What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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'Tis This Month!

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Starting with Symphony No. 1. A great performance.

[Brahmsian]

Taking up the Navneeth challenge (with great delight!) 

The Franz Joseph Haydn

Op. 33

Kodaly Quartet
Naxos

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*Going through the entire Haydn string quartet cycle in 2012 was my personal highlight of the year in classical music.  Oh, that and attending a live performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony. 

[Karl Henning]

Almost certainly a first listen!

Сергей Васильевич [ Sergei Vasilyevich (Rakhmaninov) ]
«Утёс», соч. 7 [ The Rock, or The Crag, Opus 7 ]
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
Igor Golovchin

[The new erato]

Oh god this is FANTASTIC!

And it keeps getting better as it goes along! Aaaaaa I want to put it on repeat.

How good to know I'm not alone.

[listener]

LUTOSLAWSKI  Symphony no.1
Polish Radio Orchestra      Jan Krenz, cond.
                      Symphony no.2 
SW German Radio Orch. Baden-Baden   Ernest Bour. cond.
HAYDN:   String Quartets op. 33      Weller Quartet
HESELT:    12 Études caractéristiques, op. 2 for piano solo      Piano Concerto in f, op. 16
Michael Ponti, piano     Philharmonia Hungarica     Othmar Maga, cond.

[North Star]

Einar Englund
Symphony no. 7 (1988)
Rasilainen & Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

[bhodges]

Ensemble Recherche ~ Hans Abrahamsen | Schnee

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I heard this live in January 2011 by the Talea Ensemble here, and think it's one of the best recent works I've encountered, with a fascinating formal structure. And I'm slightly embarrassed: although I got the recording shortly after, I haven't yet heard it, not wanting to blur the memory of the concert.

Friends say this recording is pretty spectacular - what do you think of it?

--Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.1

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Just finished listening:

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A new acquisition and composer for me. I'm going to reserve my judgement on these works for now, but this was pleasant music, but it didn't really have enough contrasts in the music. My mind did wander several times.

[Lisztianwagner]

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen

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[not edward]

Another listening for Liszt's Via Crucis in the de Leeuw-led recording, and I finally realized what was nagging away at me about this piece: in its restraint and simplicity there are numerous passages that sound almost like proto-Satie.


Having spent quiet a lot of time with Liszt's music over the last year, I can say that I had not realized what an incredibly radical figure he was, musically speaking, probably because many of his finest works are almost totally unknown (and many of his best-known works are comparatively lightweight). But, as a friend reminded me recently, it's easy to forget that the B minor sonata comes less than half way through Liszt's creative life, and that unlike many composers, he became more--not less--experimental the older he got.

[mc ukrneal]

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen

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I don't know that set well, but that is one of my favorite pieces of piano music ever written.

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A new acquisition. Giving Old King Cole another listen. I like this work a lot. Is it on the same scale as Job? No it's not, but it's no less enjoyable.

[Lisztianwagner]

I don't know that set well, but that is one of my favorite pieces of piano music ever written.

I couldn't make comparisons, because I've only got Ashkenazy for Schumann's solo piano works. Though this set is amazing in my opinion, all the pieces are beautifully played, with passionate intensity, virtuosity and technical brilliance.
I agree about Kinderszenen, they are marvelous compositions; I recently started studying them.

[Brahmsian]

'Tis the continuation! 

Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117

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[North Star]

Poulenc
Sonata for Cello & Piano (1948)
Sonata for Flute & Piano (1958)
Sonata for Oboe & Piano (1962)
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (1962)
Pierre Fournier (cello), Michel Debost (flute), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Michel Portal (clarinet) & Jacques Février (piano)

[Sadko]

First listen after the reanimation of my computer:

Dvorak

String Quartet No. 12 op. 96 "American"
String Quintet Op. 97

Keller Quartet
Anna Deeva (viola)

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Listening to La Mer. Sumptuous performance from Dutoit/MSO.

[Karl Henning]

Another listening for Liszt's Via Crucis in the de Leeuw-led recording, and I finally realized what was nagging away at me about this piece: in its restraint and simplicity there are numerous passages that sound almost like proto-Satie.


Having spent quiet a lot of time with Liszt's music over the last year, I can say that I had not realized what an incredibly radical figure he was, musically speaking, probably because many of his finest works are almost totally unknown (and many of his best-known works are comparatively lightweight). But, as a friend reminded me recently, it's easy to forget that the B minor sonata comes less than half way through Liszt's creative life, and that unlike many composers, he became more--not less--experimental the older he got.

Very nice to read.

[Brahmsian]

'Tis the month!   

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Barshai
WDR Sinfonieorchester

Brilliant Classics