What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Forgot to add that, last but not least, the sound simply blew me away as being impeccable: I have heard recent recordings whose stereophony was much, much worse.

Greetings to the garlic fields...   

[Karl Henning]

[Mapman]

Charles Ives
New England Holidays

Leonard Bernstein & NY Philharmonic

Ives: 4th of July (from the same CD)
Bernstein: NY Philharmonic

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Karl Böhm, Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester

[Lisztianwagner]

That looks like a good CD. Maybe I'll listen to the Holidays symphony later. I have the MTT/Chicago recording.

As a matter of fact, the Holidays Symphony suits too perfectly today. Yes, it certainly does, the Ives are absolutely thrilling, evocative recordings, I sometimes forget what a fine composer he was; also, Bernstein never disappoints with American composers.

[Florestan]

Greetings to the garlic fields... 

Hmmm... Hmmmm... Oh dear!

Much to my chagrin, Jan, I must perforce have to give Savall a big and erect middle finger for this travesty which I really didn't expect from him...

This is no Romanian/Moldavian music at all, my friend, it's Hungarian/Turkish music (or at least sang in Hungarian/Turkish) all the way.

If you want a genuine Romanian/Moldavian berceuse, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE2yA-r1vGA.

[Traverso]

Hmmm... Hmmmm... Oh dear!

Much to my chagrin, Jan, I must perforce have to give Savall a big and erect middle finger for this travesty which I really didn't expect from him...

This is no Romanian/Moldavian music at all, my friend, it's Hungarian/Turkish music (or at least sang in Hungarian/Turkish) all the way.

If you want a genuine Romanian/Moldavian berceuse, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE2yA-r1vGA.

 

H Andrei,this my Romenian music...



 

[Bachtoven]

[Florestan]

H Andrei,this my Romenian music...

I have heard the ensemble on the first CD and it is undoubtedly much more authentic music than Savall's travesty.

I do not know the second CD so I can't comment.

Anyway, here's some authentic Romanian folklore music:

[Traverso]

I have heard the ensemble on the first CD and it is undoubtedly much more authentic music than Savall's travesty.

I do not know the second CD so I can't comment.

Anyway, here's some authentic Romanian folklore music:

Thank you Andrei 

[Todd]

Petrenko's Mahler 6.  Good, not great.

[Iota]

Listened to this [Brautigam/LVB] set of sonatas from start to finish and I found it consistently brilliant.

That's good to hear. I've also now listened to the E minor Op.90, where the Graf sounded less strikingly right than in 'Les Adieux', but still good. I plan to listen more over the coming days to acclimatise myself to the fortepiano/LVB pairing, so will see how that goes.

Spun earlier:



Weinberg: Symphony No. 3
Gothenburg SO, Svedlund

Whatever I was expecting when I put this symphony on, it wasn't this. I've only ever heard a few of the quartets before, and had found them generally grey/bleak, even in their more energetic moments. This however was positively bucolic and light-hearted by comparison, even feeling a touch post-Dvorakian/Brahmsian at times. I enjoyed it. The slow movement's a beauty.

[JBS]

Final item of that Presto order now getting its turn.

Just starting off--the Veracini has trumpets and drums; so it's a bit more massive than the usual Venetian concerto.

[Linz]

Carl Neilsen Symphony no. 3 "Sinonia espansive", Maskarade - Overture, Alladin - Suite, San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt

[vandermolen]

Ives: 4th of July (from the same CD)
Bernstein: NY Philharmonic

Great choice!

[VonStupp]

Leonard Bernstein

Chichester Psalms
NYPO - Leonard Bernstein

Missa Brevis
Atlanta SO - Robert Shaw
VS

[vers la flamme]

Morton Feldman, text Samuel Beckett: Words & Music. Ensemble Recherche, w/ Omar Ebrahim & Stephen Lind

Super weird piece, I don't even know what genre I would assign to it, but for some reason it sounds amazing right now. I got this as part of a lot with two other Feldman CDs, knowing nothing about it.

[Florestan]

Thank you Andrei 

You're most welcome, Jan!

[vers la flamme]

Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett. Sylvain Cambreling, Klangforum Wien

Starts getting really interesting about 2/3 of the way in.

[Todd]

Today calls for at least one All-American recording.