What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

I can't remember if this is my favourite D850 or not but it's probably in the top few.

I wasn't so sure about the 3rd movement, but the first 2 were very effective. Zacharias seems to believe in giving Schubert a momentum that some other performances distinctly lack. I'm beginning to develop the view that Schubert didn't write excessively long movements, it's just that some pianists make it feel that way...

[Karl Henning]

60 years on, and that recording is still a top, top recommendation for Mahler 3.  I love it!  The 'middle' movements III, IV and V are particularly well done I think, and I quite often listen to just those three.

Cool.

Wow, really?!? Good to read you enjoyed this symphony. It's certainly one of my favorites.

Aye ... My entree to the Mahler symphonies has been on the haphazard side....

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: "La Notte" RV 439 [Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble]





This is wonderful music, scoring, playing and sound. Terrific stuff. What more can I say?

This CD was a great purchase.

[Madiel]

Albeniz, Iberia Book 4.

[Karl Henning]

Lenny's "Schuman Sampler":

Symphony № 3 (1941)

Symphony № 5, for strings (1943)

Symphony № 8 (1962)
NY Phil
Lenny

[Papy Oli]

Delibes - Sylvia (extracts) / Monteux

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

HAHA - I'm not sure that the monks would appreciate it either.

However, for the time being she has gone out for a walk with a friend. So, here, it is Miaskovsky's doom-laden Symphony No.3 at top volume. 


The Symphony No.3 (1914/15) is an early high-point. It shows the influence of the Symphony by Cesar Franck and also Scriabin as well as Rachmaninov - it also builds on the achievement of the early tone poem 'Silence'.

Me rushing to re-listen to Miaskovsky's Franck-influenced, "doom-laden" 3rd :

[Madiel]

Dvorak, 4 songs on Serbian folk poetry (op.6/B.29)

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

There is an older edition and they ask easely $400 or more for that one,if you ask me,it's absurd,only another casing.



I found this one for you,I don't know what the shipment will cost.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/icon-michael-rabin/1000004011789418/?country=BE

Thankin' ye kindly, Traverso, but after a coupla sad experiences, I don't order trans-Atlantic anymore.  Pity, as you guys have the good stuff.  BTW, ever notice on Ebay how everything you could ever want sonically, somebody has in England?

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

You provoked my interest.  Scribendum and Testament have sets of his recordings. I went for this 4 CD Profil Hanssler set because it was under $25 and has the Creston VC2, which I'm fairly sure I've never heard.

I may follow your footsteps in that, JBS, but unfortunately it lacks the Ysaÿe 

[Maestro267]

The other night, while listening to Beethoven, I had a thought: A lot of composers' Fifth Symphonies are among my favourites of that composer's output. Not so much Beethoven (7 is my favourite of his, but I love No. 5 as well). Anyway, I've cobbled together a list of all the Symphony No. 5's I own recordings of, and I've been working my way through them. I've got 33 on the list; whether I get through them before I wear off the idea is another thing entirely, but I'm enjoying this so far. So far I've covered:

Beethoven
Glazunov
Mendelssohn
Arnold
Fricker
Lajtha
Sallinen
Martinu

[Papy Oli]

Had to play this work again, loved it over the weekend.

Bizet - Symphony in C.

A different version today: Bernstein NYP (From the Symphony Edition)

[Florestan]

Charmning music, tuneful, elegant, sunny and warm, with just the right ammount of melancholy. Schubert's and Mendelssohn' shadows loom large, which is actually a very good thing. The Linos Ensemble do their usual job, playing with commitment and gusto. If you like well-crafted and highly enjoyable Romantic music that  doesn't shatter the Earth, this disc is for you.

[Brahmsian]

Had to play this work again, loved it over the weekend.

Bizet - Symphony in C.

A different version today: Bernstein NYP (From the Symphony Edition)

Nice!  A work that I recently heard for the first time last fall, and I have been listening it to it frequently ever since.  Quite an amazing symphony for such a young composer at the time!

[Florestan]

The other night, while listening to Beethoven, I had a thought: A lot of composers' Fifth Symphonies are among my favourites of that composer's output. Not so much Beethoven (7 is my favourite of his, but I love No. 5 as well). Anyway, I've cobbled together a list of all the Symphony No. 5's I own recordings of, and I've been working my way through them. I've got 33 on the list; whether I get through them before I wear off the idea is another thing entirely, but I'm enjoying this so far. So far I've covered:

Beethoven
Glazunov
Mendelssohn
Arnold
Fricker
Lajtha
Sallinen
Martinu

No Tchaikovsky? 

[Papy Oli]

Nice!  A work that I recently heard for the first time last fall, and I have been listening it to it frequently ever since.  Quite an amazing symphony for such a young composer at the time!

indeed Ray, a very entertaining work. Another great discovery yesterday was his "Roma - Une Chasse dans la Forêt d'Ostie".

[Madiel]

No Tchaikovsky? 

There are 33 on the list. Those are just the 8 listened to so far.

[Florestan]

There are 33 on the list. Those are just the 8 listened to so far.

Yes, I got it alright. Still, no Tchaikovsky in the first 8 strikes me as not right, not right at all. 

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Had to play this work again, loved it over the weekend.

Bizet - Symphony in C.

A different version today: Bernstein NYP (From the Symphony Edition)

That work is one of the wonders of the sonic world.  You can listen to its very first recording, under Walter Goehr's baton, in 1937, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7gk4SGDlc

[Brahmsian]

Cross-posted from the composer thread.

Maiden Monday Listen (to the work itself, and obviously thus, the recording)

I am floored at how great this is!

Dvořák

Requiem, Opus 89