What are you listening 2 now?

[prémont]

Happy birthday Traverso and Oli!!!

And from me too.

[vers la flamme]

Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan violin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul van Kempen

[Traverso]

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan violin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul van Kampen

Nice recording but it is Paul van Kempen,I listened earlier to his Eroica 

[Mandryka]

And from me too.

And me!

[Papy Oli]

Thank you all 

First listen to one of the birthday boys :

Gavin Bryars - Hommages

1.My First Hommage
2.The English Mail-Coach
3.The Vespertine Park
4.Hi-Tremolo

https://www.youtube.com/v/s-nkOotvOsg

[Biffo]

Nice recording but it is Paul van Kempen,I listened earlier to his Eroica 

It is now!

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Les Corps glorieux
Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace

[Traverso]

It is now!

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Symphony No. 8.

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[aukhawk]

Benjamin Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, op.10. Benjamin Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.

A demonstration-quality recording in its day, capturing the Maltings in the brief interlude between its opening as a concert venue with legendary acoustic, and its burning down 2 years later.

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major - Pierre Monteux conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - a breathtaking performance, especially the Finale with the 86 year old Monteux showing how it should be done

[Papy Oli]

A demonstration-quality recording in its day, capturing the Maltings in the brief interlude between its opening as a concert venue with legendary acoustic, and its burning down 2 years later.

And the view from where he is sitting isn't too bad either

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/SWWXZGa5sVE

A very valuable youtube upload with Horatio Radulescu's strange final quartet, the 6th. I don't think it has ever been available commercially. I think it's very good.

[San Antone]

I like everything about this recording, from the cover art to the performance.  Excellent addition to the Bernstein catalog.

If pressed to say which work Symphony No. 2 resembles, I'd say the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F.  I wonder why Bernstein chose "symphony" instead of "concerto"?

[Mirror Image]

Happy Birthday, Traverso!

[André]

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major - Pierre Monteux conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - a breathtaking performance, especially the Finale with the 86 year old Monteux showing how it should be done

+ 1. Truly terrific. As are the 5th and the Concertgebouw 3rd.

[San Antone]

The CDs in this series are all very good, IMO.

[Mirror Image]

@Mirror Image. I'm slowly becoming fascinated with Britten and his dark and unusual music. Which is the best recording of the Sea Interludes, according to you? As a matter of fact, this is an open ended question, if anybody else would like to chime in.

I've got many fine performances of the Four Sea Interludes, but my favorite is probably Previn with LSO on EMI (Warner Classics). I'm not sure if this recording has been recently reissued or not. I don't really listen to this work very often, though.

[ritter]

Some Ravel today. CD 9 of this set:

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The CD contains two pieces I adore (La valse and, most particularly, Le tombeau de Couperin), one I really don't like at all (Tzigane), and one I'm rather indifferent to (the Rapsodie espagnole). And then there's Boléro which is, well, Boléro   (I love it, particularly after having seen it danced by the Béjart ballet--the most sensual ballet I've ever seen).

I must admit that Ansermet is making a very good point for the Rapsodie, with a Prélude à la nuit which is exemplary. The sound, though, is dryish--as is often the case with these Ansermet / OSR recordings--and subpar even for its late 50s vintage.

The CD ends with a small lagniappe, the Caplet orchestration of Debussy's Clair de lune (from the Suite bergamasque).