What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[George]

Collard playing Ravel

His Faure is excellent! Avail in a cheap Brilliant box too.

[dtwilbanks]

His Faure is excellent! Avail in a cheap Brilliant box too.

But I'm listening to his Ravel 

[George]

But I'm listening to his Ravel 

Haven't heard his Ravel, what do you make of it?

[PaulR]

Tubin: Bass Concerto Hakan Ehren/Jaarvi/Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra

With each listening, I love this more and more.  It truly is a wonderful piece.   I can't wait till my set of symphonies come!

[SonicMan46]

Robert Schumann.  Symphony No, 1 & 2.  Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/David Zinman

Harry - good morn (at least from my side of the Atlantic!) - 

I've had that Schumann Symphony set w/ Zinman for a while too (also own Gardiner, and have no need to look further) - great review by Scott Morrison, which helped me make a purchase decision.

Anton Rubinstein - quite interested in the set you show above; I have the 2-CD Solo Piano Music - Howard on Hyperion (contains none of the sonatas, so would be a nice complement) - thanks for posting.

For me, re-listening to the Kiel & Ebyler that was shown a couple pages back in the thread - 

 

[Florestan]

Beethoven

Geister-Trio, op. 70

Beaux-Arts Trio

Live broadcasting from Athenee Concert Hall, Bucharest.

[Que]

Symphony no. 6
Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä

Q

[Hector]

Catching up on some English music I haven't heard in a while:

                                                                                 Simpson's Symphony No. 2/Handley/Hyperion.
                                                                                 Holst: Somerset Suite and Hammersmith/Lloyd-Jones/Naxos.
                                                                                 Holst: Moorside Suite/Braithwaite/Lyrita.

[dtwilbanks]

Various pianists/Various composers

...on iPod shuffle setting...

[Florestan]

Schubert

Piano Trio D 929

Beaux-Arts Trio

Live broadcasting.

[Scriptavolant]

Partita No. 4 in D major

[BachQ]

K 364 (orpheus)
k 365 (bronfman)

[bhodges]

Tonight, the New York Philharmonic's opening night concert.  Some last-minute plans prevented me from committing to a ticket inside, so I'm going to wander around outside on the Lincoln Center plaza, where they're broadcasting the show on giant-screen TV.  (PBS is also showing it on TV, on Live From Lincoln Center.)  It's supposed to be a beautiful, clear night in New York so this could be a lot of fun.

New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, Conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Bring a sweater, Bruce!

[Lethevich]

Howard Hanson - Symphony no.6 (Schwarz, Seattle SO)

Very impressive, better than I remembered.

Symphony no. 6
Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä

Q

Excellent

[karlhenning]

The Sixth Symphony is certainly Essential Sibelius!

[not edward]

The Sixth Symphony is certainly Essential Sibelius!

I love the 6th to death, and my only quibble with it is this: how can the rest of the work top the first movement (particularly the crystaline beauty of its opening bars)?

I'm listening to bits'n'pieces of Ligeti right now. Gems, every one of them.

[ragman1970]

Howard Hanson - Symphony no.6 (Schwarz, Seattle SO)

Very impressive, better than I remembered.

Excellent

Better than excellent! Vänskä is great in Sibelius!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Harry]

Havergal Brian.


Symphony No. 3.

BBC SO/Lionel Friend.

After two helpings of the second Symphony, I decided to move on to the third, not really know what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. To begin with, the third is played by a orchestra that has far better knowledge how to tackle this composer, and much more insight into the difficult nature of Brians scoring. And a conductor that has a better understanding were the music should go, and keeps a tight grip on the proceedings, from beginning to end. Furthermore the recording that Tony Faulkner made in the Maida Vale in 1988, is in some ways superior to the Naxos recording with the second, in that it offers more detail, and the front to back balance is better. But what is missing is enough air around the instruments, and the whole orchestra at that. In that the Naxos is far better. Hyperion is a somewhat dryish sound, but otherwise excellent. It is afterall not easy to record 120 musicians, for so many are needed for this large symphony, plus two piano's no less.
It doesn't sound gigantic though, but oddly enough it keeps it lucidness and never sounds compressed in any way. The timpani have a nice reverb, and spreads round the orchestra in a impressive way.
The music is at one time chaotic structured but comes together as a unity ever so often. As a sound structure it is somewhat similar to the second. I enjoyed the frolicking third movement, quite cleverly done. It is a constant going and coming of dreamlike sequences, and hard hitting reality, and the combination makes me revel in the music. Easier to approach then as the second, and it really benefits when a good orchestra plays this, as good as the Moscow SO may be.

[FideLeo]