of a work called As Quiet As.


Old Churches is another fine piece: worth 6 minutes of your time!

(Some of the comments are interesting!)

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No.2

Norbert Hauptmann (horn)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

I've heard great things about those recordings.  How did you like them though?  Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

PD

There is an excellant review of them here: http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/n/nai04871a.php

[Pohjolas Daughter]

There is an excellant review of them here: http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/n/nai04871a.php

Um, sorry, but the site isn't secure. 

PD

[vandermolen]

Arthur Bliss, Checkmate.

Melee Fantasque is also a fine work.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea

[ritter]

I felt the urge to listen to Act III of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

This time around I went for the Keilberth recording (made live in Munich on November 23rd, 1963 — the performance marked the reopening of the rebuilt National Theatre).



There are sets out there with superior and more homogenous casts, but there is a sense of occasion here which is noticeable, and Keilberth was very strong in this repertoire.

[Todd]

Disc two.  Then, because disc two was so good, disc three.  Proper Schubert playing.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.4

Arditti Quartet

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. 1877 Linz version with revisions, Ed. Robert Haas [1935], Andreae, Volkmar, Vienna Symphony Orchestra

[JBS]

This probably the best set of Schumann's symphonies in term of orchestral clarity and balance: all instruments or group of instruments --- and I mean ALL --- are clearly audible at any given moment. Fabulous.

How big is the orchestra? The name suggests it might be smaller than the ones we normally think of in this music.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Kalomiris: Symphony No. 3, Triptychon, 3 Greek Dances.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Melee Fantasque is also a fine work.

I love the music!

[Symphonic Addict]

The concerto I enjoyed the most from this disc is the one in my favorite key.

[Madiel]

Elgars Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85, In the South. Concert overture, op.50 and Elergy for Strings, op.58, Norman Del Mar, London Philharmonic Orchestra

I had this on cassette. I've been vaguely meaning to get a CD copy for years but never have.

[Madiel]

While I personally do not seek his opinion of anything out, I just wanted to note that I am glad when I hear of him enthusing about something, since I find his loudly opinionated dislikes utterly tiresome.

And yet, Hurwitz actually spends lots of his time enthusing. He has a lot more videos about recommendations than he does about the reverse.

So why is it that you and others seem to have a stereotype of him that only focuses on what he dislikes? Because his style is pretty much the same regardless of which way his opinion leans.