What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki - Symphony No. 7.

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[San Antone]

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Mass in C major - The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

[Traverso]

I do love a bit of Ketèlbey but the absolute best disc is an old EMI/Philharmonia one with John Lanchbery - so good to hear this music played brilliantly by a full symphony orchestra!

This my only recording but I shall look for the EMI recording ( in time)

[Tsaraslondon]

An excellent CD, especially considering it was free with BBC Music Magazine.

[Karl Henning]

JSB
Solo violin sonatas & partitas
Kremer

[Traverso]

Schubert

String Quartets CD5

[steve ridgway]

Boulez: Rituel.

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[ritter]

First listen to this new arrival:

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Didn't really enjoy this much  . I got it for Florent Schmitt's Sonatine en trio, op. 47, which was nice to know and has a good slow middle movement (but I don't see me returning to it anytime soon). The Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 2 I already knew, and is OK in its brevity. The Milhaud Sonate op. 47 and Emmanuel Sonate op. 11 are both mildly interesting, but I found the Jolivet Sonatine for flute and clarinet quite exasperating. I didn't expect much from the two arrangements of waltzes by Shostakovitch (from The Return of Maxim, op. 45 and The Gadfly, op. 97a, respectively), and don't see the point of including them in an album called "French Connection", but they were even worse than I anticipated. 

[André]

[Papy Oli]

This one arrived this morning, finally... it's just gorgeous music.

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[Traverso]

Messiaen







The largest organ in the Netherlands



Willem Tanke who also provided a complete recording for the Lindenberg label on the Adema-Schreurs organ of the St. Bavo Cathedral in Haarlem.

[Christo]

Hey, it was just a joke! 

Here is mine. As a youth, Ioseb Jughashvili studied theology, in order to become a priest, and even in the 1930s he maintained his 'Orthodox, church-going' profile for his aging & caring old mother, back home in Georgia. There can be only one conclusion: all Orthodox are Stalinists, Stalin their high-profile Orthodox leader and Putin his present follow-up with a same warm relationship with the Orthodox Church. Orthodox love oppression, obviously their core belief.

Very funny. 

[Harry]

Here is mine. As a youth, Ioseb Jughashvili studied theology, in order to become a priest, and even in the 1930s he maintained his 'Orthodox, church-going' profile for his aging & caring old mother, back home in Georgia. There can be only one conclusion: all Orthodox are Stalinists, Stalin their high-profile Orthodox leader and Putin his present follow-up with a same warm relationship with the Orthodox Church. Orthodox love oppression, obviously their core belief.

Very funny. 

Ehhhmmm, no not really.

[Tsaraslondon]

A lovely disc as long as you have a sweet tooth. Moffo's beautiful voice croons, swoops and slides through music that, let's face it, responds well to the treatment, especially when accompanied by the gorgeous sounds conjured up by Stokowski and his American Symphony Orchestra. Personally, I prefer my Chants d'Auvergne with a little more character à la Victoria De Los Angeles, but there's no doubting this is a beautiful disc.

[Mirror Image]

Spending some time with Arnie:

[Mirror Image]

NP:

[j winter]

Prokofiev Piano Concerti... excellent

[Irons]

This one arrived this morning, finally... it's just gorgeous music.

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Excellent! The cover image of Sir Adrian is a drawing by Gerald Finzi's daughter.

[vandermolen]

Excellent! The cover image of Sir Adrian is a drawing by Gerald Finzi's daughter.

His wife, Joy Finzi I think.
Fabulous CD.