What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Not looking to buy, so I didn't check for multiple listings of the same product. Makes you wonder if anyone is every gullible enough to spring for one of those astronomically priced items. Maybe for Elon Musk it is not worth 10 seconds to see if there is a cheaper copy available.

You will find, upon making enquiries, that a lot of the time there is no expensive copy to buy anyway. You'll get told it's no longer available.

It's nothing more than a computer algorithm that isn't very good at handling certain situations and spits out nonsense results.

[T. D.]

[Irons]

Beethoven: Violin Concerto.

Some great recordings from the 1960's - 70's including Oistrakh, Grumiaux and Szeryng but for me the most natural and organic performance on record of Beethoven's VC is that of the principal violinist of the Concertgebouw, Herman Krebbers.   

[Traverso]

Bach

Johannes Passion

[aligreto]

Couperin, F: Quatrième Livre de Pieces de Clavecin [Rousset]





CD 1: Vingtième ordre -> Vingt-quatrième ordre

[aligreto]

Scarlatti

Blandine Verlet

Very nice. I have an LP of Blandine Verlet playing Scarlatti.

[aligreto]

As a follow-up to the discussions about Firkusny and Mackerras, here are three boxes that I get a lot of musical pleasure from:

I do not know of the Firkusny set but Mackerras in Janacek is definitely compelling without a doubt.

[Roasted Swan]

Beethoven: Violin Concerto.

Some great recordings from the 1960's - 70's including Oistrakh, Grumiaux and Szeryng but for me the most natural and organic performance on record of Beethoven's VC is that of the principal violinist of the Concertgebouw, Herman Krebbers.   

+1 for Krebbers - that performance is hidden away in this set;



which is a pretty interesting couple of discs......

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

JS Bach - Orchestral Suites No.3 & 4 (La Petite Bande)

[Biffo]

The Voice of the Turtle Dove - The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers - works by Mundy, Davy and Sheppard

[Harry]

New acquisition.

Hermann Grädener.

Orchestral Music, Volume I.

Violin concerto No. 1 in D major and No. 2 in D minor.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin.
National SO of Ukraine, Gottfried Rabl.

Romantic Violin music, finely crafted.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

As a follow-up to the discussions about Firkusny and Mackerras, here are three boxes that I get a lot of musical pleasure from:

I've been wanting to get that Firkusny set since I first ran across it!    I have some of the recordings from it (some of the later RCA ones like of Martinu) but none of his early ones.  I'd be curious as to how you find his Janacek ones to be?  I only know his recordings from DG (plus a few live ones on Testament). Perhaps better answered in the Janacek thread?

I have most of his Janacek operas too but in free-standing editions.  And, yes, he was excellent in Janacek and in Czech music in general! 

PD

[Harry]

New acquisition.

Georg Philipp Telemann.

Wind Concertos, Volume II.

La Stagione Frankfurt & Camerate Koln, Michael Schneider.

Wonderful concertos, all of them. Good performances and sound too.

[Mandryka]

Machaut avant la lettre.

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Musica Antiqua Köln

Starting with BWV 1016.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The Kronos Quartet - Mugam Sayagi:  The Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh on Nonesuch.

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is a contemporary Azerbaijani composer.  I'm finding it to be quite interesting and enjoyable.  Hard for me to describe her music in a nutshell, but I'll give you a brief glimpse into it quoting from the liner notes:

"As a pianist, she established herself as a formidable performer of the Second Viennese School, of Messiaen, Crumb and Cage; she was one of the first to bring their music to audiences in Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the Soviet Union.  Against the advice of Karayev, who thought it might be more politic for her to establish herself with nationalist, conservative works, Ali-Zadeh began composing with twelve-tone techniques.  In her works of the seventies, she absorbed the heritage of America and non-Russian Europe, freeing herself from the orthodoxies that continued to dominate Soviet music.

This CD is from 2005.  You can read a bit more about her here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franghiz_Ali-Zadeh

https://kronosquartet.org/recordings/detail/mugam-sayagi-music-of-franghiz-ali-zadeh/

PD

[vers la flamme]

Alfred Schnittke: Music from the Films My Past & Thoughts, Agony, The End of St. Petersburg, and The Master & Margarita. Frank Strobel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

The whole disc. Really hits the spot right now, for whatever reason.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Alfred Schnittke: Music from the Films My Past & Thoughts, Agony, The End of St. Petersburg, and The Master & Margarita. Frank Strobel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

The whole disc. Really hits the spot right now, for whatever reason.

I don't know his music, but I'm finding that I'm listening to music today off of my normal beaten track and I suspect that I know why it's resonating with me.

PD

[aligreto]

Barber: Toccata Festiva Op. 36 [Alsop]

[Todd]