What are you listening 2 now?

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Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959) - Piano Music w/ Sonia Rubinsky - 8-CD box - purchased back in 2013 according to my Amazon records, but listened to just a couple of times - weekend project - now on disc 2 - Dave


 

Pounds the table!

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Love Suk's chamber music!  I have this set.  Do you have it too or just the single CD?



Best,

PD

Hello PD, I own the single issues. Yes, I'm enjoying what I've heard so far. Great composer.

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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor

From this new acquisition:



Fantastic! I have forgotten just how much I enjoy this concerto. It's probably been almost 9-10 years since I've heard it.

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[André]

Me too Olivier. I hope that you enjoyed Christopher Columbus!

Now playing - one of the great Hovhaness discs I think:

Yes !

[Undersea]

NP:

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Weinberg: String Quartet #4, Op. 20


Just started listening to this Composers music a few days ago - he has a lot of Symphonies and String Quartets. I like...

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Weinberg: String Quartet #4, Op. 20


Just started listening to this Composers music a few days ago - he has a lot of Symphonies and String Quartets. I like...

Pounds the table! One of my favorite composers.

[Undersea]

Pounds the table! One of my favorite composers.

I want to hear all his Symphonies and String Quartets eventually - What do you think are some of his top works?

[Daverz]

Pounds the table! One of my favorite composers.

I still have yet to connect to any of the string quartets. 

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I want to hear all his Symphonies and String Quartets eventually - What do you think are some of his top works?

Of the SQs, the 6th really stood out in my mind. I'd consider the following some of his best works: Symphonies Nos. 3-6, Concertino, Violin Sonata No. 4, Cello Sonata No. 2, Cello Concerto, Chamber Symphony No. 4, Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Sonata, the Piano Sonatas, Piano Quintet, Trumpet Concerto and The Golden Key. I think this is enough to keep you busy for awhile. One of the things that turned me off initially about Weinberg was what I perceived to be a 'Shostakovich Jr.' but as time has progressed I realized how wrong I was. Weinberg is an incredibly lyrical composer and his approach to rhythm compared to say Shostakovich wasn't as heavy-handed. He also didn't have sharp contrasts and sudden twists that Shostakovich would throw in. Weinberg developed his music rather differently. There is a haunting, brooding quality within Weinberg's music that will stay with you once you've really tapped into what his style is all about.

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I still have yet to connect to any of the string quartets.

Yes, they're tough nuts aren't they? I have found that my approach was rather wrong-headed as I was expecting something along the lines of Shostakovich's but this is, thankfully, what we didn't get. It seems the 6th SQ is what helped me get into the music.

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First-Listen Fridays -

Gayane



WOW!!! WOW!!! I'm just speechless...

[SimonNZ]

[Todd]

[SimonNZ]

^still the desert island Eroica, imo

[T. D.]

Rather boring for thread purposes, but I often revisit recent acquisitions:

Discs 5 and 11, Boris Chaikovsky and Concertos 1963-67 (Tishchenko, Khachaturian, Toyama).

[SimonNZ]

[Daverz]

Inspired by a Hurwitz video, listened to a couple Elgar Symphony No. 2 recordings, Slatkin (one of his main recs) and Handley (not one of the recs, just one I already had)

You know, I'm not sure I like this music anymore. 

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(There's a new Sony box of the Slatkin recordings:

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https://www.youtube.com/v/pzs95_Qj9lk

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First-Listen Fridays -

Another new acquisition:

Six Ballet Scenes, "Choreographic Symphony", Op. 113

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TCHAIKOWSKY Suite no.1 for Orchestra in D  op. 43
GLINKA: Kamarinskaya      Sophie-Carmen ECKHARDT-GRAMATTÉ: Capriccio Concertante
Winnipeg S.O.      Kazuhiro Koizumi, cond.