What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - String quartet No.11
Végh Quartet

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[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/0nL5PM1otbc

That's Gran Torso. Interesting how revisiting this for the first time in at least a year, it just seems like nice music. I mean the shock of the sounds has worn off, and the pleasure is that Lachenmann manages to somehow put them together to make something very agreeable to hear.

Quite a fun thing to listen to after a couple of days of Skempton and Pärt and Feldman and Cage (which only served to increase my appreciation of Cage.)

[Karl Henning]

Een goede en gezonde dag, jou toegewenst Karl

Hartelijk bedankt.  Ik moet Nederlands meer studieren

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Symphony # 11 in g minor
RCO
Haitink

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Shostakovich
Symphony # 11 in g minor
RCO
Haitink

Such a fine symphony. Completely terrifying.

[San Antone]

Bach : Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Viktoria Mullova

[André]

Just finished the Jalbert concerto. Very nice.

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Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
Lucia Popp
Klaus Tennstedt
LPO



A desert island Strauss recording if there ever were one. One of my favorites.

[Karl Henning]

Such a fine symphony. Completely terrifying.

And this account is a beauty.
Although I know as a fact of personal history, that I was slow to warm to this piece. I cannot now remember not liking it.

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen
Symphonies # 4 & 6
RSO
Thomson

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And this account is a beauty.
Although I know as a fact of personal history, that I was slow to warm to this piece. I cannot now remember not liking it.

Yes, I have yet to hear a better performance than Haitink's. He really captured the eeriness and horror of this symphony.

[JBS]

Yes, I have yet to hear a better performance than Haitink's. He really captured the eeriness and horror of this symphony.

Perhaps it's imprinting, but I give the palm to the recording I first heard:  Rostropovich/LSO.
Although Kondrashin comes extremely close.

[JBS]

TD
Widor
Organ Symphony 8 in B Opus 42
Joseph Nolan
Cavaille Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris

[Karl Henning]

TD
Widor
Organ Symphony 8 in B Opus 42
Joseph Nolan
Cavaille Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris

Nice! (Mais, non: Paris!)

[André]

Perhaps it's imprinting, but I give the palm to the recording I first heard:  Rostropovich/LSO.
Although Kondrashin comes extremely close.

For me they're Rozhdestvensky, Cluytens and Stokowski. Haitink is very much in the same league, and arguably better played, but the frisson is a tad less intense IMO.

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Perhaps it's imprinting, but I give the palm to the recording I first heard:  Rostropovich/LSO.
Although Kondrashin comes extremely close.

Hardly imprinting whenever I didn't like the work much when I first heard it. Karl and I were in a similar boat concerning the 11th.

[aligreto]

Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations [Shafran/Kondrashin]





This is a very fine rendition of this work and is played with real feeling and artistry.

[aligreto]

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That is an excellent set.

[j winter]

Bruckner 6, Masur Leipzig

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Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
En Saga, Op. 9
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Gothenburg SO



A new acquisition. So far, this is shaping up to be an incredible performance of the 1st (haven't got to En Saga yet). Rouvali brings a surge of energy to this music and I feel that he's a rather eccentric fellow (in the best way imaginable). Some of his choices in tempi in places is fascinating. The Gothenburgers, of course, play this music as well as their Finnish and Danish rivals. Rouvali is going places and, from what I've read, this is the start of his Sibelius cycle, so I'll really be interested in getting all of the subsequent releases.