What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

Halfway through Busoni's magnum opus. Gripping, phantasmagorical, riveting are epithets that come to mind. The performance (live from the Bavarian Opera, 2008) is fully worthy of the work's huge demands. What a night at the opera this must have been !

[j winter]

After a disappointing WTC this morning, I went for something a wee bit different....
Ah, much better



Followed that up by heading back to the harpsichord, discs 13 and 14 of...



And disc 2 of this, all excellent...



Though I must confess that I had my nose in an old book for parts of the above, so a bit of this was inattentive, to quoth another thread....

[San Antone]

Bach : Sonatas & Partitas BMW 1001-1006
Amandine Beyer, violon

[Ken B]

Beethoven
PC 3,4
Brendel, Haitink

[SymphonicAddict]

Symphony No. 3

A slow interpretation, rather too slow for its own sake. Not necessarily bad, but I don't like that way. I prefer brisker tempi, yet without exaggerating. The good thing about it is how clear the different passages and instruments sound.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Op. 87
Ashkenazy

[SimonNZ]

[Que]

Morning listening:

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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Aug/Antico_keyboard_8572983.htm

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[Moonfish]

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Cluytens/PO

[The new erato]

After listening to a string of recent Glossa aquisitions (Zarlino, Guerrero, Boccherini, Scarlatti) as well as the New Supraphon Praga Rosa Bohemia (excellent by the way) I keep returning to this violent and ultimately lyrical, profoundly disturbing masterpiece:

[Roasted Swan]

The longest, most boring, most discursive, most tedious tone poem I've ever heard. I was expecting something memorable and gripping, but alas, not at all. 

I really enjoy much of Weiner's music - but I have to agree with you about this.  Fussily detailed in trying to illustrate the narrative and in so doing losing any sense of flow or musical cohesiveness.....

[Roasted Swan]

Halfway through Busoni's magnum opus. Gripping, phantasmagorical, riveting are epithets that come to mind. The performance (live from the Bavarian Opera, 2008) is fully worthy of the work's huge demands. What a night at the opera this must have been !

I remember seeing the production at English National Opera in the mid 1980's with Thomas Allen in the title role and it was quite stunning

[SimonNZ]

Mozart's Oboe Quartet and Horn Quintet - Members of Collegium Aureum

[Harry]

CD III. France.
Aux Marches du Palais.
Romances & Complaintes de la France d' autrefois.

Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre.
Claire Lefilliatre, Soprano.
Serge Goubard, Tenor.
Marco Horvat, Tenor, Bowed vielle.

Music starting from the 15th century to the 19th century. An amazing array of fine songs, very well performed and recorded. I am in most cases a great admirer of the soprano Claire Lefilliatre and that trust is warranted in this case.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 12

[Introverted]

NP:

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Pärt: Symphony #4, "Los Angeles"


Not bad...

[Traverso]

Purcell

I  love this set the music and playing are exquisite,I cannot think of a better recording than this fine one with The Parley of Instruments
Their playing and the sound of the recording is a feast for the soul,strongly recommended.

[Biffo]

Nono: Prometeo Suite 1992 (Excerpts) - Solistenchor Freiburg et al conducted by Claudio Abbado - from the Prometheus-themed album mentioned earlier in this thread.

[Iota]

An impressive work. Intricate and rewarding at the same time.

Indeed, a real tour de force I think. The juxtaposition of parts moving at different speeds for example is one feature that really lingers in the mind.

I intend to listen to the rest of the quartets these days.

I've heard all the others but haven't really connected with them in the same way as the first. Not yet anyway. There are certainly passages that appeal, but I wasn't consumed whole as it were, as happened with the first. If you do decide to venture further I'd certainly be interested in any thoughts.

TD



I've been playing a few early sonatas from the above box and so far extremely impressed. A caveat perhaps is that at times, explosive moments might be a bit more erm, explosive. But I think I may grow to see this as a feature rather than a bug as I go further, most other aspects of his playing I find highly appealing.

[Introverted]

NP:

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Khachaturian: Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 56, "The Bell"

Aram Khachaturian: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra