What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Alexander Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op.20. Konstantin Scherbakov, Igor Golovschin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

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Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la Fée
Craft
LSO



Fun! Fun! Fun! Love this work. I'm so happy that Naxos had reissued all of these Craft recordings. I'd love to have all the original issues, though, but there's no need to track them down now.

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke - Piano Quintet. The non-classical rule of playing CDs all the way through in order really isn't a good idea, it's nice to hear a piece in isolation with some space around it.

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[Que]

Berlioz' Messe solennelle, in a new HIP Alpha release.



Significantly faster, punchier than the premiere Gardiner recording on Philips. Just a delight. I suggest a drinking game any time you recognize a bit Berlioz reused in one of his later works  0:)

Very interesting recording!

Jaap ter Linden, David Breitman: Beethoven, Complete works for piano and cello

This one as well.

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[Que]

After two days in Brussels for work, back to Graupner:

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Q

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This entire recording:



A new acquisition. This CD is one of those Japanese HQCDs and I believe it's been remastered. Sounds quite good to these ears. The performances are dynamite as well, but this is almost a given considering it's Berglund. A master Sibelian of the highest order, IMHO.

Delighted you like the CD John. Levitan's 'Eternal Rest' features on quite a few CD or LP covers. I really like the painting:



TD
Early morning listening before work:
Tavener: The Protecting Veil

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Corrette: Concerto for Organ, Flute & Strings [Rilling/Faerber]

[aligreto]

No other recording of anything had as much influence on my teenage self as that recording. For years I found it difficult to listen to the 6th Symphony without anticipating the composer's speech at the end '...and when I say gentlemen I include the lady harpist...' etc. Glad you enjoyed it Fergus. That last movement is quite something. I remember that when I first played the LP the sound was so cut back in the last movement that I thought there was something wrong with the pressing! 

Yes I did enjoy it Jeffrey. I can readily understand why you would think that you had a bad pressing as the final movement is so different from the rest of the work.

[Irons]

Yes I did enjoy it Jeffrey. I can readily understand why you would think that you had a bad pressing as the final movement is so different from the rest of the work.

Many composers are adept at the depiction of war in music but few can portray the aftermath of battle as RVW.

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Karl Stamitz: Flute Concerto in D major [Galway/Prieur]





HIP it is not but very good it is.

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Many composers are adept at the depiction of war in music but few can portray the aftermath of battle as RVW.

Good point!

[Irons]

Delius: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello.



There is no doubt Delius is an enigma. Even more so then Fauré his music is difficult to gain entry and it all can sound samey but if you listen very closely there is a genius at work. The only concerto I can think of that has any similarity with the Double Concerto is the coupling on this recording by the same composer. Full of admiration for Tortelier as this rarefied music must be difficult to play, although being French and being so well acquainted with Debussy and Fauré must help.

[Florestan]

I was blown away by the first piece on this CD. An astonishing blend of virtuosity and tunefulness that will make you ask yourself whether what you've just heard was real, or even possible.

https://www.youtube.com/v/B2qWUPejJA4

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Corrette: Concerto for Organ, Flute & Strings [Rilling/Faerber]

That's a very big nostalgia trip Fergus as my (long gone) aunt had that LP. Nice to see it again.

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 [Furtwangler]





This is an expansive but masterly interpretation. Furtwangler is on a leisurely stroll through the countryside for the first two movements and is obviously contemplating Life as he does so or else had a snooze and a pleasant dream. However, when he sleepwalks into the peasants' party things certainly liven up. Great fun is had by all. The fun, however, is rudely interrupted by what is a very fine storm here. There is no doubt that Furtwangler is now wide awake having been drenched by the tempest and one can feel his anger and agitation in the performance. Finally, serenity is restored in the wonderful lyricism of the performance of the final movement.

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That's a very big nostalgia trip Fergus as my (long gone) aunt had that LP. Nice to see it again.

Glad that it brought back happy memories for you Jeffry.

[Traverso]

 Haydn

18 CD's with arrangements,much like Beethoven did

[Harry]

The time of Monteverdi. CD IV & V.

CD four is for me a dud, because it's filled with opera in Monteverdi's time, and that a sore point for me. There is little in that respect that I like, so I just skipped through it in double speed. CD V is filled with sacred music, and that fits my bill perfectly. Most of the compositions are a balm for the ears, in the quality of performance and recording.

[Madiel]

Suite No.3



The Prelude is one of those places where Queyras' bright approach pays off. I've heard some cellists really get bogged down in that movement and make it feel tedious. No danger of that here.

The whole suite is good, actually (my only uncertainty is about the Courante). Queyras' Sarabandes continue to fascinate me, because they have a very different rhythmic sense but one which I suspect is a lot more faithful to the original dance.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Divertimento K. 251 [Collegium Aureum, members]





The scoring and sonic world of the Divertimenti are always interesting and appealing and this one is no different. The rich and rewarding world of Mozart's music is well represented here.