What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Exceptional Paganini Rhapsody in top-notch sound. This whole twofer is a peach of a sleeper. 

[Karl Henning]

Exceptional Paganini Rhapsody in top-notch sound. This whole twofer is a peach of a sleeper. 

Nice! I've also been revisiting:

[Spotted Horses]

Rachmaninoff, Etudes-Tableaux, Ruth Laredo



Continuing my exploration of this set from Laredo, The Etudes-Tableaux are delightful character pieces and Laredo's performances are superb, as usual.

[Karl Henning]

Vagn Holmboe
String Quartet № 1, Op. 46 / M. 159 (1948-49)
Kontra Quartet

As it happened, I listen to this just on the heels of "Papa's" 50^th Symphony. In contrast both to Haydn and to the earlier Symphony and Chamber Concerto N^os. 1, the opening Affettuoso has quite a Bartókian sinuosity. Very strong.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Nice! I've also been revisiting:

That cover made me ponder (of La Reine)...thinking of the mother telling her child, "Come on.  Get off the throne and now!  The Snow Queen could be back--soon--and will not be pleased to see you sitting on her throne!"

PD

[Todd]

[Glass FX]

NP:

Walton
String Quartet in A minor
Gabrieli String Quartet

[Brian]

Morning playlist while working:

from the Saint-Saens edition on Warner, the symphonic poems, including "La Foi" (with Dervaux for the famous ones and Plasson for La Foi)

then this



Visions fugitives (arr. Barshai)
Scriabin Preludes Op 11 (arr. Kaipainen)
Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky (arr. by the composer from String Quartet No. 2)
Tchaikovsky Elegy

[Karl Henning]

As it happened, I listen to this just on the heels of "Papa's" 50^th Symphony. In contrast both to Haydn and to the earlier Symphony and Chamber Concerto N^os. 1, the opening Affettuoso has quite a Bartókian sinuosity. Very strong.

And to reinforce the Bartók connection, the second movement appears to be an arch form: Adagio–Andante–Presto–Andante–Adagio.

[Brian]

Morning playlist while working:

from the Saint-Saens edition on Warner, the symphonic poems, including "La Foi" (with Dervaux for the famous ones and Plasson for La Foi)

then this



Visions fugitives (arr. Barshai)
Scriabin Preludes Op 11 (arr. Kaipainen)
Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky (arr. by the composer from String Quartet No. 2)
Tchaikovsky Elegy

For anyone else who owns a physical copy of that BIS album, the second guy from the left is blinking in the ecopak's group photo of the Ostrobothnian players.

[Karl Henning]

Vagn Holmboe
Symphony № 2, Op. 15 / M. 107 (1938-9)
Chamber Concerto № 2, Op. 20 / M. 120 (1940)
String Quartet № 2, Op. 47 / M. 161 (1949)

[DavidW]

I really like cd 1 of this set:

[Spotted Horses]

I really like cd 1 of this set:

Based on 15 second listening to the first track, that is amazing!

[Symphonic Addict]

I've only listened to it once so far but found it very absorbing to follow the lyrics with a translation and let it stimulate my imagination, like experiencing someone else's dream .

Reading the libretto helps to enjoy better an opera, certainly. In my case I don't do it. Given my temperament and personality, I want to feel certain intensity when listening to music (hence why I LOVE Nielsen's music, for instance), something that Debussy's music lacks (not always, but often it does).

[Karl Henning]

h/t to @Pohjolas Daughter 

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[brewski]

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 1 (Zemlinsky Quartet). At my request, an acquaintance sent me his doctoral thesis on the 14 string quartets, so I'm going to listen to those that I don't know that well, and dip into his comments. Like many people, I've heard No. 12 (the "American") more than the others, so I want to remedy that.

So far, No. 1 is as charming as any of them.

-Bruce

[Bachtoven]

I finished this set today. For someone who wasn't originally attracted to Faure's music, Debargue certainly plays him well.

[vandermolen]

Sibelius: Kullervo Symphony
Danish NRSO/Segerstam

[Symphonic Addict]

Yet another first listen ever to a very famous opera and I saw myself enjoying it immensely, much more than the Debussy. Great music, nothing but good humor and wit.