What are you listening 2 now?

[Tsaraslondon]

A Mass of Life is a glorious work too rarely performed, here coupled with the Songs of Sunset and An Arabesque.

Sir Charles Groves conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Dame Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk are the soloists in the Songs of Sunset and Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon are those in A Mass of Life.

An excellent release all round.

[pjme]

".... This thread is probably the most active on the forum and if you blink you can miss several pages (maybe a slight exaggeration but basically true)"
Indeed.

Now:

[San Antone]

Elaine Radigue : Occam Ocean 1

[Madiel]

Shostakovich, Antiformalistic Rayok

[Traverso]

I really like Karajan's Don Quixote (if that's the one with Founier).  Very colorful.

No.it was not a recording with Fournier but with António Meneses ,the one I listened to yesterday is a later recording

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

Sonatas

Rossini

Péchés de viellesse

[Harry]

ARRIVED TODAY.

Dieterich Buxtehude.

Opera Omnia-CD I.
Harpsichord Works Volume I.

Suite in C-F-d-e.
La Capricciosa, partite diverse sopra una aria d' inventione.
Courant simble in a.

Ton Koopman, Harpsichord.
Instruments by Willem Kroesbergen, Flemish, after Ruckers, and an Italian instrument, after Giusti.
No info about the tuning, neither when they were build.

What I already expected, no text, no info about Buxtehude compositions, just a tracking book, with the bare details, but considering this box would have cost you when released 400 €, and now 179 €, that is totally worth it.
You can expect lively performances and it certainly are. His energy is less as it was, but he still likes to embellish generously. Keeps you on your toes though. Buxtehude wrote fine music, and Koopman keeps on track by his artistry. The recording is good, and the instruments also, probably with a high tuning.

[Christo]

To make things worse - for my reputation, if any  - cannot but confirm that I find Brabbins performance of Symphony No. 4 very good too.

No, it isn't as bitter and harsh as the composer's own, conducting a fiercer account than any conductor ever since back in 1937, the clouds overshadowing so much of the news already (and he'd been serving in Northern France during WWI). And yes: other readings are much more sharp and biting as well, closer to the composer's "intentions" even.

But just as in 'A Pastoral Symphony' preceding it, Brabbins opts for the more mystical side of the score, stressing the fussy, dreamlike moments, not unlike the mists in RVW's best early orchestral work, In the Fenn Country (1904). No Vaughan Williams without mysticism: Brabbins knows it and acts after it. Very convincing new recording, closest to another underestimated one - for very similar reasons - Bryden Thomson's. #Amen 

[San Antone]

Hat tip Ratliff

Ireland : Chamber Music

[Traverso]

Shostakovich

Symphony No.13  "Babi Yar"

NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo)

[André]

A Mass of Life is a glorious work too rarely performed, here coupled with the Songs of Sunset and An Arabesque.

Sir Charles Groves conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Dame Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk are the soloists in the Songs of Sunset and Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon are those in A Mass of Life.

An excellent release all round.

+1. Glorious indeed.

[Mirror Image]

".... This thread is probably the most active on the forum and if you blink you can miss several pages (maybe a slight exaggeration but basically true)"
Indeed.

Now:

Very nice! I love Frank Martin's music. I think he's incredibly undervalued in general.

[André]

Sonata 1 and Partita 1.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sorabji
Opus Clavicembalisticum

The whole work? I've intended to listen to it with some pauses, because this is looong!

[Symphonic Addict]

In the car earlier. Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917'. I enjoy this work more than many here I think:

Count me as another enthusiastic listener of this epic work.

[Mirror Image]

Enescu
Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6
Remus Azoitei (violin), Eduard Stan (piano)



A nice work and well-performed, but definitely not in the composer's mature idiom. Still quite enjoyable nevertheless.

[Traverso]

Count me as another enthusiastic listener of this epic work.

+1

[Karl Henning]

The whole work? I've intended to listen to it with some pauses, because this is looong!

Taking it in stages!

[San Antone]

Vasks : Piano Quartet  - Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Quartets 10-15
Mandelring Quartet