What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

British Works for Cello and Piano, Volume 2.
See back cover for details.
Recording venue, Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk 2012.

All three composers on this disc are firm favourites with me. Late Romantic works at their best. I just wonder why these compositions never landed in the repertoire. They are not often heard in the concert halls, so I do not understand this, if one considers the quality of the music, but then, there are a lot of things I do not understand. Anyways, Paul and Huw Watkins make as strong a case for all three composers as they possibly can, and the result is ravishing. The warm yet detailed recording adds to the pleasure.

[Todd]

[JBS]

Last night, I followed the Kodaly with Disc 1 from this set:



It is comprised of: 

Jealousy (the original prelude to Jenufa)
The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite
Šárka - Overture
Taras Bulba

Great performances and in wonderful sound (also available as a DVD).

I have that as part of this set

TD
From the Copland set
Old American Songs Sets I and II*
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson**
*William Warfield baritone
**Martha Lipton mezzo-soprano
Aaron Copland piano
Recorded at various times 1951-53

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I have that as part of this set

TD
From the Copland set
Old American Songs Sets I and II*
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson**
*William Warfield baritone
**Martha Lipton mezzo-soprano
Aaron Copland piano
Recorded at various times 1951-53

That Life with Czech Music is a great set!  I have that one too (along with it's companion set)...and, er...the Janacek DVD too (of the concert).  I went on a bit Czech and Mackerras binge a while ago.     

First listen to a Dutilleux CD:  Métaboles.  I haven't heard much of his music before, but I decided to dive in.  It's on a CD with the Seattle Symphony and conducted by Ludovic Morlot.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Took a palate cleansing break from Dutilleux and put on Suk's String Quartet in B flat major with the Suk Quartet on Supraphon....ahhh! 

[springrite]

First listen to a Dutilleux CD:  Métaboles.  I haven't heard much of his music before, but I decided to dive in.  It's on a CD with the Seattle Symphony and conducted by Ludovic Morlot.

This reminds be to listen to Metaboles again, along with the Second Symphony. (I may follow it up with the Cello Concerto.)

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[Harry]

Granville Bantock.
Cello sonatas.
See back cover for details.
Recorded in 2000, at All Saints, East Finchley, London.

Gorgeous music, every bit of it, and sonically a dream to listen too. Every piece on this disc is of a very high quality. Bantock was also a gifted Chamber music composer. In the past only the orchestral works were to me of interest, but I am glad that has finally changed, be it in a advanced age, but whatever, "enjoyment is the credo, and I certainly have. The disc seems to be OOP.

[steve ridgway]

wadya think?!

I haven't heard many Planets as yet but like the clear late 80s digital recording on this one .

[DavidW]

Mozart Violin Sonatas K 26-31 performed by Baudet and Belder.

[Karl Henning]

I'm in a Lyft vehicle, and the onboard entertainment is Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Tallis Hymn

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1872/77 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas, Horst Stein, Wiener |Philharmoniker

[Karl Henning]

btw the Heroic Polonaise was one of the very first classical pieces I ever heard!

I'm not sure when I first heard Chopin. (There's the odd chance that the c minor Prelude was the first Chopin I was aware of ... and a former girlfriend and Barry Manilow figure in there.) The Prelude to Die Meistersinger was an early classical piece I was aware of.

[Linz]

Robert Fuchs, Piotr Marciak violin; Bogusława Hubisz-Sielska viola; Mariusz Sielski piano

[Todd]

Opp 127 & 135.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Die Jakobsleiter

Pierre Boulez & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[Jo498]

Bach, Passion according to St. John, Rilling 1996. Michael Schade is a pretty good evangelist, the tenor for the arias (James Taylor) a bit too bright/light voiced for my taste. Some time in the early 1990s Rilling began to adopt at least tempi (if not necessarily phrasing/manners and the instruments are still modern of the historical practice, with the opening chorus in 8:30 and some very fast turbae. Despite my first name I still prefer the St. Matthew but the different, much faster and more dramatic pacing of the Johannespassion is quite amazing (and I can understand people finding the St. Matthew overlong and slow).

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Iota]

That was an interesting watch (though personally it didn't connect with the music in any meaningful way). I don't know what parameters the AI is given to conjure up such a thing, but to someone with little experience of it, it's nonetheless intriguing.

I'm not sure when I first heard Chopin. (There's the odd chance that the c minor Prelude was the first Chopin I was aware of ... and a former girlfriend and Barry Manilow figure in there.) The Prelude to Die Meistersinger was an early classical piece I was aware of.

The first classical music that properly impacted me was Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (the 1952 Furtwängler/Flagstad recording). My brother older by five years, used to play it obsessively as he did his homework, while the 7/8 year-old me was lying in bed going to sleep in the room above. I've never rid myself of that association with the music.

[Daverz]

I'm in a Lyft vehicle, and the onboard entertainment is Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Tallis Hymn

Is it a Hearse?

[Linz]

Dvořák The Complete Piano Works, Waltzes Op.54, Eclogues Op56, Moderato in A major, Album leaves, Piano Pieces Op.52, Ivo Kahánek