What are you listening 2 now?

[Mapman]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4
Casadesus, Ormandy: Philadelphia

[vers la flamme]

Listened to Brahms 1 earlier. Now to a symphony that is thematically linked:



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3 in D minor. Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

This recording is so good...!

[aligreto]

Barry: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Act 1 [Markson]

[aligreto]

Over several months, I listened to the entire six-CD set and there's not a dull performance in the lot. I only wish Alsop had recorded some of the choral works (specifically Prayers of Kierkegaard and The Lovers.)

Yes, I agree that Alsop has done a very fine job with Barber's work. I am not familiar with his choral music so I will definitely investigate it and specifically the two that you have mentioned above.

[Lisztianwagner]

Pounds the table!

My favorite recording 

Yes, I'm very glad to have discovered it! The Karajan is still my favourite performance, but the Haitink is absolutely gorgeous! 

[Mirror Image]

Yes, I'm very glad to have discovered it! The Karajan is still my favourite performance, but the Haitink is absolutely gorgeous! 

As much as I love Herbie's conducting generally, his recording of Das Lied von der Erde is one of my least favorites.

NP:

Schoenberg
Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15
Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish

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NP:

Saint-Saëns
Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major Op. 123
Pauline Bartissol, Laurent Wagschal

From this fabulous 3-CD set -

[Lisztianwagner]

As much as I love Herbie's conducting generally, his recording of Das Lied von der Erde is one of my least favorites.

NP:

Schoenberg
Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15
Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish

Heresy!


I'll join you in listening to Schönberg, but with another piece:

Arnold Schönberg
Kammersymphonie No.1

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Heresy!


I'll join you in listening to Schönberg, but with another piece:

Arnold Schönberg
Kammersymphonie No.1

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NP:

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70
Prague SO
Maxim Shostakovich

From this fantastic set -

I like that set too John - must dig it out.

[vandermolen]

I bought in my CDs of Bruckner 8 from my recently-purchased Wand Bruckner cycle! Looking forward to listening later today.

Over several months, I listened to the entire six-CD set and there's not a dull performance in the lot. I only wish Alsop had recorded some of the choral works (specifically Prayers of Kierkegaard and The Lovers.)

Very nice! The Sinfonietta is an impressive work.

TD:
Paul Ben-Haim
*Pan
%Pastorale Variée
Symphony no. 1
*Claudia Barainsky, soprano
%John Bradbury, clarinet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Omer Meir Wellber
(on Spotify)



Incredible stuff, all three pieces! Gorgeously orchestrated too.

+1 for Ben Haim

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I like that set too John - must dig it out.

It's surprisingly good, Jeffrey. I didn't know it was a live recording either until the applause at the end to the dismay of Dave (SonicMan46) I'm sure.

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It's surprisingly good, Jeffrey. I didn't know it was a live recording either until the applause at the end to the dismay of Dave (SonicMan46) I'm sure.

Oh, I don't usually mind applause at the end John. The new VW CD of Sargent conducting symphonies 6 and 9 features it.

On a separate note I wonder if this CD which I'm currently playing features in your Svetlanov box set - Otar Taktakishvili: Symphony No.2 - I rather like it (1953)

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First-Listen Tuesday

Hindemith
Mathis der Maler
Various soloists
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Kubelik



I've known the Mathis der Maler Symphony for more than a decade, but I never heard the complete opera, so since I'm on vacation, I figured now is as good of a time as any!

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Oh, I don't usually mind applause at the end John. The new VW CD of Sargent conducting symphonies 6 and 9 features it.

Indeed. I have no problems with it as long as they're silent until the last note has sounded. Yes, I've seen you got this Malcolm Sargent disc, it looks like a good one, but Vaughan Williams is a bit off my radar at the moment.

[André]

Disc one, Rhapsodies 1-8.

Very impressive. I love the way Ivanov uses the sustaining pedal to create a droning sound in the famous 2nd rhapsody. It would appear Liszt considered rhapsodies 1-15 as a whole, a sort of cycle to be considered as « one homogenous body, a complete work, its divisions so arranged that each song [Liszt's own choice of term] would form at once a whole and a part, which might be severed from the rest and be examined and enjoyed by and for itself but which would, none the less, belong to the whole through the close affinity of the subject matter, the similarity of inner nature and unity of development » (Liszt, in the publishing note to the cycle) .

The recording is full-bodied and pellucid. The excellent album notes are by our fellow GMGer Jens F. Laurson.

[Mapman]

Haydn: Symphony #93
Szell: Cleveland

This is an excellent performance, I liked it better than Adam Fischer's. (It's also a fun symphony, as expected from Haydn. I've been enjoying the Haydn I've heard recently.)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Tonight I am listening to the greatest work of Flemish master
and composer of capital and crucial importance Johannes Ockeghem an LP that was subject to me once here on GMG and it's fabuleous recording by Capella Nova whit direction of: Richard Taruskin.
The program exiting you get his fameous centerpiece masse Prolationum, that I like so much on, and enigmatic obscur composer a Motets  the I never heard of Johannes LuPi, the  release is from Music Heritage Society. The media is a thick slb of petrol, heavy duty, narly hey, the sound is fabilous for it's era 1974.

[KevinP]

Have had both for a few months now and have listened to them multiple times, but they're only now asserting a place in my rotation.

[Karl Henning]

Haydn: Symphony #93
Szell: Cleveland

This is an excellent performance, I liked it better than Adam Fischer's. (It's also a fun symphony, as expected from Haydn. I've been enjoying the Haydn I've heard recently.)

This was onr of my earliest Haydn purchases, back when there was still a CD shop on Washington Street in Boston ....
And much cheaper than the current $74 listing on Amazon.