What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Antoine Forqueray Jay Bernfeld viola da gamba,  Skip Sempé Harpsichord

[ritter]

Music for solo instruments or chamber ensemble (with or without vocals) by René Leibowitz, spanning the years 1937 - 1971.

CD 1 of this set (detailed contents):

[JBS]

I will have to look into the Krenek piece.

Oddly the streaming version doesn't include verklarte nacht, which is not in the cover art. I guess it is organized differently in the CD set.

The recording date was several years later, so I assume Sony threw it on to fill up the CD.
Amazon has it under the English title.

[Lisztianwagner]

Schönberg's solo piano music, Pollini definitely gave a stunning interpretation of those works:

Arnold Schönberg
Three Pieces, Op.11
Six Little Pieces, Op.19
Five Piano Pieces, Op.23
Suite for Piano, Op.25
Piano Piece Op. 33a/33b

Pianist: Maurizio Pollini

[Todd]

[ritter]

Some early Boulez: the Sonatine for flute and piano, and the Première sonate for piano. Sophie Cherrier (flute) and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano).

[Linz]

Bruckmer Symphony No 7 in E Major, 1885 Original Version. Ed. Robert Haas,  Gewandhausorchester, Herbert Blomstedt

[Bachtoven]

More Bruckner! No.4

[foxandpeng]

Sunleif Rasmussen
Symphony 1 'Oceanic Days'
Hannu Lintu
Danish NSO
Dacapo

Great music.

[Symphonic Addict]

Novák: Nikotina - Ballet-pantomime

This simply is a hell of a ballet. It has to be one as one of his most vividly colourful and exotic scores. A sovereign delight from the very beginning. Recommended.

[Spotted Horses]

Some early Boulez: the Sonatine for flute and piano, and the Première sonate for piano. Sophie Cherrier (flute) and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano).

My favorite CD of Boulez' music.

[brewski]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Abbado / Lucerne Festival Orchestra, live recording from 2007).

I mean, #Abbado4Ever.

-Bruce

[JBS]

Gunther Schuller: Symphony for Brass and Percussion*
J.J. Johnson: Poem for Brass**
John Lewis: Three Little Feelings**
Jimmy Giuffre: Pharoah**

Brass Ensemble of the Jazz and Classical Music Society
*conducted by Dmitri Mitropolous
**conducted by Gunther Schuller

Soloists: Miles Davis, flugelhorn and trumpet
J.J.Johnson: trombone
Joe Wilder: trumpet
Recorded June 14, 1956

This is one of the CDs in Sony Mitropolous Complete Recordings set. The track listings and liner note are not clear, but I think Davis, Johnson, and Wilder participated only in the three shorter pieces. At any rate, the Symphony seems much less jazz oriented.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Works Vol. 14, Gerhard Weinberger, Wagner Organ Dom Brandenburg

[lordlance]

Not today but yesterday, for the first time, I sort of enjoyed his first three violin sonatas. Not my cuppa usually but I was exploring the fortepiano so decided to hear the Beethoven violin sonatas on fortepianos and I was not actively turned off for once:

[Que]

A recording from 2007 that I didn't know of. With recordings by this ensemble the participation of its leader - Dominique Visse - is always a possible liability. An issue that has progressed over the years. But sofar it seems OK. Gorgeous music!

[AnotherSpin]

Added: I haven't listened to the end, and I'm unlikely to try again this or any other Bruckner with Inbal.

[AnotherSpin]

String Quartet No. 14

[Que]

Not today but yesterday, for the first time, I sort of enjoyed his first three violin sonatas. Not my cuppa usually but I was exploring the fortepiano so decided to hear the Beethoven violin sonatas on fortepianos and I was not actively turned off for once:

The main issue with using a modern concert grand in pre 20th c. chamber music is IMO the balance (with the other instruments).

For those deterred by the sound of the fortepiano, these excellent recordings (personal favourites!) featuring a beautiful 1845 Rosenberger pianoforte might offer a happy medium:

 

[Que]

Well, that is a breath of fresh air! 
Basically the perfect Elizabethan lute recital.

And, rationalising me purchasing it on disc, it comes with a very nice booklet.