What are you listening to now?

[Orpheus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEI-ItftUQ8

[aligreto]

Leifs: Saga Symphony [Vanska] - First listen to this work....





Power, drama and tension are words that I would use to describe this work and performance. I liked it.

[king ubu]

not that I needed another version, but having recently become more familiar with Cocset, curiosity got the better of me (and after all I have about three times as many recordings of the solo violin works  )

[Wakefield]

Haydn: Stabat Mater
Trinity Choir
Rebel Baroque Orchestra
J. Owen Burdick, conductor

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The Stabat Mater was probably the most popular Haydn's sacred work during his lifetime. It's easy to see why. 

What I love the most here is the life-affirming feeling (Haydn's trademark) expressed through the whole performance, always light and transparent. 

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Sinfonia Domestica, Op. 53, TrV 209. Maybe not as free-wheeling of a performance as I've heard but the detail in Janowski's approach pays huge dividends for the listener. The Adagio movement, in particular, is beautifully rendered.

[aligreto]

Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6 [Pacifica Quartet]....

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/f3suqQOc7cI

[Mahlerian]

Mozart: Piano Trio in G K496; Trio in E-flat for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano K498; Piano Trio in B-flat K502
Daniel Barenboim, Kyril Zlotnikov, Nikolaj Znaider


Hindemith: Organ Sonatas; Schoenberg: Variations on a Recitative

Kevin Bowyer

Or, The Complete Organ Works of Two of Germany's Great Composers of the Early 20th Century.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Now playing another superb disc:

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Really superb, some of the best Brahms playing I've heard.

+1

I'm a big fan of everything I've heard from this duo (all but maybe one disc). Their Brhams piano trio disc with Jian Wang is also tops.

[ritter]

Thats's a CD I haven't listened to in ages. I'm not really into organ music, but I got it many years ago when I was trying to collect as much Schoenberg as possible. High time I revisit it. 

Some Hindemith here as well:

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[Mahlerian]

Thats's a CD I haven't listened to in ages. I'm not really into organ music, but I got it many years ago when I was trying to collect as much Schoenberg as possible. High time I revisit it. 

Hah!  I got it for the Schoenberg piece(s) as well, but the Hindemith made a nice bonus too.  The Pepping fugues struck me as extremely dull, though.

[Wanderer]

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[The new erato]

+1

I'm a big fan of everything I've heard from this duo (all but maybe one disc). Their Brhams piano trio disc with Jian Wang is also tops.

I just played their Grieg disc, and yes. Extremely fine.

[Papy Oli]

Wagner
Tannhäuser - Overture & Festive March
Tristan & Isolde - Prelude & Liebestod

Bernstein / NYPO

[Wanderer]

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Listening to the Piano Trios.

[GioCar]

Taking inspiration from ritter, who seems to be very fond of his music 

Nono: Da un diario italiano (1964) for 72 voices
From this recording:

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A short piece from a project which never took off.

Really amazing. Somehow anticipating Ligeti.
Nono knew how to write music for a choir, indeed

[kishnevi]

Still taking a break from Mahler 7.

Gurrelieder

Gurrelieder does not count as taking a break from Mahler
TD
Radu Lupu playing Brahms
Two Rhapsodies Op 79
Three Intermezzos Op 117
Six Piano Pieces Op 118
Four Piano Pieces Op 119

[Sergeant Rock]

Mahler Symphony No.10 (Cooke II), Chailly conducting the RSO Berlin




Sarge

[Ken B]

Mahler 7
Concergebouw, Chailly

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Gurrelieder does not count as taking a break from Mahler

But....it's not Mahler 7!