What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

Symphonies 1, 3 and 5. From Spotify.

This is better than I expected. Ashkenazy keeps meticulous articulation in perfect balance with sprightly tempi and fine winds/strings balance. Beautiful and exciting. Might buy the set.

[ritter]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 - Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Pierre Boulez.

CD 11 of this set:


Recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie on April 20^th, 2009 (I was in the audience ).

First Mahler I've listened to in several months...sounds superb!

[Brahmsian]

Symphonies 1, 3 and 5. From Spotify.

This is better than I expected. Ashkenazy keeps meticulous articulation in perfect balance with sprightly tempi and fine winds/strings balance. Beautiful and exciting. Might buy the set.

Excellent, I do love this set.

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony No. 2, Rowe conducting the Moscow SO




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Richard Strauss

Der Bürger Als Edelmann - Orchestersuite, Op. 60/Le Bourgoise Gentilhomme - Orchestral Suite/Suite D'Orchestre
Cello – Emanuel Brabec
Piano – Friedrich Gulda
Violin – Willi Boskovsky
Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor – Lorin Maazel

Fantaisie From "Die Frau Ohne Schatten"
Orchestra – Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Antal Dorati

Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Orchestra – The Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor – Christoph von Dohnányi

Pounds the table! A great set. I particularly like the Mehta performances.

[kyjo]

Quite funny, because yesterday I took a listen to the Symphony No. 3 first movement, but I thought that it lacks something to be completely succesful like a movement. Maybe more memorable motifs or ideas? Rhythmically is splendid, I hasten to add.

Perhaps I wasn't in the right mood with him, it seems.

I sort of know what you mean. But, Diamond's 3rd Symphony is easily my favorite of his symphonies. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for orchestral works with a prominent piano part! My other preferred works of Diamond's are Rounds for string orchestra, the incidental music to Romeo and Juliet, and the String Quartet no. 3. His slow movements in these works have a nostalgic, elegiac quality which is quite touching.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Argerich
Berlin RSO
Chailly

[kyjo]

Madetoja: Symphony No.1

I like the first two movements of this symphony a lot - the slow movement is quite haunting and atmospheric - but I find the finale a bit unconvincing.

[Harry]

Klezmer.

Premiere recordings.

Kleztory.
Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky.

At the close of my listening day, Klezmer, it lifts up my spirits on these troubling days ahead.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Kodaly: Excerpts from Hary Janos. Ivan Fischer/Budapest.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

NP:

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Argerich
Berlin RSO
Chailly

A great CD! 

PD

[The new erato]

A beautiful disc:



Thanks to relatively recent reminders on GMG of course!

[Traverso]

Pounds the table! A great set. I particularly like the Mehta performances.

The Metha recordings are indeed very fine,Der Bürger Als Edelmann I heard for the first time and I liked it very much.

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony No. 3, Friend conducting the BBC SO




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

A beautiful disc:



Thanks to relatively recent reminders on GMG of course!

Absolutely! One of my favorite Respighi recordings.

[SonicMan46]

Small package from JPC just arrived:

Bach, JC - Opera Overtures w/ Anthony Halstead and the Hanover Band - already have their other larger boxes, so this completes the collection.
Telemann, GP - Violin Concertos, V. 4 w/ Elizabeth Wallfisch and L'Orfeo BO - now up to V.5 - YIKES!  But on Amazon USA, I see that there are Vols. 6 & 7 - now we all know how prolific George was!
Bach, JC - Flute Sonatas w/ Courtney Westcott on a one-key flute by Peter Noy (Seattle, 1998), after GA Rottenburgh (Brussels, c. 1760) and Byron Schenkman on a fortepiano by Derek Adlam/Richard Burnett (1973), after Mathaeus Heilmann (Mainz, 1785).  Dave

   

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
Boys' Choir From The Little Church Around The Corner, Brooklyn Boys' Choir, Trinity Church Boys' Choir
New York Philharmonic
Boulez

From this superb set -

[Traverso]

Shostakovich

Piano Quintet
Piano trio No.2

Janáček

Concertino

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich

Piano Quintet
Piano trio No.2

Janáček

Concertino

Sweet!

[VonStupp]

Benjamin Britten
Sacred and Profane, op. 91

Finzi Singers - Paul Spicer

The finale of Britten's Sacred and Profane is gruesome, almost disturbing; and the music is right there with the text.

I wonder if this is indicative of Britten's late Opus numbers?  VS

https://www.youtube.com/v/JKwqgzmr6h8&ab_channel=FinziSingers-Topic

A Death
When my eyes get misty,

And my ears are full of hissing,

And my nose gets cold,

And my tongue folds,
And my face goes slack,
And my lips blacken,
And my mouth grins,
And my spittle runs,

And my hair rises,

And my heart trembles,
And my hands shake,
And my feet stiffen –

All too late! all too late !
When the bier is at the gate.
Then I shall pass,
From bed to floor,
From floor to shroud,

From shroud to bier,
From bier to grave,
And the grave will be closed up.

Then rests my house upon my nose.
For the whole world I care not one jot.