What are you listening 2 now?

[Mapman]

Ives: Symphony #1
Farbermann: Philharmonia

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

Fernandez, Eduardo (1952-Present) - decided to pullout some of my older guitar CDs, maybe not played for years and even decades!  Back in the 1980s we saw Fernandez in concert and I shortly bought the CDs shown below (so OLDIES in my collection) - for those interested more HERE - Dave

   

[Papy Oli]

Another run of this recent purchase:

Ligeti - Sonata for Solo Cello, Six Bagatelles

[VonStupp]

Gustav Holst
The Planets, op. 32
St. Paul's Suite, op. 29 no. 2
Brooke Green Suite

Ambrosian Chorus
Barry Wordsworth (BGS)
Royal PO - Vernon Handley (rec. 1993/4)

VS

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich: Suite from 'Hamlet', op. 116a

If you haven't seen the Kozintsev film, you ought!

[Todd]

[Linz]

Schumann Piano works Jörg Demus

[JBS]

Offenbach for a Thanksgiving afternoon: La Belle Helene with Jessye Norman

A poster/caricature from the first production

L to R
Soprano Lea Silly as Oreste
Tenor Jose Dupuis as Paris
Mezzo Hortense Schneider as Helene
Bass Pierre-Eugene Grenier as Calchas

[Linz]

Thomas Beecham English Music CD2 Delius Dance Rhapsody No. 2, Summer Evening Two pieces for small orchestra, Asong before Sunrise, Fennimore and Gerda, Irmelin Prelude, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Songs of sunset, John Cameron baritone, Maureen Forrester contralto, Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[Todd]

Op 50/6.  Last item I will listen to before I consume enough tryptophan to tranquilize a horse.

[Linz]

Antal Dorati with The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and for the Marosszék Dances Dances of Galánta The Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra

[jlopes]

[JBS]

The final installment of Boult's Decca RVW cycle (sort of: in this set, King Cole, The Wasps, and Job are yet to come). I'm tempted to say it's the best RVW cycle I'vd heard, although I'd need to refresh my memory of Boult's EMI cycle and the Previn cycle before I can really say that. The only real flaw is that it was mostly recorded in mono--but excellent mono, at least in this mastering, and the Eighth and Ninth were done in stereo.

From this set

[Mookalafalas]

I just finished disk 10 of this set. An extraordinary Ma Mere L'oye suite.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Manolis Kalomiris: 5 Preludes. Danae Dörken.

[Bachtoven]

This is the first time I've heard this guitarist--he's excellent! He includes solo works for 6 and 10-string guitar as well as an arrangement of Ohana's guitar concerto "Tres Graphicos" arranged for guitar, piano, and percussion.

[vandermolen]

Arthur Bliss's
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow

Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra

That's a fine performance. Better than Davis's Morning Heroes IMO.

[Irons]

The final installment of Boult's Decca RVW cycle (sort of: in this set, King Cole, The Wasps, and Job are yet to come). I'm tempted to say it's the best RVW cycle I'vd heard, although I'd need to refresh my memory of Boult's EMI cycle and the Previn cycle before I can really say that. The only real flaw is that it was mostly recorded in mono--but excellent mono, at least in this mastering, and the Eighth and Ninth were done in stereo.

From this set

Boult did age in his interpretations but I like both the young(ish) and old Sir Adrian equally. The EMI 9th doesn't posses the fire of the earlier Everest recording for example but this is compensated with the wisdom he brings to the Symphony.   

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 48. Leipzig 1727-29.
O, Ewiges Feuer, O, Ursprung der Liebe.
Sei Lob und Ehr dem Höchsten Gut.
Was Gott tut, das ist Wohlgetan.
Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille zu Zion.
Blazikova, Blaze, Mizukoshi, Kooij.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.


Another fine interpretation of these cantatas. Its the first time in my life that they touch me much deeper as ever before. Maybe age has something to do with that. To say it with the words of this cantata "Was Gott tut, das ist Wohlgetan".