What are you listening 2 now?

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Now playing Penderecki Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra with Wanda Wilkomirska/Penderecki/Polish Radio National SO from this tremendous 2-CD set:

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Now playing Rouse Odna Zhizn with Gilbert/New York PO:

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Overall, I've not heard a note of Bartók's which I did not find rewarding.

+1 A composer who is in my "Top 5". Love his music dearly.

[Madiel]

My soul needed some Rachmaninov works for two pianos, so now playing Suite for Two Pianos Nos. 1 & 2 with Ashkenazy/Previn from this box set:

Well if that's the music you want, that's an excellent place to get it!

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify:



Since Ignacio Prego's Goldbergs (Glossa) made a favourable impression on me, I picked this 2014 recording of the French Suites (Cantus).

https://www.voix-des-arts.com/2015/02/cd-review-johann-sebastian-bach-french.html

Tempi are quite moderate, but Prego keeps the music flowing.
The rich sound of the Keith Hill harpsichord suits Prego's subtle, delicate style.

[Operafreak]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opus 109, 110, 111- Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

[Traverso]

Bach


Vol.5  CD1

[Operafreak]

Locatelli: Il Labirinto- Ilya Gringolts (violin), Finnish Baroque Orchestra

[aligreto]

Gerald Barry:





Before The Road [Webster/Lamb/Ault/Medcalf]
Piano Quartet No. 2 [Xenia Ensemble/Barry]

[Traverso]

Bach


Brandenburgischen Konzerte 5 - 3 & 6

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6 BBC SO, Boult (live, Proms concert 1972)
Fabulous! (and I'm listening on a small portable CD player as my usual one is being repaired). IMO this in incomparably better than any recent recording (Manze, Elder, Wilson for example). Boult gave the first performance of the 6th Symphony and I find that his readings have a unique authority about them. This is, in a way, quite different to his three studio recordings on EMI (x2 and Decca). The big tune, at the end of the first movement, is neither given the full romantic treatment (Barbirolli and many others) nor does it have the objectivity of the Decca recording (my favourite), instead it sounds a bit like a stately Tudor dance - but I really enjoyed it. The relentless second movement is faster and not as implacable as the Decca performance and the finale is a bit faster than on Decca (made with VW in the studio). I look forward to hearing it on my usual CD player!

[vandermolen]

Benjamin Frankel: 'Curse of the Werewolf':

[Traverso]

Bach


CD2

[Operafreak]

Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms- Matthias Goerne Daniil Trifonov

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau

[Linz]

Roger Norrinton Symphony No. 7 Strange interpretation of the 1st movement Slow and extremely fast in sections to come out with the fastest first movement on record

[VonStupp]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau

Wonderful!

VS

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Concerto Accademico

Michael Davis, violin (Lark)
Kenneth Sillito, violin (Concerto)
London SO - Bryden Thomson

A sumptuous Lark from the LSO! The Violin Concerto is new to me.

VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Aram Khachaturian: Gayenne. Kakhidze/USSR.