What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

I thought that I would listen to the Brian afterwards, but Cooke's soundworld has drawn me in again, and demanded that I listen to the concerto and suite from this disc:



His music is such a deliciously improbable combination of Hindemith and Walton - and it's good-natured, despite its drive and occasionally pointed edges. The concerto for string orchestra is marvellous and I will never forget the perfect first movement, dominated by an exceptional interplay with the wonderful main theme and quieter interludes for chamber-like groupings of the orchestra.

That was why I bought it last year.

[Lethevich]

The title implies an integral of some kind, but it's actually several suites of folk songs by different arrangers. It's all disarmingly beautiful.

[PaulR]

Although I am not a huge Bach (Or Baroque music in general), I enjoy this set.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set for a first listen ...

[jlaurson]

Straussian Ascent


R. Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Alpine Symphony
Christian Thielemann / WPh
DG

[Antoine Marchand]

CD1:

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Ochestra
Valery Gergiev (direction)
Rec. 3/30/1987

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto N°1
St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra
Bernard Soustrot (trumpet)
Vladimir Spivakov (direction)
12/26/1988

Electrifying... that's the word. This Kissin was a wild animal, a sort of young Mike Tyson. 

Great sound quality, although it's necessary to ignore a lot of people coughing, but... come on! that's Russia  (I mean that winter is not a joke). 

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived yesterday from across the pond for a first listen ...

[PaulR]

Prokofiev
Never really listened to the Prokofiev on this Disc.  That is changing now.

[Mirror Image]

The cello sonata is one of Bax's finest chamber works

I have not heard Bax's Cello Sonata, but my favorite chamber work by Bax is In Memoriam for con anglais, harp, and string quartet. This work just oozes beauty.

[kishnevi]

I'm getting pretty much nowhere with EMI matrix disc, so it's going to get shelved for few years, or till some other pianist. Dutilleux sonata does sound promissing but Ogdon's playing is just too aimless, shapeless, monotonous and monochrome for me to get anything but bored.

Dufay disc is just plain refusing to leave my player for weeks now, and sure ain't going to force it.

As alternates for two of the works on that CD, let me suggest



Which reminds me, both of them are overdue for a listen.  Perhaps tomorrow.

Thread duty (just finished) Vivaldi, La Cetra, Raglan Baroque Players, Nicholas Kraemer direction, Monica Huggett solo violin

[Lethevich]

@Mirror Image

That's a very fine work (confusingly he wrote at least three pieces with the title, including a poem).

To ward me through my cricket-ruined sleeping pattern:

[karlhenning]

Prokofiev
Never really listened to the Prokofiev on this Disc.  That is changing now.

Good heavens, never heard the g minor concerto?!

Well, and what do you think? : )

[Mirror Image]

@Mirror Image

That's a very fine work (confusingly he wrote at least three pieces with the title, including a poem).

I don't think I could hear this work any other way other than in its chamber format. I think it's perfect in this context.

[Mirror Image]

Now:





This is still my favorite recording of the Roman Trilogy. Muti and his Philadelphian forces plow through these orchestral showpieces with a decisiveness and a burning, raw intensity that I find hard to resist.

[PaulSC]

Good heavens, never heard the g minor concerto?!

Well, and what do you think? : )

Hmm, I took that to mean he's never heard the performance on that Vengerov/Rostropovich disc. Well, only Ring of Fire knows for sure.

I'm hooked on Heifetz/Münch (BSO).

[Harry]

From this box, CD V, with some very beautiful works on it.

[Brian]

A fine thing to wake up to!

[Que]

A new addition to my Early Music collection that I found 2nd hand in excellent conditon - fine after a new case and dusting off the disc! Saw it at insane prises at the internet...



Q

[The new erato]

To ward me through my cricket-ruined sleeping pattern:

You've got crickets in the bedroom? Yikes!

[Opus106]

You've got crickets in the bedroom? Yikes!

Or perhaps she's referring to The Ashes.