What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[PaulR]

Is this a permanent move or something? Your smiley is less than smiley...or am I reading too much into it?

Temporary, for grad school.  I am just nervous about the entrance exams, music history and theory.....Been studying for the last couple weeks, and have 3 more.....I'm just starting to get anxious lol

Anyways....

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[Sadko]

An interesting effect of this forum/thread is the permanent invitation to re-listen to some discs.
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Now I am listening to another old favorite, recalled in past days by Sadko: John McCabe playing Haydn. Just perfect in these ears, even played on a modern instrument:

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Which in turn reminds me to go on with

disc 7

[kishnevi]

Giving this a first listen; it was part of the stuff that came at the end of last week


Still on CD 1 (Sonatas 1-4).  So far nothing bad to say about it, but there's a certain indefinable something that I got from Faust/Melnikov that I haven't heard yet from this duo.  And the Stern/Istomin performance that's part of the Stern plays Beethoven box is yet unheard, so it's far too early to declare a winner

[PaulR]

Symphony #3

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, which just arrived from Presto earlier today for a first listen ...

[not edward]

The 4th and 5th concertos from this:

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Perhaps not quite as good as I was hoping; there's a sense in which the outer movements of both concerti perhaps contain too much passagework and not enough music. The slow movements are certainly the heart of both works, the 4th most expressive in a conventional way; the 5th combining lyricism with disorienting fourth-based harmonies in a manner that very much looks forward to Bacewicz's more modernist future.

[TheGSMoeller]

Good evening, everyone...



The first movement alone is worth the price of admission on this one, in fact, I think I'll open a beer and continue with the remaining three.

[DavidRoss]

Good evening, everyone...



The first movement alone is worth the price of admission on this one, in fact, I think I'll open a beer and continue with the remaining three.

Hard to go wrong with Herbie and Tony. 

After hearing Abbado's BP Mahler 6 yesterday, I still have a hankering for somewhat meatier fare:

Michael Gielen, Mahler 6, w/ the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg.  We are spoiled for choices these days. 

[Que]

Delving deeper into the organ tradition of the French Baroque with Nicolas Lebègue, who was a student of Chambonnières and built upon the legacy of Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, who died six years before the publication of this Premier Livre d'orgue in 1667.

Jean-Patrice Brosse plays the organ of the Cathédrale de Saint-Bertrand de Comminges.

Q

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to one of my favorite classical works of all time Billy the Kid. I would say overall that this is a good performance, but I think as far as my personal favorites go that I prefer MTT's, Morton Gould's, and Copland's own performance of Billy the Kid to Lenny's. Appalachian Spring and Rodeo are wonderfully performed though.

[mc ukrneal]

Now:

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Listening to one of my favorite classical works of all time Billy the Kid. I would say overall that this is a good performance, but I think as far as my personal favorites go that I prefer MTT's, Morton Gould's, and Copland's own performance of Billy the Kid to Lenny's. Appalachian Spring and Rodeo are wonderfully performed though.

That's interesting. I am just the opposite - I much prefer Lenny's Billy the Kid to MTTs (the only other I have), but feel both are pretty good with Rodeo too.

[Mirror Image]

That's interesting. I am just the opposite - I much prefer Lenny's Billy the Kid to MTTs (the only other I have), but feel both are pretty good with Rodeo too.

Yeah, Lenny's performance just didn't hit me in all the right places. Gould's really made me perk up when I first heard it. I'm still in awe over that performance. Here is that Gould disc:

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[mc ukrneal]

Now listening to this very nice double from the Czerny Piano Sonata series on Nimbus:
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Highly enjoyable!

EDIT: And I see the 3rd volume has come out! Yippee!

[Florestan]

[Conor71]

Liszt: Piano Works


Just making a second listen through this newly arrived Disc as it's rather lovely! 


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[Mn Dave]

Bach lute suites - John Williams

(on Spotify)

[Mn Dave]

William Walton

Piano quartet/string quartet

Maggini quartet/Donohoe

[Spotify]

[Antoine Marchand]

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor ('Death and the Maiden'), D. 810
String Quartet No. 2 in C major (fragment), D. 32

Verdi Quartett
Hänssler

Deeply felt, although not overstated interpretation of Death and the Maiden.

[Mn Dave]

James Ehnes - Romantic Pieces

[Spotify]

[Tamsin]

Faure: Complete Nocturnes
David Jalbert

Just checking out unfamiliar works (to me) on Spotify.
I'm just a newbie, so for what it's worth I'm liking it