What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Relaxing, quite delightful, well-played
- Hummel´s piano trios, Trio Parnussus/MDG recording.

Yes I remember this recording well. Liking it enormously.

[Que]

Exactly my sentiments Que. And the one you posted looks enticing, I will dive into it.
Read the review and this made me worry a tad.

(The high voices - one male, one female - lend an incisive edge to the vocal blend which some listeners may find disconcerting)

The top voices didn't bother me as such, though the overall soundstage has somewhat less gravitas than I would consider to be ideal.

It's rather fun, you bought almost the same CD'S in the Ligia sale, this is also one of them. It's the first CD I have from Ablitzer. Very curious after this one. The music I have already from others, so it's a question of interpretation and the sound of the organ I guess.

Perfect for comparing notes...

I love the Ablitzer disc...
.Ablitzer is an imaginative organist with an expressive, varied style, and a master in blending and colouring of the organ sound.
The organ is a reconstruction but sounds completely authentic to me. I guess we've finally reached that point in modern organ building where the original can be matched...

Q

[Que]

2nd disc:

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Jean-Louis Charbonnier's Marais is unequalled IMO! 
Now, in an ideal world his whole Marais series would have been reissued as an huge and amazing Marais set.
However, the recordings were spead out over two labels: Ligia and the now defunct Pierre Vérany (which reissued the entire Book V as a single set shortly before its demise).
Until such time, I'll content myself with picking up individusl issues as a bargain....After all, my collector's regret doesn't take away from the value of these recordings and the enjoyment they give.

Q

[ritter]

Ernst Krenek's Piano Concerto No. 1, from this recent purchase:

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This concerto by the 23-year old composer is very enjoyable, and very beethovenian in it's conception. Krenek is at this stage composing squarely in an echt-Viennese tradition (anyone familiar with his boigraphy will recognioze in him a product of old Austro-Hungary, in the best sense of the term).  Nods to a more modern style ar still only occasional. It all sounds to me like a 20th century hommage to LvB's First Piano Concerto (even emulating the earlier work's at times tongue-in-cheek final movement).

Followed by Bruno Maderna condcuting his Quadrivium, fom this CD:

[Madiel]

Haydn, op.64/4

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[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Dirge-Canons and Song) and The Owl and the Pussycat




Sarge

[Drasko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2FZjZKJVj8

[aligreto]

Be sure to listen to that symphonic poem, Alven. Such a ravishing work.

Thank you for that but you need not have feared as I would not have missed it. I have concluded listening to this wonderful set with Alven and I did indeed find it to be a very fine Tone Poem with very evocative picture painting and descriptive passages.   

[HIPster]

First music of the day ~

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A nice way to wake up. 

[SurprisedByBeauty]

To the great Parsifal Poll This Way!


#morninglistening to #Luther songs by #Bach, #Buxtehude, #Praetorius, #Mendelssohn & sever... http://ift.tt/2fywi46
A touch of serenity (esp. w/CD2) on my post-thanksgiving thanksgiving day, prepping quails and whatnot for a little gettogether. [pix in diner]

[Que]

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Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No.2), Haitink conducting the LPO




Sarge

[Keep Going]

Luther Adams: In The White Silence

[HIPster]

J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 1, 3, 5
(CD 1)
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Still my favorite set of these works. 

[Mahlerian]

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Domus


Schoenberg: Phantasy for violin and piano
Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida


Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano
Augustin Dumay, Maria João Pires

[Mirror Image]

Thank you for that but you need not have feared as I would not have missed it. I have concluded listening to this wonderful set with Alven and I did indeed find it to be a very fine Tone Poem with very evocative picture painting and descriptive passages.   

Excellent to hear. Glad you enjoyed this set as much as I have. Would you strongly recommend Atterberg's symphonies to others or even newbies to classical music?

[SonicMan46]

Handel, GF - Chamber Music w/ L'Ecole d'Orphée - 6 disc set (second image of the contents) - Dave

 

[Drasko]

[aligreto]

Larsson: Symphony No. 2 [Frank]....





A first listen to Symphony No. 2 for me. I found this one to be sonically, texturally and musically more adventurous than his first symphony. The basic lyrical sound world is still the same but the treatment of it I found to be different and very interesting. I particularly enjoyed the final movement.

[aligreto]

Excellent to hear. Glad you enjoyed this set as much as I have. Would you strongly recommend Atterberg's symphonies to others or even newbies to classical music?

Most definitely! I found the music to be both accessible, interesting and enjoyable