What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

[Todd]

Precisely as kick-ass as I expected.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons

[Linz]

Debussy La Mer, Malcolm Sargent BBC Symphony Orchestra
Chausson Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Janet Baker London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Ravel Shéhérazade, Margaret Price BBC Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent

[Bachtoven]

This CD arrived today. I had not heard of Ukrainian pianst Vitalij Margulis until I watched a YT video comparing performances of Chopin's Etude Op.10 No.2, and I really liked the way he played it. Apparently there must be two versions of it: The one I ordered from Discogs has 14 tracks, the last being Polonaise No.6. Mine has 12 tracks, is missing two Etudes, and has the Op.49 Fantasy played by Peter Schmalfuss instead of the Polonaise! (The cover lists the Fantasy.) He's a perfectly good pianist, but I'd prefer to hear Margulis play it. I don't know why the label released two version of it. The sound is a bit brittle/glassy, but otherwise pretty good.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Guitar Recital: Dimitri Illarionov.

[VonStupp]

Alexander Scriabin
Fantasy for piano and orchestra

Viktoria Postnikova, piano
Residentie Orkest The Hague
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Coincidentally I'm with Rozhy too. Prokofiev SY4-2.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Oresteia is a masterpiece, which should be better known!  Let me recommend the Second Symphony and the cantata At the Reading of a Psalm, the latter a very dramatic and powerful experience!

I'm familiar with those works. The 2nd Symphony is good overall, but I prefer the 4th on the recording I posted.

[Symphonic Addict]

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony and Symphony No. 5

Bernstein said about Manfred that it is trash. Complete nonsense IMO, this is a spectacular work. For the inner movements alone I rank this work very high, they are sheer magic and show Tchaikovsky as the master orchestrator he was. As to the 5th, Ormandy and the Philadelphians do it right to my ears. There are some passages in many performances where I am not convinced, but here it doesn't happen. A glorious account without a doubt.

[Linz]

Ottorino Respighi/b] The Pines of Rome
Hector Berlioz Le Carnaval romain, Op. 9: Overture
Franz Liszt Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

[Karl Henning]

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony and Symphony No. 5

Bernstein said about Manfred that it is trash. Complete nonsense IMO, this is a spectacular work. For the inner movements alone I rank this work very high, they are sheer magic and show Tchaikovsky as the master orchestrator he was. As to the 5th, Ormandy and the Philadelphians do it right to my ears. There are some passages in many performances where I am not convinced, but here it doesn't happen. A glorious account without a doubt.

Lenny was one of the greats, but nobody gets it right all the time. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Lyapunov: Piano Sonata in F minor and Piano Sonatina in D-flat major

Finding much pleasure exploring piano sonatas and sonatinas by different composers.

[JBS]

Tell of the bargain!

Arkivmusic had it as a weekend special about three weeks ago.
$139 including shipping and sales tax.

TD
In fact more Mitropoulos at the moment, conducting the Minneapolis [now the Minnesota] S.O. in Milhaud's Le Bœuf sur le toit, Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, and Couperin's Overture and Allegro from the sonata La Sultane, all recorded in 1945; topped off by Henri Rebaud's La Procession nocturne Op. 6, with the New York Philharmonic in a 1950 recording.

I don't think I have ever heard the Rebaud work before. In fact I don't think I have ever heard of M. Rebaud before.

[Karl Henning]

Arkivmusic had it as a weekend special about three weeks ago.
$139 including shipping and sales tax.

TD
In fact more Mitropoulos at the moment, conducting the Minneapolis [now the Minnesota] S.O. in Milhaud's Le Bœuf sur le toit, Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, and Couperin's Overture and Allegro from the sonata La Sultane, all recorded in 1945; topped off by Henri Rebaud's La Procession nocturne Op. 6, with the New York Philharmonic in a 1950 recording.

I don't think I have ever heard the Rebaud work before. In fact I don't think I have ever heard of M. Rebaud before.

Well snagged!

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Irons]

Coincidentally I'm with Rozhy too. Prokofiev SY4-2.

That makes three of us! Great minds....

[Traverso]

Music for Prince Charles

[Traverso]

Unfortunately it was impossible to listen to  it till the end due to the bronzing or disc rot.

[Harry]

Unfortunately it was impossible to listen to at the end due to the bronzing or disc rot.

You can still ask Hyperion for a replacement. I did and they gave me a new one.