What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

I Labirinti di J.S. Bach - Triosonate
[BWV 1036, 1029, 1039 & 1079]
Rec. in Amsterdam during spring 1997
Thymallus

Mashiko Takahashi, flute (C. Schreiber 915)
Henk Rubingh, violin (Guarnieri del Gesù, Cremona, 1730)
Wim Straesser, cello (Lorenzo Ventapene, Naples, 1808)
Patrick Ayrton, harpsichord (Titus Crijnen after Rückers 1644)

Autumnal and bucolic performances of these extraordinary trio sonatas. Excellent recording and interpretations.

[Florestan]

Thats a wonderful recording Andrei!

Absolutely gorgeous! Believe me or not, I found myself dancing and playing an imaginary violin while listening.

Nice!

Quite so. Very moving especially in the second movement of 2nd PC, which is one of my favorites PC movements.

Thread duty:

[Harry]

Absolutely gorgeous! Believe me or not, I found myself dancing and playing an imaginary violin while listening.

I know, I have the recording myself . But now I know that you have the same reaction to it.

[Harry]

Sofia Vicoveanca.
Popular Romanian Folk Music.

A mixed blessing. The voice a dark Mezzo is nice, but some of the songs are tacky, and sometimes I believe to be in the Yodel country Switzerland, but most of the songs are really good, like "Spune mi, spune mi mama, and I mean in the instrumental part. Gorgeous, stunning even. La crasma cu poloboace has a infectious rhythm, that has me almost dancing.   

[Scarpia]

Absolutely gorgeous! Believe me or not, I found myself dancing and playing an imaginary violin while listening.

Youtube please.

[Florestan]

Youtube please.

[George]

Prokofiev
Symphonies 1 and 2
Rozhdestvensky/USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Melodiya

Got this last night and it's great! 

[Drasko]

Courtesy of Novi 

[karlhenning]

First listen some more again!

From Disc 12:

Britten
Cello Suite № 1 in G, Opus 72
Cello Suite № 2 in D, Opus 80
Truls Mørk

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

I was in St Petersburg when I read a substantial Britten bio, and these pieces have loomed large in my To-Listen-To list ever since.  It's always good when, on actually listening to the music, it's every bit as good as anticipation might wish.

[Franco]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125
George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra

[George]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125
George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra

I can smell what Franco is cookin' 

[Harry]

Nikolai Miaskovsky.
Complete Symphonies.
CD 9.
Symphony No 24, opus 63.
State SO of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Svetlanov.

I love this Symphony.

[Florestan]

Discovery of the year! 

[Harry]

Nikolai Miaskovsky.
Complete Symphonies.
CD 9.
Symphony no. 27, opus 85.
State SO of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Svetlanov.

After many months coming back to this box, it feels like a new discovery, and away is this feeling of sameness. No. 27 is actually very beautiful with more than a hint towards Rachmaninoff.
This guy was a genius.

[Harry]

Giuseppe Valentini
Concerti Grossi & quattro Violini, opus 7.
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini.

A release from ZigZag records that does the label proud. Magnificently played and performed, it emits a joyful mood.
I cannot imagine a better interpretation as this one. Fine sound too.

[George]

Prokofiev
Hamlet
Rozhdestvensky/USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Melodiya

A delight! 

[Wanderer]

[karlhenning]

Again!

Cage
In a Landscape (1948)
Perpetual Tango (1984)
Steffen Scheiermacher, pf

John Cage – Complete Piano Music, Vol. VIII, Hommage à Satie

[Wanderer]

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Schumann: Waldszenen op.92
Liszt: Dante-Sonate
Scriabin: Sonata No.7

[karlhenning]

First listen (this recording)!

From Disc 12:

Britten
Cello Suite № 3, Opus 87
Truls Mørk

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs