What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

NP:

Dvořák
Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Staatskapelle Berlin
Suitner



There's something about Suitner's cycle that just sounds right to my ears and I've said it before, but I think there's something about the way he allows the music to unfold naturally without pushing it and in doing this, the rewards, especially for this listener, are aplenty.

And the sonics are top-notch. So, what's not to love?

[Mirror Image]

And the sonics are top-notch. So, what's not to love?

Indeed. I own the Japanese imports of Suitner cycle and I'll have to check to see if they've been remastered, but, yes, they do sound rather good.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sensational disc and program.

Gosh, these are strings!

[Mirror Image]

Gosh, these are strings!

I should hope so since these are works written for strings.

[Madiel]

I should hope so since these are works written for strings.

Nevertheless, you can practically guarantee someone somewhere is currently plotting to perform Metamorphosen with a saxophone quartet.

[Operafreak]

Intuition /  Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano)

[kyjo]

Intense, gorgeous music.

Pounds the table! Absolutely masterful stuff!

[Mapman]

Weber: Der Freischütz, Acts 1 and 2
Rudolf Kempe: Staatsoper Dresden, 1951

[Mirror Image]

Nevertheless, you can practically guarantee someone somewhere is currently plotting to perform Metamorphosen with a saxophone quartet.

Yes and how unfortunate that would be!

Ending tonight's listening session with something a bit jazzy:

Gershwin
An American in Paris
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein



Bernstein
Fancy Free
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein



Copland
Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp & Piano
Benny Goodman, clarinet
Laura Newell - harp, Abba Bogin - piano
Columbia Symphony Strings
Copland

[Operafreak]

Grieg: Peer Gynt & Piano Concerto/ Clifford Curzon (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

[Que]

My morning listening are some of the offices for the Holy Week from this set:



I find it absolutely incomprehensible that Glossa has let this important recording run out of print for so long....

There is however a single disc reissue with the music for Good Friday:
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Good-Friday-Luis-Victoria/dp/B00BORWYK2/

[Symphonic Addict]

I should hope so since these are works written for strings.

It mostly goes to the excellent playing of the Sinfonia of London. A super-clear recording in general.

[Symphonic Addict]

Liszt: Die Ideale

One of his least-known tone poems, and with more-than-fair reasons. If it exists any dull, predictable, flaccid, empty piece of music, it has to be this.

[Harry]

Cristobal de Morales.

Super Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae.

Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola.
Num. Vigilavit iugum iniquitatum
Heth. Cogitavit Dominus
Zain. Candidiores nazarei
Coph. Vocavi amicos meos
Phe. Expandit Sion

Elia Casanova, Hugo Bolivar, Fran Braojos, Albert Riera, Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner.

Recommendation from Que, streaming now.

[vandermolen]

Now playing this new acquisition:

That's arguably the finest performance of Symphony No.3 on disc. It has a unique atmosphere. I much prefer it to Bernstein's CBS/Sony recording.

TD
Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies (best Rawsthorne disc known to me):

[vandermolen]

First-Listen Wednesday

Amirov
Kürd Ovshari (Symphonic Mugam)
Azerbaijan Capriccio
A Tale of Nasimi
Gülistan Bayaty Shiraz (Symphonic Mugam)
Moscow Radio and TV SO
Yalchin Adigezalov



Man, I'm digging this!

That's a great CD. Now available for about a million pounds online!

[Operafreak]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'/ Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

[Traverso]

I have that set, and value it highly. I wish a remaster of their Krommer partitas would appear at some point.

My thought's too  I always liked to listen to their recordings.

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 96 in D major Miracle - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

[vandermolen]

Philip Sainton's Baxian tone poem 'The Island' (1942):