What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

Quartetto Medico, op.70

Aspects, op.72

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[San Antone]

Renard



A wonderful recording. 

[cilgwyn]

I just bought all for volumes. Why not the two cd set? I just liked the artwork on these earlier releases (and cheaper). I had some of the performances on these cds on a long playing cassette;which I still have,and actually played a few days ago. Of course,some people may prefer other interpretations;but I like these,anyway!!
I like his Roussel too!

[Spineur]

Gerald Finley has real understanding of Liszt music.

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I prefer his interpretation to Diana Damrau, which I got together with this disk.  She sings beautifully alright, but the spirit is more Strauss than Liszt.

[San Antone]

Gerald Finley has real understanding of Liszt music.

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I prefer his interpretation to Diana Damrau, which I got together with this disk.  She sings beautifully alright, but the spirit is more Strauss than Liszt.

A valuable series from Hyperion; the other two recordings are also very good, imo.

[San Antone]

Mavra



Listening to a work Stravinsky thought very highly of, that I haven't heard for ages.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Forgive the copy-editorial geekdom, Jens . . . do you mean instead, A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music?

Oh, that's what you are referring to. Yes, found the mistake. Not as bad as tweeting into the world something about a Schuman Tryptich, but meaning Robert, not William. 

TD:


#morninglistening to #Bach on the #Weingarten Gabler Organ which #AndréIsoir plays on his ... http://ift.tt/2cVRqgj

I had visited the Weingarten Basilica organ of Gabler's -- along with just about every other organ I could find in the places we stayed on our bike-tour 'round Lake Constance, but this was the only one we sought out on purpose -- and being back home figured out which of my CDs are actually being played on that glorious instrument. Turns out that Isoir does, and some of the most important bits of his Bach cycle, at that.

Weingarten Abbey Church is a basilica minor and the largest basilica north of the alps. It's hidden in a smallish village just north of Ravensburg, itself some 15 miles north of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. A detour well worth it, on our trip.

The 1737-1750 Gabler organ at the at the Basilica of St. Martin in Weingarten - the largest Basilica north of the alps, is rather famous. Unlike most organs, it keeps the western windows open (Holzhay keeps one window open at the organ in Weißenau [as seen four pictures ago], and later all six at the church of the Neresheim Abbey).

The instrument can be savored in the recordings of A.Isoir's superb Bach organ cycle on La Dolce Volta, where he performs the Passacaglia, the Schübler Chorales, Part III of the Clavierübung ("The Organ Mass"), and the major Toccatas & Fugues on it: Isoir | Bach

[Karl Henning]

Oh, that's what you are referring to. Yes, found the mistake.

Sorry, I could have been less curt.

[San Antone]

Scenes de Ballet

[Harry]

I started this morning with this fine CD

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/10/farkas-ferenc-1905-2000-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[Mirror Image]

Morning all!

Now:



Listening to the Oboe Sonata. Beautiful work.

[Harry]

I am a bit on a Bach binge today, I close the Weinberger Bach recordings today, and will try the first disc of the Kooiman set on Aeolus,

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/10/bach-js-complete-organ-works-disc-20.html?spref=tw

[Mirror Image]

Quartetto Medico, op.70

Aspects, op.72

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I've been meaning to get around to Holmboe's chamber music. I have that recording, what do you think of it overall?

[Harry]

More Bach I did today.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/10/bach-js-complete-organ-works-disc-21.html?spref=tw

[anothername]

Klaus Tennstedt conducting;  Mahler Symphony No. 9

[Madiel]

I've been meaning to get around to Holmboe's chamber music. I have that recording, what do you think of it overall?

There's not exactly a huge amount of competition for the repertoire...

On the whole I like Volume 1 better than Volume 2, because I think the pieces are a little more substantial. There are both lighter and weightier pieces on each, but I think here on Volume 2 the balance is lighter.

And I've never quite got into Aspects in particular. On the other hand, the Sextet is a real winner.

[Harry]

The last disc of this fabulous box, very much recommended to all Bach lovers.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/10/bach-js-complete-organ-works-disc-22.html?spref=tw

[Brian]

Superb:

[Reckoner]

[San Antone]

String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51