What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Maurice Ravel Complete Piano Works, Gaspard de la nuit.3 poèmes pour piano, Jeux d'eaux, Sonatine 1, 2 &  3, Miroirs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5   

[Spotted Horses]

Toch, String Quartet No 10



More forward looking in its construction than the quartet No 7. I really liked the angular first movement, and the slow second movement, progressing from homophonic voice leading, the gentle tapestry of melody, to an intense central section, before more or less retracing it's steps. The third movement is a bit tongue in cheek and the finals is a fun affair, all over the place in temp and mood.

[Spotted Horses]

Mozart's 38th



I had not realized that Leinsdorf recorded a whole set.

From the mono era?

[DavidW]

From the mono era?

The late symphonies are in mono, the early in stereo.  The 38th is in mono, good mono though.

[DavidW]

Shockingly dull Manfred.  I thought Previn wouldn't let me down.  I'll switch to Jurowski when I'm home.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No.1

Pavel Haas Quartet

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche, Remy Ballot, Altomonte Orchester St. Florian

[Leo K.]

Schumann String Quartet No.1

Melos Quartet/DG Label

[Spotted Horses]

The late symphonies are in mono, the early in stereo.  The 38th is in mono, good mono though.

I discovered I can stream it. What mainly surprises me is that an entire Mozart Symphony Cycle on a major label can exist that didn't know about.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Maurice Ravel Complete Piano Works, Gaspard de la nuit.3 poèmes pour piano, Jeux d'eaux, Sonatine 1, 2 &  3, Miroirs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5   

I love that set! 

PD

[DavidW]

Which is so odd because British novels of that era are all about people getting murdered!

Between those novels and the past 30 years or so of murder mysteries, I think everyone in Great Britain has been murdered three times over!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The late symphonies are in mono, the early in stereo.  The 38th is in mono, good mono though.

I have a number of sets from that series; I'm sure that the Leinsdorf would be a good one.  Drat, I wish that I had it. 

PD

[DavidW]

I discovered I can stream it. What mainly surprises me is that an entire Mozart Symphony Cycle on a major label can exist that didn't know about.

I didn't know about either until Florestan mentioned it on the Mozart thread in the context of the 38th.

[ritter]

I discovered I can stream it. What mainly surprises me is that an entire Mozart Symphony Cycle on a major label can exist that didn't know about.

You are not alone... I read these were recorded by Westminster, and that the "Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London" is a pseudonym for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (probably for contractual reasons).

Before the DG Original Masters CD release, the set was issued on twofers (as far as I can see) on MCA, but those releases were notoriously sloppy (I have some Scherchen CDs on that label, also from the Westminster catalogue).

I'll certainly keep an eye out for this. IMHO, Leinsdorf had a way with Mozart (I recently revisited —and enjoyed— his Così fan tutte on RCA / Sony).

[Brian]

Between those novels and the past 30 years or so of murder mysteries, I think everyone in Great Britain has been murdered three times over!

Before we went to the UK earlier this year we were watching Midsomer Murders and my girlfriend said "Wow, British people aren't very nice!"   

But of course the only people worse than small town Brits in crime shows are American visitors in British crime shows!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Isa Krejčí: Serenade for Orchestra and Symphony No. 2.

[Steinway D]

[SimonNZ]

[ritter]

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By the way, I'm not familar with the label FY.  What can you tell me about it?

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PD

Sorry for the delayed reply, PD. I can't tell you much about that label (I think the on,y CD of theirs I own is the Lefébure I mentioned in my post). FY and Solstice are the same setup, though: https://www.solstice-music.com/en/home

[vers la flamme]

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125. Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard Chorus, soloists

A very good 9th in my book.