What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mozartsneighbor]

[karlhenning]

Alan Rawsthorne
Suite for fl/va/hp (1968)
The Fibonacci Sequence

Instrumentation taken from Debussy's justifiably famous masterpiece, of course.

[Kullervo]

First listen: RVW - Symphonies 8 and 9 (Haitink/London Phil)
Diamond - Night Music for accordion and SQ, SQs 4 and 7 (Potomac SQ)

[The new erato]

Quartet 3 & 4

[karlhenning]

More first-time listening for me, as well:

Jan Václav Voříšek
Impromptus (6) for Piano, Opus 7
Radoslav Kvapil

A delightful misprint on the disc titles these Impomptus.

[hautbois]

Stunning 39...wow...such detail in every bar, enough said! Listen to it!

Intense is the only word that i can use to describe this performance of the Rite...slightly weak Nightingale, but how often do we get a complete recording of it? Well worth the buy!

Thouroughly enjoyable!

Howard

[Que]

Q

[karlhenning]

Intense is the only word that i can use to describe this performance of the Rite...slightly weak Nightingale, but how often do we get a complete recording of it? Well worth the buy!

Oh, quite a fine Nightingale, I thought.  I went ahead and bought this Naxos reissue, even though I already had this recording of Le sacre on the original Koch release;  it is indeed brilliant!

[karlhenning]

Oh, quite a fine Nightingale, I thought.  I went ahead and bought this Naxos reissue, even though I already had this recording of Le sacre on the original Koch release;  it is indeed brilliant!

Well, and I mean to say:

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.

[karlhenning]

Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony
Royal Liverpool Phil
Handley

[bhodges]

The Ricardo Viñes Collection: Works by Aubert, Ducasse, Woollett, d'Indy and Février (David Korevaar, piano) - Interesting assortment of works by lesser-known French composers, collected and premiered by pianist Ricardo Viñes in the early 1900s. 

--Bruce

[Brian]

I'm currently listening to a performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto which is sold for $3 on the Amadis label - Naxos' ultra-budget imprint for recordings they didn't want to sell under the Naxos name. The Moscow Symphony Orchestra is led by a conductor I've never heard of and a pianist I've never heard of.

So I am frankly startled, not to say overwhelmed, by just how good this performance is. Unlike many early Naxos recordings it features terrifically clear sound quality, and the pianist is doing a simply marvelous job. It's terrific!

[Peregrine]

Quartet 3 & 4

Has been sat in my Amazon basket for far too long, must purchase...

I'm listening to:

[ChamberNut]

Wagner

Siegfried - Act II

James Levine
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DG


Fafner!

[PaulR]

Sibelius:  Symphony #6 in D Minor Maazel/WPO

First time listening to this...off to a good start

[Ric]

A Faust Symphony: 1. Faust (29'41)

Really fantastic performance. He was so great conductor. His style is eternal.

[ezodisy]

Chopin Preludes - Pletnev

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 10
CSO
Lenny

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Opus 60 Leningrad
CSO
Lenny

[PaulR]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 10
CSO
Lenny

Don't think I really listened to that part of the recording.....usually just play that 7th......It's probably time to listen to it.....it's now on my checklist  But now:

Stravinsky:  The Rite of Spring Abbado/LSO

part of my never ending quest (which hopefully will end someday) to like Stravinsky