What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Starting off this set

With this


It doesn't belong in the Ugly CD Art thread...but is there one for the Really Wierd Cover Art?

[Peter Power Pop]

It doesn't belong in the Ugly CD Art thread...but is there one for the Really Weird Cover Art?

I hope so.

It's different, I'll give it that.

[Operafreak]

Messa Per Rossini- Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly

[Operafreak]

Trio Zimmermann - Johann Sebastian Bach-   Goldberg Variations

[vandermolen]

Vagn Holmboe: Symphony No.8 'Sinfonia boreale':

[vandermolen]

Earlier:

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Tel jour telle nuit



Music to fit Eluard's surreal poetry. Time and again these Poulenc songs have strange little shifts that, on a first listen, are surprising and yet feel completely inevitable. Tonality played with in all the right ways.

[vandermolen]

I bought this for the Roy Harris but have been more captivated by the John Adams Violin Concerto. I thought that I knew it but realised that I had confused it with the VC by Philip Glass 
The slow movement of the Adams work 'Chaconne' reminded me of the Passacaglia from Shostakovich's VC No.1 but without the emotional depth. I still greatly enjoyed it:

[Harry]

Earlier:

That' s a wonderful recording!

[Todd]

[vandermolen]

That' s a wonderful recording!

I agree Harry. I especially like the short work 'Resurgam'.

[ritter]

Nice! I much enjoyed Querol's Iberia. The "Les Introuvables" 2 CD set I own also has the Goyescas recording, which IIRC I still haven't listened to yet, and should do so soon. How are you finding it, Todd?

[Todd]

How are you finding it, Todd?

I own this along with Iberia in a Les Rarissimes set that I picked up when I still shopped at BRO.  I prefer the Goyescas to the Iberia, though I enjoy both.  Querol seems to lack the same type of overt sentimentality that some other pianists bring, and he sounds less flexible, and at times almost stern, but those traits simply bring a different dimension to the music.  Querol seems to have recorded very little, or at least very little that hit the international market, which is a pity.

[ritter]

I own this along with Iberia in a Les Rarissimes set that I picked up when I still shopped at BRO.  I prefer the Goyescas to the Iberia, though I enjoy both.  Querol seems to lack the same type of overt sentimentality that some other pianists bring, and he sounds less flexible, and at times almost stern, but those traits simply bring a different dimension to the music.  Querol seems to have recorded very little, or at least very little that hit the international market, which is a pity.

Thanks! I'll make a note of listening to these Goyescas soon.

Yes, Querol's pianism is rather restrained (not necessarily a bad thing thing in my book), and there's precious little available by him (Discogs only has these two recordings listed). A pity.

[Traverso]

You remind me of this great recording. Current listening:



George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56. Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir & Players

Always good to return to Messiah. It has been a while.

Good to see that you like this recording..

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson
Mosaics
The Lament for Beowulf
Serenade for Flute, Harp, and Strings
Pastorale for Oboe, Harp, and Strings
Merry Mount Suite

NY Chamber Symphony of the 92nd Street Y (Serenade & Pastorale)
Seattle Symphony and Chorale - Gerard Schwarz

Some extras from this set for tonight:
VS

You need this as a, kind of, supplement to the boxed set if you don't already have it. I especially like 'Dies Natalis':

[Traverso]

Handel


Alexander's Feast


 

[Operafreak]

Handel: Joshua, HWV 64- Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann

[vandermolen]

Alexander Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3

[Florestan]

Disc 3, the highlights of which are a half-an-hour-long Fantasie in C minor MVW U 41 (1823), a 12-minute-long Capriccio in E flat minor MVW U 43 (1824) and a quirky Waltz in D major MVW U 39 (1822) --- all very impressive works for a kid of 13. Mendelssohn might have indeed been the greatest musical prodigy who ever lived bar none and pace Mozart.