What are you listening 2 now?

[Brahmsian]

I'm in the camp of liking the 1st symphony, but I realize it's not the work of a mature composer, but I like it anyway.

Re: Dvořák's 1st and 2nd are bloody marvelous, in my opinion and I much prefer them to the 3rd and 5th.

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JS Bach: Motets BWV 229 & 230 [Herreweghe]

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu - Eucalypts I.

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Maurice Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; À la manière de Borodine; À la manière de Chabrier; Prélude. Louis Lortie

Four of my favorite piano pieces from Ravel, all beautiful.

[Mirror Image]

Re: Dvořák's 1st and 2nd are bloody marvelous, in my opinion and I much prefer them to the 3rd and 5th.

The 1st, 4th, 7th and 8th are my favorites. But of the orchestral works, I listen more to his symphonic poems than the symphonies truth be told.

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NP:

Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Felicity Lott, soprano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi

[aligreto]

I always smile when I see your compact CD box set of the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Bach Cantatas, Jan, because here is my version

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NP:

Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Felicity Lott, soprano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi

Looks like an interesting disc! I've been appreciating Järvi the elder's work more and more lately.

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Arvo Pärt: Fratres. Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett

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Looks like an interesting disc! I've been appreciating Järvi the elder's work more and more lately.

Now playing:



Arvo Pärt: Fratres. Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett

So far, it's rather lovely I must say. Lott has an amazing voice. That Pärt ECM recording is a great favorite of mine.

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So far, it's rather lovely I must say. Lott has an amazing voice. That Pärt ECM recording is a great favorite of mine.

Might be my favorite Pärt CD, though I suppose it's an obvious pick.

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Tomás Luis de Victoria: Feria V in Coena Domini ad Matutinum in secundo nocturno. Nigel Short, Tenebrae

The harmony here sounds quite advanced, not far from early Baroque.

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Might be my favorite Pärt CD, though I suppose it's an obvious pick.

I like it, but it's not my absolute favorite Pärt recording. That honor goes to this one:



For me, Stabat Mater is Pärt's greatest work.

[Iota]

Good to read you're enjoying these works. My favorite of them all is Officium Breve In Memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky. What an incredible work! Kurtág is at an interesting crossroads stylistically: almost like Bartók at his most austere meets Webern.

Actually that's next on the menu as it were. Looking forward to it. I was thinking precisely about a Webern connection when I was listening, but think the Bartok mention is very apt too.

[Karl Henning]

The Op. 6 of Vivaldi (CD 5) and Handel (CD 10) respectively

[Artem]

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Actually that's next on the menu as it were. Looking forward to it. I was thinking precisely about a Webern connection when I was listening, but think the Bartok mention is very apt too.

[André]

A fascinating disc of chamber music or chamber music arrangements of Shostakovich, plus pieces by Schnittke and Gerber written in homage to DSCH. A truly wonderful program.

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NP:

Hohvaness
Symphony No. 6, Op. 173, "Celestial Gate"
Polyphonia Orchestra of London
Hovhaness

[Traverso]

I always smile when I see your compact CD box set of the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Bach Cantatas, Jan, because here is my version

I have said it before,these recordings  are still my first choice ,second  is the Ton Koopman set wich is I think lowered in price ( new edition)

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Bach