What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Valses Poéticos

This is an underrated yet utterly charming work. I'm also quite fond of his Cartas de amor (Love Letters). There's much more to Granados than Goyescas, just as there's much more to Albeniz than Iberia.

[Traverso]

This is an underrated yet utterly charming work. I'm also quite fond of his Cartas de amor (Love Letters). There's much more to Granados than Goyescas, just as there's much more to Albeniz than Iberia.

Like a virtuous woman, hidden, except from those who notice her hidden treasures amidst all the clatter of gold. 

[Florestan]

Like a virtuous woman, hidden, except from those who notice her hidden treasures amidst all the clatter of gold. 

Well, from what I've read Granados might have been a reluctant womanizer, what with all his female pupils adoring him and his love of wife and children. He might have had a few affairs, more or less Platonic, yet he drowned attempting to save his wife's life, he who was always afraid of water. The bitter, sad irony is that had they stayed on SS Sussex instead of taking to the life boats, they'd have both survived. Probably the most tragic and absurd death in the whole history of classical music.

[DavidW]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version with some Modifications by Bruckner. Ed. Albert Gutmann
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Eugen Jochum

[Florestan]

Between these two, Beethoven's five & Brahms's two, the crème de la crème of cello sonatas. 

[DavidW]

Between these two, Beethoven's five & Brahms's two, the crème de la crème of cello sonatas. 

Don't forget Faure!

[Florestan]

Don't forget Faure!

Drat!

[Brian]

And Prokofiev!

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Revisiting (in my opinion) one of the all-time great fortepiano recitals.



Dussek: Sonata in F sharp minor, elegie harmonique
Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33
Beethoven: Sonata No. 32, Op. 111
Mendelssohn: Variations serieuses

1812 piano (first two works), 1826 piano (second two works)

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies Vol. 5 CD 3
Symphony No.59 in A major 'Feuersymphonie'
Symphony No.65 in A major
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Mister Sharpe]

I've listened to Franck's Prière so often and with such affection that it's come to have the feel of pop music to me, like a song the DJ plays ad infinitum but you don't mind because you love it so much. That diminished 7th chord that ends the first section is catnip to me.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
String Quartet No.2

Escher Quartet

[Linz]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Piano Trio No.2 in F Major, Op.22
Piano Trio No.5 in E Major, Op.83
Piano Trio No.6 in E Flat Major, Op.93
Voces Intimae

[JBS]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak
The Symphony Orchestra of the Saratov Opera and Ballet., Yuri Kochnev

[Madiel]

After a night of lousy sleep, I'm waking myself up with another shot at Vivaldi motets.



And I'm actually finding I like Laura Polverelli a bit better on a second hearing. For one thing, the first track on this album is full of insane vocal runs, and pulling them off with any kind of accuracy takes some doing.

[Madiel]

This does rather remind me to get back, eventually, to my quest to explore Queyras / Melnikov / Faust albums.

[Mandryka]

Sylvano Bussotti's Le semi di Gramsci, symphonic poem for string quartet and orchestra. Quartetto Italiano, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Bruno Maderna (cond.).

Wow!!!!! Wonderful!!!

I'm going to have to listen to this - I have two Arditti recordings of "Quartet Gramsci." I don't think Maderna or anyone else has made a commercial recording of the whole thing with orchestra.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

William Walton - Cello Concerto (played by a viola).

[Linz]

Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
Dresdner Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling