What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[greg]

Brahms- Variations on a Theme of Paganini, op.35/Abbey Simon
(same recording as always)

it's been awhile....... man......... this is the stuff, ahhhhhh  0:) 0:) 0:)

[Choo Choo]

Scriabin's Piano Sonatas, with emphasis on his third.

Played by...?

I'm rounding off a day of favourites, with this:

[greg]

yesterday:
Schoenberg- op.1-3 songs
A Survivor from Warsaw, Kol Nidre

probably a couple others, too (i really liked A Surivor from Warsaw)

just turned on:
op.6, sounds nice

[greg]

Xenakis- Metastasis (the recording on his myspace page)
it's a different recording for me, and i like it really well 

[not edward]

Ligeti: Requiem (Gielen).
I think this is a greater performance than the Ligeti Project recording, though Wergo's CD remastering sucks (it sounds infinitely better on LP). Amazing music, regardless.

[Bogey]

A bit ago:

Sitting out on our back porch listening to Brahms Symphony No.1 Furtwängler/North German Radio Orchestra (Oct. '51-Music & Arts), all the while watching the kiddos and hounds play in the yard, the sun going down, eating a cherry turnover, and drinking an *IBC Root Beer.

*(The closest I come to rock gut).

[Que]

Good morning to you all!
(And good night for those at the West Coast)

A bit ago:

Sitting out on our back porch listening to Brahms Symphony No.1 Furtwängler/North German Radio Orchestra (Oct. '51-Music & Arts), all the while watching the kiddos and hounds play in the yard, the sun going down, eating a cherry turnover, and drinking an *IBC Root Beer.

*(The closest I come to rock gut).

You must have had a terrific evening, Bill. 

Q

[Que]

[Harry]

Goodmorning Q. Cold but sunny ehhh!

[Harry]

Michael Haydn.

"Zaire", incidental music to.(Sinfinia in D major)

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki

This is pleasant and uplifting music for the Saturdaymorning I must say! First of all it is stunningly recorded by Reimund Grimm from MDG, but Goritzki clearly knows were to go with this piece. And his musicians enjoy it very much. Just listen to the impressive timpani's in the first movement, marvelous I say. Lovingly shaped, it is, not treated as secondary music, which it is not.

[Wanderer]

I borrowed this CD from the library, and what an excellent Chopin disc it is! It includes my favourite set of Ballades that I've heard so far. For sure I will buy it  .

Quite a coincidence, I was listening to this only last night...

I've also been listening to this magnificent work:

Grechaninov: Liturgia Domestica (Christoff/Grigorov-Teres/Yanev/Spassov/"Svetoslav Obretenov" Bulgarian National Choir/Bulgarian National Radio Chamber Orchestra/G.Robev).
This is a thrilling performance, recorded in the impressive reverberant acoustics of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

[Harry]

Well you succeeded in making me envy you for this recording.

By the way I enjoyed the discs you lend me very much Tasos.
Quite impressive.

Christos Anesti!

[Harry]

Micheal Haydn.

Notturno solenne in E flat major.

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.

How pleasant it is, if you discover this kind of music. It came from a big pile of cd's, and somehow it intrigued me. So I took it to workout, and was surprised what came out. Just going through his complete Symphonies and enjoying that, it did not prepare me for the beauty of the Largo from Zaire, and certainly not in this Notturno for the fine edged filigree work that Michael Haydn delivers in such quantities. Under estimated he is, and by the music that I hear it is not justified. It goes to show how much fine music there is out there, and no one taking heed! A shame really. But at least this cd, dead cheap at JPC gives us a glimpse of it.
Recommended.

[Wanderer]

Well you succeeded in making me envy you for this recording.

By the way I enjoyed the discs you lend me very much Tasos.
Quite impressive.

Christos Anesti!

Alithos o Kyrios!

It's good to know you enjoyed them, Harry. 
Concerning Grechaninov's Liturgia Domestica, the same performance has also been issued by Capriccio.
.
The one I got while in Sofia is by a Bulgarian label (Balkanton).

[Harry]

Alithos o Kyrios!

It's good to know you enjoyed them, Harry. 
Concerning Grechaninov's Liturgia Domestica, the same performance has also been issued by Capriccio.
.
The one I got while in Sofia is by a Bulgarian label (Balkanton).

If you give the oke, I will order it Tasos.

[Choo Choo]

Following a discussion on another thread, I am starting the day with this:

             

- specifically, the 8/12/52 Eroica

[Harry]

Michael Haydn.

Notturno in F major.

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.

Highly entertaining, and well recorded. Well written.

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich Tenth




Sarge

[Maciek]

SchostakoWITSCH - doesn't that just look good! (Notice the SCH repeated at the end!)

[Harry]

Ethel Smyth.

SQ in E minor.

Mannheimer Streichquartett.

She is a top composer, forgotten no less because she is a woman. this cd reminds me again after hearing her fine orchestral works, what a genius she was. This E minor SQ is no less than a marvel, and clearly recognized today I am happy to say. You simply have to hear this.