What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Schubert: Nacht und Träume op. 43,2 D.827 [Queyras/Tharaud]





A short but a wonderful piece of music to finish a wonderful album with.

Great stuff!

[aligreto]

Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock, Vivaldi, Ouverture zur Oper ''L'Olimpiade'', Streichersinfonie A-dur RV 158, Concerto h-moll op.3 N°10 J. S. Bach, Ouverture (Suite) N°4 D-dur BWV 1069,  Sinfonia aus der Kantate 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' BWV 42, Concerto BWV 1064 fur 3 violinen, streicher und Bc

I think that is a great set.

[aligreto]

Great stuff!

I dragged my listening of that CD out for as long as I could, Karl, as I liked it so much. 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Cziffra, Hungary State Orchestra.

[Harry]

Lyrita celebrating 50 years devoted to British Music.
SET I.
CD III of IV.

[vandermolen]

Lyatoshynsky: 'Grazhyna'

[Linz]

Vagn Holmboe Symphony No. 8 & 9 Owain Arwell Hughes Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9  over 2 CDs as there is a SPCM Finale Kurt Eichhorn Bruckner Orchestra Linz

[Que]

but the mischief-maker in me says, oh! Missa sine nomine by Anonymous? Yeah, I know that one!...

[Todd]

from



None too shabby.

[aligreto]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde [Kubelik]





I am not fully engaged by Kmentt's voice. I find it to be just a tad forced or strained in places. Baker's delivery, on the other hand, is consummately sublime.
The orchestral accompaniment is appropriately sensitive to the respective songs throughout the work. The brass is highlighted very well when employed but the real winner here orchestrally, for me, is the woodwind section.

[vandermolen]

Time for some Irish music, partly due to my sadness at the loss of innocent life in the petrol station explosion in Ireland.
A J Potter: Rhapsody under a High Sky to be followed by the beautiful 'Introspect' by Padraig O'Connor:

[Pizzicato-Polka]

I for one am more than happy to see you posting more in this thread, I like your contributions!  A lot of us such as myself are very, very bad at talking about music, but do so incessantly anyway, so you're at the very least on my level 

I was trying to encourage you before to post more and that was a very good post. 
I notice that you have already received a genuinely friendly and generous reply from another member. Keep it up! 
The description of the violin playing sounds very interesting indeed from your description as it is always interesting to hear the full possibilities of the range of any instrument.

Thank you so much, both of you. Those are such kind words, I'm moved. But please don't put yourself down, vers la flamme, I see nothing bad in your posts, and on top of that you made me discover a great piece today! So thank you again. Also I remember many members here were excited about that Baiba Skride album when it was shared in the "New releases" thread, so that's how I found it.

Listened to Boieldieu's concerto and really liked it! The grandeur of the orchestra against the delicate harp parts is so enjoyable. And the final movement's mysterious & magical mood made me think of the Harry Potter movies, in a good sense.   I'll make sure to finish that cd set in the future.

My playlist today:



What can I say, I simply loved quartet no 1 to pieces. Beautifully brisk, as expected, but also very sweet, and with a bit of nostalgia coming through. An instant favorite.
As for no 2, it was very nice, but didn't compare. I don't know if it was just because the no 1 was so great to me, or if there were indeed some similar notes, but at certain points in the first movement of no 2 I felt like the theme from no 1 was about to follow, and it seemed odd that it didn't. Or maybe it just got stuck in my head.
And outside of the lovely final movement, I didn't care for no 9 (too melancholic).

Plus I have to add the instruments all sounded excellent to me, so much that I wondered if there are some period ones in there, and there indeed is one - apparently Mario Hossen performs on a G.B. Guadagnini violin from 1749.

[SonicMan46]

Telemann, GP - Tafelmusik w/ the Freiburger Barockorchester; also own the Reinhard Goebel, both 4-disc boxes and like both equally - there are certainly others to explore but have no need w/ these performances.  Dave

 

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor CD8 from Ozawas set

[bhodges]

Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor CD8 from Ozawas set

What do you think of this version? I don't recall ever hearing it, and sometimes No. 5 is my favorite of all of them—mostly because of the last movement.

-Bruce

[bhodges]

Still replaying (in my head) yesterday's concert with Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially their frenzied reading of La valse, a longtime favorite. But the afternoon's star was the young violinist Randall Goosby in the Price concertos, which were new to me, and well worth hearing. They were being recorded, presumably as a future installment in the orchestra's Price series, for which they won a Grammy this year.

Ravel - La valse
Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 1
Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 2
Encore: Florence Price - Adoration (1951, with string orchestra)
R. Strauss - Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

-Bruce

[Linz]

What do you think of this version? I don't recall ever hearing it, and sometimes No. 5 is my favorite of all of them—mostly because of the last movement.

-Bruce

I think it is quite a good version of it and the 5th is also one my favorite Mahler Symphonies so I was looking forward to listening to it

[JBS]

Still replaying (in my head) yesterday's concert with Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially their frenzied reading of La valse, a longtime favorite. But the afternoon's star was the young violinist Randall Goosby in the Price concertos, which were new to me, and well worth hearing. They were being recorded, presumably as a future installment in the orchestra's Price series, for which they won a Grammy this year.

Ravel - La valse
Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 1
Florence Price - Violin Concerto No. 2
Encore: Florence Price - Adoration (1951, with string orchestra)
R. Strauss - Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

-Bruce

They've already been recorded once.


I remember them as nice but not outstanding. No doubt the performers make a difference. Goosby's Roots CD includes three works by Price, including a violin/piano version of Adoration.


TD

Numbers 3 and 4.

[Lisztianwagner]

W. A. Mozart
Piano Sonata No.14

Mitsuko Uchida (pianist)