What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

And now No.5.

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[Tsaraslondon]

Martha Argerich on sparkling form in two contrasted piano concertos.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Sonata in A minor D.664 [Ashkenazy]

[ritter]

Some light stuff this afternoon  ... Carl Schuricht conducts the VPO in Bruckner's Symphony No. 9.

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[Florestan]

Rossini: Il Viaggio A Reims [Abbado]

A superb recording of an uninterrupted flow of good cheer and great tunes.

[Florestan]

A great story, Harry!

Cheers to you and your dear friend.   

+ 1.

Except that I don't like Merlot at all. Make it Cabernet Sauvignon instead, or better still Fetească neagră https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feteasc%C4%83_neagr%C4%83

[Traverso]

Liszt

DEUXIÉME ANNÉE : ITALY  CD2

[Traverso]

Schubert: Sonata in A minor D.664 [Ashkenazy]

His first Schubert recording I think.

[vandermolen]

Sibelius Symphony No.5 (Original 1915 version)
I play this more often than the final version:

[vandermolen]

A smashing Copland disc, which couples his two cowboy inspired ballets (Rodeo and Billy the Kid) to El Salón Mexico and Danzón Cubano.

Danzón Cubano is great fun.

[vandermolen]

NEW ARRIVAL.

Richard Eilenberg.
Waltzes and Polkas.
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Christian Simonis.

A good many years ago a musical friend of mine from Arizona visited me and stayed a few months. He was of a serious nature concerning classical music, and when he detected quite some Strauss music in my collection, he was at first flabbergasted, and apologizing beforehand said the following words: "You must have been hit by the blade of a windmill, to have such music, and even listen to it, utter rubbish I tell you, utter rubbish!" I must admit that he had the better part of a bottle of Merlot in his system, so I laughed heartily about this, and told him that I would buy even more rubbish in the course of my musical life. And so I did,  in a exorbitant way. Well he died some years ago, leaving me his entire collection of music. It came in boxes, 4 of them, about 13.000 cd's, with a small message attached in a letter from the notary, with the words: "Finally you get some serious music", needless to say I drank the better part of a bottle of Merlot
Which I also did today, remembering him, Elliot Rosenstein, a character as there ever was. And what did I play, well some rubbish of course, but of the better sort that is.
Eilenberg has a excellent musical pedigree, which made him the composer he became, and a sublime orchestrator to boot. He can stand along the Family Strauss with honours, adding some refinement and academic knowledge to the rubbish he wrote. But I like it very much. I had so much pleasure listening to it, even the Merlot tasted better.
The performance is first class, as is the recording.
Cheers Elliot, bottoms up!

Indeed a great story Harry. What a nice way to remember your friend.

[j winter]

From the big Walter box... very nice, it's hard to go wrong with Walter's Mozart...

[Maestro267]

And Rachmaninov.  And Janacek.

I'm as surprised by this (JEG recording 20th-century repertoire) as I was by other Baroque specialist Roger Norrington recording Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto.

TD:
Bartók: The Wooden Prince
New York PO/Boulez

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 [Monteux]





Lyrical, full sounding and buoyant is how this sounds to me. The opening movement which is well paced is infused with joy. The Scherzo is energetic and full blooded, the storm is angry and laden with drama while the finale movement is a sweeping, lyrical pastorale.

[aligreto]

A superb recording of an uninterrupted flow of good cheer and great tunes.

Yes, it does rather lilt along.

[aligreto]

His first Schubert recording I think.

I did not know that but I did think that it was an early recording because he looks quite young in the photo.

[Florestan]

Yes, it does rather lilt along.

He recorded it twice, actually. The other recording is with Berlin PO and pretty much the same cast.

After Il barbiere di Siviglia this is my favorite Rossini opera.

[San Antone]

Beethoven Sonatas, complete - Fazil Say

[aligreto]

He recorded it twice, actually. The other recording is with Berlin PO and pretty much the same cast.

I did not know that. I am not as big a fan of Abbado as some are but I did enjoy this production.

[André]

About half an hour in. This sounds very colourful. Lots of rum-ti-tum, cymbal clashes and enthusiastic choruses. Christianos ad leones has sealed the fate of the faithful, who now intone a prayerful song of abandonment before being thrown to the lions.

This looks like a quite eventful work.