What are you listening 2 now?

[Undersea]

Currently listening to:




Vivaldi: Gloria in excelsis deo, RV 588


Downloaded the above Box-set earlier in the week and have listened to several "Discs" worth - I am very pleased so far...

[Mandryka]

Exquisite modern piano playing, melodious and nuanced and elegant in the great tradition rather than the HIP tradition. Particularly impressive ornamentation. Delicate rather then virile, sometimes psychologically deep.  Needs good speakers (the sound is excellent) and a state of mind where you're ready to give it attention rather than expect it to grab your attention.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Dvorak - Hussite Overture op.67
From the Rowicki box.

[Que]

Morning listening:



 

[Papy Oli]

Fauré - Piano Trio in D

(From the Brilliant chamber music box)

[vandermolen]

Good Morning from me too!
A bracing start to another chilly day.
Langgaard: Symphony No.4

[Irons]

Alwyn: 3rd Symphony.

A fine symphony and excellent performance from Hickox with a Chandos recording to match. But I find I dial in more with Alwyn the composer through his works with smaller forces and freed from a symphonic straightjacket.
Alwyn's piano works have been a revelation, pieces like 'Night Thoughts' and 'Movements for Piano' where Alwyn's imagination takes flight. Chandos are mistaken though in claiming 'Sonata ala toccata' to be a premiere recording as Sheila Randell recorded it in 1960 for Lyrita. 'Fantasy-Waltzes' at 35 minutes his most substantial and important work for piano,  'Three Winter Poems' for string quartet is as the title suggests a winter landscape. The third movement Adagio of the 1st String Quartet is the  most beautiful I have heard from Alwyn, or anyone else come to that.   

[Undersea]

Currently:



Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9


Another recent addition to my collection - I greatly enjoy Schumann's Piano Music, especially this piece.

[Que]

The complete Dowland set is hard to resist - such an embarrassement of riches!

[Harry]

The complete Dowland set is hard to resist - such an embarrassement of riches!

Yes isn't it rather

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Symphony No.2

Sir John Barbirolli & Hallé Orchestra

[Tsaraslondon]

The second disc in this three disc collection of Karajan's New Viennese School recordings, is absolutely stunning, the playing and orchestral textures intoxicatingly beautiful, both the Berg and the Schoenberg.
 

[vandermolen]

Dyson: Violin Concerto
I've owned this CD for ages but don't know it at all. Following a recommendation here I am now playing it and finding the Violin Concerto to be very impressive:

[vandermolen]

Streaming Qobuz. Recommendation from Jeffrey.

Edward Elgar.
Cello Concerto op.85 for Viola & Orchester.
Ernest Bloch.
Suite for Viola & Orchester.

Timothy Ridout, Viola.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins.

The Suite by Bloch is indeed very moving like Jeffrey said and very well played.

I'm delighted that you think so Harry. I have several recordings of the work but this is by far the best.

[Lisztianwagner]

The second disc in this three disc collection of Karajan's New Viennese School recordings, is absolutely stunning, the playing and orchestral textures intoxicatingly beautiful, both the Berg and the Schoenberg.

I love that Karajan set too, there are such impressive, powerfully thrilling recordings, I hope you'll enjoy the rest! Karajan was famous to look for a beautiful, accurate sound in his performances, but he was masterfully able to deal with the strong, angular contrasts of the Second Viennese School as well.

[Operafreak]

 


Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53 'L'Impériale', 73 'La Chasse' & 79

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

[Que]

Revisiting old favourites - last disc of this set:

[vandermolen]

Sergei Rachmaninov's
Symphony No. 2

Mariss Jansons, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

I just bought that set and have been enjoying it despite the absence of 'The Bells'.

TD
Walton Symphony No.1
An underrated performance:

[Traverso]

Bach


Das Wohltemperierte Klavier 1

[Todd]