What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Always preferred the young Brendel to the profundity of the elder one.

Cheers, Paul!

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Quintet 
    Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Alissa Margulis (violin),
    Lida Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello)

Great!

[Lisztianwagner]

Geirr Tveitt's Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger 
    Bjarte Engeset, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Håvard Gimse (piano), Gunilla Süssmann (piano)

I don't listen to Tveitt's Variations very often, but the 4th Piano Concerto on this recording is absolutely marvelous.

[Sergeant Rock]

Schmidt Symphony No. 1




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

I also find this:

Schoenberg
Pf Cto, Op. 42
Alfred Brendel, pf
South-West German Radio Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Michael Gielen

Segues nicely into:

Bartók Divertimento, Sz. 113
Members of the LSO
Antal Doráti

[springrite]

Tabakov Symphony #8

[Traverso]

Messiaen


Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant Jésus

A great recording

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 9 Skrowaczewski

[Karl Henning]

Messiaen


Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant Jésus

A great recording

Nice, Jan!

[SonicMan46]

Weiss, Silvius (1686-1750) - Complete London Manuscript w/ Michel Cardin on a Baroque lute - more information on Cardin's work on the Weiss manuscript HERE, if interested (and even more by Cardin HERE) - for the afternoon and early evening, maybe 3 or 4 discs of the dozen.  Dave

 

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Bruckner - Te Deum (Jochum)

Fantastic performance.

[Lisztianwagner]

Other half wandered in to discuss potential future house purchase [in Wales, **shudder**!] and said, 'Oh, that's nice: what is it?'.
That doesn't usually happen unless the music is very good and decidedly approachable: Benjamin Britten can elicit that response sometimes; also some Shostakovich; or something with clarinets.
The Variations went down well, shall we say?! 

I suppose we shall.  Anyway Tveitt's Variations on a Folk Song from Hardanger is a very delightful work too, and very nordic in the spirit. I particularly like its beautiful phrasing between the pianos and the orchestra as well as the colourful timbres, which create a very suggestive atmosphere.

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Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C major, op.105. Lorin Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker

First listen, so far so good. Great horn section the 1960s VPO had.

[Brahmsian]

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C major, op.105. Lorin Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker

First listen, so far so good. Great horn section the 1960s VPO had.

My favourite Sibelius cycle. 

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My favourite Sibelius cycle. 

I got it for dirt cheap last month though I really didn't need another Sibelius cycle at the time. I think it was my 4th. But I've been impressed so far. Maazel is kind of zippy with these symphonies, but they're all very controlled, interesting performances, if perhaps not the most nuanced I've ever heard. But I cycle through phases where Sibelius makes the most sense in the world to me and phases where his music leaves me cold. I'm somewhere in the middle right now.

[Brahmsian]

I got it for dirt cheap last month though I really didn't need another Sibelius cycle at the time. I think it was my 4th. But I've been impressed so far. Maazel is kind of zippy with these symphonies, but they're all very controlled, interesting performances, if perhaps not the most nuanced I've ever heard. But I cycle through phases where Sibelius makes the most sense in the world to me and phases where his music leaves me cold. I'm somewhere in the middle right now.

Zippy is why I like it. I tend to be drawn to brisker tempi.

I find it much, much better than his Pittsburgh cycle.

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Zippy is why I like it. I tend to be drawn to brisker tempi.

I find it much, much better than his Pittsburgh cycle.

I don't believe you are alone in that opinion.

Now playing:



Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor, op.43. Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Very fine performance from this very fine cycle. (Not that I have much to compare it to, being my only DSCH 4th, a symphony I don't know terribly well.)

[Brahmsian]

I don't believe you are alone in that opinion.

Now playing:



Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor, op.43. Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Very fine performance from this very fine cycle. (Not that I have much to compare it to, being my only DSCH 4th, a symphony I don't know terribly well.)

You are on a tangent. Another one of my favourite cycles!! And a particularly marvelous performance of the 4th.

Just for context... I absolutely hated the 4th symphony when I first heard it (not this particular performance). But just the symphony in general...... Now it is among my favourite symphonies of any composer. It just took some time to digest.

It certainly isn't for the faint of heart!

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You are on a tangent. Another one of my favourite cycles!! And a particularly marvelous performance of the 4th.

Just for context... I absolutely hated the 4th symphony when I first heard it (not this particular performance). But just the symphony in general...... Now it is among my favourite symphonies of any composer. It just took some time to digest.

It certainly isn't for the faint of heart!

I would agree with that. It's a challenging work, in length and sonority. I'm trying to make sense of it, and struggling, but I will say that Shostakovich's 4th has never sounded better than right now.

[Brahmsian]

I would agree with that. It's a challenging work, in length and sonority. I'm trying to make sense of it, and struggling, but I will say that Shostakovich's 4th has never sounded better than right now.

Trying to make sense of it was where I used to be, so I completely understand.

It is a symphony that truly rewards repeated listening.

The mystical ethereal coda raises the hair on my arms!