What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Mahler

Symphony No.4

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Great CD Manabu!

Yes, colorful and exotic music!

[bhodges]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 (Abbado/LSO, recorded live in Royal Festival Hall, June 1977) - Was craving this symphony and wanted to give another performance a try, other than Chailly/Concertgebouw (fave so far).

Wow, as if I didn't admire Abbado enough, along comes this.

-Bruce

[vandermolen]

Arthur Butterworth: Symphony No.4
A fine symphony if a little derivative of Sibelius (he seems to quote from 'The Tempest' at one point. Also, Bax and VW come to mind. Even so, this is a powerful and brooding work of considerable originality:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Eberl: Piano Sonatas & Variations. Sayuri Nagoya.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.10

Riccardo Chailly & Radio Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

[kyjo]

Langgaard: Symphony No. 3 Ungdonsbrus - La Melodia

One of my favorites by him. The final chorus always gives me goosebumps.

Indeed, I listened to this symphony recently as well and really enjoyed it - I hadn't remembered how good it is! The combination of piano soloist, chorus, and orchestra is quite inspiriting and compelling.

[kyjo]

Stanford: Irish Rhapsody #2, "The Lament for the Son of Ossian"
Handley: Ulster

A mostly beautiful piece based on Irish folk music, with some angry outbursts.

A wonderfully dramatic and atmospheric work, with the "angry outbursts" you mention being quite uncharacteristic for the typically mild-mannered Stanford. The 6 Irish Rhapsodies represent Stanford (a frustratingly uneven composer) at his very best IMO.

[Que]

Christmas Music from the old Hungary.
Clemencic Consort, Rene Clemencic.

Really a lot of fun, and a superb recording and surprising music.

Georg Philipp Telemann.
Cantatas de noel.
Hosianna! Dieses soll die losung sein.
O, Jesu Christ, dein kriplein ist.
Uns ist ein kind geboren.
Maria Zadori, Judit Nemeth, Gabor Kallay, Klaus Mertens.
Capella Savaria, Pal Nemeth.

Also a favourite Christmas CD of us, primarily because we are great fans of Maria Zadori, one of the best sopranos that ever graced our earth.

Nice pickings, Harry!

[kyjo]

Rochberg: String Quartet No. 3

A monumental and arresting work. Among the string quartets by American composers, this has to be one of the best.

Absolutely! The contrast between the more astringent music in the outer movements and music of Beethovenian eloquence in the slow movement is so unique and compelling. I can say with some confidence that it's my favorite string quartet by an American composer.

[kyjo]

I was listening to the same work on this recording:



Whereas the music flows beautifully throughout and is very atmospheric, it also tends to be too much contemplative most of the time for my taste. Not my favorite Franck I fear. 

You won't be surprised to find that I agree with you. I'm disappointed by this work every time I try it, even in such a good recording. Not only does it lack excitement and contrast, but it also lacks the sensuality I would expect from a work on this topic, to my ears anyway.

[kyjo]

Atterberg: Orchestral Works,

Anna Larsson (soprano) & Olle Persson (baritone)-Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus, Neeme Järvi

Pounds the table! Count me in as a fan of the oft-maligned 7th Symphony.

[Todd]

D664.  Nice, but I demand more lyricism.

[Brian]

The Kubelik DG Big Box arrived yesterday. This weekend so far:

Mahler 4 (Bavaria)
Dvorak Legends (English Chamber Orch)
Beethoven 8 (Cleveland)

D664.  Nice, but I demand more lyricism.

I think he spells it llyricism.

[Todd]

I think he spells it llyricism.

Post of the day.

[vers la flamme]

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, op.111. Pi-hsien Chen

Haven't heard this in a few years. I really like this recording.

[Todd]

Disc six, Dvorak  Opp 51 & 105.

[Bachtoven]

[Bachtoven]

Fantastic playing and sound. (DSD256)

[Bachtoven]