What are you listening 2 now?

[Cato]

For some reason, the box splits this set, so the second disc is disc fifteen, devoted to Dvorak and Komarova

I have never heard of Tatjana Komarova (not to be confused with Tatiana Komarova or Tatyana Komarova: very different results with those letters!).


Here is a recent piano work:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wagner music, Reiner/Chicago.

[Brian]

Brilliant playing and great sound.

Turnaround time from you recommending this to me listening is 13 hours  just putting it on now.

[Cato]

Ah, after cleaning my glasses, I see that cpo has vastly improved its artwork for the CD's!  😇

[Florestan]

Another peach, sleeper and Florestan's Stamp of Approval. 

[Florestan]

Ah, after cleaning my glasses, I see that cpo has vastly improved its artwork for the CD's!  😇

Clivia Clay aus USA!

Hell, yeah, keep the babes coming, cpo!

 

[Bachtoven]

Turnaround time from you recommending this to me listening is 13 hours  just putting it on now.

I hope you like it!

[Brian]

I hope you like it!

I did indeed. Appreciated how clearly you can hear the interplay between the two musicians.

[SonicMan46]

Couperin, Francois (1668-1733) - Chamber Music from the recordings below, but hard to beat the 'one-time shopping' 7-disc box with Jed Wentz and his gang (reviews mixed on Amazon but several very good ones from elsewhere - see attachment); about half the box is duplicated by the lower recordings.  F. Couperin's music shown in the list at the bottom - harpsichord (and piano versions) up next -    Dave

 

 

F. Couperin Compositions (Source)
Harpsichord (4 Books; 27 Ordres)
Chamber Music
  Trio Sonatas - Six Works (ca. 1690)
  Quartet Sonata (ca. 1695)
  Les Concerts Royaux, Nos.1-4 (1714)
  Nouveaux Concerts (Les goûts réunis), Nos.5-14 (1724)
  Les Nations - Trio Sonatas, Four Works (1726)
  Apothéoses - Trio Sonatas, Two Works (1724-25)
  Pièces de violet - Two Suites (1728)
Sacred Vocal, many including Lecons de ténèbres
Secular Vocal

[Brian]

Some romantic piano shorts (and a 24-minute sonata at the end of the disc) for background music while working today...

[VonStupp]

A Russian Birthday
Shostakovich Quartet

While the idea of collective compositions isn't new to me, I can't say I have sought any out before.
VS

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink

[Cato]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink

What do you think of the set?  I believe that performance is considered one of the best or ...?

[Brian]

Some romantic piano shorts (and a 24-minute sonata at the end of the disc) for background music while working today...

This wasn't working for me. Needed something with more bold color.

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 2
Owain Arwel Hughes
Aarhus SO
BIS

[Lisztianwagner]

Arthur Honegger
Concerto da camera for Flute, Cor Anglais & String Orchestra

Bohuslav Martinů
Oboe Concerto

Heinz Holliger (oboe), Aurèle Nicolet (flute)
Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

[Florestan]

This wasn't working for me. Needed something with more bold color.

Apples and oranges, @Brian, apples and oranges --- and you know it only too well! 

[Symphonic Addict]

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 3 and 4

A great Third and Ormandy took some licenza to add cymbals in the movements 1 and 5. It works, but I prefer the piece without them. The Fourth is the weakest rendition so far.

[Bachtoven]

Two virtuoso guitarists team up for some mind-blowing playing. Works by Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Cimarosa, Rodrigo, and Bach-Busoni (Chaconne). Great sound, too.

[Iota]

Beethoven: Eroica Symphony

On to the Third now, after the Fifth a couple of days ago, and like that later symphony, greatly enjoyed. Manacorda seems to have the knack of starting both very naturally, as if they're just two pieces for your perusal, rather than the two awe-inspiring icons they obviously are, and ones that have yet to reveal and prove themselves. This has a real liberating effect on proceedings, and the music flourishes in such a breath of fresh air. Music that I have known well for fifty years feels new again, and that's pretty thrilling.