What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Daverz]

Episode at a Masquerade, in a performance of opulence and splendor. I really love the combination of the Warsaw Philharmonic and Antoni Wit. Long may they record! (Can they do the Strauss tone poems? Pretty please?)

Looks like Wit's Strauss recordings are all with the Staatskapelle Weimar.

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas & String Quintets

Good morning - some chamber music by LvB to start the day.

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Listening to Ravel's "La Valse" right now. What a sumptuous performance. Martinon was such a sympathetic Debussy and Ravel conductor.

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Listening to The Miraculous Mandarin right now. What a sensational ballet! Chailly smoked this performance.

[Gurn Blanston]

Hindemith - Complete Works for Viola
Volume 3: Works with Orchestra



This has been an enjoyable set, gives one a new respect for the potential of a viola to do more than burn longer than a violin...



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Now playing:
BBC Scottish SO / Atherton  Lawrence Power (Viola) - Hindemith WoO Concerto for Viola 'Der Schwanendreher' 2nd mvmt - 'Nun laube, Lindlein, laube'

[kishnevi]

Not at all, I like a classical approach (Levinas, Buchbinder, Franck among others), but Goode seems to me rather bland and lacking in spirit.
This is only my opinion, BTW. I know that he is much appreciated in wide circles.

Does anyone have an opinion about Goode's recording of the Piano Concertos?  I've been hemming and hawing over that one for at least two years.

Thread duty: Beethoven Piano Sonatas  8, 14, 21, 23  Wilhelm Kempff
from the 1965 recordings--one of those apparently obligatory "let get the famous ones with names on a highlight CD" CDs.

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Sizzling performance of The Planets.

[listener]

prepping to hear live tomorrow
BARBER  Violin Concerto
I won't bother looking for the Bruckner 6th, listening to Bruckner is like watching someone knit a scarf.
also heard on the CD HANSON Symphony 2, "Romantic"
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[val]

J S BACH:          Motets                      / Bach Collegium Japan, Mazaaki Suzuki  (2009)

A very beautiful CD. I don't remember having heard such a beautiful version of "Jesu, meine Freude". Perhaps the best recording ever made by Suzuki, superior to his Cantatas.

[Harry]

Sonate, battaglie & lamento.
Chamber music from the collection of the Olmutz Bishop Karl von Liechtenstein-Castelcorn.

Composers on this disc: Johann Caspar Kerll, Alessandro Poglietti, Philipp Jacob Rittler, Johann Fischer, Antonio Bertali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, .

Played by : Ensemble CordArte.

A extremely fine disc, well played and performed on authentic instruments. Many unknown composers to me, sometimes I have some works of them in my collection, so this is a welcome addition.


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[Harry]

Emil Reesen.
Orchestral Works.

Gronlandsk Folketone
Polkina fra Gudindernes strid.
Trianon, suite gammel stil.
Variationer over et tema af Fr. Schubert.
Agnethe og Havmanden.
Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag.
Gaucho suite.
Himmerland.
Festmarch.

Aalborg SO, Bo Holten.

Love the music, meandering, at times colourful like in the Gaucho Suite. Again the music is soft spoken most of time and quite melodious.


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[Sergeant Rock]

Franz Schmidt Symphony #3 A major, Ludovit Rajter conducting the Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra





Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Haven't listened to Jochum's Dresden Bruckner in quite a while. Listening to the Eighth now:




Sarge

[Philoctetes]

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Really, not all that interesting, sadly.

[Harry]

Johann Baptist Vanhal.
Concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra in D major.

Johann Matthias Sperger.
Concerto for Double Baa & Orchestra in D major.

You don't hear this too often, they delight and are played with panache. Not  shattering works, but interesting nevertheless.
Nicely played and recorded.


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[The Diner]

Brahms > Lupu

[PaulR]

Johann Baptist Vanhal.
Concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra in D major.

Johann Matthias Sperger.
Concerto for Double Baa & Orchestra in D major.

You don't here this too often, they delight and are played with panache. Not  shattering works, but interesting nevertheless.
Nicely played and recorded.

I am only familar with Ed Barker's version of the Vanhal, but the Vanhal is a nice piece.  It's not, as you said, a shattering work.  But it is probably one of the best concerti in the standard bass rep.  At least it's fun to play!

I should check out that CD for the Sperger.  Never heard or played anything by Sperger.

[Sergeant Rock]

Furtwängler conducting Bruckner Symphony #8 in Vienna,  1944




Sarge

[Brahmsian]

Bruckner

Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Jochum
Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI Classics

[abidoful]

Franz Schmidt Symphony #3 A major, Ludovit Rajter conducting the Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra





Sarge

What is his music like?