What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

East of Melancholy - Tara Kamangar.
A Harvard graduate Iranian-American pianist plays Eastern European and Iranian compositions.

[Harry]

Hendrik Andriessen.
Complete Orchestral works.
Volume I.
Symphony No.I.
Ballet Suite.
Symphonic Etude.
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Johann Kuhnau.
Netherlands SO, David Porcelijn.

As far as Dutch composers go, Andriessen is on top of my list. The CPO recordings are excellent and Porcelijn is a conductor that has this composer in his veins.

[Florestan]

Incredibly fun recording!

[Brahmsian]

Composer : Dmitri Shostakovich
Recording : The Tale of the Priest and his Worker, Balda (Sanderling - 2006)
Performers : Thomas Sanderling, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, The Moscow State Chamber Choir

Shostakovich at his quirkiest, most satirical. Great fun.

Hmmm, I am not familiar with this work, but am intrigued. I love quirky and satirical Shostakovich.

[Todd]

[vandermolen]

Hendrik Andriessen.
Complete Orchestral works.
Volume I.
Symphony No.I.
Ballet Suite.
Symphonic Etude.
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Johann Kuhnau.
Netherlands SO, David Porcelijn.

As far as Dutch composers go, Andriessen is on top of my list. The CPO recordings are excellent and Porcelijn is a conductor that has this composer in his veins.

Mine too Harry!

[Traverso]

Bach


Die Französischen Suiten 4-5 & 6

[Harry]

Alexander Arutiunian.
Violin Concerto.
Sinfonietta.
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra.
Ilya Grubert, Violin.
Narine Arutiunian, Piano.
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian.


Twas long ago that I have played this disc (1998), and I clearly forgot how good the music is, plus the fantastic recording is amazing. The performers are all contributing to result. Arutiunian is a composer almost forgotten, which is a shame, for he is an exponent of a long tradition of Armenian composers that need to be heard.

[Harry]

The English Orpheus, Volume 28.
Charles Avison.
12 Concerti Grossi 1744, after Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.
CD I.
Concerto No. 1-6.
The Brandenburg Concert, Roy Goodman.
Recorded in 1994.

Fine performances of these concertos. Tony Faulkner made pristine recordings of them

[Florestan]

Exceptional! I have yet to hear a bad recording from Opera Rara.

[DavidW]

[Papy Oli]

An assortment of D. Scarlatti's sonatas by Maria Tipo

[Operafreak]

 Strauss & Zemlinsky

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine

[71 dB]

Johann Kuhnau - Complete Sacred Works Vol. 5 - Opella Musica/camerata lipsiensis/Gregor Meyer - CPO 555 260-2

[Traverso]

Bach


Cantatas...... In tempore Nativitatis but whatever   

[Brian]

Read up some on both Seiji Ozawa's legacy (including lists of his most acclaimed recordings) and the controversy that surrounded his final decade in Boston (basically that he did almost nothing in rehearsal and created a culture of sloppy playing and the orchestra trying to guess his intentions).

I'm not sure what happened or changed towards the end, but it sure sounds like the first 15+ years of the Ozawa/Boston marriage were electric and exciting. Certainly this recording is a lot more interesting to me, personally, than the bloated Bach arrangements on the Salonen/Sony album.

[Todd]

[ritter]

First listen to this new arrival (and to any music by Muzio Clementi, at least that I can remember):



Enjoyable!

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:

Sergei Rachmaninov
Francesca da Rimini

Neeme Jarvi & Goteborgs Symfoniker

[Symphonic Addict]

Vasks: Cello Concerto No. 2 'Klatbutne'

Marvelous work.