What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[longears]

It's really very good. If you like the cello, I say grab it.

Hve it--heard the Lalo on the radio one day and bought it that night. 

[johnQpublic]

The whole thing for the past two days at work.

[Harry]

Ernst Krenek.

SQ. No, 3, opus 20 & No. 7, opus 96.

Sonare Quartet

This is very much to my liking, hard and unforgiving music. You have to walk a mile to get it, but after that it will give you much more. Its tight, economically written, clear lines, clear goal, with utmost precision delivered at your door. The deepest misery, the most abject, the elated feelings, joy, love, exaltation, you will all find it in this abyss of compositional excellence. I am covered in it.
The recording is fitting, very direct it hits you in the face, and you feel like more.

[dtwilbanks]

For the first time ever.

[karlhenning]

Is that the BSO, dtw?  Does that performance employ the choral ending, or just orchestra?

[dtwilbanks]

Is that the BSO, dtw?  Does that performance employ the choral ending, or just orchestra?

Yes, and I don't know yet.

[Haffner]

For the first time ever.

My girl got this for me on vinyl, and I'm spinning it again after reading your post. Excellent!

[dtwilbanks]

My girl got this for me on vinyl, and I'm spinning it again after reading your post. Excellent!

It certainly is energetic.

[Harry]

Ernst Krenek.

SQ No. 5, opus 65.
SQ No. 8, opus 233.

Sonare Quartet.

No. 5 is devastatingly beautiful, and moved me to tears. Its high on my list of best SQ in my collection. Its a tale of past and present, a journey through heaven.
Krenek is fastly underestimated in my opinion. A man with the same tone pattern as Pettersson, and the same mood shifts. That why I am so attracted to him, and tumbling in his last SQ No.8, all gets confirmed.
The sound is beautiful, so natural, and with plenty of air around the instruments. Performance is absolute topnotch. These discs cost a bundle, but its worth it, and give pleasure for a lifetime and beyond.

[karlhenning]

Listening to MIDI realizations of a Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Joe Fear; very nice harmonies, and deliciously voiced chords.

[orbital]

Romantic minimalism  ... in other words music best employed by movies

[karlhenning]

Romantic minimalism  ... in other words music best employed by movies

Ouch!

[Que]

Q

[dtwilbanks]

Dr. Henning, indeed there is a choir at the end of the Faust.

[karlhenning]

Probably the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. I haven't heard the piece with the choral ending;  the Gianandrea Noseda/BBC Phil recording I have (and an excellent recording it is) employs the orchestral-finale edition.

[dtwilbanks]

weber overtures sawallisch

[Harry]

Franz Schubert..

Complete Dances, volume IV.

Michael Endres, Piano.

This man is a constant joy to hear, one of the best so far I heard in Schubert.
The Dances are delightfully played, and exquisite recorded.

[bhodges]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (Schwarz/Seattle)

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Yes, again:

Tippett
Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage

[dtwilbanks]