What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

Pierne: Chamber Music Vol. 2

Soloists from Luxemberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Delightfull music for the Monday afthernoon

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Rautavaara Symphony No.8 'The Journey':

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Aram Ilich Khachaturian's Spartacus 
    Aram Khachaturian, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the very first LPs I was ever bought as an 8 year-old! Happily, the CD version is somewhat less scratched to pieces!

That was a famous old LP!

[Harry]

Julius Rontgen.
CD I.
Symphonies No.7/14/12.
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, David Porcelijn.

Top drawer Rontgen.

[Linz]

Haydn 2032 Il Giardino Armonico Vol. 10

[André]

Kodaly's most famous orchestral works in excellent sound and flavourful performances. Hary Janos in particular sparkles and delights like few other versions do. The Song movement is simply magical, and the cymbalom player is enchanting throughout.

[Harry]

George Enescu.

Violin Concerto.
Phantasy for Piano & Orchestra.

Carolin Widmann, Violin.
Luiza Borac, Piano.
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Peter Ruzicka

[aligreto]

Kodaly:





Dances of Marosszek: The music is both dramatic and atmospheric and it is also a story well told.
Theatre Overture: I find this to be an interesting work. Here is more storytelling from Kodaly. He paints wonderful sound pictures for me which fills my imagination with heroic struggles. I really like that aspect of his music.

[Traverso]

Mozart, Symphonies 16 to 18, all written in the same month.



EDIT: I've been sticking with this album for a while now when streaming early symphonies, and I'm consistently happy with it. I think that when I get around to purchases this will be something I look for.

This is a fine box with well played Mozart symphonies.

[Karl Henning]

CD 50

w/ Chas Neidich

Although Neidich is a superb clarinetist, of course, this disc is something of a chore for me.

Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto № 1 in f minor, Op. 73
Clarinet Concertino in E^b, Op. 26

Gioachino Rossini
Introduction, Theme & Variations in E^b

Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto № 2 in E^b, Op. 74

Well, I happily withdraw the "chore." I posted in ignorance. Somehow, and in spite of the von Weber being (as our Jeffrey said of the Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia) corn to CRB's sickle, I had never actually heard the First Clarinet Concerto before. wonderfully dramatic!

[Karl Henning]

Leonard Bernstein: Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, Players & Dancers. Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, with Jubilant Sykes in the main vocal solo role

This sounds excellent! Alsop does not stray far from Bernstein's own recording interpretively, which should not come as a surprise; she was something of a protégé to the maestro. As for the work itself, it's absolutely brilliant; I must say, it's the work that sold me on Bernstein's greatness (as a composer). Sure, it's goofy. But it's a goofy masterpiece.

I once poo-pooed the Mass, but those days are done. I love it, whatever the occasional "inconsistency."

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Messe de la Pentecote

Livre D'Orgue

Hans-Ola Ericsson

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Casella
La Giara, Op. 41
Riccardo Caruso, tenor
Orchestra I.C.O. Lecce
Marco Balderi



The suite of La Giara is quite good, but it's so nice hearing the complete version of it as so much great music is always left out in these suites. Excellent performance and sound quality, too.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I happily withdraw the "chore." I posted in ignorance. Somehow, and in spite of the von Weber being (as our Jeffrey said of the Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia) corn to CRB's sickle, I had never actually heard the First Clarinet Concerto before. wonderfully dramatic!

Ah! A clarification: I had indeed heard the last movement of the von Weber f minor Concerto on CRB. So, it isn't as though the Safe-as-White-Bread Classics station has neglected it

[aligreto]

This is a fine box with well played Mozart symphonies.

+1

[Florestan]

Well, I happily withdraw the "chore." I posted in ignorance. Somehow, and in spite of the von Weber being (as our Jeffrey said of the Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia) corn to CRB's sickle, I had never actually heard the First Clarinet Concerto before. wonderfully dramatic!

Very good, Karl! Weber had a knack for clarinet music.

What is CRB, though? And which of our Jeffreys?

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Dallapiccola
Variazioni
BBC PO
Noseda

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Khachaturian Film Music. Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Cantatas BWV 81 & 14 (Gardiner)

[Mandryka]

Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957. Peter Schreier, András Schiff

This is really, really good. Schreier had a beautiful voice, very technically proficient; excellent intonation. Plus, Schiff/Schreier/Schubert/Schwanengesang is an amazing alliteration. This collaboration was written in the stars.

I like it mainly because it's relatively unselfconscious, intimate and not too heavy - even in songs like Stadt and Doppelgänger, I prefer that approach to, for example, FiDi's.

I wonder if you would like also the recent Julian Pregardien Schwanengesang.