What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

What a joy to come back to Chorzempa's Leipzig Chorales. I was in a discussion with someone last week about modesty in music (we were talking about Laurence Crane versus Stockausen's helicopter quartet!) No one could say that The Leipzig Chorales are modest qua music - but there's something so peaceful, at ease with itself  and indeed self effacing about Chorzempa's performance that it's modest qua performance.

[Traverso]

Bruckner

Symphony No.9

[T. D.]

I apologise for seeming contradictory, but I believe that is his second recording.
I know I bought that double CD and was severely disappointed, having previously heard Bylsma's Bach on the radio, to discover I had not bought the version I'd heard.
His earlier recording (generally fleeter and lighter in texture) can be found packaged as 'Sony Essential Classics' and maybe in other ways, I don't know.

My error, you are correct in every way. One of the reasons for my purchase (years ago) of the first Vivarte box was the mistaken belief that this was the first set. I agree that the first set is better. Late night post, repeated the blunder.

[Wakefield]

Giuliani: Concertos for Guitar and Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2
Wiener Akademie
Edoardo Catemario (guitar)
Martin Haselböck

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Lovely interpretation on period instruments.

Catemario plays the 1825 "Pons l'aîné" guitar once owned by the composer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmIrTh-fsM

[JBS]

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[Traverso]

Chopin

Nocturnes

[Mirror Image]

Well, yet again this is the only set I have (though I do have in mind to stream at least one of the other well known conductors sooner rather than later). It does seem to be a positively regarded set in general.

What I'll say for myself is that the brass is a big highlight. Truly superb. Many of my favourite moments in various symphonies are brass moments, key climaxes where the music has a blazing intensity.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it does seem that Ashkenazy's Sibelius is highly regarded. Anyone else here a fan of his Sibelius?

[Traverso]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it does seem that Ashkenazy's Sibelius is highly regarded. Anyone else here a fan of his Sibelius?

I like it but I must immediate confess that I'm not an experienced Sibelius listener.

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I like it but I must immediate confess that I'm not an experienced Sibelius listener.

Hopefully, this will change soon.

[Traverso]

Hopefully, this will change soon.

I have to make choices,there is so much that I like to explore but my time is limited.If you only listen to the Bach cantatas and their different recordings to name just one example.I'm often astonished by the knowledge of some members here,they must surely listen in a higher speed than me and swallow it almost without chewing it properly.

[Todd]

Nils Mönkemeyer so consistently produces great recordings that it's really rather ridiculous.  Take this disc.  Ain't no way you can tell me that Antonio Rosetti and Franz Hoffmeister rank with the great composers, yet Mönkemeyer delivers Viola Concertos that more than imply otherwise.  The Bach cantata mishmash that makes up the middle of the disc simply should not work this well.  Dude's a genius.  There, I wrote it.

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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it does seem that Ashkenazy's Sibelius is highly regarded. Anyone else here a fan of his Sibelius?

I quite like the two Ashkenazy Sibelius discs I have, symphonies 2 and 5 (the latter w/ my favorite En Saga). I have heard him criticized for making Sibelius sound "too Russian"/"Tchaikovskyan". Maybe there is truth to that; I don't know. I do not really listen to Tchaikovsky.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 [Barbirolli]





Wonderfully lyrical but with the requisite gravitas where required.

[vers la flamme]

Alban Berg: Three Orchestral Pieces, op.6. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

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I have to make choices,there is so much that I like to explore but my time is limited.If you only listen to the Bach cantatas and their different recordings to name just one example.I'm often astonished by the knowledge of some members here,they must surely listen in a higher speed than me and swallow it almost without chewing it properly.

Well, one will never hear it all, so I wouldn't worry about taking your time any of the music you love. I was never truly into earlier classical music: Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical Eras, so I just always stuck to what I like and wanted to hear more of. When I first heard Sibelius for the first-time, it was as if I hearing music for the first-time. I've also had a similar experience last year or so with my breakthrough with Debussy who was a composer that had alluded me for quite some time.

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Alban Berg: Three Orchestral Pieces, op.6. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

Very nice, but get read for that final hammer blow!

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I quite like the two Ashkenazy Sibelius discs I have, symphonies 2 and 5 (the latter w/ my favorite En Saga). I have heard him criticized for making Sibelius sound "too Russian"/"Tchaikovskyan". Maybe there is truth to that; I don't know. I do not really listen to Tchaikovsky.

Hmmm...Sibelius that sounds too Russian? Well, there's Rozhdestvensky, which I should revisit his cycle as well. I had heard Askenazy has a wonderful Luonnotar (with Elisabeth Söderström). I might have revisit this performance just to hear Söderström.

[vandermolen]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it does seem that Ashkenazy's Sibelius is highly regarded. Anyone else here a fan of his Sibelius?

I've enjoyed his recordings, in particular Symphony No.7 coupled with Tapiola. I also like his CD featuring Walton's symphonies and was deeply impressed hearing him conduct Shostakovich's 8th Symphony in Liverpool during my student days:

[vandermolen]

Jeffrey, I read somewhere - no idea where - that Sir Adrian was not an admirer of Bax. I have not a clue if this is true but if not would like to dispel the theory as when ever I think of Bax and Boult together......have you come across this?  The Bax tone poems on Lyrita are superbly done by Boult with the exception of "November Woods" which I prefer the more urgent reading of Thomson on Chandos. I do wonder why Sir Adrian did not record any Bax Symphonies, it seems a big omission in his discography.

That Bax/Boult story rings a bell Lol but I'm not sure myself if is true. Boult's old Decca performance of 'Tintagel' is a favourite of mine and he went on to record it again so he must have liked it. You are quite right about the Bax symphonies as it was Barbirolli, Handley and Downes who made the earliest recordings of them.

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Schubert: Symphony No. 5 [Pritchard]