What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Le sacre du printemps
LSO
Robt Craft

Whether it's IMPORTANT or not . . . I'm listening to it.  I've always liked it.  I've often found it startlingly illuminative.

[ChamberNut]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54

WDR Sinfornieorchester
Rudolf Barshai

Brilliant Classics

[Lilas Pastia]

Yet another listen to the 1955 Decca Zauberflöte. So perfect its simplicity, and so simple in its perfection ... It just doesn't get the attention it deserves. especially at budget price .

[Que]

Q

[The new erato]

A great disc of some very fun and colorful music. If you like Ravels Daphnis & Chloe, Tchaikovskys ballets and Kodalys Harry Janos suite, this strikes me as some kind of crossing of all these, as improbable as it sounds!

[mozartsneighbor]

[springrite]

Strauss: Salome (Nilsson, Solti)


(No, that's not the CD cover nor a photo of Nilsson, but I like the photo. It does bring to mind what Salome might look like at the end of the seven veils.).

[Harry]

This one again, which I regard personally one of the best recordings to date, with these works. Well recorded and ultimately ravishing to undergo. Grab it, its worth every penny.
In the player the second disc with the Suites III, in D minor & IV in D major.

[karlhenning]

(No, that's not the CD cover nor a photo of Nilsson, but I like the photo. It does bring to mind what Salome might look like at the end of the seven veils.).

Must be an illustration for Ovid.

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54

WDR Sinfornieorchester
Rudolf Barshai

How do you like it, Ray?

For me, now:

Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Opus 63
Wiener Philharmoniker
Maazel

[SonicMan46]

This one again, which I regard personally one of the best recordings to date, with these works.......

Re:  Elizabeth Farr on harpsichord!

Harry - I'm really impressed w/ Elizabeth Farr; purchased the 3-CD Naxos set earlier in the year and her playing & the sound recording 'blew me over'!  Five 5* Ratings on Amazon, including an excellent review by Scott M.; assume her playing is superb on the recording you showed above? - not familiar w/ that composer, but will check a bio!  Dave 

For me, another listening to the absolutely delightful early Papa Haydn Symphonies - 

 

[ChamberNut]

How do you like it, Ray?

Shostakovich # 6?  Excellent!     That torrential first movement, it's fantastic!

[Haffner]

Earlier, great Sunday fodder:

Parsifal (Jerusalem/Bayreuth dvd)

Act II 

Leif Roar is an often compelling Klingsor.

[Harry]

Harry - I'm really impressed w/ Elizabeth Farr; purchased the 3-CD Naxos set earlier in the year and her playing & the sound recording 'blew me over'!  Five 5* Ratings on Amazon, including an excellent review by Scott M.; assume her playing is superb on the recording you showed above? - not familiar w/ that composer, but will check a bio!  Dave 

For me, another listening to the absolutely delightful early Papa Haydn Symphonies - 

 

Her playing is sensational, as is the recording!

[The new erato]

Roar is an often compelling Klingsor.

Didn't think Roaring was required?

[Harry]

Max Reger.

Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello, & Piano, opus 113.
Serenade for Flute, Violin, & Viola, opus 141a.
Claudius Tanski, Piano.
Mannheimer Streichquartett.
MDG recording 1996.

In my ongoing survey of Reger's work I landed with the opus 113 & 141a, both works most excellent, so Reger.
It is not happy music, Reger's work rarely is, but if you take the trouble to listen to these perfect performances you might find just enough to make you hear what a good composer he was, a true successor to Brahms, and as deadly depressive as Petterson. So that's a great compliment.

[karlhenning]

Alan Rawsthorne
Concerto for Ten Instruments

[karlhenning]

Alan Rawsthorne
Quintet for cl/hn/vn/vc/pf (1970)
The Fibonacci Sequence

[rubio]

The Gershwin and Ravel piano concertos from the BBC cover CD. I really like these jazz-inspired concertos, but I see I don't have the Gershwin in my collection. Is the Earl Wild a top choice?

 

[karlhenning]

The Gershwin and Ravel piano concertos from the BBC cover CD. I really like these jazz-inspired concertos, but I see I don't have the Gershwin in my collection. Is the Earl Wild a top choice?

Can't answer to the Wild;  I do like the MTT recording.