What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
Summer Night Suite, Op. 123
Askenazy
St. Petersburg Philharmonic

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

[...] Sinfonia Interna is one of [Langgaard's] best

Agreed.

[Madiel]

Streaming youthful Sibelius

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While none of this is essential, there is a definite improvement in quality between the first things on this volume (c.1888) and many of the (earlier) pieces on Volume 1.

It does seem curious that Sibelius stopped producing works for violin and piano for a couple of decades. The last early pieces are about 1891, there's a revision of the op.2 pieces (not on this disc) in 1911, then the first new piece is 1914.

[staxomega]

Ingrid Haebler playing Schubert's Impromptus, D899, D935 (on CD)

[North Star]

Fresh from the mail for First-listen Thursday
Handel
Tra le Fiamme (Il consiglio), HWV 170
Pensieri notturni di filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134
Il Delirio Amoroso (Da Quel Giorno Fatale), HWV 99

Roberta Invernizzi
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni
Amazon has two listings of this, the cheaper curiously with the cover art of a different release from La Risonanza's Händel series..
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[Florestan]

I have seen the word tarantella before, without really knowing what it was.  Turns out it is a peasant dance of Hungarian origin accompanied by tambourines.

Where did you find this information? Tarantella is actually Italian through and through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella

[Draško]

Bits and pieces from this:




Images (Second Book): III. Poissons d'or
Estampes: II. La Soirée dans Grenade
Ricardo Viñes piano

Arabesques
Estampes: III. Jardins sous la pluie
Marguerite Long piano

L'Isle joyeuse
Marcelle Meyer piano

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux • Camille Chevillard conductor

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Marcel Moyse flute
Orchestre des Concerts Straram • Walther Straram conductor

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre des Concerts Colonne • Gabriel Pierné conductor

Deux Danses, pour harpe chromatique et orchestre à cordes
Lily Laskine harp • Orchestra • Piero Coppola conductor

Six Épigraphes antiques (Orch. Ernest Ansermet)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse romande • Ernest Ansermet conductor

[Moonfish]

Bits and pieces from this:




Images (Second Book): III. Poissons d'or
Estampes: II. La Soirée dans Grenade
Ricardo Viñes piano

Arabesques
Estampes: III. Jardins sous la pluie
Marguerite Long piano

L'Isle joyeuse
Marcelle Meyer piano

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux • Camille Chevillard conductor

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Marcel Moyse flute
Orchestre des Concerts Straram • Walther Straram conductor

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre des Concerts Colonne • Gabriel Pierné conductor

Deux Danses, pour harpe chromatique et orchestre à cordes
Lily Laskine harp • Orchestra • Piero Coppola conductor

Six Épigraphes antiques (Orch. Ernest Ansermet)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse romande • Ernest Ansermet conductor

How do you like those recordings, Draško? I'm all ears?

[Undersea]

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Brahms: String Quartet #3 in B Flat, Op. 67

Amadeus Quartet


Some nice retro listening - I love Amadeus Quartet.

[Moonfish]

Weiss: Lute Sonatas Nos. 32, 52 & 94 [Vol. 9]                 Robert Barto

Stellar Weiss! Highly recommended for lute enthusiasts!

[prémont]

Maybe the issue is the booklet essay, that was, I believe, why there was a long delay between the recording and the release of his Froberger toccatas, 15 years I think. He needed the time to research the booklet.

As far as  I recall the booklet was also the reason why the Kooiman et al. Bach integral was delayed. This may be to put too much emphasis on the booklet. After all it is the music that matters. I do not recall that the booklets to van Asperen's Frroberger and L Couperin releases were exceptional. And the booklet to the Kooiman release (also from Aeolus) wasn't particularly well written, and containing too little information on the organs and the used registrations.

[cilgwyn]

Another delightful operetta from the emi electrola series. This was one of the last in the series. The usual top notch soloists and production values. It's good that Cpo are taking an interest,but they can't hold a candle to these (with minor exceptions). For some of the more neglected operettas,Cantus lin have released some German radio recordings from the fifties (mainly) which are well worth collecting. They are mono,but (generally) preferable to the Cpo releases. Emi electrola really should have recorded some Leo Fall,for instance. Nico Dostal's Clivia is another fine operetta.

[Moonfish]

Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart

[Karl Henning]

Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart

Must be sweet.

[Moonfish]

Must be sweet.

Gloomy, mysterious and sweet...     

[North Star]

Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart

Nice! I listened to the Ashkenazy & RCO Symphonic Dances from that box earlier today.

[listener]

ROREM: Six Variations, Sicilienne, Dance Suite
CORIGLIANO: Kaleidoscope   Gazebo Dances*
Arianna Goldina, Rémy Loumbrozo    2 pianos, *piano 4-hands
BARBER: First Essay for Orchestra, The School for Scandal Overture
Symphonies 1 & 2
Royal Scottish National Orch.,      Marin Alsop

[Moonfish]

Nice! I listened to the Ashkenazy & RCO Symphonic Dances from that box earlier today.

Inspiring! I think I will have a Rachmaninoff day!   

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 [Pollini/Bohm]

[North Star]

Inspiring! I think I will have a Rachmaninov day!   

Way ahead of you

Rakhmaninov
Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op. 22
Bolet