What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Well, what can I say? A superb blend of historical authenticity, technical finesse and top-tier audiophile engineering. Played through a proper sound system, the recording breathes and sings most naturally.

AMEN BROTHER

[Florestan]

Reached Op. 14. My favorite of the pair is No. 2.

[hopefullytrusting]

Schubert Symphonies 4, 5, 6, & 8 (de Vriend conducting the Residentie Orkest The Hague)

All quite lovely, but nothing that really stuck out.

Up next: Shostakovich's Symphonies 2 and 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPxm-uAkKLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOferri_0o

[Cato]

Otto Klemperer and The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra:

[hopefullytrusting]

All quite lovely, but nothing that really stuck out.

Up next: Shostakovich's Symphonies 2 and 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPxm-uAkKLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOferri_0o

As expected, I liked both, but they both suffered from the same thing - they petered off. I liked 3 more, as it sounded like a fist fight, but i sort of wish that was the case for the entire symphony (this is a marathon percussionists!).

I also love, as I mentioned prior - that Shostakovich has a masterly understanding of the orchestral hieirarchy:

1. Low Brass
2. Percussion
3. High Brass.
4. Woodwinds
5. Strings

[AnotherSpin]

[DavidW]

[Linz]

Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat
La Vida Breve
El Amor Brujo
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Ronande, Ernest Ansermet

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite & 2 Portraits.  Eugene Ormandy · The Philadelphia Orchestra.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minot, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak
Mozarteum Orchester, Ivior Bolton

[Irons]

Schubert: The Trout Quintet.

Clifford Curzon with Willi Boskovsky (violin) Gunther Breitenbach (viola) Nikolaus Hubner (cello) and Johann Krump (double-bass).

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pizzetti: La Pisanella.

[Brian]

All Czech with a tinge of Hungarian... 

Fear not! Due to time constraints I had to omit the Bartok and preserve the all-Czech nature of the day. 

[hopefullytrusting]

It's amazing what you can come across when not looking: Johnson's Harlem Symphony with Eddins and the New World Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6yiSxb79I

Johnson is James P. Johnson one of the most important musicians ever (historically, for anyone who enjoys jazz).

[Linz]

Dietrich Buxtehude Complete Organ Music, CD4
Simone Stella

[Symphonic Addict]

Petrassi: Concertos for orchestra 4 and 5

The 4th is for string orchestra and it didn't make an important impression. The 5th was fantastic, propulsive, hooking one's attention.

[Symphonic Addict]

Superb.

[JBS]

Bach: Clavierübung Chorales etc.
(Complete Organ Works 9)

Christopher Herrick

I got one volume of Herrick's Bach--the Neuminster chorales--just when Hyperion was selling off their remaining stock of his recordings.
He also did two series--Organ Fireworks and Organ Dreams--if you're in the mood for non-Baroque organ music.

[Symphonic Addict]

Widor: Cello Sonata in A major

Another winning Widor work.

[AnotherSpin]

A recent post by a fellow forum member gave me the idea of hosting a miniature Bayreuth of my own here in our house by the sea. I'm planning to immerse myself in recordings of the Ring cycle from the postwar era, that golden interval when magnificent Wagnerian voices still held sway, and recording technology had just come of age to capture complete performances respectably.

On a proper audio setup, these performances sound uncannily lifelike. One could almost swear the Valkyries were about to charge through the room.

I'm starting with Moralt. Rheingold from that set is on the programme today.