What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

I also have some serious ongoing health issues that hamper my pleasure even more

Speedy recovery, Harry!

[vandermolen]

The Scottish National Orchestra, under Neeme Järvi, perform some relatively obscure Prokofiev:

I like the Rouault cover painting as well.

[ritter]

Exit Mahler, enter Chopin? 

I'd rather have Mahler non-stop 24/7 ... 

[Florestan]

I'd rather have Mahler non-stop 24/7 ... 

 

[Harry]

Speedy recovery, Harry!

Multumesc Andrei.
Dumnezeu este milostiv

[AnotherSpin]

Requiem

The Choral Art Society, Donald Gramm, Reri Grist, New York Phiharmonic, Nadia Boulanger

[Iota]

Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op.42

Brilliant in every way. Trifonov's artistic vision and execution are beyond words.

[Florestan]

[DaveF]

Messiaen: Quator Pour La Fin Du Temps

Ah, the good old Génies du Classique - all of which are up, presumably legally , on archive.org (but I'm sure you know that).  Also there is Josef Suk's Berg Violin Concerto - the recording I listened to endlessly when studying the piece for A Level, shortly after its first performance...

[ritter]

...Also there is Josef Suk's Berg Violin Concerto - the recording I listened to endlessly when studying the piece for A Level, shortly after its first performance...

You were taking A level shorty after 1936, DaveF ?? 

[Harry]

In memoriam Adriaen Willaert.
Dionysos Now.
See for details back cover.


Some time ago, when I was listening to the four volumes already existing in this series, I was less than flattering for the first three volumes. The Fourth I liked very much. I was forewarned by @Que that I might object to the loudness of the countertenors on volume 5. And yes he was right! But adjusting the volume helped enormously, and it gave me great peace of mind. I felt the heaviness of life falling off me, like a millstone hanging around my neck for some time. The spiritual element in the music made me stretch my hands out to the eternal. So yes, I liked it, despite. "Giunto Adrian" was such a piece of elation. Good sound, with a pleasing reverb, and quite some textual clarity. 

[Harry]

Nordic Rhapsody.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Johan Dalene, violin, Christian Ihle Hadland, piano.
Instrumentarium: Violin: Antonio Stradivarius 1736, on loan from Anders Sveaas' Charitable Foundation.
Grand piano: Steinway D.
Recording: September 2020 at Culturum, Nyköping, Sweden.

A fine mix of Nordic Chamber Music. Sound and performance are very good.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Mozart

piano sonatas 1-7-10- & 14

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Brahms
Drei Intermezzi, Op. 117
Haochen Zhang

[DavidW]

[DaveF]

You were taking A level shorty after 1936, DaveF ?? 

Yeah, round about then - certainly feels like it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Peter Mennin: Symphony No. 5 and 6. Albany Symphony Orchestra & David Alan Miller.

[Linz]

Anton Eberl  Piano Concertos, Opp. 32 & 40, Paolo Giacometti, Riko Fukuda Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willins

[SonicMan46]

Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915) - Orchestral & Piano Works the last few days from my miniscule collection of this short-lived composer who did not write much more looking at his composition list - I've had these recordings for a long while, so I guess they are to my liking - only the piano sonatas duplicated.  Dave