What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Thanks. Listening right now. Very beautiful indeed.

Greatest living pianist. Greatest Chopinist on record.

[Todd]

Meh.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra
A Survivor from Warsaw

Franz Mazura (narrator)
Simon Rattle & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sinfonia Antartica

Alison Hargan, soprano
Ian Tracey, organ
RLPO - Vernon Handley

VS


Antarctic Sledging, one of Scott's party prepares for a night away from base (1903), EA Wilson

[Todd]

Pump up the volume.

[Cato]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

I thought this was an excellent performance!  What did you think?

[Madiel]

Haydn op.17, the E flat major.



Most congenial.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Symphony no.9



Maybe a jump forward several years from no.8 (though there are probably some symphonies in between) to a sparkling C major symphony. Or maybe it's not that much later at all, apparently it's all a bit uncertain. It does feel like the level of sophistication is increasing.

[Linz]

I thought this was an excellent performance!  What did you think?

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz I Believe it is very good at Bruckner and Denniis Russell Davies is able to deliver

[Madiel]

I'm listening to Billie Eilish, but it turns out she's performing Holst!

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/holst/billie-eilish-goldwing-hymn/

[Que]

Since my listening yesterday was cut short, returning to this:



One of the nicest recordings by Hopkinson Smith that I've heard.

[Florestan]

Greatest living pianist. Greatest Chopinist on record.

That's an exaggeration,. There are many contenders for both positions.

[Florestan]

BTW, anyone looking for a new avatar? The cover of this CD is perfectly in line with the latest GMG trends and fashions, and is up for grabs!

Indeed. 

[vandermolen]

Bliss: A Colour Symphony
BBC Welsh SO, Barry Wordsworth
A fine interpretation:

[AnotherSpin]

Greatest living pianist. Greatest Chopinist on record.

Are you serious?

[Que]

Terrific recording.

[Mandryka]

Are you serious?

Well, I was when I typed it, but I'd just drunk a bottle of Chinon, and I'm slightly regretting the binge this morning. Thank goodness for Alka Seltzer.

[AnotherSpin]

Well, I was when I typed it, but I'd just drunk a bottle of Chinon, and I'm slightly regretting the binge this morning. Thank goodness for Alka Seltzer.

I think a bottle of red in this case would only increase my aversion. I've known this pianist for a long time. Years ago, I went to his concerts, bought his CDs. But I always had a strange feeling about him. I made an effort, but time after time I was left with a strange, unpleasant aftertaste. In India they call such state tamasic - dark, heavy, lethargic. Maybe the problem is me, no contact. In any case, I gave up trying.

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Mass in D, op.86. First listen I think to the original version with organ.