What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Karl Henning]

Clean-up in Aisle 12!

[Sergeant Rock]

Bax Symphony #2 in E minor and C major, Handley conducting the BBC Philharmonic




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Sarge, what do you say about that Fleischer/Szell Beethoven/Brahms reissue? Thanks!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge, what do you say about that Fleischer/Szell Beethoven/Brahms reissue? Thanks!

Definitive 

Sarge

[PaulR]

Good morning everyone!

Before I start getting ready to get to class:

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[jlaurson]

Before:



R. Strauss
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,
Divertimento op.86
Orpheus CO
DG
Time to really get that shape-shifting "Divertimento" a.k.a. "Schlagobers" a.k.a. "Dance Suite", a.k.a. Idontknowwhat nailed down. This is one among several recordings meant to do that for me.
Be even better if the first couple of tracks didn't skip and fuzz. Unfortunately bothersome enough to send it back. 

Now:



J.S. Bach
Goldberg Variations
F.Bonizzoni
Glossa Platinum
High praise from some quarters here - and available at a good price used/like new on Amazon. So far so interesting.

[Sergeant Rock]

Bax 2 again. This time Thomson and the LPO




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Harmoniemesse in B^b, Hob.XXII:14
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Jn Eliot Gardiner

[madaboutmahler]

Good morning everyone!

Before I start getting ready to get to class:

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Whenever I see Novak's name appear here in the listening thread, a smile is brought to my face.

[TheGSMoeller]

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Revisiting this remarkable piece.

[North Star]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 4
Horenstein & LPO, Margaret Price
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Chopin
Mazurkas
Vladimir Ashkenazy
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[Karl Henning]

A first listen!

“Papa”
Heiligmesse in B^b, Hob.XXII:10
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Jn Eliot Gardiner

[jlaurson]

Earlier:



G. Mahler
Symphony No.3
M.Stenz / Gürzenich Orchestra / M.Schuster
Oehms SACD
Oehms/Stenz Mahler cycle continues... on its way to challenge -- and perhaps trump -- the other extant SACD Mahler cycles. It started out with a superb Fifth, and has since continued on a very high, if uneventful level. Bit like Zinman, in that regard. Schuster is a wild beast of a singer -- a controversial (but riveting, I find) Lady Macbeth! Now what to expect of her in Mahler?! She's already done a wonderful Urlicht in the M2 of this cycle.
Ed.: Very fine performance; good vocal contributions. Maybe a touch uneventfull, but remarkably even and without too much sizzle being lost in the difficult last movements.

now:



R. Schumann
Symphonies 1 & 3
H.Vonk, K.Tennstedt / Cologne RSO, Berlin Ph
EMI Red Line
Since Tennstedt's Schumann Fourth was my favorite (among the final contenders) in a recent GMG-instigated blind listening test, I wanted both his Schumann-Berlin recordings. On EMI Red Line they're coupled with Vonk's 1st and 2nd, respectively, to form a cycle. Other EMI re-issues of a cheap Schumann-Symphony cycles use all-Vonk.

[not edward]

This recent arrival:



A fine performance generally, though I am not sure that the tenor soloist is ideal for the music.

[listener]

HONEGGER: Symphony 3 "Liturgique"     Symphony 5 "Di tre re"
Bavarian Radio Orch.         / Dutoir
BEETHOVEN   Piano Concerto in D. op.61a   (arranged by the composer from his violin concerto)
Daniel Barenboim, piano and conducting the English Chamber Orch.

[classicalgeek]

HONEGGER: Symphony 3 "Liturgique"     Symphony 5 "Di tre re"
Bavarian Radio Orch.         / Dutoir

Me too with the Honegger Third!  The Naxos recording:
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I like this one better than Plasson for sure; I have the Dutoit but I haven't heard it in a long time.

Also heard since last night:
Martinu Piano Sonata, with Emil Leichner:
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Pure Martinu through and through.  One of his few large-scale solo piano works, and it's a good one!

Maderna Oboe Concerto no. 1, Holliger and Bertini:

Who knew an oboe could do that?

Bruckner Seventh, Gielen and the Southwest German Radio Symphony:

Beautifully played, but rather underpowered for me.  For example - the huge climax in the Adagio (perhaps my favorite Bruckner movement of all) doesn't quite register with the power that it should.

[Lisztianwagner]

Hmm, good idea

Vitezslav Novak
Lady Godiva

[madaboutmahler]

Hmm, good idea

Vitezslav Novak
Lady Godiva

0:)   

I think I might listen to this too now.

[Lethevich]

It's one of the best 20th century symphonies I've heard, quite as good as anything RVW produced.  An orchestra that hasn't performed this work should be heartily ashamed of themselves.  I'd say it was a sort of Prokofievan work, but with enough differences to make it not merely a Prokofievan epigone.

Ahh, I'm glad you found something you really like That symphony is Bush in communistic firebrand mode, I have gained the impression from somewhere or other - although the lack of notes in the box make it tricky to confirm.

[Lisztianwagner]

0:)   

I think I might listen to this too now.

Sure!

I really love this work, it's very beautiful.....absolutely thrilling music!