What are you listening 2 now?

[NumberSix]

Hilary Hahn: Brahms Concerto

[Todd]

Stickin' with the Koosh for a bit longer.

[NumberSix]

Following that wonderful Hilly Hahn Brahms performance, YouTube gave me Old Man Lenny doing Mozart No. 25 with Vienna.

Every time I hear that symphony, I want to run and put on AMADEUS. 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Wolfgang Sawallisch

[Symphonic Addict]

I especially love Héroïde funèbre!

Me too! And that rendition is the broadest one on record AFAIK, yet it doesn't feel too long.

[SonicMan46]

Krommer, Franz - Flute & Oboe for the afternoon on the recordings below - believe all wind performers on modern instruments - Dave

[Linz]

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi La Serva Padrona, Collegium, Serpina: Maddalena Bonifaccio, soprano, Uberto: Siegmund Nimsgern, bass 

[ritter]

Music by Karl-Birger Blomdahl, from this multi-conductor anthology with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Bachtoven]

Excellent playing and superb sound on this SACD.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[Todd]

More good stuff from good time Rudy.

[VonStupp]

Luigi Cherubini
Chant sur la Mort de Haydn

Dominique LaBelle, soprano
Thomas Cooley & Colin Ainsworth, tenors

NDR Chorus
Göttingen FO - Nicholas McGegan

I forgot about Cherubini's premature musical Haydn memorial behind Mendelssohn's edition of Handel's Dettinger Te Deum.
VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Atterberg: Symphonies 6 and 7

The sixth is top-tier Atterberg, and that slow movement... those were undoubtedly his better specialty, gorgeousness galore. The seventh has its merits with the 1st movement containing the most remarkable music (pretty knightly in spirit), but the next two feel less inspired in my view.

[Bachtoven]

Wonderful playing and sound. It's fun to hear the student with his former teacher! Trifonov's Bosendorfer has a more bell-like quality and richer bass than Babayan's Steinway.

[Symphonic Addict]

Glazunov: String Quartets 5 and 6

Harmonically speaking, the sixth steps forward. A most interesting quartet.

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Double Concerto

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Kshara

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Chants De Terre Et De Ciel

[Madiel]

Poulenc

Five Impromptus for piano
Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob, with flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet and violin as the accompaniment



Both works seem to me rather more dissonant than earlier compositions... and less graceful than later ones that I recall. I thought with the Impromptus the dissonance might be because they were revised later, but then I had the same sense with the vocal work. Neither are likely to be personal favourites.

[Madiel]

Auric/Milhaud/Poulenc/Tailleferre/Honegger: Les mariés de la tour Eiffel



Wikipedia tells me it was supposed to be composed by Auric and he asked the rest of Les Six to help because he was short on time. It also tells me that Poulenc described the result as shit except for Auric's overture    It's perhaps worth noting that Poulenc later destroyed quite a bit of his work from this period.

As performed here it's rather boisterous (including Poulenc's own contribution). Personally, I think Tailleferre's numbers come off best.