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Now:

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Listening to Symphony No. 3 "Song of the Night". Absolutely gorgeous.

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After searching for a few years I finally found this marvelous set:

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I've been dipping into it in haphazard fashion and loving these works by a composer I generally feel is underrated.  These quartets are some of Milhaud's best writing, IMO.  It is unfortunate that this box has not been reissued, since AFAIK, it is the only collection of all of Milhaud's SQ and by a very good ensemble.  Sound is very good, as is usually the case with Naive recordings.

Being a Milhaud fan, I would definitely like find this set.

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Listened to the piano concerto from this beautiful release.

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Wonderful, but I challenge anyone to listen and say it's not weird.   

Considering what I have heard now, Schoenberg's music isn't all that strange to me. The Piano Concerto is actually a gorgeous work if one really studies it.

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Is it the original scoring, MI, or the big band arrangement?

Well in the liner notes, it says the work is played with "members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic," I'm assuming it's the original scoring? It sounded like a smaller ensemble.

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Now:

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Listening to Piano Concerto No. 2 right now. It's a year or so since I've listened to these concerti. I think the last set I listened to of these works were the Jarvi set on Chandos which I remember being excellent.

[Sadko]

Rodion Shchedrin: Chaika [The Seagull] (Lazarev):



I bought it as a replacement for a vinyl rip:



The old cover is a bit clumsy, but I like it better, I think it expresses the the emotional quality of the music very well.

[Sadko]

Now:

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Listening to Piano Concerto No. 2 right now. It's a year or so since I've listened to these concerti. I think the last set I listened to of these works were the Jarvi set on Chandos which I remember being excellent.

That's a nice set, I have an older release of it.

[Sadko]

And now:

Bach - Organ Works, Vol. 1 (Leonid Roizman)



Wonderful playing! I think this is my favourite organ disc.

[mahler10th]

Tell you what, I'm listening to Bruckner 5 in the very wee hours, this from Gunter Wand and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, and good God I've never heard it sound so much like a knuckle sweating somewhat reckless repentance for mankind.     The recording is not perfect, there are a few wee errors here and there, but no wonder considering the huge and uncompromising mix of fire and pathos Wand demands from the orchestra in this piece.  I think this may usurp my current favourite 5 by Horenstien.
It's as wild as hell and points everything in the right direction.

[listener]

Gunnar de FRUMERIE   Musica per nove (nonet, not new music) op. 75
     Concert Étude op.28/1: Puck       Piano Trio no. 2, op. 45
Musical Art Society, Stockholm
DEBUSSY:  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune;   Khamma,  Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, King Lear: Fanfare and Le Sommeil de Lear
French National Radio Orch.       Jean Martinon

[Que]

On this beautiful morning a first run of this 3-CD set with the complete organ music of Louis Couperin (1626-1661). Davitt Moroney plays the organ of the Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache, built by Jean Boizard in 1714.

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[Scarpia]

Goldberg Variations, Maggie Cole

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[AndyD.]

Beethoven "Hammerklavier" (Pollini)

This man knows the definition of "Hammerklavier"!

[karlhenning]

High time I revisited this one, really:

Martinů
Řecké pašije (The Greek Passion) H.372 (1957, 2^nd version 1959)

[Brahmsian]

Beethoven "Hammerklavier" (Pollini)

This man knows the definition of "Hammerklavier"!

I may just listen to this, by the power of influence.  It's Hammertime!!!! 

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD for a first listen ...

[AndyD.]

I may just listen to this, by the power of influence.  It's Hammertime!!!! 

"Can't Touch This"


Gearing up for a hot date with Act II of Tristan und Isolde (Bohm, Nilsson)

I'm so boring!

[DavidRoss]

http://www.youtube.com/v/otCpCn0l4Wo&feature=related

And then, Haitink/LPO RVW 5 ... so far I'm really liking this set.  Haitink is fully committed to revealing the emotional depth underlying the surface beauty of this music and the LPO plays its collective heart out.

[Brahmsian]

Beethoven

Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op.101
Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op.106 'Hammerklavier'

Barenboim
EMI Classics

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[SonicMan46]

Maione, Ascanio (c. 1579-1627) - Harpsichord Works, Bks. 1 & 2 w/ Francesco Tasini on 2 separate CDs - a little information of the Tactus website HERE - beautiful performances and sound recording from an earlier Italian keyboard performer & composer -