What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Holmboe, Concerto for Brass

[aligreto]

I have that set and I really like it. However, I have not listened to it in ages.

[vandermolen]

That recording of 'Tamara' is glorious, a highlight in the Balakirev discography, IMO.

Looks like a great disc! I really like 'Tamara'.

Thread duty:

Bloch: Concertino for Flute, Viola and Strings, sections of which reminded me of Vaughan Williams:

[vandermolen]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Michael Tilson Thomas

Best version I know of 'Winter Daydreams' and lovely cover image.

[aligreto]

Love that series! 

Yes, an excellent series with some wonderful music.

[Biffo]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op.10 - Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

[Florestan]

That recording of 'Tamara' is glorious, a highlight in the Balakirev discography, IMO.

The whole disc is excellent.

[Mahlerian]

Best version I know of 'Winter Daydreams' and lovely cover image.

Agreed on both counts! This was the recording that introduced me to the work, and I haven't been as satisfied by any I've heard since.

[Florestan]

Agreed on both counts! This was the recording that introduced me to the work, and I haven't been as satisfied by any I've heard since.

Not even by Markevitch / LSO?

[Madiel]

L'Eventail de Jeanne, by... well, lots of people. The French really seemed to be into this collaborative thing at one point.

[Mahlerian]

Not even by Markevitch / LSO?

A good duo, and also a classic recording of the work, but maybe hometown bias is affecting my preference.

[Traverso]

I have that set and I really like it. However, I have not listened to it in ages.

Time to listen to the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue as I do at this moment.
Awesome play but I still favor the Leonhardt recordings who's timing is not matched by any other harpsichord-player I know off.
This music is so rich and reaches to the heaven.It gives me such joy,Bach ,the best anti-depressiva there is. 

[Traverso]

Marc Monnet (1947-)

BiBilolo







https://www.youtube.com/v/XUpTynZKPI0

[vandermolen]

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (1950 recording)

[Traverso]

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (1950 recording)

That is a very fine set,I have this edition,

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[Tsaraslondon]

Disc 2

Berg: 3 Orchestral pieces, Op 6
Berg: 3 Pieces from Lyric Suite
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5

This is a very long CD at just over 82' minutes but it doesn't seem to have affected the sound, which is rich and warm. Stunning playing too.

I make no bones about preferring the late Romantic flowering of the Schoenberg to the Berg, but the magnificently beautiful playing of the BPO at their peak is hard to resist. Not music I listen to often but I'm enjoying this CD today.

[Spineur]

Shostakovich: music for two pianos
The fantastic dances are pretty cool

[Mandryka]

Inner Cities II, Feldman knock off, but none the worse for that!

[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

I once attended a live performance of Paul Bunyan (Glimmerglass Opera). Music was good enough, but overall it dragged and the staging didn't really work for me. Wasn't inclined to purchase a recording.
Listening:

It can break either way, can't it? I've often found that a live performance "unlocks" a piece for me. But a substandard/poor performance does the piece no favors.