What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.6 (Stokowski); 4 & Tallis fantasia (Mitropolous) (NYPO, Retrospective Records)

Not sure about this yet. Somehow, hearing non-British composers in these works is less... earth-shattering in result than I had expected

Ludvig Irgens Jensen - Japanischer Früling (Simax)


I dig these pieces so much.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Requiem

[bhodges]

Ludvig Irgens Jensen - Japanischer Früling (Simax)


I dig these pieces so much.

I found your earlier description--most interesting, and makes me want to check this out.  Thanks, never heard of this guy.

--Bruce

[Lethevich]

I found your earlier description--most interesting, and makes me want to check this out.  Thanks, never heard of this guy.

It's a shame that it's so expensive on Amazon US - it's still £1.85 new on Amazon UK, along with many other interesting Simax discs.

[wintersway]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Fantastic disc. Fantastic series 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Chopin PC #1

[bhodges]

It's a shame that it's so expensive on Amazon US - it's still £1.85 new on Amazon UK, along with many other interesting Simax discs.

I will look for it at Academy here, my favorite credit card drainage service.    PS, I love Simax, which I discovered with Mariss Jansons and Oslo in this live recording, which is great.

--Bruce

[Kullervo]

Reger's clarinet quintet is lovely! I haven't heard the Hindemith though.

[Papy Oli]

Salve Intemerata (Motet)

one of my favorite choral piece 

[Mark]

Giving this one another try, as I have not been impressed with Tintner's Bruckner cycle thus far.  Perhaps upon reconsideration, it will "click" for me.  

This has to be one of the 'downlights' (as opposed to 'highlights') of Tintner's cycle, IMO. I loved his Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 9, but his No. 4 didn't move me.

[gmstudio]

Beethoven & Verdi: String Quartets
arr for String Orchestra by Mitropoulos & Toscanini

Vienna Phil/Previn




My first time hearing quartets of any sort arranged for string orchestra.  I'm really, really enjoying it.  Would love to hear more like this.

[Lethevich]

Salve Intemerata (Motet)

one of my favorite choral piece 

That's a phenomenally recorded release, the title piece sounds amazingly clear versus the Hyperion disc I have including it. I previously preferred the slightly faster Taverner Consort recording (Virgin) before hearing the Naxos, but this disc makes a great case for a slower performance.

[prémont]

Now playing: Pachelbel - Organ works vol.1 (Naxos)

The Ciacona in F minor is a marvel of atmosphere.

Yes, another brilliant example of Rübsam´s imaginative style.
Pachelbel with rhetoric style to great effect.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Vol.2. was not as immediately accessible as Vol.1. but still excellent and a disc that I'm sure will reveal more depth with further listens. 

[Mark]

Vol.2. was not as immediately accessible as Vol.1. but still excellent and a disc that I'm sure will reveal more depth with further listens. 

That was my feeling, too, when I heard this disc. Try his First Piano Concerto, Chris - it's much more accessible:

[not edward]

Vol.2. was not as immediately accessible as Vol.1. but still excellent and a disc that I'm sure will reveal more depth with further listens. 

I listened to both of these this afternoon for the first time in some years. I still feel the 3rd is the pick of the concertos, though the piano quintet is probably best of all.

I'm listening to some not-as-bad-as-it-might be pirate transfers of Furtwangler's Bruckner. The 8th is with the WP (Oct 17, 1944) and the 9th with the BP (Oct 7, 1944). I need to find the best transfers of these, as they're both remarkable performances.

[BachQ]

Handel, Concerti grossi op. 3 (Leipzig)
Brahms, Cello Sonatae
Quantz, Flute Concerti

[Keemun]

This has to be one of the 'downlights' (as opposed to 'highlights') of Tintner's cycle, IMO. I loved his Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 9, but his No. 4 didn't move me.

I got bored with it and couldn't finish it.   I'll have to check out the others you listed (I'm pretty sure I have most of them, but haven't listened to them in a while).  I did not care for No. 7 either.

[Mark]

I got bored with it and couldn't finish it.   I'll have to check out the others you listed (I'm pretty sure I have most of them, but haven't listened to them in a while).  I did not care for No. 7 either.

Try this Seventh, Keemun:



The critics seemed lukewarm in their responses to it, but I thought it was absolutely fantastic. I have many Sevenths on download (including this one), but I think I may buy the CD of this performance, so highly do I rate it.