What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Ravel

Miroirs
Le Tombeau de Couperin

[Karl Henning]

Taneyev
String Quartet № 3 in d minor, Op. 7
String Quartet [№ 8] in C (1883
String Quartet № 6 in B^b, Op. 19
String Quartet [№ 9] in A (1883)

The Taneyev Quartet

[Sergeant Rock]

Miaskovsky Symphony No. 3




Sarge

[VonStupp]

JS Bach
Cantata 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen', BWV 56
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Margaret Marshall, Dame Janet Baker
Robert Tear, Samuel Ramey
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields & Chorus - Sir Neville Marriner
(rec. 1965 & 1978)

I do like this performance, and at under 2 hours, this Mass in b minor lies somewhere in the middle ground between Klemperer and Fasolis, the two extremes of runtime that came to mind. It is only Robert Tear in his lone solo that I have no use for in this recording. Also, while he may not be German, I do so enjoy Shirley-Quirk in this sea-themed solo cantata.

[Mirror Image]

Ravel

Miroirs
Le Tombeau de Couperin

Lovely!

[Mirror Image]

Alfred Schnittke: Viola Concerto. Yuri Bashmet, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Brilliant performance of this late work from Alfred Schnittke.

Awesome! You've got to hear Bashmet in the Viola Concerto with Rostropovich. I think that one would be my favorite.

[Mirror Image]

Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano & Strings. Viktoria Postnikova, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, London Sinfonietta

Great performance from the husband/wife team of Postnikova and Rozhdestvensky.

Two big Schnittkian thumbs up!

[Traverso]

Lovely!

Yeah,she certainly looks that way ..

[Mirror Image]

How was it? Nice art, btw.

Gorgeous, Dry Brett. You'll dig it. Unfortunately, I had to buy it as a download because the original CD is too expensive (a Japan-only reissue on CD). But you can get it on Qobuz for $4.99 I think.

[Papy Oli]

Art of Fugue (Musica Antiqua Köln).

Wunderbar ! 

[Sergeant Rock]

Miaskovsky String Quartet No. 13 played by the Pacifica Quartet




Sarge

[aligreto]

Alwyn: Lyra Angelica [Hickox]





I think from memory that Jeffrey considers this a favourite work.

[aligreto]

Mozart

A whole bunch of symphonies....

Symphonies No.23-50,22,23,24,51 & 52

Excellent, Jan 

[Karl Henning]

Alfred Schnittke: Viola Concerto. Yuri Bashmet, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Brilliant performance of this late work from Alfred Schnittke.

Very nice!

[aligreto]

Art of Fugue (Musica Antiqua Köln).

Wunderbar ! 

I have not listened to that in a long time but MAK have always been a favourite with me.

[VonStupp]

Miaskovsky String Quartet No. 13 played by the Pacifica Quartet



Sarge

I don't know why it is, but I find Soviet graphic art so striking.

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky String Quartet No. 13 played by the Pacifica Quartet




Sarge

That was my only previous to the music of Miaskovsky prior to buying the symphonic cycle under Svetlanov

[aligreto]

I don't know why it is, but I find Soviet graphic art so striking.

+1

[Karl Henning]

Miaskovsky String Quartet No. 13 played by the Pacifica Quartet




Sarge

(* pounds the table *)

[Traverso]

Debussy

As with most music,I'm very careful not to listen too much to a piece and kill the wonder in dull making repetition andI'm glad to say that I can now welcome this music.

The first time I heard the Debussy pianomusic I had the instinct feeling that it surely was music from the age that the autocar was invented.
It was a young pianist from the former Yugoslavia and I listened to the roaring sounds that made a new world of sound audible to me.
It was in a library where she played and I was  there, coincidently,   on a Saturday afternoon

Préludes  (Livre 1 & 2)