What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

An excellent CD, especially considering it was free with BBC Music Magazine.

Agreed. There was also a fine CD of Symphony 11 with the Bournemouth SO conducted by Karabits with BBC Music Magazine.

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Now playing:

Chichester Psalms & Facsimile from this set -



Stunning!

[Christo]

Ehhhmmm, no not really.

Exactly. Yet Andrei thinks it is. 

[Karl Henning]

Tharaud playing Satie.

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Clarinet Sonata
Richard Stoltzman, Irma Vallecillo

From this set:



This performance may be even better than the one found in the DG box set. I think it's the best piece of chamber music that Lenny wrote.

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Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, "The Age Of Anxiety"
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano



Sounds fantastic so far. I'll have to compare this performance with the also newly acquired Zimerman/Rattle recording on DG.

Edit: Music aside, I have to say the presentation of this Pappano set is first-rate. I love how Warner ditched the traditional 2-CD jewel case for a hardback case with the lavish booklet sandwiched between the two discs. A nice touch.

[Traverso]

Schubert

Die schöne Müllerin

[staxomega]

Boulez: Rituel.

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Nice, I haven't heard Rituel in ages. Great piece.

First listen for me, Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces (Op. 6), recent arrival from the 8 CD Sinopoli Berg/Schoenberg/Webern set. I really enjoyed this performance, the other newer one I heard recently was Michael Tilson Thomas/SFS which fell flat. And over lunch listened to all of Beethoven's Op. 2 Piano Sonatas from Walter Gieseking.

Edit: Kudos to Warner for including the original album art in this set instead of generic sleeves.

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:  Le Boeuf sur le toit

[vers la flamme]

Nice, I haven't heard Rituel in ages. Great piece.

First listen for me, Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces (Op. 6), recent arrival from the 8 CD Sinopoli Berg/Schoenberg/Webern set. I really enjoyed this performance, the other newer one I heard recently was Michael Tilson Thomas/SFS which fell flat. And over lunch listened to all of Beethoven's Op. 2 Piano Sonatas from Walter Gieseking.

Edit: Kudos to Warner for including the original album art in this set instead of generic sleeves.

They've been pretty good about using the original artwork on their sleeves for these recent budget boxes. I have also the Mendelssohn Symphonies with Kurt Masur, and the Ravel box (really on Erato) with Cluytens and Samson François, and both of these have the original artwork sleeves too. Anyway, I have that Sinopoli Second Viennese School box too and I love it!

[Carlo Gesualdo]

What about Thomas Crécquillon for tonight, I for one greatly admire his works secular or religious, he is one of the greatest of kingdom of Burgundy.

I have the 1979 erato vinyl
also Brabant ensemble brew marvelous miss -mort ma privé-
And also lots of digital Thomas Crécquillon But I feel digital less superior than CD or LP.

But I talk about it.

Than the program for tonight include the Genius of Scelsi, I don't know yet what I'm gonna listen from him.

Perhaps some early Baroque of Germans and Italians.

Love you folks, farewell

[Symphonic Addict]

Try Bliss's Oboe Quintet Cesar which I think is even better. The best performance is by the Melos Ensemble but that may only be available in a box set. Other recordings, such as on Naxos, are fine too.

Besides the String Quartet in B flat major and the Clarinet Quintet, the Oboe Quintet is another chamber piece I know of him and it's pretty engaging indeed. I've only heard the Naxos recording.

[JBS]

Combining aspects of some of the preceding posts
Bernstein (mostly as conductor)
Uses the original covers for the CD jackets where applicable
Contains a CD devoted to Milhaud
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CD 1, Symphonie Fantastique

[Symphonic Addict]

A composer who thank Toccata Classics has seen the light of the day. The idiom of the works is related to Raff, Strauss, Schmidt (though more conservative in harmony) and perhaps Reznicek. Both works are satisfying, well-written, but undoutedly the Symphony No. 1 in F minor is the winner. I hope this label will record more works of this composer. What I heard deserves more exposure.

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And yet again:

Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, "The Age Of Anxiety"
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

[vers la flamme]

Igor Stravinsky: Apollo. Robert Craft, London Symphony Orchestra. This work is not terribly unlike the Wind Octet or the Symphonies for Wind Instruments: Stravinsky at his most detached, conceptual, and prototypically Neoclassical. It's enjoyable, but I find it challenging compared to some of his later works, from after he had developed the style further.

[j winter]

Classic

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Igor Stravinsky: Apollo. Robert Craft, London Symphony Orchestra. This work is not terribly unlike the Wind Octet or the Symphonies for Wind Instruments: Stravinsky at his most detached, conceptual, and prototypically Neoclassical. It's enjoyable, but I find it challenging compared to some of his later works, from after he had developed the style further.

I have an opposite reaction than you do. I find this to be one of the Stravinsky's more heart-rendering works. Apotheosis is one of most gorgeous moments in music I've ever heard. This is heart-on-sleeve Stravinsky if there ever were such a thing. Detached? This isn't what I hear at all. It's always interesting how listeners hear the same work differently.

[JBS]

SQs 5, 11, 12
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Bernstein
West Side Story
Larry Kert (vocal), Mickey Calin (vocal), Carol Lawrence (vocal), Elizabeth Taylor (vocal), Carmen Gutierrez (vocal), Reri Grist (vocal), Ken Le Roy (vocal), Marilyn Cooper (vocal), Chita Rivera (vocal)
Max Goberman



Obviously, this blows the DG recording away. I think Bernstein's choice of vocalists, especially Carreras, in that recording was a poor decision on his part, which I believe he admitted to later on.